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Robert Forrester, First Fleeter

Louise Wilson

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Description:Sydney’s early history abounds with tales of men and women behaving badly. Those who were convicts are usually portrayed as ignorant, unskilled, lazy, rum-soaked, ne’er-do-wells of greedy or dishonest character, with a few rare exceptions. This dismal scenario of those first decades is tediously re-cycled, with depressing implications. Did the European settlement of Australia really start in January 1788 with nothing but the dregs of society, sent from England with the First Fleet? Was there a different side to the story?At first glance, Robert Forrester’s character fitted the glib stereotype. He was caught up in a ‘scam’ in London. He was charged with drunkenness and insolence in Sydney. He was the first man in Australia who appeared before a court enquiry into the murder of an aborigine. His legal wife, and then his second ‘common law’ wife, disappeared from the records.Delving beneath the surface, another picture emerged. Things were not quite as they seemed. He might even have been ‘a decent bloke’.The hero of this story was illiterate, and left no diaries or personal correspondence. Several paragraphs in court records record his words, and only two letters about his affairs, penned on his behalf in the last year of his life, have been found. Yet determined detective work has recreated his adult life, using the voluminous government records of the times.Robert Forrester was one of the first convicts who chose to become an Australian. He did not give up his supreme effort at the Hawkesbury, when others did. He raised his family ‘to habits of industry’. He was able to attract three women as partners, at a time when men vastly outnumbered women in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. His family loved him.His is the story of a life fully-lived, filled with action and adventure. On the frontier of settlement beside the Hawkesbury River, his struggle was the Australian version of ‘how the west was won’. His life demonstrates the economic impact on an individual of floods, fire, famine and the NSW Corps, creating one of the first ‘Aussie battlers’. He has thousands of descendants, most of whom do not know the real story of this life.A tightly-focused, very readable and engrossing biographyof Robert Forrester, this book illuminates the life events andcharacter of an individual convict who helped to found themodern nation of Australia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Robert Forrester, First Fleeter. To get started finding Robert Forrester, First Fleeter, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 442

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Release: 2009

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Description: Sydney’s early history abounds with tales of men and women behaving badly. Those who were convicts are usually portrayed as ignorant, unskilled, lazy, rum-soaked, ne’er-do-wells of greedy or dishonest character, with a few rare exceptions. This dismal scenario of those first decades is tediously re-cycled, with depressing implications. Did the European settlement of Australia really start in January 1788 with nothing but the dregs of society, sent from England with the First Fleet? Was there a different side to the story?At first glance, Robert Forrester’s character fitted the glib stereotype. He was caught up in a ‘scam’ in London. He was charged with drunkenness and insolence in Sydney. He was the first man in Australia who appeared before a court enquiry into the murder of an aborigine. His legal wife, and then his second ‘common law’ wife, disappeared from the records.Delving beneath the surface, another picture emerged. Things were not quite as they seemed. He might even have been ‘a decent bloke’.The hero of this story was illiterate, and left no diaries or personal correspondence. Several paragraphs in court records record his words, and only two letters about his affairs, penned on his behalf in the last year of his life, have been found. Yet determined detective work has recreated his adult life, using the voluminous government records of the times.Robert Forrester was one of the first convicts who chose to become an Australian. He did not give up his supreme effort at the Hawkesbury, when others did. He raised his family ‘to habits of industry’. He was able to attract three women as partners, at a time when men vastly outnumbered women in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. His family loved him.His is the story of a life fully-lived, filled with action and adventure. On the frontier of settlement beside the Hawkesbury River, his struggle was the Australian version of ‘how the west was won’. His life demonstrates the economic impact on an individual of floods, fire, famine and the NSW Corps, creating one of the first ‘Aussie battlers’. He has thousands of descendants, most of whom do not know the real story of this life.A tightly-focused, very readable and engrossing biographyof Robert Forrester, this book illuminates the life events andcharacter of an individual convict who helped to found themodern nation of Australia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Robert Forrester, First Fleeter. To get started finding Robert Forrester, First Fleeter, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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