Indexes and passenger records

National Archives of Australia - Destination Australia

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 03:21:11 GMT

This site features more than 22,000 photographs of migrants who arrived in Australia from all over the world post World War II, 1946-1999. You can use this site to share your story, read about other migrants’ memories and explore the free mages of people arriving and living in Australia. The photographs cover a vast range of events including the arrival of migrants, citizenship ceremonies, multicultural festivals, English classes and the opening of new places of worship. Official photographers also portrayed thousands of migrants in their workplace and other areas of the community. New

State Archives & Records New South Wales - Webinars

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:43:48 GMT

State Archives & Records upcoming free live webinars will cover NSW Professions and Occupations; NSW Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence and Sources for Marriage in NSW. You need to register to view these live. You can view previous webinars in the Webinar Library and these cover Bankruptcy and Insolvency records in NSW; Asylum records in NSW; Divorce records in NSW; NSW Probate Records; Tracing NSW Gaolbirds; Basics of conservation; NSW Shipping & Immigration records; Tracing NSW Convicts and Using the NSW State Archives website. New

Ozships: Australian Shipping 1788-1968

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:28:30 GMT

This site 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. Please note that this site has not been updated since November 2006.

Family History South Australia - FamilyHistorySA

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:05:13 GMT

FamilyHistorySA, by Barry Leadbeater, aims to provide free information for family history and genealogy research on South Australians and their ancestors at home and abroad. The searchable databases include:
• Pioneer family arrivals, births and marriages
• Early shipping arrivals and passenger lists
• Births 1836 to 1860
• Marriages 1836 to 1857
• Deaths 1836 to 1855
• Cemeteries and burials
• Gazetted deaths 1845 to 1941
• Returned servicemen deaths 1947 to 2018
• World War I SA servicemen deaths
• Persons lost and found 1838 to 1920 includes deserters
• Police 1838 to 1920
• District constables 1853 to 1920
• Gold diggers from SA 1852 to 1853
• Whalers 1844 to 1851
• Land purchases 1869 to 1890
• Naturalizations 1839 to 1903
The History Articles cover:
• South Australian history timeline
• Church photographs with historical notes
• River Murray mission boats
• SA counties and hundreds
• Credit selection of land
• Naturalization in SA
• German place names in SA - World War I
• Violet day - World War I
• Gold in SA's early days
• Water in SA's early days
• Whaling in SA's early days
• 1912 Roon voyage diary
• Leadbeater family tree
Ancestry/Genealogy Resources include:
• South Australian Shipping & Migration Directory - A detailed, list with links, of ship and passenger arrival and departure resources
• South Australian Birth, Death & Marriage (BDM) Certificates - Detailed information of what is included on the certificates over any given time period plus where to find the current locations of the original district records plus free access to birth indexes 1836-1860, marriage indexes 1836-1857 and death indexes 1836-1855
• South Australian Cemetery Directory - Burial and cremations resources. Search the cemetery database for the location and history of 1,170 SA burial places, and for burials up to 1855 plus more. New

Findmypast - Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924.

Mon, 29 Aug 2016 01:46:09 GMT

The Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924, held by the Public Record Office of Victoria, detail 3.2+ million passengers people arriving in Victoria from overseas and as well as other Australian ports, especially during the gold rush era of the 1850s and 1860s. The transcripts include a scan of the original record so you can check for extra information. The information given varies from record to record, but most will include name, age, estimated birth year, nationality, month and year of arrival, ship's name, departure and destination ports and native place. The latter may mean place of birth but sometimes means last place of residence.
There are free searches available but a subscription or Pay As You Go is needed to access the transcripts and digitised original records.
TIP 1: It is common to find passengers listed by surname only, or surname and initial or as a family group (Mr and Mrs Murphy and two children) so keep your search terms broad.
TIP 2: Findmypast is available for free, onsite, at some state, public and family history libraries. Check what might be available onsite at a library near you. New

Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1816-1825, 1898-1911

Sat, 07 May 2016 22:32:13 GMT

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 where. The ship’s company lists also provide details about the crew members, such as their name and rank, and passenger lists contain information about the booked passengers. Ancestry.com offers a free name search and various payment options to access the original records and images.
TIP: Ancestry.com and Findmypast are available for free, onsite, at some state, public and family history libraries. Check what is available near you. New

Australian National University - Australian Agricultural Company Online resources

Thu, 05 May 2016 22:31:30 GMT

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 names, place of birth and father's position (occupation)
• Pure merinos and others: the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company, by P. A. Pemberton, originally published in 1986 New

Findmypast - Deaths At Sea, 1781-1968

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:14:12 GMT

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 a variety of subscription options.
TIP: Findmypast is available for free, onsite, at some state, public and family history libraries. Check what might be available onsite at a library near you. New

Ancestry.com - Fremantle Western Australia - Passenger Arrivals Lists 1897-1963

Tue, 19 May 2015 23:16:20 GMT

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 as well as those disembarking. The collection includes ship passenger arrivals, crew lists, air arrivals, and quarantine lists. The records were kept on a variety of forms, with varying degrees of information available. A variety of subscription options offer access to digitised copies of the original records.
TIP: Ancestry.com is available for free, onsite, at some state, public and family history libraries. Check what might be available onsite at a library near you. New

Port Phillip District, Victoria, Australia

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 04:59:34 GMT

This site by Alexander Romanov-Hughes includes censuses, directories and electoral rolls for Melbourne and Port Phillip. There are also alphabetical lists of passengers arrivals to Port Phillip for:
• Coastal passengers 1839-1845
• Unassisted passengers from Southern England & Ireland 1839-1851
• Unassisted passengers from Liverpool 1839-1851
• Unassisted passengers from Scotland 1839-1851
• Unassisted passengers from Commonwealth & Foreign Ports 1838-1851
These overseas arrivals also include reconstructed passenger lists.

The National Archives UK - Discovery - Online collections - Migration

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 03:14:30 GMT

Discovery holds 32+ million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and 2,500+ archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download from this site. Use Discovery to search. Enter a surname in the search box and tick Available to download from the National Archives. You can refine your search results by Date, Subject or Collection. Digitised copies of the original records can be downloaded for £1.10 each or accessed on the commercial sites Ancestry or findmypast where indicated*. Records available include:
• Alien arrivals (*images available on Ancestry)
• Alien entry books (*images available on Ancestry)
• Aliens’ registration cards 1918-1957
• Naturalisation case papers 1801-1871
• Passenger lists (*images available on Ancestry and findmypast)
TIP: Ancestry and Findmypast are available for free, onsite, at some state, public and family history libraries. Check what might be available onsite at a library near you.
TIP: The state libraries of Victoria and Western Australia eResources offers free access to the Discovery service digitised documents.

Searching the Passenger Lists in One Step - United States 1830-1912

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:41:05 GMT

This site by Stephen P Morse offers a one stop search 1830-1912 and includes:
• 1830 to 1855: pre Castle Garden
• 1855 to 1890: Castle Garden
• 1890 to 1891: Barge Office
• 1892 to 1912: Ellis Island New

Sydney’s Female Emigration Depot 1848-1886

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:34:03 GMT

This online exhibition is arranged as follows:
• Land of Milk & Honey
• Voyage
• First Arrivals
• Dress
• In the Depot
• In the Colony
• Women's Stories
• Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine New

Archives Hub - British Women's Emigration

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:08:18 GMT

This site focuses on organisations created to encourage educated middle-class women to migrate to British colonies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa in the late 1800s-early 1900s.

19th century South Australian shipping databases

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:26:50 GMT

This site by Graham Jaunay has three online databases designed for accessing details on vessels, and emigrants, arriving in South Australia. They include:
• 1836 to 1840 emigrants who applied for free passage - Lists the names of 11,518 labourers and their families who applied for free passage 1836-1840
• 1836 to 1840 emigrants who applied for free passage but did not take up the offer - Names 2,818 labourers who applied for free passage 1836-1840 but never took up on the offer
• 1836 to 1841 and 1847 to 1886 vessels that brought assisted emigrants to the Colony - Names the 749 vessels (not passengers) which brought assisted emigrants to the Colony 1836-1886.
TIP: Use this database in conjunction with State Records of South Australia Passenger List Search. Enter the ship’s number (eg 62/2) from a State records search to find the name of the ship which is not listed on the State Records search.

Bound for South Australia - Passenger Lists 1836-1851

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:38:30 GMT

Bound for South Australia by Diane Cummings. The passenger lists 1836-1851 are arranged by arrival year and alphabetically by ship name within each year. The passenger lists are presented as scanned images from the original source or are transcribed. There is no keyword search option. At the bottom of the page there are some Quick links for access. Choose a year from the list on the right to search.

Ancestry.com - Unassisted Immigrants 1826-1922

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:29:59 GMT

Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists 1826-1922. There is a free name search with subscription, or pay to veiw options available to access the digitised records. This database covers the following records held by State Records New South Wales:
• Inward passenger lists. (NRS 13278, reels 399-560, 2001-2122, 2751)
• Reports of vessels arrived. (NRS 1291, reels 1263-1285, 2851)
This set of records lists information about seamen (names, positions, ages, birthplaces)

Findmypast - Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:58:33 GMT

The National Archives (UK) Outward Passenger Lists for voyages departing the British Isles 1890-1960 (BT27) for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA detail 24 million+ records. The database covers many arrivals into Australia that are still unindexed here. Passengers listed include migrants, businessmen, diplomats and tourists. It is also available at Ancestry.com as UK Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960. These two commercial sites offer a range of subscription options.
TIP: Findmypast and Ancestry.com are available for free, onsite, at state, public and family history libraries. Check what might be available onsite at a library near you.

IrishGenealogy.ie

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:40:32 GMT

IrishGenealogy.ie is a free family history website by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The online data includes:
• Church records - access 3+ million pre 1900 Church of Ireland records for Dublin City, Kerry and Carlow; Roman Catholic records for Dublin City, the Diocese of Kerry and the Diocese of Cork & Ross and some Presbyterian records for Dublin. Free digital images online if available.
• Civil records - with Irish civil registration indexes from 1864 and non-Roman Catholic marriages from 1845. Search for births over 100 years, marriages over 75 years and deaths over 50 years. Free register images online for births 1864-1916; marriages 1870-1941 and deaths 1878- 1966 with marriages back to 1845 and deaths to 1864 to be added.
Note: The birth indexes from 1900 lists the mother's maiden name and exact date. The marriage indexes from 1882 lists the spouse’s name and exact date. If a free image is not available you can buy an uncertified photocopy of the certificate for research purposes only for Euro €4.00. You must apply by post and an application form can be Downloaded Here. Photocopies can be posted + €2.00 for postage overseas or emailed.

There is also a ‘one stop’ single online search across the following sites:
• The 1901 census and 1911 census
• Indexes to Registers of Births Deaths and Marriages
• Griffith's Valuation
• The Tithe Applotment Books
• The National Archives of Ireland Collection of Soldiers' Wills
• The records of the Bureau of Military History
• The online catalogue of the National Library of Ireland
• The US immigration records of Ellisisland.org and CastleGarden.org
• The Ireland-Australia Transportation database
• The records in National Archives of Ireland collection "Women in 20th-century Ireland-1922-1966
• Records of the Royal Irish Academy's Digital Humanities Observatory
TIP: Check the surname variants that this ‘one stop’ search provides

Peter Madden's Emigrant Databases - Ireland and Scotland

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

There are databases for Galway, Ireland, 1828-1864, Tipperary, Ireland, 1828-1865 and Inverness, Scotland, 1828-1866. These databases record the details of assisted emigrants from these counties to New South Wales and Queensland with some to Victoria. They list name, age, year and ship of arrival, native place, parents' names and residence plus the names of relations in the colony.