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Thomas Mcqueen was transported on the Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann, departing 31st Dec 1790 and arriving 9th Jul 1791 with 1265 passengers.
The Third Fleet consisted of 11 Vessels. Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Gorgon, Mary Ann, Matilda, Queen (from Ireland) Salamander and William and Ann. These vessels were provided by a private company; Camden, Calvert and King to ship convicts to the colony.
Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann (generic)References
| Primary Source | Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand (DEHANZ), 16 July. Available: http//dehanz.net.au |
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Thomas Macqueen was the third of the four teachers initially funded by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He arrived as a convict on the ship Active in the Third Fleet in 1791 and was sent to Norfolk Island where Phillip Gidley King, discovering that Macqueen had experience as a school teacher. He was appointed him to the school King had established on Norfolk Island in 1793. Prior to Macqueen’s conviction for stealing, he had been a teacher at a school near Holborn, London. King built a stone schoolhouse in 1794 at government expense. Macqueen’s sentence was for seven years. MacQueen remained on Norfolk Island as schoolmaster and Deputy Surveyor till the settlement was abandoned in 1810. He then returned to Sydney for a short time until appointed by Governor Macquarie as schoolmaster at Port Dalrymple in Tasmania where he continued until 1822, then retiring on a pension. Goodin claims that Macqueen was the first school teacher in Australia to receive a pension. Burkhardt, G. 2015. Convict and emancipist teachers. Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand (DEHANZ), 16 July. Available: http//dehanz.net.au