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By all accounts the Forrester family shares a lucky streak and tough genes. When Robert Forrester was transported to Australia as a convict, he had already proved he came from strong stock by surviving five years on a prison hulk on the River Thames. His good fortune came into play when his sentence for stealing six guineas in gold coin was commuted from the death penalty in 1783. He was to be transported to the Americas for seven years, but the American War of Independence made that impossible and in 1787 he was transferred to the Scarborough to join the First Fleet.
Three years after arriving in NSW he was part
