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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

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."

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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