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		The '''''Parmelia''''' was a barque that was used to transport the first civilian officials and settlers of the Swan River Colony to Western Australia in 1829.
		For the next nine years, ''Parmelia'' was used to penal transportation transport convicts to the penal colonies on the east coast of Australia.
		In 1839, ''Parmelia'' was refitted for the purpose of carrying migrants to the Americas.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Parmelia_(barque).html (1012 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Parmelia, constructed on the St Lawrence River, Quebec, was launched on 31 May 1825.
		The 443 ton barque, escorted by HMS Sulphur, left Plymouth on 8 February 1829 and entered Table Bay, Cape Town, on 16 April where she remained for thirteen days.
		Ten years later the Parmelia was destroyed by fire at a dockland on the Cornish side of the Tamar River.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots (9972 words)

	Western Australia
		A 715-ton iron barque that sank in 15 metres of water off the south west of Carnac Island after hitting Challenger Rock in 1898.
		Formerly known as the Parmelia, it was built as a bucket dredge during the 1930's.
		The Contest was a barque of 322 tons and was loading sleepers for South Australia.
	www.voc.iinet.net.au /rockcoast.html (2082 words)

	Parmelia - Parmelia
		Parmelia as er eit privateigd foretak som leverer konsulenttenester, foredrag/kurs og gards/naturopplevingar.
		Hjelmås Hestesenter og Bestefarstova er to avdelingar i Parmelia as som vert presentert separat.
		Geir Styve er dagleg leiar i Parmelia as og har lang erfaring som leiar og rådgjevar i næringslivet.
	www.parmelia.no (500 words)

	Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. Journals 1829 -
		"Parmelia" grounded in crossing a shoal, running between Woodmans Point and Carnac Island, and remained on the bank for eighteen hours, not withstanding the exertions of all on board, aided by Captain Fremantle and a large party of the crew of the "Challenger".
		It landed in the most southern part of Mangles Bay, and proceeded 10 miles in a SE byS direction where it came to a river running towards the sea.
		Commenced discharging the "Calista" on the Main at the entrance to Swan River.
	www.wags.org.au /shipping/psdocs.htm (897 words)

	Charles Fremantle - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After arriving in Cockburn Sound and landing on Garden Island a few weeks earlier, on May 2 1829 he took formal possession of the whole of the western coast of Australia in the name of King George IV.
		On May 30, Lieutenant Governor elect Captain James Stirling arrived on the Parmelia and on June 17 a proxy proclamation was read by Stirling confirming the earlier proclamation.
		The City of Fremantle in Western Australia is named after him.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Fremantle (292 words)

	History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine
		The steamer Commerce (Canadian) came in collision with the steamer Dispatch, off Grand River, Canada, sinking the former and 38 persons were drowned.
		The brig Crispin stranded on Point aux Barques, and became a total loss.
		Bark Parmelia J. Flood, 383 tons, Captain Anderson, from Green Bay with lumber for the West Indies.
	www.linkstothepast.com /marine/chapt37.html (10241 words)

	SHIPWRECKS ON THE AUSTRALIA RUN
		Acompetitor in the Parmelia race from Plymouth to Fremantle, commemorating the voyage to the colony of Western Australia by Captain Stirling in the barque Parmelia about 150 years earlier, had almost reached Fremantle when she was wrecked on Rottnest Island, 26 November 1979.
		Fortunately, the French barque Charles and Pauline hove in sight and kept company with the Condor for a short time before transferring the passengers, their luggage, a large quantity of provisions, and 22,000 ounces of gold.
		The barque Annie White fell in with her a few days later and took some of the passengers on to Melbourne.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /austrun-wrecks.html (19872 words)

	Celebrate WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Packed into the 443 ton barque Parmelia were nearly 150 men, women and children, passengers and crew, together with their personal belongings, the stores, cattle and poultry and much of the equipment required to set up the new colony.
		The Parmelia was accompanied by HMS Sulphur carrying a detachment of troops of the 63rd Regiment under the command of Captain F C Irwin.
		The Parmelia arrived off the Western Australian coast near the mouth of the Swan River on 31 May and on the 18 June Stirling proclaimed the foundation of the colony.
	www.celebratewa.com.au /Events/view.asp?DetailsID=55 (2097 words)

	Serendipity - Stamp collecting discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The barque Parmelia and its Passengers [The Parmela was a 443 ton barque that had been built in Quebec, Canada in 1825] After a long and meritorious naval career, and while serviing in the East India Squadron, Captain James Stirling suffered from a severe stomach ailment and was invalided back to London on half pay.
		Records would indicate that shortly after the Parmelia sailed from Plymouth on her 16 week voyage to found the Swan River colony, Mrs Stirling gave birth to a son, Frederick Henry who in later years took command of the British navy in Australian waters and married an Australian girl.
		Also packed into the Parmelia were nearly 150 men, women and children, passengers and crew, together with their personal belongings, the stores, cattle and poultry and much of the equipment required to set up the new colony.
	www.thecollectorforum.com /Serendipity-2775243-109-a.html (6592 words)

	Celebrate WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1829, the Parmelia, built in Quebec Canada in 1825 was hired to transport Lieutenant Governor James Stirling and the first group of free settlers to the Swan River in Western Australia to establish a colony.
		Escorted by HMS Sulphur, the Parmelia left England in early February 1829 and reached Rottnest on 31 May 1829.
		On the first of May 1839, she was destroyed by fire in an English dockyard.
	www.celebratewa.com.au /Events/view.asp?DetailsID=46 (685 words)

	1979
		Fifty-four entrants representing 13 nations set sail on a 12, 000-mile course from Plymouth, England via Cape Town to Fremantle.
		Named "The Parmelia Race", after the small barque which brought the first settlers to Western Australian in 1829, the aim of the race was to retrace the route taken by the original ship.
		The race was organised into two divisions, with staggered starts.
	www.fremantleports.com.au /About/OurHistory/1979.asp (392 words)

	Passengers Arriving In Western Australia - 'Otago' June 4, 1886
		One and all in their several degrees gave every information in their power and made what might have been a rather disagreeable duty, a very pleasant pleasure trip.
		The barque, OTAGO, arrived on Friday after an exceptionally good passage of eighty one days from London.
		A favourable voyage had a not very successful termination, as, in making for Owen's Anchorage, she nearly grounded on the Parmelia Bank, at a spot just inside the Fish Rock, but was afterwards safely towed into deep water by the ss Perth.
	members.iinet.net.au /~perthdps/shipping/otago.htm (2323 words)

	Suburb Info - aussiehome.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first European 'settlers' in the area were the whalers and sealers who sought protection from the storms of the southern ocean.
		Reports of the land were good, so, on March 12, 1830, Augusta was founded by James Stirling accompanied by settlers from the ship "Barque Warrior".
		Up until the 1870s, the town struggled to grow due to the obstructed transport back up to Perth.
	www.aussiehome.com /suburbsnew.asp?su=Augusta (206 words)

	AUSTRALIAN TIME LINE
		Capt Fremantle of HMS Challenger landed on banks of Swan River [Western Australia] and made formal possession of the territory.
		Early in June of 1829 sixty-nine persons arrived in transport Parmelia, and the town sites of Perth and Fremantle were laid out a few days after arrival.
		The first Government immigrants arrived from Sydney, [NSW], in Barque Hope.
	freespace.virgin.net /grahamr.uk/TH2000/australian_time_line.htm (2080 words)

	Reveley, Henry Willey (1788 - 1875) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1827 he went with his wife Amelia, a sister of the artist Copley Fielding, to Cape Town as colonial civil engineer, but held this appointment for little more than a year.
		When the barque Parmelia called at Cape Town in May 1829, Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling engaged Reveley as civil engineer to the Swan River settlement at a salary of £200 and the Reveleys continued the voyage with the founders of Western Australia.
		His first work after arrival was the building of huts at the temporary encampment on Garden Island.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A020331b.htm (592 words)

	California Biographies - Summaries 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After almost 6 months the barque Isabella cast anchor in SF where all hands deserted in their eagerness to hasten to the gold fields.
		The daughter is the wife of S. GEROULD and the remaining son is George D., the subject of this sketch.
		George came to CA in 1849 on the barque Edward Fletcher.
	www.cagenweb.com /cpl/sumbios6.htm (22296 words)

	Dance Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Lyon Brewery Co. decided to establish a hotel at Port Derby to serve the new gold fields at Halls Creek.
		The frame for this hotel was sent up by the barque ' Janet.'
		In March of that year Mr Tom Milligan and Ezra Dance took passage on the S.S. Albany.
	www.familytreeweb.co.uk /html/dance_family.html (866 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All care has been taken to decifer the handwriting please check with the original source, this list was very faded and hard to read.
		The "Maitland" was converted to barque rigging for its one voyage to Australia with emigrants in 1838.
		Bounty Immigration to Australia By the end of the first quarter of the 1800's conditions in Britain/Ireland and in Australia emerged which resulted in a massive wave of migration to Australia.
	www.myfamilytree.com.au /links/list.cfm?cat_id=336 (1627 words)

	Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 31st Congress: Keywords
		An Act To grant a register to the barque Jas.
		Patten, Jr., now the Grenadian barque '' Bogota.'' (H.R. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
		Matteson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Parmelia Slavin, late the wife of John Blue, deceased.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/browse/llhb_031_keyw.html (9687 words)

	Thoreau's "Cape Cod": electronic edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1802 there was not a single fruit-tree in Chatham, the next town to Orleans, on the south; and the old account of Orleans says: ``Fruit-trees cannot be made to grow within a mile of the ocean.
		Even those which are placed at a greater distance are injured by the east winds; and, after violent storms in the spring, a saltish taste is perceptible on their bark.'' We noticed that they were often covered with a yellow lichen like rust, the Parmelia parietina.
		The most foreign and picturesque structures on the Cape, to an inlander, not excepting the salt-works, are the wind-mills, - gray-looking octagonal towers, with long timbers slanting to the ground in the rear, and there resting on a cart-wheel, by which their fans are turned round to face the wind.
	www.sc.ehu.es /sfwpbiog/acdr/Thoreau/cc_all.htm (15712 words)

	Frank Acs
		Ninety-nine and a half years ago, as dusk fell on a stormy July evening, the beautiful Iron Barque "City of York" rounded Rottnest and searched for the pilot.
		She was nearing the end of a leg from San Francisco to Fremantle under the guidance of her skipper Captain Phillip Jones.
		This is not the official Home Page of the Club and reflects my personal views only, however the text above is an electronic version of the SQUADRON NEWS newsletter
	members.iinet.com.au /~acsferi/pfsyc_5.htm (2690 words)

	Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. Parmelia Passenger List
		Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. Parmelia Passenger List
		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.
		For further information on this, see The Western Australian Historical Society, Journal and Proceedings Vol.
	www.wags.org.au /shipping/pasparm.htm (174 words)

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