Hi John and Lyn Would you believe that as part of the 1988 celebrations a series of books were published under the name Australians: A historical library. In deciding what to cover in this series, a decision was made to compile books showing what it was like to live in Australia every 50 years, so one of the years is 1838. It is simply titled Australians 1838. Hope you find it useful. cheers Grahame On 01/06/2011, at 12:18 PM, John Read wrote: > Hi! > > After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - > William Jarvis. > > We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through > his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his > death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port > Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. > > The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there > ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at > night? Etc. > > Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of > information? > > It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the > Illawarra generally. > > Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message