Immigration into Australia:
Migration Schemes and Passenger Lists
Web
Sites for Genealogists - An
Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
Need Help with Shipping Research? See How to Find Shipping and Immigration Records in Australia,
2003 and
my latest book
(2010)
How Did They Get
Here? Arrivals after 1924. Click here
for details.
Elizabeth Rushen's site details the
First Female Emigration
Scheme between Great Britain and the Australian colonies. 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.
State Library of
Tasmania, Our Digital Island, web archive contains the
Indentured Servants of the Van Diemens Land
Company
site that was archived in 2000. This site includes the details and shipping
lists for twelve ships that brought indentured servants and their families to
Van Diemen’s Land 1825-1837.
Donegal
Relief Fund Passenger Lists includes the
following ships to Sydney:
Queen of England, Sapphire, Lady Elma Bruce,
Caribou, Nile, Abyssinian, Montrose, Sandringham and
Queen of the
East. Updated
Scottish Archive Network's digital
archive offers online access to the Highlands
and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists (1852-1857). 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.
Highland
and Island Emigration Society
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.
The book
Immigrants
Recruited by the Launceston Immigration Aid Society 1855-1862
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.
World
War II Refugees to Australia
by Tom Stiglmayer lists migrants from Germany, Hungary,
Russia,
Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The index is
arranged by year (1937-1966) with ships listed alphabetically. Each
ships' list has names, nationality and reference.
Datamarine's War Brides. This site contains a
name index to
War
Bride Passenger Lists for
ships bound for Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand
1946-1947. There is also the names of war brides travelling from
Australia to the United Kingdom. The online search returns name and
country of destination and fees apply for further details.
The
Fifth Fleet
by Ann Smith. This site 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.
Nationaal
Archief. From the Netherlands to Australia. This database, compiled from emigration cards kept by Dutch
consulates in Australia, lists 50,000+ Dutch emigrants to Australia 1946-1991.
Information such as date of birth, date of departure, date and mode of arrival,
ie ship or aircraft, and port of arrival is available. Further details are
available but may be subject to privacy regulations. Currently this
site is only available in Dutch. To do a search
fill in the last name of the person
you are looking for in the field 'zoeken naar' and press enter or
the purple button 'ga'. After this, you will see the hits which
are linked to scanned images of the cards (if available).
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Last updated 18 January 2012