Convicts at Parramatta: Ancestors and Anecdotes – The Memoirs of Kevin Barry Morgan
Australian History Local History Memoir Convict History True Crime Genealogy & Family History Colonial Australiana Historical Non-Fiction
“Convicts at Parramatta: Ancestors and Anecdotes – The Memoirs of Kevin Barry Morgan” is the 1999 Australian paperback that true-crime and family-history buffs keep on their forever shelf. Across 373 pages Morgan, a descendant of First-Fleet convicts, turns generations of whispered family stories into a living chronicle of Parramatta’s penal settlement. Readers walk the same sandstone lanes as his transported ancestors, meet the lash-wielding overseers, the defiant Irish rebels and the entrepreneurial emancipists who built a raw colony into a town. The book is packed with archival muster rolls, court transcripts and street maps, yet reads like a fireside yarn—perfect for YA students needing an accessible route into Australian history and for adults who want more colour than most academic texts allow.
What makes this copy special is its clean, smoke-free interior—only a single mark on the back cover—so you can shelve it proudly or gift it without apology. Because the title has never been reprinted, demand for tidy first-edition paperbacks is rising among genealogists and collectors of Australiana. Morgan’s blend of personal quest and meticulous research anticipates today’s DNA-tracking craze, making the book a time-capsule guide for anyone tracing New South Wales convict bloodlines. Keywords: Parramatta convicts, First Fleet descendants, Australian family history, 1999 first edition, Kevin Barry Morgan memoir.
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