User:Billingd/History of Victoria

Some citations for works on the history of Victoria, Australia, and a few from nearby. Particular emphasis on older books which are available online. Keep them handy for a bit of cut and paste.

Resources

 * Trove
 * Australian Digital Collections / First Fleet and Early Settlement
 * The Naval Chronicle

Explorers and Early Settlers Journals

 * transcription
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Victoria




Tasmania
, Vol 1, Vol 2

Historical Records of New South Wales
These are available from a number of places. All volumes are available from National Library of Australia. Both Open Library and Google Books have partial holdings.
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Historical Records of Australia
Trove catalog entry

Series 1&mdash;Governors Despatches to and from England

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 * volume 16. 1831-1832
 * Volume 17 1833-Jun 1835
 * Volume 18 Jul 1835-Jun 1837
 * Volume 19 Jul 1837-Jan 1839
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 * Volume 21 Oct 1840-Mar 1842
 * volume 22 Apr 1824-Jun 1843, also at Google Books
 * volume 23 Jul 1843-Sep 1844
 * Oct 1844-Mar 1846
 * Apr 1846-Sep 1847
 * volume 26. Oct 1847-Dec 1848
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 * Volume 21 Oct 1840-Mar 1842
 * volume 22 Apr 1824-Jun 1843, also at Google Books
 * volume 23 Jul 1843-Sep 1844
 * Oct 1844-Mar 1846
 * Apr 1846-Sep 1847
 * volume 26. Oct 1847-Dec 1848

Ships
Ships that were active in the early years of Victoria
 * Britannia (whaler) - Third Fleet, then commanded by William Raven
 * HMS Buffalo (1797) 12-gun storeship commanded by William Raven
 * HMS Calcutta (1795) - Collins 1803 settlement
 * Champion (schooner), active WA 1836-1862
 * HMS Cumberland (1803) - Charles Robbins and Charles Grimes; Matthew Flinders
 * Enterprize (1829) built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1829. John Pascoe Fawkner bought the ship in April 1835 for use in his forthcoming settlement activity in Port Phillip Bay
 * Estramina, (1803-1816) a two masted schooner of 102 tons captured off Peru
 * Francis (1793) was a 41 burthen ton colonial schooner that was partially constructed at the Deptford Dockyard, England and sent in frame aboard the Pitt
 * HMS Investigator (1798), Flinders ship
 * HMS Lady Nelson (1798)
 * Margaret (brig), third ship to sail eastward through Bass Straight
 * Marquis Cornwallis (1789 ship)
 * Norfolk (sloop) built on Norfolk Island in 1798. Used by Flinders and Bass to circumnavigate Tasmania
 * Norfolk (brig), previously Harbinger, second ship to sail eastward through Bass Straight
 * Ocean (1794) used for 1803 Sullivan Bay settlement
 * HMS Porpoise (1799)
 * commissioned in October 1799 under Lieutenant William Scott as a storeship for New South Wales
 * wrecked in 1803. Matthew Flinders was returning to England as a passenger on Porpoise
 * HMS Porpoise (1804), 10-gun storeship, formerly the Lord Melville. She was purchased in 1804 and sold in 1816.
 * perhaps the ship that brought William Bligh to Australia in 1806 and then took him to Hobart after the Rum Rebellion
 * Yes. In the Warship Histories Vessels, file Warship_Histories_Vessels_iii.pdf, p744, Vessel ID 373582
 * HMS Providence (1791), (1791-1797)
 * William Bligh on his second breadfruit voyage between 1791 and 1794.
 * William Robert Broughton in Australian waters briefly in 1795
 * HMS Reliance (1793), a discovery vessel of the Royal Navy that brought Bass and Flinders to Australia in 1795
 * HMS Sirius (1786) First fleet
 * Sydney Cove (ship) was a sailing ship wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania while on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson. She was among the first ships wrecked on the east coast of Australia.
 * William and Ann (1759) - whaler and Third Fleet convict transport commanded by Eber Bunker

People
Mainly early navigators and explorers, with a few little know ones.
 * William Bligh
 * William Robert Broughton
 * Eber Bunker, whaler
 * David Collins (governor)‎, 1803 settlement of Victoria
 * George Dixon (Royal Navy officer)‎
 * William Kent (Royal Navy officer)
 * Angus McMillan
 * Nathaniel Portlock
 * William Raven, whaler
 * William Westgarth