This project was created about October 2005, 'looking for were people went in general from all locations to Australia. In peticular the Parramatta,Sidney Area. This is a Locational Project as such we welcome MTDNA [female] DNA as well as the usual Ydna [male] ... started being concerned about who migrated to Australia from Longford/Cavan Ireland. So Parramatta/Sidney AU. seemed like the place to start as one of [his] Dennings were sent there after the 1798 rebellion. He married Johns and settled in Parramatta.'

The 'family crest' was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2015 by User:Squiresy92 'with elements adapted from User:Sodacan'. Used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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Pre-colonial peoples had named this area as Burramatta either in reference to an abundance of eels or to refer to the river's headwaters. Local kin groups were Burramattagal, Wangal, and Wallumattagal. These and some 26 others referred to themselves as eora or yura meaning simply 'peoples'. Of note, it has been suggested that these eora pertained to something of a matrilineal society.

Admiral Arthur Phillip brought the First Fleet of 11 vessels to Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1788, carrying over 1,000 migrants including 700 convicts. The township of Parramatta was developed as a farming community at the same time as Sydney was founded, in January 1788. The Second Fleet of six ships left the British Isles with 1,038 convicts, however, due to cruelty and mistreatment against them, 273 of these had died before reaching the Colony, and a further 124 died within six months of being there since June 1790, as at least 486 were landed sick.

A view of the Governer's House at Rose hill, in the Township of Parramatta. J Heath, 1804, in An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 by David Collins (1756–1810).

British settlement in mainland Australia was largely confined to a 100 kilometre radius around Sydney in 1820. The settler population was 26,000, with 6,000 in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

By 1850 the migrant population of the Colony of New South Wales had grown to 180,000 people, not counting some 70,000 in what became Victoria.