County Palatine of Durham <\/strong>was succeeded to County Durham<\/strong> or just Durham<\/strong>. A Historic County located in Northern England with borders Northumberland, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Cumberland (Cumbria). Durham has a mixture of mining and farming heritage as well as railways, Durham Castle and Cathedral are designated World Heritage Sites. Steeped in history from the Bishop of Durham to St Cuthbert and Norman capture in 1069.<\/p>","Devon (Devonshire) <\/strong>is derived from Dummonia, it is located in the South West of England and borders Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. It has a large coast line with both cliffs and sandy shores."," Circa (c.)<\/strong><\/p> A Latin word that literally means "about" or "around" as in c. 1500. The other forms ca<\/strong> or ca. <\/strong>are also used throughout the histories.<\/p>","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land<\/strong> was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet<\/strong> departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","Norfolk <\/strong>lies in the East of England with borders along Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk with a large area on the North Sea. There were settlers as early as 950,00 years ago (pre-Roman), there is evidence of occupied areas right throughout, including the 5th Century the Norman Conquest.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/bayeux1.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Buckinghamshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/wales_monmouthshire.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Cheshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Somerset England.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Durham England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Devon England.webp?pos=floatRight","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Norfolk England.webp?pos=floatRight",null],"mode":"f","s":"Dack","sU":"DUCK","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/DUCK\/EN\/Dack\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}