List of convicts on the First Fleet

The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788.

The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 women), as well as officers, marines, their wives and children, and provisions and agricultural implements.

Stonemason Ray Collins researched and then carved the names of all those who came out to Australia on the eleven ships in 1788 on tablets along the garden pathways.

In the late 1980s, a simple software program with a database of convicts became available for Australian school students, both as a history and an information technology learning guide.

Another child from Prospect who entered the institution was Kitty, 28 December 1814 ([132]) John Owen, at the age of fourteen, and with another boy, was chased across a field when a box of 18 table knives went missing from the sideboard in a house.