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Empress of Australia

Passenger list for the first voyage of the Empress of Australia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokohama to Victoria and Vancouver Sailing From Yokohama Saturday, September 2, 1922.

Family History South Australia

South Australian family history database specialists. Online passenger lists, marriages, and cemeteries.

Fifty Years in Queensland: - Living Pioneer Colonists

A supplement article to The Queenslander Jubilee Issue:- 7 August 1909, which lists names, ages and year of arrival and the ship's name.

First Families 2001

A collection of user submitted details of the ancestor (or themselves) who immigrated to Australia. The First Families 2001 pilot program funded by the State Library of Victoria, was designed to draw together stories of Australian families to celebrate the Centenary of Federation in 2001. (This is the archive of the now-closed site).

Geelong Maritime Museum

Immigrants Recruited by the Launceston Aid Immigration Society

Tasmania.

Immigrant_Voyage - The Barque 'Indus'

Provides details of the voyage from England to Australia in 1873.

International Centre for Convict Studies

For the study of penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940.

Ireland-Australia transportation database (1791–1853)

Convicts from Ireland to Australia, 1788 to 1868.

Jill’s Black Sheep Search

Publications for sale on CD-ROM. Convict & criminal research, 1780-1900. Including machine breakers, rioters & protestors.

Lincolnshire Convicts Transported to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda

Lincolnshire Archives Index of Convict Records 1788 - 1868.

Maltese Migration

In 1948 Australia signed an assisted passage agreement with Malta, the first that Australia had made with any country other than Britain. This resulted in large numbers of arrivals, peaking in the 1950s, with many hundreds travelling on the SS Asturias. The site includes a passenger list.

Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters

Indexes transcribed from the Australian Archive Office Reels of the Shipping Master's Office, Inwards Passengers Lists concentrating on 1870s. The lists include crew, passengers, deserters, births/deaths, stowaways, etc.

Parsee - Passenger List - Moreton Bay - 11 January 1853

Passenger List for Daylight 1875

The emigrant ship Daylight departed London, England on Thursday 27 May 1875 and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 August 1875.

Passenger Lists

Passenger list for the ship Athenian which arrived in New South Wales, Australia on the 15th December 1853.

Passenger Lists South Australia

About 1,200 ship arrivals in South Australia up to 1847.

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship Emigrant

Sailed from Sunderland 10 September 1852; arrived Melbourne 3 January 1853.

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship Lizzie Webber

Sailed from Sunderland 31 July 1852; arrived Melbourne 4 December 1852.

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship Lord Delaval

Sailed from Berwick-upon-Tweed on September 13th 1852 for London and on to Port St Philip, Victoria.