Good afternoon to all listers, I have a GGGGrandfather William Brittan/Britton/Brittain who was a trooper on the 3rd fleet. The Third Fleet seemed to be the forgotten fleet as there are a lot of references to the First and Second Fleeters but not much about the Third. However, while there are monographs that have been written about the convicts from the Third Fleet I am having difficulty finding one that gives details of the troopers that escorted them. My question is: has there been any publication regarding the troops that escorted the 3rd Fleet or their descendants? Thank you for any help you can give. Cheers Dawn from Watsonia, Vic.

Hello Dawn, Although there are no details given about the individual soldiers, Charles Bateson's book, "The Convict Ships", gives a very interesting account of the Third Fleet. It seems to have been the worst fleet of all (and Bateson doesn't seem to have many kind words about the soldiers!) Lyndall Canberra ----- Original Message ----- > Good afternoon to all listers, > > I have a GGGGrandfather William Brittan/Britton/Brittain who was a > trooper on the 3rd fleet. > > The Third Fleet seemed to be the forgotten fleet as there are a lot > of references to the First and Second Fleeters but not much about > the Third. > > However, while there are monographs that have been written about > the convicts from the Third Fleet I am having difficulty finding one > that gives details of the troopers that escorted them. > > My question is: has there been any publication regarding the > troops that escorted the 3rd Fleet or their descendants? > > Thank you for any help you can give. > > Cheers > > Dawn from Watsonia, Vic. >

on 6/11/00 2:20 PM, Dawn Keleher at d.keleher@bl1.lib.latrobe.edu.au wrote: > Good afternoon to all listers, > > I have a GGGGrandfather William Brittan/Britton/Brittain who was a > trooper on the 3rd fleet. > > The Third Fleet seemed to be the forgotten fleet as there are a lot > of references to the First and Second Fleeters but not much about > the Third. > > However, while there are monographs that have been written about > the convicts from the Third Fleet I am having difficulty finding one > that gives details of the troopers that escorted them. > > My question is: has there been any publication regarding the > troops that escorted the 3rd Fleet or their descendants? > I'm replying to the list because the source of the information below may be of value to people other than Dawn. BRITTON, William, (here 1811), enlist-levy paid 24.6.1789 ENLIST UK 24.6.1789 RANK PRIVATE 26.9.1791 ARRIVE _ACTIVE_ 0.0.1795 GRANT 25acHAWKSBURY R.MP 19.7.1796 DISCHGE The source is Pamela Statham (ed), _A Colonial Regiment: New Sources Relating to the New South Wales Corps 1789-1810_, Bibliotech,ANUTECH Pty Ltd, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, 1992. The entry above is on p. 257. As regards some of the more obscure abbreviations: I presume that the "enlist-levy" means that he was paid a bounty for enlisting. The "MP" at the end of the Grant entry stands for "Mulgrave Place". This book is a combination of two documents - one the ledger of Cox and Greenwood, agents for the regiment, and the other a register of every member of the NSW Corps initially compiled from many sources by Brigadier "Bunny" Austin - with substantial historical interpretation and background. Anyone needing information about the military in the early colonial period needs to look at this book.