Family history research - shipping and immigration records

• Agent's immigration lists Apr 1838-Jan 1896
     
• Assisted bounty immigrants, 1828-1842
     
• Assisted immigrants (Board’s list), 1848-1891
     
• Australian migrant ships 1946-1977
     
• Colonial Secretary: reports of vessels arrived, Jul 1826-Dec 1853.
     
• Free settlers of Australia 1788-1828
     
• Guide to shipping and free passenger records : guide to the state archives
     
• How to find shipping and immigration records in Australia / Cora Num
  Log of logs. a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 to 1998, for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding oceans.
     
• Shipping Master's Office: indexes to ships arrived, 1837-1925

New South Wales

• Bounty immigration New South Wales: 1828 to 1842
     
• Immigration deposit journals [NSW] index 1853-1900
     
• Immigration deposit regulations supplementary index 1856-1857.
     
• Index to all passengers to Sydney, N.S.W. 1828-1842
     
• Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Sydney and Newcastle 1844-1859
     
• Index to assisted immigrants arriving Sydney, 1860-1879, 1880-1896
     
• Index to the N.S.W. immigration deposit journals 1853-1900
     
• Index to unassisted arrivals to NSW, 1842-1855
     
• Relations index of immigrants to NSW
     
• Shipping arrivals and departures: Sydney. I : 1788-1825, 1826-1840, 1841-1844
     
• Ships carrying immigrants and settlers to New South Wales, 1828-96
     
• Unassisted arrivals (NSW) index 1842-1856: ships and masters to Sydney index 1842-1856.

Queensland

• Golden Empire, 1863 : immigration vessels to Queensland
     
• Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Moreton Bay (1848-1859)

South Australia

• Bound for South Australia: births and deaths on government-assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885.
     
• Shipping arrivals and departures : South Australia 1627-1850

Tasmania

• Index of assisted immigrants (into Tasmania) 1841-1889
     
• Shipping arrivals and departures : Tasmania: 1803-1833, 1934-1842

Victoria

• Coming south: Victorian archives of immigration, 1839-1923: a guide.
     
• Immigration to Victoria 1852-1879: index to inward passenger lists, British and foreign ports.
     
• Passengers from overseas to Port Phillip district pre-1852
     
• bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-1851
     
• Shipping arrivals and departures : Victorian ports: 1798-1845, 1846-1855

Western Australia

• Passenger arrivals in Western Australia, 1839-1890
     
• Passenger arrivals in Western Australia, 1898-1925

Other genealogical records

• Nominal Roll for AIF who left Australia for service abroad: 1914-1918 war.
     
• Colonial secretary: naturalization and denization index 1834-1903
     
• Butts and certificates of the first publican licences, 1830-1860
     
• Publicans' Licences June 1830- June 1861
     
• Children’s registers of State wards in the colony of Victoria 1864-1897
     
• Genealogical Research directory
     
• Every mother’s son: tracing the history of those from the Central Coast who answered their country's call and the tributes created in their memory.
  

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Page last updated: 02/03/2007