National 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 arrivals at WA ports (1921-1950) and Perth airport (1944-1950) are
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 such as Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. For further details see
Fact Sheet 220: Index to Passenger Arrivals.
Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guildhas 9,000+ passenger list
transcripts online including ships to Australia. The Special Lists collection
includes 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
Assisted Immigrants to
Port Phillip (Vic) 1839-1851, Sydney and Newcastle 1844-1859, Moreton Bay
(Brisbane) 1848-1859, Sydney 1860-1879 and 1880-1896. Lists names, events, age,
remarks, vessel, year and references for access to the passenger lists. A vessel
search returns an alphabetical list of all immigrants
aboard.
Miscellaneous Immigrants 1828-1843 lists the names of some
passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants. Details given
include name, ship, date of arrival, age, events (eg shipwreck) and references.
It does not cover all arrivals for this period.
Unassisted Immigrants
1842-1855 lists those who paid their own way. It includes ships' crew. A
search returns names, age, ship, status, arrival date, from port, references and
remarks.
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 the 1850s, 1860s, 1870s and 1880s almost complete with
the 1890s and 1900s to follow. This site also includes lists for
1845-1847 and 1849.
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.
Queensland
State Archives, 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.
Queensland
State Archives, Index
to Passage Certificates 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.
State Records of
South Australia offers online
searching of Official
Passenger Lists of Emigrants Selected by the Colonization Commissioners
1845-1886 using
the collection search engine, ArchivesSearch.
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.
Tasmania Archives
Office of Tasmania Index to Departures (1817-1867). This
ongoing index lists names; rank; ship, date and port of departure;
where bound; ship to colony; status and remarks.
Archives Office of Tasmania Index to
Passengers & Ships Arrivals
in the 19th Century.
This index includes
passengers, crew, ship's
masters and ships arrivals mostly to Hobart. This ongoing project
currently covers surnames beginning with ‘A’ to ‘I’ from
about the 1820s to about the 1860s. Free email copies of the actual
records can be obtained by completing the online copy request form.
Western
Australia 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 arrivals at WA ports (1921-1950) and Perth airport
(1944-1950) are 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.