1791, their sentences having expired. Thomas M'Lean M'Lean, aka MacLean, McLean, a labourer, was convicted with his brother Francis M'Lean for burglary of items (63s). Originally sentenced to death, overturned to seven years transportation to America. They escaped and were tried once again together for being at large before the expiration of their sentence. M'Lean married Margaret Bunn in March 1788. Both brothers left the colony in 1791, their sentences having expired. M'Lean left Margaret behind. James Morrisby James Morrisby was born on the 23rd of January 1757 at Cawood on the River Ouse between Selby and York in North Yorkshire, England. The Morrisbys were wealthy and influential as Lords of Morrisby in Cumberland in the UK for 500 years until 1499. There were 17 knights in direct succession. James was a blacksmith by trade. He then enlisted in the Scots Guards on May 4, 1776 aged 19 years. He was five foot seven inches tall with brown eyes and wore a black hat, red coat and white trousers while stationed at the Tower of London. On the 6th of July 1784 at the age of 27 years, James was apprehended for attempting to remove an iron bar with a weight of ten pounds and value of 10 pennies or four pence (about eight cents) from a house in St Paul’s churchyard. A day later he was sentenced at the Old Bailey in London to seven years transportation. Two months later he was placed on the Censor hulk ship which held convicts at Newgate. He spent two and half years on the stinking hulk before being transferred to Portsmouth. On the 27th of February 1787 he saw the shores of England and his first wife and daughter for the last time, setting sail on the Scarborough as part of eleven ships of the First Fleet. He was one of 717 convicts under the command of Captain Arthur Philip and travelled via Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town, arriving in Botany Bay on a very hot January the 18th 1788. Three months later he was sent to Norfolk Island, home of the famous pine trees, where he became a model settler and in July 1791 at the end of his transportation term became a free settler and farmer owning 12 acres of land. In November 1791, James married another convict Anne Brooks and in 1802 he became a constable. He