Johnny Neptune
Johnny Neptune is the name given to a new-born orphan found abandoned in Sydney Cove by two marines. Neptune because the child's mother was a convict transported to Australia on the sailing ship Neptune. Adopted by a convict washerwomen, Johnny's subsequent career is set against the rapscallion, exciting background of early Sydney, with its winding streets and busy harbour and in the untamed bush along the banks of the Hawkesbury River and in the end Johnny's house is flooded and they had to move out.