Weekly posts

The first ships set out in the last week of February 1836. 

Follow their journeys over 45 weeks through the weekly posts from the journals, diaries and letters of those on board.

Latest Weekly Post:

Week 42: Numeracy Onboard

4th of December 1836 to 10th of December 1836 ]

Over the past eight months we have read many journal entries, diaries and letters describing the experiences, thoughts, ideas and feelings of those onboard the nine ships. We have followed the authors…

Week 42: Numeracy Onboard, (Resources for schools).

Previous Weekly Posts:

Week 41: Literacy Onboard, (Resources for schools).
Week 40: Commodious Harbour, (Resources for schools).
Week 38: Exploration, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 38 – lost in the bush, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 34: Aboriginal Perspectives, (Resources for schools).
Week 33: Fresh Water, (Resources for schools).
Week 32: Planning the Economy, (Resources for schools).
Week 31: Transport, (Resources for schools).
Week 30: Heating up and lighting the way, (Resources for schools).
Week 29: Discipline and Punishment, (Resources for schools).
Week 27 – Navigation, (Resources for schools).
Tuesday 16 August 1836, (Resources for schools).
Week 24: Pets, (Resources for schools).
Week 23: Weddings, (Resources for schools).
Week 21: What’s Cooking?, (Resources for schools).
Week 19: Signs and Symbols, (Resources for schools).
Week 18: Life Onboard, (Resources for schools).
Week 17: Blowing in the Wind, (Resources for schools).
Week 15: Medicine, (Resources for schools).
Week 14 – steady progress, (Resources for schools).
Week 13 Food for Thought, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 13 – tensions reach breaking point, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 12 – Pirates and Piracy, (Resources for schools).
Week 11 – Fishing, (Resources for schools).
Week 10 A Whale Of A Time, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 10 – fine weather and sea shanties, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 09 Shipwrecks, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 09 – to sea at last, (Resources for schools).(Resources for schools).
Week 08 – adieu to old England, (Resources for schools).
Week 07: Work Onboard, (Resources for schools).
Week 06 – a ‘perfect Hurricane’, (Resources for schools).
Week 05 – the Cygnet sets sail, (Resources for schools).
Week 04 – A fair wind, (Resources for schools).
Week 03 – Communication, (Resources for schools).
Week 02 – Belief Systems, (Resources for schools).
Week 01 – Setting sail, (Resources for schools).
Week 05: Ship Shape, (Resources for schools).
Week 06 : Weathering the Storm, (Resources for schools).
Week 08: Employment, (Resources for schools).
Week 15 – high drama on the John Pirie, (Resources for schools).
Week 16: Crossing the Line, (Resources for schools).
Week 22: In Good Time, (Resources for schools).
Week 45: Proclamation and Celebration, (Resources for schools).
Week 43: Kangaroo Island, (Resources for schools).
Week 26: Whose story?, (Resources for schools).
Week 37: Building a Home, (Resources for schools).
Week 35: Pastimes, (Resources for schools).
Week 36: Family Life, (Resources for schools).
Week 16 – towards Australia, (Resources for schools).
Week 18 – the port of Rio, (Resources for schools).
Week 20 – infectious disease, (Resources for schools).
Week 25 – The demon drink, (Resources for schools).
Week 34 – a tempest, (Resources for schools).
Week 40 – Finally! The harbour is found, (Resources for schools).

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4 Responses to “Weekly posts”

  1. April 22, 2011 at 10:27 am #

    Hi Kristy,
    We don’t knowif he was a passenger or crew member, but the latter is most plausible. We have searched the archives at Cavan but have not found anything. From family oral history, we believe he arrived in 1842 and was working for John Peake at his winery in thevery beginning of planting vines, which i believe was about 1846. Yes he did serve on the Admella 1857 to July 1858, just before his marriage in September the same year in Pt Adelaide. We believe he had his reception on board the Admella while it was docked in the Port. Still enjoying the weekly updates, kind regards, Mario

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  2. March 29, 2011 at 12:14 pm #

    we could only imagine – or could we? – what it must have meant to those onboard the John Pirie to have lost all those animals, food and other essentials in that ‘perfect hurricane’ . Reading more ‘Ides of March’ horror stories told by the John Pirie journal writer in his beautiful prose, astounds me. That our ancestors weathered such to give us their dream inheritance in this, our wonderful country…are we deserving? Are we still grateful? Were we ever grateful? Yes. And yes, while we weep we shall also smile…

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  3. March 20, 2011 at 12:46 pm #

    We would like to thank History SA and the Curatorial Team and all involved in bringing us this very rich history of our early beginnings. Our great-great grandfather Georgios Tramountanas [George North] was the FIRST GREEK to settle in South Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide just 6 years [in 1842] after colonization. These weekly snippets into those times gives us a small idea of what the journey would have been like for him, what he may have encountered here on his arrival and how different were the days of our early Pioneering Ancestors. Again many thanks for this enormous undertaking from the Tramountanas-North Association Inc. Website: http://www.tramountanas1842.org Email: tramountanas@optusnet.com.au

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    • March 21, 2011 at 2:34 pm #

      Hi Mario, Many thanks for your comments! I contacted the South Australian Maritime Museum to see whether they held any information on your great great grandfather but they couldn’t find a reference to him in their passengers database. I noticed that he was from a family of shipbuilders and seamen – do you know whether he came out to South Australia as crew or as a passenger? I also noticed that once settled here he served on the SS Admella for a time (luckily before its ill-fated voyage of 1859)!
      I hope you continue to enjoy the site.
      Regards, Kristy – History SA.

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