Passenger lists and immigration

This list includes links to online databases of passenger lists and ships arriving from foreign ports to major ports in Australia. Some links to travel within Australia are also included.

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Queensland

Queensland Migrant Shipping (1840-1865) - Apart from Moreton Bay (Brisbane), arrivals have been recorded from coastal ports such: as Bowen, Bundaberg, Burnett Heads, Cairns, Cleveland Bay, Cooktown, Hervey Bay, Keppel Bay, Mackay, Maryborough, Port Denison, Rockhampton, Thursday Island, Townsville and Wide Bay

Queensland Archives has compiled indexes of their archival records. 

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New South Wales

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Western Australia

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South Australia

Some useful websites dedicated to South Australian history are now defunct, making it difficult to search for records online.  The South Australian official archives are also not online however some of their records exist on third party sites such as FamilySearch and Ancestry (both require logins). We are endeavouring to expand our South Australian online records collection at our data site, Gendata.com.au - please visit regularly as we expand our SA collection - it's free and does not require an account. In the meantime you may find the following sites useful.

  • The Manning Index of South Australian HistoryThe Index contains many thousands of references to South Australian newspaper and magazine stories for the years 1837 to 1937. It also includes extensive selected text from the indexed publications, other primary and secondary sources and numerous extracts from Mr Manning's own writings.

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Tasmania

  • Records included in the Names Index
    • Arrivals (19th Century). Passengers and ships arriving, mainly in Hobart.
    • Convicts (1803-1893). Convicts transported to Tasmania and those convicted locally through the convict system. The Names Index can now tell you all the convicts that have been identified at Port Arthur, Point Puer or the Tasman Peninsula Probation Stations. You can find this information in individual convict records, and by selecting from the Property facet of the Names Index. [1]
    • Departures (1817-1887). People leaving Tasmanian ports, mainly Launceston.
    • Immigration (1912-1940). Nominations and arrivals of migrants under immigration schemes.
    • Land Grants (1832-1935). People who received land grants, and localities where land grants were made.
    • Naturalisations (1835-1904). People applying to become citizens.

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Northern Territory

The Nothern Territory Department of Arts and Museums is responsible for the Northern Territory Archives. A list of collections in the archive is available for download in PDF format (warning: 250+ pages) which can then be searched offline.  The archives can also be searced online using the "Archives Navigator" service although it is not straight forward and no indexes are available. 

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National

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[Last updated August 2024]