Immigration into Australia

Immigration into Australia: Migration Schemes

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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.

Donegal Relief Fund Passenger Lists includes the following ships to Sydney: Queen of England, Sapphire, Lady Elma Bruce, Caribou, Nile, Abyssinian, Montrose and Sandringham.

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

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