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• 'Slains Castle' - the 1850/51 Voyage to Australia

  The ship was commissioned by the Family Colonisation Loan Society in 1850 for its first sailing from London via Gravesend to Port Phillip & Port Adelaide. Departed London 28th. September, 1850 & Gravesend 1st. October, 1850. Arrived Port Phillip 25th. January 1851 & Port Adelaide 21st. February, 1851.

• Adelaide Proformat - 19th century South Australian shipping

• Adelaide Proformat - South Australian shipping 1836-1843 - All Vessels into South Australian Ports 1836–1843

  From Graham Jaunay and Adelaide Proformat.

• Adelaide Proformat - Transported convicts from South Australia

• Australasian Emigrant Ship Service

  A site offering the history, photograph, technical details, routes and dates of a specific passenger ship, sailing to Australia and New Zealand, from 1860 onwards.

• Australia's First Fleet

  Convicts transported from England in 1788.

• Australia's Second Fleet

  Convicts transported from England in 1790.

• Australia's Third Fleet

  Convicts transported from England in 1791.

• Australia's Virtual Immigration Wall of Honour

  Created by Janet Reakes in August 2000 to give people the opportunity to record their ancestors' or their own entry into Australia.

• Australian Shipping, 1788-1899

  Shipping arrivals in Australia, listing passenger ships mainly for NSW, Queensland and some entries for Victoria and Tasmania.

• Claim-A-Convict

  Online searchable index to over 20,000 of the convicts arriving at Port Jackson, NSW, Australia from 1788 onwards.

• Colonial South Australian Pioneers - FamilyHistorySA

  Searchable database of early arrivals, births, marriages and deaths in South Australia - 1836 to 1850s.

• Convict Gangs in 1821

  Alphabetical list of names for 3,217 men, women and children who were issued with rations in Sydney on Saturday September 8, 1821.

• Convict Ships Index - Free Settler or Felon?

  Details of convict ship voyages to New South Wales 1788 - 1840.

• Convict transportation registers database (State Library of Queensland)

  Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database. These include prisoners sent to New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Port Phillip. Western Australia and Norfolk Island. Also recorded are some ships which were bound for Gibraltar. The records cover the period of 1787 to 1867.

• Convicts Australia - Indexes and Links

  By Jenny Fawcett, this is her original site. Her later site, Genseek Genealogy, is no longer online.

• Convicts to Australia: A Guide To Researching Your Convict Ancestors

  In depth information and lists of convicts, ships, a timeline and convict's stories.

• Donegal Relief Fund

  Operating from Australia between 1859 and 1864, the Fund brought many passengers from Donegal. Includes full passenger lists, newspaper reports, pleas for assistance and some subscription lists.

• Emigrants :: Post your emigrant surnames / ships and find others searching the same name

  Emigrants.net.au is a free site allowing family history researchers to link with others searching for emigrant passenger lists. This site is sponsored by Adelaide Proformat in Australia.

• Emigration Records

  Searchable online database from the Scottish Archive Network. Between 1852 and 1857, the Highlands and Islands Emigration Society assisted almost 5000 individuals to leave western Scotland for Australia.