• The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...
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    totalling 15 people. She was the eighth shipping arrival in the fledgling Swan River Colony. By 1844 the vessel was involved in the transport of cattle from Port...
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    of Western Australia as a British colony, then as a state of federal Australia. Fremantle left the Swan River Colony on 28 August 1829, heading for the...
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  • Swan River may refer to: Australia Swan River (Western Australia) Swan River Colony, a British settlement on the river, later became Perth Canada Swan...
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    Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar...
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    the right side, the state badge of Western Australia, comprising a black swan in a yellow disc, is surmounted by the St. Edward's crown. If the standard...
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  • 129th meridian east. This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, which ultimately became the present-day capital, Perth. The...
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    between the Swan River and Cape Naturaliste In June 1838 he explored from the Swan River to Bunbury via the Murray, Harvey, Collie and Preston rivers, then...
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    1829 the Swan River Colony was established on the Swan River by Captain James Stirling. By 1832, the British settler population of the colony had reached...
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  • John Acton Wroth (1830–1876) was a convict transportee to the Swan River Colony, and later a clerk and storekeeper in Toodyay, Western Australia. He kept...
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  • capital city of Western Australia. It was established by Britain as the Swan River Colony in 1829. The area had been explored by Europeans as early as 1697...
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    the continent of Australia were the penal colony of New South Wales, founded in 1788, and the Swan River Colony (later renamed Western Australia), founded...
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  • Swan River mania refers to the period of high immigration to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia due in large part to exaggerated claims in the...
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    the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony as an appendix to Edwards's Botanical Register. The specific epithet...
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    colony's area was detached to form separate British colonies that eventually became the various states and territories of Australia. The Swan River Colony...
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    A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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  • Margaret River wine region. The company traces its origins back to 1840, when John Septimus Roe, the first Surveyor-General of the Swan River Colony, was...
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    appointment as Government Naturalist to the soon-to-be-established Swan River Colony (Australia). This position was honorary, but Drummond was given to...
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    and persistence persuaded the British Government to establish the Swan River Colony and he became the first Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Western...
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    The Swan River Colony, established in June 1829, was the only British colony in Australia established on the basis of land grants to settlers. Under the...
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    Molloy of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. According to John Ryan, Lindley's 1840 'Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony' provided...
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    1803 and Queensland in 1824. Western Australia – established as the Swan River Colony in 1829 – initially was intended solely for free settlers, but commenced...
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  • Van Diemen's Land became a separate colony in 1825, and free settlements were established at the Swan River Colony in Western Australia (1829), the Province...
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    New South Wales for over four years until it was made part of the Swan River Colony. The settlement was founded on 26 December 1826 as a military outpost...
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  • building firm from his father Richard in 1831 and migrated to the Swan River Colony, with his wife Jessey and three children in 1843. Sherwood, who had...
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    the Swan River Colony in western mainland Australia. 1832 – Swan River Colony is renamed the "colony of Western Australia". 1836 – The Colony of South...
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    Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony", also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Sketch Veg. Swan R., is an 1839 article by John Lindley...
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    British colonies namely: Cape Colony (preceded by Dutch Cape Colony), Natal Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony. After the colonies were disestablished...
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    to life in Swan River colony between 1830 and 1840." Moore was an Irish lawyer who settled in the Swan River Colony in 1830, the colony's second year...
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  • Barron (8 Aug 1796 – 23 Feb 1863), was a soldier and pioneer in the Swan River Colony. Barron was born in County Donegal, Ireland. On 8 July 1817, at age...
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