Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site has been developed for the former children of the Fairbridge Farm School, Molong who migrated from Britain to Australia between 1938 and 1974. The site aims to preserve the history and the memories of the Farm School and…
This is an index to the men and boys who deserted from ships at ports in Queensland. Most were from ships in Brisbane but there are also desertions recorded from Rockhampton, Maryborough, Cooktown, Bundaberg, Townsville, Bowen, Normanton and Gladstone. This…
State Records of New South Wales (SRNSW), Index to the Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1825 is arranged alphabetically by subject and name. The Colonial Secretary was responsible for the official papers and records for the colony of New South Wales from…
This collection contains muster rolls, ship’s company, and passenger lists for vessels departing from New South Wales (also from Sydney). The muster rolls provide general information and statistics about the ships, including when the company and passengers were organized and…
The wreck site is the world largest online wreck database with 174,810 wrecks and 164,370 positions listed, 53,030 images, 2139 maritime charts, 29,720 ship owners and builders and lots more.
These include:• Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company Volume 1 (1829-1832) and Volume II (1832-1834)• Baptisms at Port Stephens (1826-1830), entered in Sir Edward Parry’s Letterbook. These list date of birth, child’s name and parent’s…
These records detail those who died at sea aboard British-registered vessels 1781-1968. The records may reveal where your sea-faring relatives were born and where they died, the name of the ship, and their cause of death. This commercial site offers…
This National Archives volunteer project, in conjunction with The National Maritime Museum and the Crew List Index Project, has made details of surviving First World War Merchant Navy crew lists from 1915, available to search online. It details 36,000 voyages…
This project is a collection of ship histories funded by the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme. There are ship profiles for the Alexander, Borrowdale, Charlotte, Fishburn, Friendship, Golden Grove, HMS Sirius, HMS Supply, Lady Penrhyn, Prince of Wales…
The National Archives of Australia and Ancestry.com.au have collaborated to offer online access to the Fremantle Passenger Arrival Lists collection. Note that these records can include names of passengers travelling onto other Australian ports such as Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne…