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A prisoner receives 100 lashes with the "Cat O'Nine Tails" aboard the British convict ship "SUCCESS" launched at Moulmein, Burma in 1790.

The First Fleet consisted of eleven ships, commanded by Arthur Phillip, which in 1787-1788 carried convicts and soldiers from  Portsmouth to Port Jackson.
The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England on 13 May 1787. On board were 756 convicts (564 male, 192 female, mostly from the Greater London area) and 212 officers and men of the Royal Marines and their families. So began the white settlement of modern Australia.
To date there are only two Colbrans, that I have found, who were transported from England.
The first is Solomon Colbran in 1829 but I don't know where, or if, Solomon fits into the family and the second is Thomas Colbran who was also transported in 1829,

however apart from them all of the other Colbrans who came to Australia were immigrants. Thomas Colbran has his own page, read his story.
There are several "convicts" in my line through Matilda LOCKHART who married my G Grandfather James Thomas COLBRAN. Matilda's maternal  grandparents were both  transported for seven years, for crimes yet to be discovered, and they were:

Thomas COLLINS, a native of Waterford Ireland, convicted on April 14th, 1814 and transported aboard the "BARING" leaving England on 20 April 1815 and arriving at Port Jackson on September 7th, 1815. Thomas is    described as being 4'10.5" (1.486M) tall, fair complexion, brown hair with grey eyes, he was fifteen.

Joanna VICKERY, a native of Cork Ireland, convicted on June 21st, 1815 and transported aboard the "MARY ANNE 1" arriving at Port Jackson on January 19th, 1816, she was seventeen.

In the November 1828 muster, Thomas and Joanna are "married" and living at Botany on 40 acres, 28 acres that are cleared with 10 acres under cultivation. They own 2 horses and 20 cattle and have two children, Eliza born C1826 and Thomas, born C1828. 
     

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