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Convict transportation Registers Database[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Queensland[edit | edit source]
- Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912 Index ($)
- Far North Queensland, Australia, Pioneers & Settlers Registers, 1825 -1920 Index ($)
- Web: Queensland, Australia, Immigration Indexes, 1848-1972, index, ($)
- Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91 Index ($)
- Queensland Early Pioneers Index ($)
- Queensland Immigrants Nominated For Passage 1884-1907 Index ($)
- Queensland Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922 Index ($)
- Queensland Register Of Immigrants 1864-1878 Index ($)
- Queensland Immigration Registers 1922-1940 Index ($)
- Queensland, Brisbane Register Of Immigrants 1885-1917 Index ($)
- Queensland, Maryborough Registers Of Rations Issued To Immigrants 1875-1884 Index ($)
- Queensland Passage Certificates 1887-1906 Index ($)
- Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911 Index ($)
- Immigration Indexes of the Queensland Government Archive, index and images.
- Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew, index, ($)
- Australia, Queensland, Immigration indexes, 1864-1949, index.
Passports and Citizenship Records[edit | edit source]
- Queensland Passport Registers 1926-1939 Index ($)
- Queensland Naturalisations 1851-1904 Index ($)
Australia[edit | edit source]
- 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 ($)
- 1873-1924 Alphabetical register of all inward passengers to Albany, 1873-1924 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only
- 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia
- 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia
- 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Australia under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
- Immigrant Ancestors Project
Convict Records[edit | edit source]
- 1786-1849 Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849, ($), 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
- 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 ($)
- 1858-1867 UK Surgeon Superintendents' Journals of Convict Ships, 1858-1867, index and images, ($)
- 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[edit | edit source]
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 ($)
For Further Reading[edit | edit source]
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:
- Australia, Queensland, Immigration and Emigration
- Australia, Queensland, Immigration and Emigration - Indexes