Immigration to Australia

Immigration to Queensland

• Queensland Immigration Indexes – https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/collection/immigration


• Ancestry.com.au 'Immigration & Travel' – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40    (costs)
• Assisted Immigrants arriving Moreton Bay (Brisbane) (1848-1859) – http://www.records.nsw.gov.au    (Select 'Immigration and Shipping')
• Australian South Sea Islanders (1867-1908) – https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/collection/assi
• Fifty Years in Queensland: Living Pioneer Colonists – http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Moggill-cemetery-Brisbane/bruce/qldpio.html
• findmypast – http://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records-in-travel-and-migration?_ga=1.26630324.801069971.1415531301    (costs)
• Immigration terminology – http://www.mackayfamilyhistory.org.au/immigration-terminology/
• Immigration Wall of Honour – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qldhbfha/openingpage2.html    (originally Janet Reakes', now Hervey Bay Family History Association)
• Italians in north Queensland – http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/italians-queensland
• Maritime quarantine in Queensland, 19th century – https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:215323/s18378366_1945_3_5_369.pdf
• Maryborough Immigrants from British Isles & Germany – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=5559
• Peel Island Quarantine Station – http://www.fopia.org.au/
• "(The) Queensland Immigration Society" – http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:212719/s00855804_1963_1964_7_2_307.pdf    ('A Notable Experiment in Irish Settlement')
• Settlement Patterns of the German-Queensland Communities – http://germanydownunder.com/they-came-and-they-stayed/    (Germany down under)
• Some Interesting Snippets about the Fortitude – http://www.halenet.com.au/~jvbryant/fortlet1.html
• You May Well Become Slaves – http://reisefredrik.com/2013/06/06/you-may-well-become-slaves/    (Norwegian migration to Queensland in the 1870s)

Immigration to South Australia

• Immigration to South Australia – http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/immigration
  also Passenger lists 1845-1940 – https://archives.sa.gov.au/finding-information/discover-our-collection/migration-and-crew/passenger-lists-1845-1940
  also Immigration schemes – http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/content.php?pid=99525&sid=747031


• Adelaide Proformat: 19th century shipping & migration to SA – http://www.jaunay.com/ships.html    (costs for details)
• Assisted Immigrants to South Australia from UK (1847-1886) – http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.shtml
• Australian Society of the Lacemakers of Calais – https://www.lacemakersofcalais.com.au
• Bound for South Australia (passenger lists to 1851) – http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/BoundforSouthAustralia.htm
• Deserters & Deserted in South Australia – https://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/deserters.html
• Early Shipping and Passenger Lists (South Australia) – https://www.familyhistorysa.org/shipping/passengerlists.html
• German Emigrants to South Australia (1837-1866) – http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAgermanindex.shtml
• German Settlers in South Australia (1837-1851) – http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/german.htm
• Horner Index to overseas departures by passenger ship from SA – http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=723
• Migration Museum South Australia – http://migration.historysa.com.au/
• Passengers in History 1836 – https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au     (South Australian Maritime Museum)
• (The) Pioneers Association of South Australia – https://www.pioneerssa.org.au
• Ships' deserters in South Australia – http://www.portgermeinhistory.com/ShipDeserters.html
• "Slains Castle": the 1850/51 Voyage to Australia – http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~crossland/genealogy/
• South Australia's British Farm Apprentices 1913-14 – http://www.familytreeoz.com/sa-farm-apprentices-1913-14.html
• South Australian Naturalizations (1839-1903) – https://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/naturalizations.html
• South Australian Pioneer Families – https://www.familyhistorysa.org/colonists.html
• Torrens Island Quarantine Station – http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs228.aspx/

Immigration to Tasmania

• Tasmania's Heritage: Name indexes – https://www.libraries.tas.gov.au/how-to/Pages/Names-Index-content.aspx    (convicts, arrivals to & departures from Tasmania, naturalisations to 1904)
• Tasmanian 19th century arrivals, immigration and departure records – https://libraries.tas.gov.au/family-history/Pages/Arrival-departure.aspx    (information guides, indexes & records online)


• Ancestry.com.au – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40    (costs)
• Assisted Migrants and Bounty Schemes – http://www.maritimetas.org/collection-displays/displays/over-seas-stories-tasmanian-migrants/assisted-migrants-and-bounty-schem
• Bruny Island Quarantine Station – http://www.bica.org.au/brunyquarantinestation/
• Female migration to Australia in the 1830s – http://www.rushen.com.au/
• Indentured Servants of the Van Diemen's Land Company – http://webarchive.linc.tas.gov.au/20120112012516/http://store.odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/00000400/00200016/1/Index.html
• Launceston Immigration Aid Society – http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austashs/immig/title.htm
• Shipping and Immigrants Index (Tasmanian GenWeb) – http://www.australiagenweb.org/tas/
• Van Diemen's Land Company – http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/V/VDL%20Co.htm

Immigration to Victoria

• Immigration indexes in Victoria – https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/passenger-records-and-immigration    (Because Victorian indexes also include passengers travelling outward from Victoria, passengers missing from other colonies' lists might be found here)


• Ancestry.com.au 'Immigration & Travel' – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40    (costs)
• Assisted Immigrants arriving Port Phillip 1839-1851 – http://www.records.nsw.gov.au    (Select 'Immigration and Shipping')
• eGold 'Immigration and Ethnicity' – http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00006b.htm
• findmypast – http://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records-in-travel-and-migration?_ga=1.26630324.801069971.1415531301    (costs)
  also Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists 1852-1924 – https://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records/victoria-coastal-passenger-lists-1852-1924    (inward Australasian passengers to Victoria)
• Geelong and Portland Bay, Immigration Society – http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/databases/potpourri/ppindexes/504-ppgdpbemig
• Immigration Museum Victoria – https://museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/welcome/
  also Immigration history – https://museumsvictoria.com.au/longform/immigration-to-victoria/
• Multicultural Victoria – http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/history/timeline/period/Before-the-Australian-Nation/screen/4.Victoria-as-the-heartland-of-diversity-(before-1900)----
• Origins, Immigrant Communities in Victoria – https://origins.museumsvictoria.com.au
• Quarantine Station, Sorrento – http://nepeanhistoricalsociety.asn.au/history/quarantine-station/
• UK & Ireland Merchant Marine ships – https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/MerchantMarine/    (include some to Victoria)
• Victorian CEDT Index – https://www.cafhov.com/vic-cedt-index/    (Certificates of Exemption from the Dictation Test, 1904-59)

Immigration to Western Australia

• Passenger lists & immigration records – http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/collection/passenger-lists-and-immigration-records
• Passenger arrivals index, 1898-1966 – http://www.naa.gov.au/    (Search the Collection, RecordSearch, Passenger arrivals index)
• Welcome Walls Database for Western Australian immigrants – http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/welcomewalls/browse-names
• Western Australian Maritime Museum – http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/maritime/#maritime/getting-here
  also Maritime History Immigration and Migration Collection – http://museum.wa.gov.au/research/collections/maritime-history/maritime-history-immigration-and-migration-collection


• Ancestry.com.au – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40    (costs)
• Dead Reckoning: a guide to family history research in WA (Arrivals) – http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/indexes_and_catalogues/a-f2/arrivals
• Parkhurst Boys 1842-1851 – http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/parkhurst-boys
• Passenger arrivals indexes – http://membership.wags.org.au/    (members of WAGS only)
• Shipping & aircraft arriving Fremantle & Perth (currently 1926-1947) – http://www.naa.gov.au     (see 'Search the collection' & then 'Passenger arrivals index')
• Shipwreck Databases – http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks
• Woodman Point Quarantine Station – http://www.woodmanpointquarantinestation.com/

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