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Queensland Emigration and Immigration

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, ($), index.
• 1861-1891 Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-1891 Index ($)
• 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 ($)
• 1926-1939 Queensland Passport Registers 1926-1939 Index ($)
• 1923-1940 - Passport clearances 1923 to 1940, index.

New South Wales Records Including Queensland Records Until 1859

• 1787-1976 New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records, 1787-1976, images only, topic index, ($)
• 1800-1849 In-letters, 1800-1849, New South Wales Colonial Secretary Includes letters from Norfolk Island, 1833-1835. Requests for removal, transfer, having families brought over. Shipping lists and orders.
• 1816-1825 Shipping records, 1816-1825, New South Wales, images.
• 1816-1825, 1898-1911 New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1816-1825, 1898-1911 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1826-1922 New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922, index, browse, and images, ($).
• 1826-1900 New South Wales Passenger Lists, 1826-1900, index, ($)
• 1826-1856 New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Letters, 1826-1856 at Ancestry - index and images ($)
• 1826-1859 Reports of vessels arrived, 1826-1859, images.
• 1828-1842 Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1828-1842 New South Wales, Australia 1828 - 1842: Bounty Immigrants List, at Ancestry, index, ($).
• 1828-1842 Miscellaneous Immigrants Index 1828-1843, index
• 1828-1890 Australia, New South Wales, Assisted Immigrants Inwards, 1828-1890 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1828-1890 Assisted immigrants inwards to Sydney, 1828-1890 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only
• 1828-1896 New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896, index, and images, ($).
• 1828-1841 Crew and Passengers Index 1828-1841 at NSW Archives, index.
• 1837-1925 Inward shipping lists, 1837-1925, images. A list of crews and passengers on ships arriving at ports in New South Wales.
• 1838-1857 Immigration Board Letters, 1838-1857 at NSW Archives, index.
• 1839-1896 Index to Assisted Immigrants 1839-96, Moreton Bay, 1848-1859, Port Phillip 1839-1851; Also at MyHeritage ($).
• 1842-1855 Index to unassisted Immigrants 1842-1851 at NSW Archives, index.
• 1846 New South Wales, Australia, Passengers Arriving at Port Phillip, 1846 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1848-1873 Register of applications for passages to the colonies for convicts' families, 1848-1873, images.
• 1850-80s Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters - primarily New South Wales, unassisted records from the 1850-80s, incomplete
• 1853-1900 New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900 at Ancestry; index & images ($)

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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