LINKS TO RECORDS OF IMMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.          

The development of this site is the outcome of a study group formed as part of the Spectrum Virtual University,  Practical Internet Genealogy, January 1998 course. The site is a compilation of the findings of that group.

The group has identified the following links to Australia and New Zealand Immigration Information:

Australian Genealogy Links
(With Links to First, Second and Third Fleets)
A comprehensive listing, including many references to immigration.

Genealogy within Australia

AUSNZ Passenger Lists
(Leads to SA & VIC Passenger lists)
This site is designed to help family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia/New Zealand and hence the entries relating to their studies

AUSNZ Passenger List 2
This page is designed to help family historians with their studies; to be assisted in locating passenger list information for migrant ships to Australia/New Zealand. The list shows query entries relating to their ships of interest. The entries are listed in alphabetical order by Colony/State, then by ship's name.

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship 'Saldanha'
Sailed from Liverpool in the summer of 1856 for Victoria, Australia

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship 'Lord Delaval'
Sailed from Berwick upon Tweed on September 13th 1852 for London and on to Port St Philip, Victoria, Australia

"Parsee" - Passenger List - Moreton Bay - 11 January 1853

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship "Lizzie Webber"
Sailed from Sunderland 31 July 1852; arrived Melbourne 4 December 1852

Women Convicts of the Lady Juliana 1790

Australia's First Fleet
Convicts transported from England in 1788

Australia's Second Fleet
Convicts transported from England in 1790

Australia's Third Fleet~
Convicts transported from England in 1791

Faye Guthrie's Home Page   http://weblink.solutions.net.au/~guthrigg/index.htm
Contains a select list of resources held at the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies. The site also contains paintings of first fleet ships plus much more. A site well worth a visit. 

Australia's Immigration and Family History Centre
The ideal place to research your tree, gain help and advice and be educated in the mechanics of this fascinating hobby! Sited in Hervey Bay, the centre caters for locals and tourists with over 2,500 records including all the English and Welsh Birth, Death & Marriage indexes 1837-1983. There is a mail order service for genealogy supplies and a consultation service by mail or in person with Australia's leading genealogist Janet Reakes.

State Library of NSW Family History Service

Australian Archives Genealogical Records

Convicts Transported to Australia
This WWW page contains linkages to a series of special listings collected by the author, each detailing the names of convicts compiled in private collections. These collections are not available in this format in the archives offices in Australia.

Convict Archives - Convicts Transported to Australia-1788-1868
This World Wide Web Page contains information on how to access indexes for all convicts who were transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868. You should be aware that it is highly unlikely that in tracing what may have happened to any individual convict, that you will be able to find information on all the events in his or her penal servitude, as there are gaps in the records especially with assignment records, tickets of leave, and certificates of freedom.

Immigrants: Documents in the Public Record Office - UK
The documents described in this leaflet are housed partly at Kew and partly at Chancery Lane Emigration-ships. A mailing list for anyone who wants to discuss the ships their ancestors arrived on or post passenger lists for any ships. Discussions of the history of specific ships is also within the scope of the list. Mailing address for postings is emigration-ships@listserv.northwest.com. To subscribe send email to majordomo@listserv.northwest.com with "subscribe emigration-ships" (without the quotes) for mail mode or "subscribe emigration-ships-digest" (without the quotes) for digest mode in the body of your message.

Hunter Family History Resources
A lead-in site for genealogical information on Hunter Valley, NSW, families.

Convicts - From Hunter Family History Resources
Tracing a Convicts career in the Archives Office of NSW.

Shipping - Arrivals - From Hunter Family History Resources
Assisted and unassisted arrivals to Australia.

Australian Sources to Identify Irish Places of Origin

Published Works on Emigration

Public Record Office - Victoria's Archives - The Immigration Indexes Passengers arriving in Victoria on ships which embarked from foreign ports. 1852-1859, 1860-1869, 1870-1879

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship"Emigrant"
Sailed from Sunderland 10 September 1852; arrived Melbourne 3 January 1853.

Index to Inward Overseas Passengers from Foreign Ports 1852 - 1859 By Surname

Lincolnshire Archives - Search Indexes and Scroll for Convicts 1787-1840

Fifty Years in Queensland
Living Pioneer Colonists Supplement to "The Queenslander" Jubilee Issue:- 7 August 1909

List of Some Crew Members and Passengers on the "Lincolnshire"
Sailed from Gravesend to Melbourne Sept 20 to Dec 20 1866. Compiled and Indexed by John Snelson from the newspaper "The Lincolnshire Observer" published on board.

Genealogy Gateway to the Web Genealogy Gateway to the Web.
Well over 28,000 Genealogy & History Resource Listings . A very comprehensive genealogy site that takes some time to download.

Women Convicts of the Lady Juliana 1790

Fiche & Film Catalogue of Australian Convicts, New South Wales, Tasmania ,Western Australia

Fiche & Film Catalogue Australia, New Zealand, England and Ireland

Irish Roots Magazine

Cyndi Howells sites: Ireland,  including Irish transportation records.    Australia and New Zealand

Australian Family Tree Connections

Vic.Gold- pre 1860 families in Vic

On-Line Australasian Names Research Directory

Diary of a voyage from London to Australia per SS Arayaba of Orient Line- 31st March-12th May 1899

A list of 'Shipping lists' and interesting relevant information

Passenger records in NSW

First Families 2001 - Genealogy Links

Ireland - Published Works on Emigration - Austr and NZ.

Australian Sources to Identify Irish Place of Origin

National Library of NZ

National Archives Web Page

History of Liverpool Clipper Ships (1850-1870) These pages contain information about emigration from Liverpool to Australia on the ships of James Baines’ Black Ball Line . They trace the period from 1850 to 1870 - the golden era for the fast Clippers to Australia . Two other pages detail some of the names of passengers and crews on two specific voyages of the “White Star” and the “Champion of the Seas” . There is also an index to some of the Passengers and Crew on the Blackwall Clipper “Lincolnshire” extracted from the on-board newspaper during its voyage from Gravesend to Melbourne in late 1866.

“The Marco Polo’s a Very Fine Ship She’s the Fastest on the Seas” This is one of a series of WWW Pages on the fast clippers to Australia from Liverpool, bringing some 10,000 migrants and more across the seas

“Passengers of the Prince Edward” Here is a passenger list of the ship “Prince Edward” which set sail for New Zealand from Charlottetown Harbour in 1859. It is a compilation from several published passenger lists.

HMS Bounty Genealogies

UK Public Records Office - A general reference to Emigrant Documents in the Records Office

The National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records

Sources in the National Archives for Research into Transportation of Irish Convicts to Australia (1791-1853)

The Immigration Indexes Passengers arriving in Victoria on ships which embarked from foreign ports.

Western Australian Convicts 1850-1868 A partial listing of the British convicts sent to Western Australia between 1850 and 1868 including all of the convict ships that arrived in WA. The list has the convict number, Name, Alias or alternative spelling. Some have crime and sentence.


This site is maintained to ensure additional information is added. Comments and additions to the listing are invited and may be submitted to the site co ordinator, Bryan Heywood .
Site launched in February 1998. Updated 20 April 1998.

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