PASSENGER LISTS One of the questions that is most often asked about our early ancestors is what ship (or plane) did they arrive on and what port in Australia. In many cases its like finding a needle in a haystack. So many of the passenger lists just have Mr or Mrs, Miss or Mstr, no initial, just the Surname. You can view many of these original passenger lists at State Records at Gepps Cross or copies at SAGHS at Unley, or the Adelaide Library, North Terrace. The National Archives have two sources of “Passenger Lists”. These are: !“Name Search” under “Immigration and Naturalisation records” !“Passenger Arrivals Index” 1921 - 1950 The National Archives introduced a new “Record Search” website on the 7th July 2010. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx Select “Search now - as a guest”, (but you can become a registered researcher). In the opening “Record Search” select “Name Search” and then choose the drop down category, “Immigration and naturalization records”. I searched for the name “Connell” in 1965 and found the following (amongst many others). The “Passenger arrivals index, 1921 - 1950" covers arrivals by ship in Fremantle, and outports Western Australia and Perth Airport between 1 January 1921 and 15 January 1950. Many ships bound for the eastern Australian states passed through Fremantle. The Fremantle passenger lists include all those passengers who disembarked in Fremantle. They often also include all other passengers who travelled further on the same ship and disembarked in other Australian or overseas ports. From 1944 the passenger lists include those for aircraft arriving at Perth airport. The lists for Qantas flights usually include brief details for those enroute for other airports. The lists for other airlines only have details for those leaving the aircraft in Perth. (This index was compiled through a Work for the Dole project in Perth, Western Australia.) “The Ships List” is home to many lists. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.htm Two lists of particular interest are: ! “Immigrants to South Australia (year coverage 1841 - 1861) ! “German immigrants to South Australia, 1837 - 1860" (The year coverage is actually 1841 - 1861.) Note: the original lists were created by an individual unfamiliar with German names, so name spellings from the Biographical index SA (BISA) have been included in brackets. The list below has been compiled from a variety of sources such as the BISA, the Birth-Death-Marriage (BDM) index, the newspaper list (above), online research and has also been cross-checked to a list by Dulcie Love, long time convenor of the Germanic research group at the South Australian Heraldry Genealogy Society (SAGHS). There are a few gaps in this list, but from my experience in researching German passenger lists, I have found that quite a few German settlers migrated from South Australia to Victoria and Queensland. Any feedback and/or correction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you — Robert Clicking on the hyper-links below for each year highlighted, will take you directly to the list of ships for that year. 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1841 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1860 . off-site resource links I chose 1853 and the STEINWAERDER Amongst the passengers for this ship were the following “Bockmann” family. My Great great grandmother is Johann Friedericke Adeline Bockmann who was 2 years old when she arrived at Port Adelaide. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING/IMMIGRATION A large number of links to Passenger lists is available from the website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~auscdfhg/shipping_immigration.htm Those listed below are only a fraction of those shown on the Web page. Some of these links (lists) are no longer operating but many are and they are well worth while investigating. One of the above sites is http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/shipslog.html with its opening page shown below. One of the entries in this web page is “Ships’ Passenger Lists”. VICTORIAN IMMIGRATION PASSENGER LISTS Passenger lists are part of the Victorian State Records (PROV’s) Digitised Records and Online Indexes. These can be accessed online by clicking on the entries below. If you click on a link to digitised records you will be taken to a page where you can download a pdf of the digitised record. !Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923 http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=23 !Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871 http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=24 !Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1901 http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=42 --------------------- The NSW Government has a very useful website http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/shipdate.htm This is separated in to 2 lists, 1845 - 1879 and 1880 - 1922. Coverage is sparse in the second list. Choosing January 1948 (partial screen below), Choosing the ship “Kelso” gave the following passenger list. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER LISTS Shipping Arrivals and immigration !803 - 1853 http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html If you are unsuccessful in finding the person or family you want, on this same web page are 43 other sources you can explore. This is a very comprehensive list of sources, with a few on line, others at State Records etc. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NATURALIZATIONS http://www.ach.familyhistorysa.info/naturalizations.html This web site although not a passenger list, gives detail of age, how many years in Australia etc. which gives a clue to when a person has arrived in the country and narrows down the years to search. BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA PASSENGER LISTS 1836 - 1851 http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/Adelaide.htm This website has been available for many years and is another valuable source of passenger lists. It is now part of the State Library of South Australia. The url below takes you to the 1836/37 Passenger lists from which you can choose to search the later years. http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/SAShips1836-1840.htm Choosing HMS Buffalo gives you a passenger list and crew. Part of this list is shown below. ON-LINE AUSTRALIAN BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE RECORDS WESTERN AUSTRALIA For Western Australia, http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au allows you to search for: BIRTHS 1841 - 1932, DEATHS 1841 - 1965, MARRIAGES 1841 - 1936 On the left hand side of the opening page select “Family History”. On the “Family History “ page, select under the “Historic Index Search” paragraph the words “Searching Western Australian Online Indexes”. This takes you to the page with the paragraph heading, “Searching Western Australian Online Indexes”. At the end of the paragraph is a small box “Select”. This gives you the option of selecting births, deaths or marriages. A birth search for “Barclay” between 1904 and 1906 gives results like below: VICTORIAN BDM’s For Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/CA2574F700805DE7/HomePage?ReadForm&1=Home~&2=~&3=~ (Advice: highlight the above line, press Ctrl C, go to your search engine and paste using Ctrl V.) Select “Historical Research”, then choose “Search Historical Indexes” Then use the following entry form for your searching the historical indexes. The following year ranges can be searched: BIRTHS 1853 - 1908, DEATHS 1853 - 1985, MARRIAGES 1853 - 1942 and CHURCH Baptisms, marriages and burials 1836 - 1853. Unfortunately Victoria charges to view the results. The cost is $0.99 per page that can contain 20 results. NEW SOUTH WALES For New South Wales records: http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/index.htm allows you to search for BIRTHS 1788 - 1909, DEATHS 1788 - 1979, MARRIAGES 1788 - 1959. On the right hand side of the opening page select “Family History” (green box), which takes you to the “Search Historical Indexes page” from which you can search Births, Deaths or marriages. A birth search gives results like below: Registration Number Last Name Given Name(s) Father's Given Name(s) Mother's Given Name(s) District Purchase 171/1864 ARM STRONG W ILLIAM J W ILLIAM J FANNY Buy Now 5191 VOL 142B/1860 ARM STRONG JOH ANNA W ILLIAM ELIZABETH Buy Now 659/1862 ARM STRONG ROBERT H ROBERT H ISABELLA SYDNEY Buy Now QUEENSLAND For Queensland records: http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/ allows you to search for BIRTHS 1829 - 1914, DEATHS 1829 - 1964, MARRIAGES 1829 - 1934. On the left hand side of the opening page select “Family History Research”, On this next page “Family Historical Records” page select “Search our Historical Records”. And then on the next page select “online historical index search” Under “Historical Index searching”. NB: In setting the search dates you must use the (dd/mm/yyyy) format. (A bit frustrating). A typical output for a birth search is shown below: AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY For ACT records, http://www.ors.act.gov.au/bdm/WebPages/bdm_deaths.html Allows you to search deaths in the ACT from 1930 - 1979. On the opening page at the bottom select “ACT Historical Death Index 1930-1979". This gives you an excel spreadsheet with part of the output shown below: Reg No Surname Given Names Date of Death Fathers Given Names Mothers Given Names 1930/1 BELL Baby 27/01/1930 Sidney John Charlotte Jane 1930/2 MARTIN Baby 2/02/1930 Leslie W alter Ivy Hilda Mary 1930/3 RUSSELL Catherine 19/02/1930 W illiam Catherine 1930/4 SHUMACK John 20/02/1930 Peter Elizabeth DEATH NOTICES THE RYERSON INDEX is an index to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. http://www.ryersonindex.org/ Because the Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, its strength lies in notices from NSW papers - including in excess of one million notices from the Sydney Morning Herald alone.