Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria, Australia by Captain Foster Fyans, 1790-1870

"Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and its Western District, where Captain Foster Fyans (1790-1870) was most influential, and in receding his- torical order, Sydney, Brisbane, Norfolk Island, India, Spain and Portugal, England and Ireland, with which he has previously linked, have had for more than a century no first-hand access to the memoirs or autobiography of this much discussed military officer and subsequent civil servant." (Flyleaf of paper cover). He was born in Ireland, served in the British army between 1810 and 1837, and was thereafter a civil servant in Victoria, Australia. The memoir ceased in 1842, and the appendix offers some of the subsequent details about Foster Fyans. He married and had three children (one boy and two girls); the two girls married into the Cortis and Neill families. After his wife's death, his sister Letitia came to run the household at Geelong. The memoir contains Fyans' comments on the aborigines, the convicts in Australia, the convict mutiny, and Fyans' life as an army officer.