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The oldest person on the First Fleet was convict Dorothy Handland, aged 82. She had been convicted of perjury back in England and sentenced to transportation for seven years.

Not only was she the oldest convict, she was also the first person to commit suicide in Australia. She hanged herself from a large gum tree in Sydney in 1789.

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