The remaining ships did not carry any convicts.
According to the Australian Government Culture Portal, there were 751 convicts that disembarked from the First Fleet. No doubt there were more who started out from England, but who did not survive the journey.
There were 759 convicts on the First Fleet. There were also 13 children of convicts. The remainder of the 1,487 people were made up of marines, their wives and children, officials, Royal Navy seamen and merchantmen.
There was no "average" number of convicts on the ships. Each ship carried convicts according to its capacity and other cargo. One male convict who tried to escape was transgpferred to a ship carrying only females so that he could not collude with other men to plan another escape. In addition, some ships were only for carrying supplies.
The number of convicts on each of the convict-carrying ships was:
Sources differ in their numbers for total convicts on the First Fleet, some convicts were of unknown age and people will have a different idea of the age range for "kid convicts". Some convicts died on the journey and some female convicts gave birth. According to the source in the link below there were three convicts aged 10 to 14 who arrived in Port Jackson, their names were: Elizabeth Hayward age about 14, John Hudson age about 13 (a former chimney sweep, nine years old when arrested in 1783 for stealing 22 shillings worth), and Ann Mather/Mathews age about 14. Forty convicts were of unknown age. There were seventy-two aged 15 to 19. 14 children of convicts boarded at Portsmouth and 18 children of convicts arrived at Port Jackson.
There was not just one ship of convicts that first came to Australia: it was an entire fleet of eleven ships.
According to the Australian Government Culture Portal, there were 751 convicts that disembarked from the First Fleet. No doubt there were more who started out from England, but who did not survive the journey.
There were known to be at least 543 male convicts and 189 women, a total of 732 although exact numbers cannot be known.
Exact figures were not known, but there were known to be at least 543 male convicts.
There were, 570 freeman on the first fleet.
Sources vary, but according to the Australian Government Culture Portal, there were 751 convicts that disembarked from the First Fleet. Around 180 of these were women.
The Alexander was one of the ships of the First Fleet. It carried 195 male convicts.
There were 180 female convicts on the First Fleet.
It seems that they they did relatively well on the First Fleet. However the same can not be said for the many convicts transported to Australia after that.
Sources vary, but the number of female convicts on the First Fleet is estimated to have been between 180 or 189.
Sources vary, but there were approximately 191 soldiers, known as marines, despatched to guard the convicts on the First Fleet to Australia.
The Alexander was one of the ships of the First Fleet. It carried 195 male convicts.
Eleven ships came to Australia with the First Fleet of convicts in 1788.
There were 180 female convicts on the First Fleet.
None. There were no murderers aboard the First Fleet of convicts to Australia. The convicts were made up of petty thieves, or people convicted of fraud, larceny and burglary. No one convicted of a violent crime was aboard the First Fleet.
The First Fleet was made up primarily of convicts. There were many sailors, marines and officers as well, and a large number of stock animals.
Between the years 1788 and 1850, England sent a total of 806 ships to Australia (including the eleven in the First Fleet), carrying over 162,000 convicts.
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The Fishburn was a storeship. It carried no convicts.
It seems that they they did relatively well on the First Fleet. However the same can not be said for the many convicts transported to Australia after that.
some of them did but not many
Sources vary, but the number of female convicts on the First Fleet is estimated to have been between 180 or 189.
Sources vary, but there were approximately 191 soldiers, known as marines, despatched to guard the convicts on the First Fleet to Australia.