Here are the main reasons you would not be eligible: 1  You have not met the eligibility requirements. 2  You have been found guilty of a felony, or pleaded guilty to a felony.
1788: Captain Arthur Phillip establishes a convict settlement at Sydney Cove. Captain Arthur Phillip RN was the commander of the First Fleet of 11 ships that sailed into Botany Bay, New South Wales, in January 1788. Three days later he chose a site at nearby Sydney Cove, in Port Jackson, and on 26 January began to establish a convict settlement.
Captain Willian Rudyerd. A. British captain of royal birth appointed muster master general by the colonists of Providence Island. Often quarreled with people who on Britain would have been his inferiors. B. People of his situation soon found that their status back in Britain meant little in a colony setting.