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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('This database contains a collection of assisted immigrant passenger lists to New South Wales, Australia for various years between 1828 and 1896. “Assisted immigrants” are individuals whose passages were either subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is comprised of four different series of records. Information listed on these records may include: name of immigrant, age, marital status, gender, and native place.'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('This database contains a collection of assisted immigrant passenger lists to New South Wales, Australia for various years between 1828 and 1896. “Assisted immigrants” are individuals whose passages were either subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is comprised of four different series of records. They are:
- Returns of convicts’ applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense
- Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists)
- Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists)
- Persons on early migrant ships (fair copy)
About the Records:
Returns of convicts’ applications for wives and families
These records were prepared by the Principal Superintendent of Convicts or the Colonial Secretary for the Governor’s approval and cover the years 1837-1850. Information shown in these records includes:
- Convict’s name
- Ship of arrival
- Year of arrival
- Wife’s maiden name
- Number of children
- Residence of wife and to whom known
Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists)
These records contain immigrant lists to New South Wales from 1838-1896 and Moreton Bay from 1848-1859. Records are arranged chronologically according to ship arrival date. Thereafter, entries are organized into sections according to marital status or family relationships – families, widowers, widows, wives and families of individuals already in the colony, single men, and single women. Information shown on these records generally includes:
- Name of immigrant
- Age
- Gender
- Calling
- Marital Status
- Native place
- Education or literacy
Records dating from 1848 and later may contain more information.
Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists)
These records contain immigrant lists for Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay from 1848-1891. The majority of the ships in these records sailed from British ports to Sydney. However, a few went to Moreton Bay, which was part of New South Wales until 1859, and Newcastle. A few ships also sailed from some non-British ports, such as Hamburg, Madras, and New York.
Records are arranged according to arrival year, and thereafter alphabetically by name of ship. Information provided on these records generally includes:
- Name of immigrant
- Age
- Marital status
- Calling
- Native place
- Religion
- Education
- Names of relations in the colony
- Names and addresses of parents
- Complaints regarding treatment on board the ship
Persons on early migrant ships (fair copy)
These records were prepared by the Colonial Secretary and cover the years 1828-1832. Information shown in these records includes:
- Name of immigrant
- Age
- Gender
- Country
- Calling
- Status as a passenger (i.e. cabin or steerage)
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New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data:
- New South Wales Government. “Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense.” Series 1190, Reel 699. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists).” Series 5316, Reels 2134-2143. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Persons on early migrant ships (Fair Copy).” Series 5310, Reel 1286. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Wage agreements and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships (Agent\'s Immigrant Lists).” Series 5315, Reels 2449-2456. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists).” Series 5317, Reels 2458-2498. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip (Agent\'s Immigrant Lists).” Series 5318, Reels 2143A-2145. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
- New South Wales Government. “Passengers arriving at Sydney 1846 (Agent\'s Immigrant Lists).” Series 5326, Reel 2457. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
© the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales and is used under licence with the permission of the State Records Authority. The State of New South Wales gives no warranty regarding the data\'s accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose.
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