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Ancestry (Library Edition)
The Library's subscription to Ancestry.com currently provides the following New South Wales 'Immigration & Travel'-related resources via its online database. The original data has be obtained from the State Records Authority of New South Wales unless otherwise indicated:
- New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922
Original data:- Inward passenger lists
Series 13278, Reels 399-560, 2001-2122, 2751 - Reports of vessels arrived (or Shipping reports)
Series 1291, Reels 1263-1280, 2851
- Inward passenger lists
- New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Original data:- Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense
Series 1190, Reel 699 - Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists)
Series 5316, Reels 2134-2143 - Persons on early migrant ships (Fair Copy)
Series 5310, Reel 1286 - Wage agreements and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists)
Series 5315, Reels 2449-2456 - Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists)
Series 5317, Reels 2458-2498 - Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip (Agent's Immigrant Lists)
Series 5318, Reels 2143A-2145 - Passengers arriving at Sydney 1846 (Agent's Immigrant Lists)
Series 5326, Reel 2457 - Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society
Series 5323, Fiche 839 - Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society
Series 5322, Fiche 839
- Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense
- New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
Original data:- Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania;
HO 10, Pieces 1-4, 6-18, 28-30;
The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England
- Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania;
- New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853 - May 1900
Original data:- Immigration Deposit Journals 1853-May 1900
Series 5264, Reels 2668A-2676
Immigration Deposits (refunded or declined) 1852-1885
Series 5266, Reels 3111-3114
- Immigration Deposit Journals 1853-May 1900
- New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1816-1825, 1898-1922
Original data:- Ships musters 1816-1825
Series 1289, Reels 561-562 - Vessels and persons departing (outward lists), 1898–1922
Series 13279, Reels 563–579, 3149–3205
- Ships musters 1816-1825
- New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903
Original data:- Certificates of Naturalization 1849-1876
Series 1039, Reels 2688-2699 - Registers of Certificates of Naturalization 1849-1903
Series 1040, Reels 128A-141A - Lists of Aliens to whom Certificates of Naturalization have been issued 1859-1876
Series 1041, Reel 130
- Certificates of Naturalization 1849-1876
- New South Wales, Australia, Passengers Arriving at Port Phillip, 1846
Original data:- New South Wales Government. Immigration Agent. Passengers arriving at Port Phillip, 1846
Series 5327, Reel 1408
The State Archives & Records NSW, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia
- New South Wales Government. Immigration Agent. Passengers arriving at Port Phillip, 1846
- New South Wales, Australia 1828 - 1842: Bounty Immigrants List
Reakes, J., comp. New South Wales, Australia 1828 - 1842: Bounty Immigrants List [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data:- Bounty Immigrants to New South Wales 1828 - 1842
Records kept at the New South Wales State Records Office, P.O. Box 516, Kingswood, NSW 2747; at the Archives Office of Tasmania, 77 Murray St., Hobart, TAS 7000; and at the State Records Office of Western Australia, Alexander Library, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA 6000
- Bounty Immigrants to New South Wales 1828 - 1842
- New South Wales, Australia, Wives & Children of Irish Convicts, 1825-1840
Original data:- Wives & Children of Irish Convicts Petitioned by Husbands and Fathers.
CD-ROM. Central Coast Family History Society Inc. East Gosford, New South Wales
- Wives & Children of Irish Convicts Petitioned by Husbands and Fathers.
- New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825
Original data:- Main series of letters received, 1788-1825
Series 897, Reels 6041-6064, 6071-6072 - Special Bundles, 1794-1825
Series 898, Reels 6020-6040, 6070; Fiche 3260-3312. - Memorials to the Governor, 1810-25
Series 899, Fiche 3001-3162
- Main series of letters received, 1788-1825
Find My Past (World Edition)
Currently, Find My Past has the following New South Wales-related travel and migration records available:
State Archives and Records NSW
In addition to records provided via Ancestry.com, State Archives and Records NSW also provides access to the following records and indexes through its own website:
- Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists
Browse through digital shipping lists from 1828-1896- List of Irish passengers arrived on the ship Sir Joseph Banks, Oct 1828 (NRS 5309 / Reel 2795)
- Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-32 (NRS 5310 / Reel 1286)
- Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832- Jan 1833 (NRS 5311 / Reel 1286)
- Women on the Red Rover and other early migrant ships, 1832 (NRS 5312 / Reel 2795)
- Persons on government ships, Aug 1837-40 (NRS 5313 / Reel 2668)
- Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96 (NRS 5316 / Reels 2134-2135)
- Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51 (NRS 5318 / Reels 2143A-2145)
- Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52 (NRS 5320 / Fiche 851)
- Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-57 (NRS 5322 / Fiche 839)
- Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-55 (NRS 5323 / Fiche 839)
- Assisted Immigrants Index (arriving in Sydney, Newcastle, Moreton Bay and Port Phillip)
This Index covers arrivals at:- Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-1859
- Sydney, 1860-1896
- Port Phillip, 1839-1851
- Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-1859
- Miscellaneous Immigrants Index (1828-1843)
This free searchable online index contains over 9000 entries for the period 1828 to 1843. Information includes names of both passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants, ship, date of arrival, age as well as the series, item and microform numbers.
- Unassisted Immigrants Index (1842-1855)
The index comprises unassisted (or free) passengers who came to Australia at their own expense, including ships' crew. There are 136 100 entries in the index. In some instances, when a last name is common, such as Wright or Brown, and no first name initial is given, it can be hard to pinpoint which entry is your ancestor. Often the entries on the records indexed will provide no more information than the details contained in this index.
- Vessels arrived in Sydney (1857-1925)
This index relates to vessels arriving in Sydney only. It records the name and type of vessel, and date of arrival.
Networked resources in the Library
In addition to our subscription databases, the Library also provides access to the following networked CDROM resources:
- Bounty Immigration New South Wales 1828 to 1842
Contains nearly 60,000 records of immigrants arriving in New South Wales from 1828 to 1842
- 1828 Census of New South Wales
This was the first New South Wales census. It was held in November 1828 and is the only census to survive in full to the present day. It aimed to record all the inhabitants of the colony at the time, and provides the individual's full name, age, place of residence, ship of arrival, occupation employer's name and place of residence.
- Free passengers to NSW 1826-1837
Society of Australian Genealogists: Contains a searchable database of 36,000 names of free passengers, crews & military arriving by passenger, merchant or whaling vessels to New South Wales between 1826 and 1837.
- NSW immigration deposits combined index 1853-1900
This title provides an index to the following records held by State Records New South Wales: Immigration; NRS 5264, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900 [4/4576 to 4/4598, microfilm copy SRNSW Reel Nos. 2668A to 2675] and the supplementary records of Embarkation Orders and Shipping Lists in Immigration; NRS 5269, Persons Proceeding to the Colony under Remittance Regulations, Oct 1856-Feb 1858 [with Ships Arriving Nov 1856 to Feb 1858] - part of 1 box (Ref: 9/6182.1 1 bundle)
- Paracensus of Australia 1788-1828
A reconstruction mainly prepared by the consolidation of contemporary records about the people of that era and their families. Some family records and literary references are included. A few Maori and Aboriginal family records are also included. Sources on personal information about each of them are listed. It includes marines, soldiers, ship's captains, some sailors, migrants, convicts, some visitors, officially recorded Aborigines, exiles and orphans, also births, migrants, and ships. The shipping arrivals cover 1788-1828, details included are: names of ship, date arrived, port, no. of migrants/convicts, and referenced numbers. The lists of people give surname, given name/s, year of arrival, ship name, reference numbers.
- Unassisted Arrivals to Sydney (NSW) 1842-1857
Pastkeys: Index lists name, age, arrival date, status, departure ports, including foreign, coastal and interstate and any other information such as nationality, description, occupation and any additional information from the original source. Available only on the standalone/jukebox PC in the Newspapers and Family History zone.
Microfilmed and other published material
The following microfilmed products and published works are available on open access in the Newspapers and Family History zone:
Archives Authority of NSW - Genealogical Research Kit
All of the following immigration-related resources provided as part of this kit can be located under Call Number mfm N 229:
Title | SR / AO Reel or Fiche Number |
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Assisted (Bounty) Immigrants Arriving in N.S.W., 1828-1842 (Boards Lists) | Reels 1286-1349 (Pink label) Indexes available on our networked resource Bounty Immigration to NSW 1828 to 1842 or via Ancestry.com (incomplete) |
Assisted Immigrants Sydney, 1838-1896 and Moreton Bay, 1848-1859 (Agents Immigration Lists) | Reels 2134-2145 (Green label) See also on Ancestry.com |
Wage Agreements and Entitlement Certificates of Persons on Bounty Ships (Sydney) 1844-1845 | Reels 2449-2456 (Green label) See also on Ancestry.com |
Persons on Bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle, Moreton Bay 1848-1891 (Assisted Immigration. Boards List) | Reels 2458-2498 (Green label) See also on Ancestry.com |
Immigration Deposit Journals 1853-1900 | Reels 2668A-2676 (Brown label) See also on Ancestry.com |
Unassisted Passengers Arriving in Sydney, 1826-53, 1854-1900 For a name index for the period 1842-1855, see: online at www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-online#immi... , or via eResources, or microfiche at mc N 1187 |
Reels 1263-1280 (Yellow label), Reel 2851, Reels 399-560 (Orange label) See also on Ancestry.com, and Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters (incomplete) |
Ships Musters: Passengers Departing, 1816-25 | Reels 561-562 (Brown label) |
Germans on Bounty ships (Sydney) 1849-52 | AO Fiche No. 851 |
Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-1855 | AO Fiche No. 839 |
Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-1857 | AO Fiche No. 839 |
Wives and Families of Convicts on Bounty Ships (Sydney), 1849-55 | AO Fiche No. 837-838 |
Other Microfiche
Title | Call Number |
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Index to the N.S.W. Immigration Deposit Journals 1853-1900 20 microfiche |
mc N 751 |
Immigration Deposit Regulations Supplementary Index 1856-1857 immigrants and depositors 4 microfiche |
mc N 1472 |
Index of Assisted Immigrants from Kent to Sydney, 1844-1859 1 microfiche |
mc N 1359 |
Index to Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia: 1850-1878 |
mc N 1065 Print version also available in Newspapers & Family History zone Reference Collection at Call number: RX 929.308931094 K83 |
Irish Immigrants to NSW (index to) 1848-1870 8 microfiche Fiche 1-3: lists passengers alphabetically by surname, with ship’s name and date of arrival Fiche 4-8: Lists passengers by county on each ship |
mc N 1849
Submit eCall Slip |
Free Passengers and Crew on Convict Ships into Sydney 1830-1840 |
mc N 1626 |
Index of Passengers and Crew In and Out of Sydney from Sydney Newspapers, 1830-1841, 7 Volumes 15 microfiche |
mc N 1608 |
Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-1855 Indexed from reports of vessels arrived 1842- 1855, Passengers arriving in Sydney 1846 and Shipping Masters' Office 1854-1855 and supplemented by ... Shipping Intelligence columns of the Sydney Morning Herald 1843-1855 4 microfiche |
mc N 1215 |
Index to Passengers into the Port of Newcastle 1865-1881 2 microfiche The majority of ships bearing unassisted passengers into Newcastle came from New Zealand ports. The period of index coverage coincides with the end of the NZ gold rush. The index includes ships’ deserters. Information provided includes surname, given name, ship, year of arrival, NAA reel number, frame number and AGEC number. The reels of passenger lists are not held by the National Library of Australia |
mc N 1205 |
Related and other resources
Related Resources
Title | Call Number |
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Miscellaneous (Correspondence) re Immigration, Shipping & Trade (SR/AO 3279-3284) | mc N 763 |
Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List Vol. 1, no. 1-v. 17, no. 869 (Mar. 23, 1844-Dec. 31, 1860) | mc N 700 |
Unclaimed Letters (Noting Ship or Regiment) Index 1836 – 1852 | mc N 1881 |
Other Resources
Registers of Certificates of Competency Masters and Mates: Colonial Trade. (BT 128)
New South Wales 1871-1921
The Registers are arranged by certificate number and entries give name, place of birth, year of birth and date of certification as Master, 1st Mate or 2nd Mate. The pre 1890 entries often give the name of ships on which the individual served. In some case deaths are recorded.
Available on two microfilm reels Call Numbers mfm PRO 6894-6895 - Request via Catalogue
Index to Ships’ Logs found in the Australian Joint Copying Project
Draft booklet available at the Newspapers and Family History zone desk