Thank you! That was very interesting! I learned a lot from your post. Lorraine -----Original Message----- From: Gay Fielding <gayze@tpg.com.au> To: lanark@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 7:29 pm Subject: [Lanark] HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to all Ausies on the List.. This may be considered by some to be a Non-Genealogical or Non-Lanark elated topic...but I can assure you that it is definitely related. Before 1788, Australia was populated by about 300,000 aborigines Britain ade the decision that .the only way to overcome the overcrowding in the ails was to establish a penal colony in the land discovered by Captain ames Cook in 1770. The convicts would be transported, never to return to ritain. On 26th January, 222 years ago, (in 1788) Britain sent out Eleven (11) hips, . The ships were laden with 759 convicts, their Marine guards, ome with families, and a few civil officers. This then was first ettlement of the colony of New South Wales, later known as AUSTRALIA We Australians would not have existed except for the landing of the First leet and the settlement of the Colony.. Many of us on the Lanark List can race out ancestral roots back to ancestors of that First Fleet...or another leet..such as myself, who has a Lanark born soldier, who came to Australia s one of the Guards of Convicts, on such a Convict Ship. Happy Australia Day, Mates heers ay esearch Names: ttp://www.perthdps.com/research/fie01.html E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.1.441) atabase version: 6.14210 ttp://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ ------------------------------ LANARK, SCOTLAND MAILING LIST IST TOPIC: The discussion and research of genealogy or history information ertaining to Lanark, Scotland at any point in its history. WHEN REPLYING to any list post please remember to snip most of the earlier essage before you post any reply LIST INFORMATION PAGE: Contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com; or o search the list archives, get information on subscribing or unsubscribing, or o obtain other useful information to help you use the list more effectively, lease click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message