2015/03/01 by Angela Woollacott · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Colonialism, slavery, and trade
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641802.003.0002
openalex publication_date 2015/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Settlers and residents in the Australian colonies had personal connections to and knowledge of many places around a rapidly globalizing world. Voyages to and from Australia involved calling at one or more ports, in regions ranging from Africa, to the Indian Ocean, South and South East Asia, and South America. Many settlers had served in the British Army in India and elsewhere; sick or long-term officials, merchants, soldiers, and pensioners from India commonly sojourned in the Australian colonies and stayed. This chapter looks at how settler connections and experiences sprawled around the globe, using examples from the intermarried networks of the Dumaresq, Macleay, and Darling families of the 1820s to 1850s: families who settled or sojourned in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land and whose dynastic aspirations returned generations to the Australian colonies.