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Records in this collection
- Aliens Registered in the Northern Territory 1916–1921
- Calais Lacemaker immigrants to South Australia 1848
- Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1870
- Convicts in South Australia sentenced to transportation 1836–1852
- Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879
- Emigrants seeking free passage to South Australia 1836–1841
- Emigration: Where to Go
- Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea
- New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859
- New South Wales assisted passenger lists
- New South Wales unassisted passenger lists
- New South Wales, Convict Arrivals 1788-1842
- New Zealand Emigration and Gold Fields
- New Zealand for the Emigrant 1890
- Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
- Passengers to South Australia on board Buffalo 1836
- Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
- Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew
- Queensland Early Pioneers Index 1824-1859
- Queensland Immigration Registers 1922-1940
- Queensland Naturalisations 1851-1904
- Queensland Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922
- Queensland passports index 1915-1925
- Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911
- Queensland, Brisbane Register of Immigrants 1885-1917
- Queensland, Maryborough Registers of Rations Issued to Immigrants 1875-1884
- South Australia Naturalisations 1849-1903
- South Australia, immigrant agricultural workers 1913-14
- South Australian ex-convicts
- Victoria coastal passenger lists 1852-1924
- Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
- Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
- Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915
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TRAVEL & MIGRATION
The journey they made to their future may be the key to unlocking your past...
With over 310,000 records covering 1788 to the late 1800s across Australia and New
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The
Convict Arrivals in New South Wales is built from government indent records
and holds the details of 97,797 convicts who arrived in New South Wales between
1788 and 1842. This an interesting index to browse even if you don't have any direct
convict ancestors. The records include Mary Bryant, a Cornish convict sent to Australia.
She became one of the first successful escapees from the Australian penal colony.
Thomas Muir - the Scottish Political Reformist. He was transported to Australia
for 14 years for attempting to change the political system in Britain, and was involved
in political reform in the US, France and Ireland. Mary Wade - Mary was just ten
years old when she was found guilty of stealing another girl's clothes and underwear.
Mary was sentenced to death, but this was later changed to a sentence of transportation.
The Queensland
Early Pioneers Index 1824-1859 is an invaluable resource for family genealogists
researching the pre-separation period. The index contains 156,760 references to
approximately 50,000 names, taken from 75 sources located in Brisbane. It has been
compiled from primary sources and contains references to those who were living in
what is now Queensland (former Moreton Bay Region) prior to separation from New
South Wales at the end of 1859. Wide ranging sources, including convict, administration,
immigration, law, land, newspaper, hospital and personal records. Also includes:
a person's nationality, convict status and gender, type of record, source and reference
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