Australia

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

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.

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.

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.

Datamarine's War Brides Index

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

An index to war bride passenger lists for ships bound for Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand 1946-1947. A search returns name and destination country. Fees apply for further details.

National Maritime Museum Sydney - Welcome Wall

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney. Click on the Welcome Wall link for information about the Welcome Wall. To search the online database use welcomewall.anmm.gov.au/Pivot It allows you to launch the virtual Welcome Wall. A text based version of the database is also available. Information includes name, comment, vital dates, origin, arrival details, where first settled and wall location.

The Fifth Fleet

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This site, by Ann Smith, details the ships which were chartered by the International Refugee Organization to bring 164,100+ displaced persons from Germany to Australia 1947-1951. There is a list of the ships with arrival date and port. This new and developing site aims to encourage others with a connection to refugee movements from Europe 1946-1954 to share information and perhaps reconnect.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

There are 12,000+ passenger list transcripts online. Most are to the USA but not all. The site includes lists of departures from the German ports of Altona, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Geestemunde, Hamburg, Stettin, Swinemunde (now Swinoujscie, Poland) plus unspecified ports. There is also a link to World War II Refugees to Australia by Tom Stiglmayer.

Western Australian Museum - Welcome Walls

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

More than one third of Western Australia's population was born overseas. The Welcome Walls projects pay tribute to those migrants who arrived by sea, landing at Fremantle or Albany. The Search Names link lists name, arrival year, ship name, family story and panel number. Full details are available by clicking on the name.

Australia's Virtual Immigration Wall of Honour

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This free site, created by Janet Reakes, offers the opportunity to record the arrival of your family into Australia and to make contact with other descendants/researchers. The online data lists names, birthplace, county, country and arrival details.

Immigrants Recruited by the Launceston Immigration Aid Society 1855-1862

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This book, by Kevin Green, is available online. Includes a bibliography and index of the 850 immigrants recruited. Descendants of the immigrants can add their details so contact can be made with other researchers.

Invisible Australians - Living under the White Australia Policy

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This emerging site is assembling biographical information about the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Afghans, Syrians and Malays who faced discriminatory laws and policies designed to deny them their place as Australians. Over 7,200 photographs from series ST84/1, Certificates of Domicile and Certificates of Exemption from Dictation Test, held by the National Archives of Australia are online.

World War II Refugees to Australia

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This site, by Tom Stiglmayer, lists migrants from Germany, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The index is arranged by year 1947-1966 with ships listed alphabetically. Each ships' list has names, nationality and reference.

The Ships List - Emigrants from Great Britain & Ireland to Australia: 1825-1832

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This information has been 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.

Scottish Emigration Database

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This database by the University of Aberdeen, currently details 21,000+ passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports (1 Jan-30 Apr 1923) and other Scottish ports 1890-1960. A destination search for Australia returned 151 hits.

Emigrants

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

An online aid for those seeking emigrant passenger lists. It allows family history researchers to link with others searching for emigrant passenger lists.

Irish Famine Memorial, Sydney

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This memorial was inspired by the arrival in Australia of over 4,000 single young women, most of whom were orphans. They arrived under a special emigration scheme (Earl Grey Scheme) designed to resettle destitute girls from the workhouses of Ireland during the Great Famine. This site also commemorates all who left their homes in Ireland seeking a new life in Australia. Online Resources include the Famine Orphan Girl database, a Ships database which includes shipping lists for the 20 ships that brought orphan girls to Australia 1848-1850. There is also a list of the 400+ names on the monument.

First Female Emigration Scheme between Great Britain and the Australian Colonies

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

A site by Elizabeth Rushen. The fourteen ships that brought 2,700 female emigrants to Sydney, Hobart and Launceston (1833-1837) are listed plus an alphabetical list of the women.

Highland and Island Emigration Society

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

This site, by William Clarke, includes a list of ships that carried the emigrants from Scotland to Australian ports plus names and other details for these emigrants.

Highlands and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists 1852-1857

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:07:15 GMT

These lists are on the Scottish Archive Network's digital archive. The Society, set up by private subscription, promoted and assisted the emigration of destitute Highlanders to Australia. The lists are organised by ship and by family and record name, age, residence and sometimes notes on health and situation.