Physical description

A publication of 465 pages including a detailed index, illustrations, photographs and maps.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

The Fellowship of First Fleeters has attempted to locate and document the known resting place of every man, woman and child who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Where possible, when graves were identified, a commemorative ceremony was carried out and a plaque recognising the grave as that of a First Fleeter was attached.

In 1990 the current findings were published in “Where the First Fleeters Lie”. Since then the Fellowship has conducted some 40 additional ceremonies. Dispatched Downunder brings the record up to date. Photographs from the original publication were added, all of the maps have been redrawn and grave locations closely specified; additional biographical material has been added; gravestone shapes have been recorded; an Index has been provided; and the material has been reorganised as to chronology and locations.

Of the 1,373 arrivals, the Fellowship has documented and recorded the resting place of 702 persons including 102 who have been immortalised with their own Fellowship of the First Fleeters plaque.