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Queensland Emigration and Immigration

Convict transportation Registers Database

Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database at the State Library of Queensland. These include prisoners sent to New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Port Phillip. Western Australia and Norfolk Island. Also recorded are some ships which were bound for Gibraltar. The records cover the period of 1787 to 1867.

Online Resources

Queensland

• Immigration Indexes of the Queensland Government Archive, index and images.
• Queensland Early Pioneers at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1825-1920 Far North Queensland, Australia, Pioneers & Settlers Registers, 1825-1920 at MyHeritage, index ($)
• 1848-1912 Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912 Index ($) Also at FindMyPast, index, ($)
• 1848-1972 Web: Queensland, Australia, Immigration Indexes, 1848-1972, index, ($)
• 1852-1885 Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew, index, ($)
• 1852-1885 Queensland, Australia Passenger and Crew Lists, 1852-1885 at MyHeritage, ($), index.
• 1861-1891Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-1891 Index ($)
• 1864-1949 Australia, Queensland, Immigration indexes, 1864-1949 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index.
• 1864-1878 Queensland Register Of Immigrants 1864-1878 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1867-1911 Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1875-1884 Queensland, Maryborough Registers Of Rations Issued To Immigrants 1875-1884 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1884-1907 Queensland Immigrants Nominated For Passage 1884-1907 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1885-1917 Queensland, Brisbane Register Of Immigrants 1885-1917 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• '1887-1906 Queensland Passage Certificates 1887-1906 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1908-1922 Queensland Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922 at FindMyPast, index ($)
• 1922-1940 Queensland Immigration Registers 1922-1940 at FindMyPast, index ($)

Queensland Archives Online Records

• Promissory Notes (Maryborough), index.
• 1848-1912 - Assisted Immigration 1848-1912, index.
• 1860-1907 - Redeemed land orders 1860-1907, index.
• 1861-1874 - Land orders 1861-1874, index.
• 1862-1878 - Land orders 1862-1878, index.
• 1864-1878 - Register of Immigrants 1864-1878, index.
• 1873-1912 - Register of the Engagement of Immigrants at the Immigration Depot - Bowen 1873-1912, index.
• 1875-1884 - Rations issued to immigrants, Maryborough 1875-1884, index.
• 1880-1888 - Register of immigrants, Toowoomba, 1880-1888, index.
• 1882-1938 - Registers of immigrants 1882-1938, index.
• 1882-1915 -Immigrants, Rockhampton 1882-1915, index.
• 1884-1907 - Immigrants nominated for passage, Maryborough 1884 to 1907, index.
• 1885-1917 - Registers of immigrants, Brisbane 1885-1917, index.
• 1885-1892 - Immigrants, Bowen Immigration Depot 1885-1892, index.
• 1887-1906 - Passage certificates 1887-1906, index.
• 1908-1922 - Nominated immigrants 1908-1922, index.
• 1909-1932 - Immigrants 1909-1932, index.
• 1922-1940 - Immigration 1922-1940, index.
• 1923-1940 - Passport clearances 1923-1940, index.
• 1925-1972 - Oronsay immigration 1925-1972, index.

Passports and Citizenship Records

• 1851-1885 Queensland Naturalisations 1851-1904 Index ($)
• 1926-1939 Queensland Passport Registers 1926-1939 Index ($)

Australia

• Ireland-Australia transportation database National Library of Australia
• Genealogical Index To Australians and Other Expatriates In Papua New Guinea at FindMyPast - index & images ($)
• Australian Contingents To South Africa at FindMyPast - index & image ($)
• Australia Passenger Indexes archived on the Wayback Machine
• 19-Century Emigration of 'Old Lutherans' from Eastern Germany to Australia, Canada, and the United States, index and images, ($).
• 1788-1968 Ozships: Australian shipping 1788-1968
• 1788-1890 Admission, discharge and other records, 1788-1890, images. These are the records of the Royal Philanthropic Society, organized in 1788 "for the admission of the offspring of convicts and the reformation of criminal poor children." Records exist of those who went to Australia.
• 1811-1856 Australia, Assisted Emigration at FindMyPast - index & images ($)
• 1826-1972 Australia, Inward, Outward, & Coastal Passenger Lists 1826-1972 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• 1850-1879 Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia, 1850 - 1879 The collection records the name, former place of residence, age, occupation, ship, destination and departure year for more than 40,000 emigrants between 1850 and 1879. Passengers on all ships to Australia and New Zealand are listed; they include emigrants destined for all states in Australia (except Western Australia) and ports in both the north and south islands of New Zealand. It includes passenger lists for which no Australasian records exist. It is an important resource for family historians and those with a more general interest in migration from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and other European countries.
• 1873-1924 Alphabetical register of all inward passengers to Albany, 1873-1924 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia
• 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Australia under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
• Immigrant Ancestors Project

Convict Records

• 1786-1849 Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849, ($), index.
• Australia's First Fleet
• Australia's First Fleet
• 1787-1788 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788, index and images, ($).
• 1787-1867Web: Australia, Convict Records Index, 1787-1867, index and images, ($)
• 1788-1842 Australia List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842, ($), index .
• 1788-1868 Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868, index, ($).
• Australia's Second Fleet
• Australia's Second Fleet
• 1788–1868 Ireland-Australia transportation database National Archives of Ireland

Guide to penal transportation records: Ireland to Australia, 1788–1868

• 1789-1790 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790, index and images, ($)
• Australia's Third Fleet
• Australia's Third Fleet
• 1791 Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791, index and images, ($).
• 1791-1867 Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867, ($), index.
• 1791-1850 Index of prisoners and accused persons, 1791-1850 (Sussex Quarter Session Rolls), images. Contains an alphabetical listing of all prisoners and accused persons named in the Sussex Quarter Session Rolls, 1791-1850. Gives name, offense and date thereof, date and place of court appearance, and sentence. Sometimes also includes age, occupation and residence. Prisoners sentenced for transportation during this period were sent to Australia.
• 1824-1874 Australia Convict Tickets Of Leave 1824-1874, ($), index.
• 1829-1879 New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff's Papers, 1829-1879 - index and images ($)
• 1842-1854 Victoria, Convict Register 1842-1854 at FindMyPast, ($), index.

• 1858-1867 UK Surgeon Superintendents' Journals of Convict Ships, 1858-1867, index and images, ($)
• Convict transportation registers database
• Ireland-Australia transportation database, National Archives of Ireland
• Convicts to Australia
• Crime and Punishment, Wales Court of Great Sessions, 1730-1830

The Irish Ancestor Periodical

There are many Indexes in The Irish Ancestor, of convicts requesting wife and children to be sent out to Australia, at the government's expense.

• Indexed in PERiodical Source Index at FindMyPast ($)
• FIGRS Index to the The Irish Ancestor ($)
• WorldCat listing of libraries holding The Irish Ancesor collection
• The Irish Ancestor 1969-1986 Digital Download ($)

Archive Resources Kit, New South Wales Including Queensland Prior to 1851

• Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold the microform copies of the Archive Resource Kit records.
  
• The Archive Resources Kit includes the following immigration and convict records:

Immigration

Indexes to ships arrived, 1837-1925

Assisted immigrants, 1828-42

Assisted immigrants (Port Phillip), 1839-51

Assisted immigrants Sydney, 1838-96, and Moreton Bay, 1848-59

Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay, 1848-91

Unassisted Passengers arriving in Sydney, 1826-53, 1854-1900

Wage agreements & entitlement certificates (Sydney), 1844-45

Germans on bounty ships (Sydney), 1849-52

Wives and families of convicts on bounty ships (Sydney), 1849-55

Immigration deposit journals, 1853-1900

Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-57

Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-55

Ships musters: passengers departing, 1816-25

Convict Records

Index to Convict Indents, 1837-42

Convict Indents, 1788-1842

Musters and other papers relating to convict ships, 1790-1849 NRS 1155

Registers of convicts' applications to marry, 1825-51

Assignment Registers, 1821-24

Register of Tickets of Leave, 1824-27

Ticket of Leave butts, 1827-67

Registers of Conditional Pardons, 1791-1825

Registers of convicts recommended for Conditional Pardons, 1826-56

Registers of Absolute Pardons, 1791-1843 and Registers of recommendations for Absolute Pardons, 1826-46

Convict Deaths, 1828-79

For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Australia, Queensland, Immigration and Emigration
• Australia, Queensland, Immigration and Emigration - Indexes

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