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Australian ATU'ers
How did you get there, do you know?
I have just started reading The Fatal Shore and it occured to me that I had never asked any of you?
Are you recent arrivals, if not, when did your people arrive and where were they from?
I have just started reading The Fatal Shore and it occured to me that I had never asked any of you?
Are you recent arrivals, if not, when did your people arrive and where were they from?
Nah Ville Sky Chick- Miss Whiplash
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I had that book and never got to read it...I lent it to someone and forgot who it was. I got it thru a book club.
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pinhedz wrote:This might be an indelicate question.
Yes, I know
Nah Ville Sky Chick- Miss Whiplash
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Old Mack wrote:I had that book and never got to read it...I lent it to someone and forgot who it was. I got it thru a book club.
It looks like a good read so far, may be worth getting it out from your library?
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why?Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:pinhedz wrote:This might be an indelicate question.
Yes, I know
I once asked Moony where her ancestors came from...
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Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:The Fatal Shore
Highly recommended by the late Patrick O'Brian (see Literature section thread) who used it as a source for that section of his Aubrey-Maturin roman fleuve set in the Botany Bay penal colony. If the secondary POB account- which is all I know- is any guide, conditions there were absolutely horrific: chains, floggings, forced labour etc etc. It's a wonder that present-day Aussies want anything to do with the mother country at all.
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We liked to send women there too
Nah Ville Sky Chick- Miss Whiplash
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I wonder what this pair did?
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Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:We liked to send women there too
Good play on the subject:
Acted in it once, playing the brutal Sergeant-at-Arms character.
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Excellent, what fun playing a baddie.
Wasn't set on one of those brothel ships was it?
Excellent, what fun playing a baddie.
Wasn't set on one of those brothel ships was it?
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^^
I enjoyed that, never heard it before. I wouldn't have known it was Kris, sounded more like The Wurzles
I enjoyed that, never heard it before. I wouldn't have known it was Kris, sounded more like The Wurzles
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Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:Wasn't set on one of those brothel ships was it?
A fair amount of hanky-panky, but not a 'brothel ship' as such. I'm not quite sure what that means. One ship in a fleet of transports designated as a brothel?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5x3TJpP24
South Australia- The Pogues.
South Australia- The Pogues.
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Hi Eddie
I only know of one ship The Lady Juliana, but there were possibly more? It was an all female convict ship that went to Botany Bay in 1789 carrying 237 women and was known as the floating brothel.
The prisoners would sleep with the crew, I expect they got privileges that way?
Hi Eddie
I only know of one ship The Lady Juliana, but there were possibly more? It was an all female convict ship that went to Botany Bay in 1789 carrying 237 women and was known as the floating brothel.
The prisoners would sleep with the crew, I expect they got privileges that way?
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Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:I only know of one ship The Lady Juliana, but there were possibly more? It was an all female convict ship that went to Botany Bay in 1789 carrying 237 women and was known as the floating brothel.
The prisoners would sleep with the crew, I expect they got privileges that way?
Sounds like this must have been the source of Steve Gooch's play.
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The first member of my family to come to Australia arrived in the first fleet. He was a convict who had stolen an iron bar.Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:How did you get there, do you know?
I have just started reading The Fatal Shore and it occured to me that I had never asked any of you?
Are you recent arrivals, if not, when did your people arrive and where were they from?
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We have no idea , possibly being arrested meant he did not get into troble for a worse crime.pinhedz wrote:That's unusual--what did he need the iron bar for?Doc Watson wrote:The first member of my family to come to Australia arrived in the first fleet. He was a convict who had stolen an iron bar.
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...Mum's parents came over as 'ten-pound poms' in about 1909 or thereabouts, from Liverpool / Manchester.
I'm not sure where Dad's side of the family is from.
..it's funny (ironic) that probably in the early days of settlement, the emancipted convicts wanted to remove themselves from the stigma and stain of their convict heritage, yet now, most people tracing their ancestry hope they are descended from the convicts, rather than from figures of authority.
I'm not sure where Dad's side of the family is from.
..it's funny (ironic) that probably in the early days of settlement, the emancipted convicts wanted to remove themselves from the stigma and stain of their convict heritage, yet now, most people tracing their ancestry hope they are descended from the convicts, rather than from figures of authority.
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Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:How did you get there, do you know?
I have just started reading The Fatal Shore and it occured to me that I had never asked any of you?
Are you recent arrivals, if not, when did your people arrive and where were they from?
hi nash,
serious answer
my mum has scottish heritage, i think....way back, she was born locally
and my dad is a dutchman.....he came to australia as a young child, might have been during a war.
my cheeky answer
out of my mums belly, just like everyone else....Nash, don't you remember that kind of stuff?
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Exactly many sites in Tasmania were almost destroyed by the government and for many years my father denied the fact we had a convict heritage . So many people try to claim it now that instead of 11 ships in the first fleet therewould have to be 100 ships if everyone was honest.blue moon wrote:...Mum's parents came over as 'ten-pound poms' in about 1909 or thereabouts, from Liverpool / Manchester.
I'm not sure where Dad's side of the family is from.
..it's funny (ironic) that probably in the early days of settlement, the emancipted convicts wanted to remove themselves from the stigma and stain of their convict heritage, yet now, most people tracing their ancestry hope they are descended from the convicts, rather than from figures of authority.
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Any update ???Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:It looks like a good read so far,....
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Hi Mack
Yes it 's very good, I am learning a lot. The first bit about the Aborigines shocked me quite a lot, as I did not really know much about them other than a little bit we were taught at school. I also enjoyed the chapter on the convicts themselves and again was suprised at how petty their crimes were.
Yes it 's very good, I am learning a lot. The first bit about the Aborigines shocked me quite a lot, as I did not really know much about them other than a little bit we were taught at school. I also enjoyed the chapter on the convicts themselves and again was suprised at how petty their crimes were.
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Depite it being a land of wonderful beaches and many Olympic swimmers I am certainly not the onlt Australian who is a poor swimmer . Many just do not learn.pinhedz wrote:Are there more Australians who can't swim--or just one?
https://acrosstheuniverse.forummotion.com/t291-doc-watson-the-swimmer
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