The Ships List - Emigrants from Great Britain & Ireland to Australia: 1825-1832 extracted from the British Parliamentary Papers (1833, XXVI, 279). It is arranged by colony and lists name, trade, number of persons in each family and amount (£) given to each. The ship of arrival is not listed.
Ozships: Australian Shipping 1788-1968. This site by Peter Larson lists shipping arrivals and departures. It also includes 92,000+ passenger list entries which can be browsed alphabetically. These are linked to transcripts of the passenger lists. Updated
A list of 14,000+ SS Great Britain passengers on voyages from Liverpool to Australia (1852-1875).
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) has 11,000+ passenger list transcripts online including ships to Australia. Collections include World War II Refugees to Australia by Tom Stiglmayer which lists migrants from Germany, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The index is arranged by year (1937-1966) with ships listed alphabetically. Each ships' list has names, nationality and reference. Updated
New South WalesState Records
New South Wales pilot project to digitise microfilm shipping
lists. Currently lists on reels 2134-2145
are available for free online viewing. Use the online indexes listed above to
locate the reel number/s and then consult the online reel if available. The
following series have online reels available: New
Persons on bounty ships (Agent's
Immigrant Lists), 1838-1896 (NRS 5316) Persons on bounty ships arriving at
Port Phillip, 1839-1851 (NRS 5318) Germans on bounty ships, 1849-1852
(NRS 5320) Ancestry.com offers access to indexes and digitised
images for New South Wales Assisted
Immigrant Passenger Lists 1828-1896 and Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists
1826-1922 . There is a free name search with subscription, or pay to
view, options available to access the digitised records. This database covers
the following records held by State Records New South Wales: New
Passengers arriving at Sydney 1846 (Agent's Immigrant
Lists). (NRS 5326, reel 2457)
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters . This site, hosted by SRNSW, offers access to an index of unassisted passengers and crew plus transcriptions and digital copies of the original passenger lists held by SRNSW. This ongoing project currently has lists for 1845-1849, 1851-1852, 1854-1859, 1860s, 1870s and 1880s complete with the 1890s to 1922 to follow. Almost complete years include 1890-1892, 1898, 1922, with 1909 complete. Updated
Society of Australian Genealogists - Online database Ships Muster Index: Passengers and Crew Departing NSW, 1816-1825 by Norma Tuck. This index can be searched by names, ship and year.
FamilySearchLabs. Click on RecordSearch, then Browse our record collections then choose Australia for free access to the Index to Bounty Immigrants Arrivals in NSW 1828-1842. The online images are of the original index cards. This index, compiled by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members is also available on SRNSW reels 30-37. It covers persons on early migrant ships, 1828-1832 (SRNSW series NRS 5310); persons on early migrant ships, May 1832-Jan 1833 (SRNSW series NRS5311) and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-1842 (SRNSW series NRS 5314). The original records are held by SRNSW. New
Peter Madden's Emigrant Databases for Galway, IRL (1828-1864), Tipperary, IRL (1828-1865) and Inverness, SCT (1828-1854 ongoing). These databases record the details of assisted emigrants from these counties to New South Wales and Queensland. They list name, age, year and ship of arrival, native place, parents' names and residence plus the names of relations in the colony.
QueenslandQueensland State
Archives Indexes to Assisted Immigration 1848-1912 lists passengers from the
United Kingdom and Europe only. Those who paid their own fare are not listed,
though a few of the later lists may record fare paying passengers. Records for
the 1860s are incomplete. The index lists names, age, ship, date and QSA
references. This index is also available through the paid site
Ancestry.com.au.
Other free immigration indexes available online at
QSA include:
• Passport Register Indexes 1926-1939. These two
indexes record the names of immigrants arriving in Queensland. They are the
Passport Clearance Register Index 1926-1935 and the Index to Passport Receipts
1930-1939.
• Passage Certificates Index 1887-1906. This
index to the register, kept by the Sub-Immigration Agent, Warwick, records
applications by sponsors of immigrants. The index lists name, notes (applicant
or nominee), date, receipt number and QSA references.
• Register of
Immigrants 1864-1878. This Register, kept by the Assistant Immigration Agent,
Toowoomba, contains details of applications for passage certificates for
immigration, registered in Toowoomba. The date, name and age of immigrant,
trade, where living (country of origin), amount paid, name of depositor and
relevant remarks as to where living in the district are included in the register
details. The majority of immigrants listed originate from Ireland. The index to
this register contains 888 entries and lists immigrant’s name,
depositor/applicant’s name, age, date of arrival and QSA
references.
• Assistant Immigration Agent Maryborough 1884-1907. An
index to two series of records, Series ID 13053 (IMA3/12), Correspondence and
papers re Nominated Immigrants, Europe 1904-1907 and Series ID 13054 (IMA3/11),
Register of Prospective Immigrants Nominated for Passage 1884-1896.
• Assistant Immigration Agent Maryborough 1875-1884.
An index to Series ID 13062 (IMA3/18-19), Registers of Rations Issued to
Immigrants, Maryborough. These registers record rations issued with details
entered for single girls, single men and married people. They also include the
name of the ship, when arrived, immigrants' names, rations issued and remarks.
There are also some entries for South Sea Islanders.
• Card Index to
Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922 (Series ID 5611). These cards
record in-formation about those nominated or sponsored to immigrate to
Queensland. It also includes those who made inquiries about immigration to
Queensland, rejected applicants and applicants who returned to their country of
origin. The index lists immigrant’s name, age, year, ship, source card name and
QSA references.
Once you have an index reference copies of the original
documents can be ordered from QSA for a small fee. Updated
Ancestry.com
Queensland Immigration Indexes. This commercial site
offers:
• Index to Registers of Passengers on Immigrant Ships arriving
in Queensland 1848-1912 from ports in the UK and Europe. These registers do not
include passengers from New Zealand, the Americas or other non-European ports.
Details given vary but may include name, age, date and place of arrival in
Queensland, ship name, date and port of departure. This database covers records
held by Queensland State Archives, Series ID 13086, Registers of Immigrant
Ships' Arrivals, Reels M471, M473, M1075, M1696–1710.
• Maryborough
Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-1891.
This index, by Janet Reakes, is from original data held by the Queensland State
Arc-hives. The index lists name, age, ship and year of arrival.
The Ships List. Immigrants to South Australia, (UK, assisted passage) 1847-1886. This ongoing project by Robert Janmaat currently has selected lists for 1847-1856 available. A surname search of all Australian lists hosted by The Ships List is available by clicking on Passenger Lists.
We're Bound for South Australia by Diane Cummings with passenger lists for ships to SA 1836-1851 arranged by year and alphabetically by ship. Images of transcripts of the passenger lists are available online. Surname searching is not available. Includes intercolonial and overseas arrivals.Public Record Office Victoria - Database index to Assisted British Immigrants to Victoria (1839-1871). A search returns names, age, month, year and ship of arrival plus book and page number which refer to the passenger lists held on microfiche. Note: Passenger list images are available on Ancestry.com.au. A fee ($) applies.
Public Record Office Victoria - Database Index to Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports (1852-1923). This database lists unassisted passengers to Victoria and a search returns name, title, age, arrival date, ship name and fiche reference to the relevant passenger list. Note: Passenger list images are available on Ancestry.com.au. A fee ($) applies.
Public Record Office Victoria - Database Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports (1852-1896). This database of passengers on ships leaving Victoria returns names, ship name, departure month and year, destination, film references, age and page number. Note: Passenger list images are available on Ancestry.com.au. A fee ($) applies.
Ancestry.com offers access to indexes and digitised images for Victoria - Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists 1839-1923. There is a free name search with subscription, or pay to view, options available to access the digitised records. This database covers the following records held by the Public Record Office Victoria: New
Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports). (Microfiche VPRS 7666, copy of VRPS 947)
Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (Foreign Ports). (Microfiche VPRS 7667, copy of VRPS 947).
Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (New Zealand Ports). (Microfiche VPRS 13439, copy of VRPS 947)
Register of Assisted Immigrants
from the United Kingdom. (Microfiche VPRS 14).
Western Australian Genealogical Society. Click on Genealogy WA Data for access to 1829 Shipping Arrivals to the Swan River Colony. This information has been transcribed from early newspapers and includes passenger lists. Updated
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