Joy's Memoirs: Memorable holidays - Norfolk Island March 2018

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Memorable holidays - Norfolk Island March 2018

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Norfolk Island - March 2018

A family holiday with a good mix of togetherness and family interest. I had recently discovered 7 convicts and 2 marines on my family tree that were First Fleeters. They married women convicts that had arrived on "Lady Julianna" and established families on Norfolk Island before being relocated to Tasmania in about 1808. Many of them were buried at St Matthew's Cemetery in Rokeby or St David's Park in Hobart. We stayed on James Morrisby's land grant and walked on Daniel Stanfield's land. Having read Colleen McCullough's book "Morgan's Run", I had a good insight into life on Norfolk Island 1788-1808. (Refer to Norfolk Island, First Fleeters and families Blog)

Robyn & Andrew, Adrian & Donna, Darren & Fiona and Joy flew to Norfolk Island
on 30 March 2018 for a weeks holiday.

Norfolk Island Airport Terminal. The island is 8km x 5km & 1000km east from Byron Bay. Population 2000.

Bounty Monument at Burnt Pine.
Captain Bligh left England 1787 and arrived Tahiti 1788.
28 April 189 Fletcher Christian led a mutiny and arrived Pitcairn Island 15 January 1790.

Cumberland Resort & Spa, where James Morrisby's land grant (No.57)
for 20 acres was from 1790 - 1805.

Adrian & Donna relaxing.

Joy & Darren working on our family history.

Darren having a nap while reading!

Darren & Fiona cook a roast dinner.

Whose turn to cook Dinner tonight?

Bananas for the picking.

Andrew & Robyn, Darren & Fiona, Adrian & Donna & Joy at Queen Elizabeth Lookout.

Donna & Adrian at Kingston Lookout.

Kingston from Queen Elizabeth Lookout with Nepean (closest) & Phillip Islands.

Donna, Fiona, Joy & Robyn at Kingston Pier.

Lieutenant King arrived on Norfolk Island on 6 March 1788,
bringing with him 7 staff and 15 convicts, including Edward Garth and Susan Gough.

Darren, Joy, Adrian & Robyn at Kingston Pier.

HMS Sirius Museum (used to be the Chapel in the 2nd Settlement).

HMS Sirius Museum. A wall with First Fleeters names. All of my First Fleeters were on the wall. James Morrisby, Daniel Stanfield, Alice & Thomas Harmsworth & children Ann, John and Thomas,

Edward Garth, Edward Kimberly, Richard Morgan, Jacob Bellett. Thomas Kidner, Edward Risby.

Joy visited HMS Sirius Museum to learn more about her convict ancestors.

HMS Sirius Museum.

Fiona, Joy, Robyn & Donna at the New Gaol 1836-1856.
The 2nd Settlement of convicts 1825-1856 was designed to be the extreme in convict degeneration.

Monument to the wreck of "Sirius" in Slaughter Bay on 19 March 1790.
It was unveiled 6 March 2001, Foundation Day, 213 years after King hoisted the British flag
on 6 March 1788.

Adrian trying out a cell in the New Gaol 1836-1856.

Government House - built 1829.
One of the earliest and most intact remaining Government House buildings in Australia.

Unloading the cargo ship at Kingston Pier with much anticipated goods.

Joy, Darren, Adrian & Robyn at Captain Cook Monument.
Cook discovered Norfolk Island 1774. We discovered Norfolk Island in 2018.

Blowing a gale at Northern Inlets.

Looking west to Duncombe Bay from Captain Cool Monument
across the north side of Norfolk Island.

Andrew & Adrian at Cascade Valley (north side).

Cockpit Waterfall Cascade Bay.

Darren at Cascade Bay.

Darren took a dip in Emily Bay.

The Lone Pine noted by Captain Cook in 1774.

Fiona, Donna & Adrian exploding the rocks.

Robyn at Ball Bay.

Cemetery Bay from Quality Row.

Commissariat Store (led by the Matriarch!)

Adrian "preaching" in All Saints Church which is above Commissariat Store.
Commissariat Store has lots of artefacts from 1st & 2nd Settlements.
Been the All Saints Church since 1874.