[1] Lieutenant Menzies, five expedition personnel, 11 military guards, and 34 convicts, a total of 51 people, arrived on three small ships on 30 March 1804.

[2] In 1810, Reverend William Cowper requested a charity school[note 3] be established for the 12 school-age children in the settlement.

However, in March 1810, Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed Reverend Eyre schoolmaster of a new charity school in Parramatta.

Reverend Cowper entreated Governor Macquarie for the Crown to continue to support the school when the next commandant was commissioned.

[9] When Captain James Wallis was commissioned as commandant in June 1816, Governor Macquarie gave him a list of 41 instructions.

[note 8] On 1 April 1883, Christ Church School closed and the students were integrated into the NSW public education system.