G'day Jim,

Yes ... the lyrics that I have worked by, for dating purposes, were reproduced, a decade or two back, by Ron Edwards, from the material he sighted in a funded study of broadside collections in Great Britain ... looking for "Australian Colonial Period" (1788 to 1900) broadsides that either mentioned Botany Bay / Australia / convict transportation - or were songs since collected from folk sources.

I can look it up and give you the broadside publisher ... but there was no clear dating information, and I made my estimate from internal references and those in the other items on the same sheet(s). It turns out that I was pretty accurate, given the 'legitimate' publishing date that other researchers have, since, quoted (~ 1854 ...?). That certainly explains why it was so important to those who came here in the Gold Rushes ... starting early 1850s.

Regards,

Bob