Fleet convict who married Anthony Rope; they had 8 children including the first male European child conceived and born in Australia. Joseph Potaskie – first Pole to come to Australia. William Smith O'Brien – famous Irish revolutionary; sent to Van Diemen's Land in 1849 after leading a rebellion in Tipperary John Boyle O'Reilly – Famous escapee, poet, and writer; author of Moondyne William Redfern – one of the few surgeon convicts Mary Reibey – businesswoman and shipowner John Matthew Richardson - gardener and botanical collector who accompanied many expeditions of exploration in Australia such as John Oxley's 1823 and 1824 expeditions to what would become Queensland and Thomas Livingstone Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition to South Australia and Victoria in 1836. Anthony Rope – First Fleet convict; pioneer farmer married to Elizabeth Pulley for 50 years; Ropes Creek and suburb Ropes Crossing named after them. James Ruse – successful farmer Henry Savery – Australia's first novelist; author of Quintus Servinton Robert Sidaway – opened Australia's first theatre Ikey Solomon – professional thief; inspiration for the character Fagin in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist James Squire – English Romanichal (Romany) – First Fleet convict and Australia's first brewer and cultivator of hops. Joseph Sullivan – sentenced to fourteen years transportation for stealing, then killed for murdering his master and the other convicts in the area. William Sykes – historically interesting because he left a brief diary and a bundle of letters. John Tawell – served his sentence, became a prosperous chemist, returned to England after 15 years, and after some time murdered a mistress, for which he was hanged. Samuel Terry – wealthy merchant and philanthropist. Andrew Thompson – transported in 1791 aged 18, he rose to Chief Constable in the Hawkesbury district; major cereal farmer, businessman, ship owner, government official and largest private employer in the colony. In 1810 he was the first ex-convict to be appointed as magistrate. James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full-length autobiography and dictionary. Mary Wade – Youngest female convict transported to Australia (13 years of age) who had 21 children and at the time of her death had over 300 living descendants. William Westwood – bushranger and leader of the 1846 Cooking Pot Uprising Joseph Wild – explorer Solomon Wiseman – merchant and operated ferry on Hawkesbury River hence town name Wisemans Ferry. See also British prison hulks Convict assignment Convict era of