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Brady Family Tree in Western Australia
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The "Parmelia"
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/~wags/pasparm.htm
The barque Parmelia, built in Quebec, Canada in
1825, 117 feet long and of 443 tons, was hired to transport Lieutenant-Governor
James Stirling and the first group of free settlers to Swan River to establish a
colony there in 1829. Escorted by H.M.S. Sulphur she left England in
early February 1829 and hove to off Garden Island on the 31st May. Two
days later "Parmelia" was nearly lost when she ran aground on the
southbank which bears her name. She was destroyed by fire in an
English dockyard on the 1st May 1839.
The Barque "Parmelia"Arrived
Swan River 31st May 1829 Captain J H Luscombe
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