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Convictions: Australian Shipping Arrivals and Departures (1788-1968). This site lists 51,000+ shipping movements and 70,000+ passenger list entries. A global surname search is available.

A list of 14,000+ SS Great Britain passengers on voyages from Liverpool to Australia (1852-1875).

State Records New South Wales Index to Unassisted Immigrants 1842-1855. This index lists unassisted (or free) passengers who came to Australia at their own expense and includes ships' crew. A search returns names, age, ship, status, arrival date, from port, reference/reel and remarks.

State Records New South Wales Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants 1828-1843 by Joan Reese, Ann Smith and Norma Tuck. This index lists both those who paid their own fare and assisted immigrants. There are 9000+ entries and details given include name, ship, date of arrival, age, events (eg shipwreck) and  SRNSW reference numbers. It does not cover all arrivals for this period.

Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters by Mary-Anne Warner. This site, hosted by SRNSW, offers an index of (unassisted) passengers and crew, transcriptions and digital copies of the original passenger lists taken from the SRNSW series Inward Passenger Lists 1854-1922. This ongoing project currently has lists for the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s almost complete with the 1880s and 1890s to follow.

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.

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.

Queensland State Archives Indexes to Assisted Immigration 1848-1884 and 1883-1912  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.

The Ships List. Immigrants to South Australia, (UK, assisted passage) 1847-1886. This ongoing project by Robert Janmaat currently has selected lists for 1847-1855 available. A surname search of all Australian lists hosted by The Ships List is available by clicking on Passenger Lists.

Victoria
State Records New South Wales - Assisted Immigrants Arriving Port Phillip 1839-1851.

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.

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.

Public Record Office Victoria - Database Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK and Foreign Ports (1852-1886). This database of passengers on ships leaving Victoria returns names, ship name, departure month and year, destination, film references, age and page number.

National Archives of Australia, Index to Passenger Arrivals. An online database to Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and outports. Currently 1926-1947 is available for searching. For access log onto RecordSearch, then select Passenger Index. These records include all passengers disembarking but also those travelling onto other Australian ports.

Western Australian Genealogical Society. Click on Genealogy for access to lists of Ships to the Swan River Colony (1829-1830) transcribed from early newspapers. Passenger lists are available.

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