People Search - Passengers in History South Australian Maritime Museum's searchable database of passengers travelling to Australian ports (mainly SA) after 1836.
Australia
All
Ship Search - Passengers in History South Australian Maritime Museum's database of ships transiting to Australian ports (mainly SA) from 1836. Search by ship name, type of ship, ship builder, and many other options.
Australia
All
Australian Newspaper Archives, 1803-2011 An excellent resource produced by the National Library of Australia allowing keyword search of major and regional Australian newspaper archives (1803-2011), with images of original articles shown. Select 'Family Notices' under 'Article Category' to limit the search to birth, death and marriage announcements.
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2011
Australia
All
Australian shipping 1788-1968 Ozships extensive lists of shipping arrivals and departures to/from Australian ports from 1788-1968.
First Fleet Convicts (1788) Searchable database hosted by the University of Wollongong of 780 First Fleet convicts (NSW, Australia). It does not contain information about the other 200 sailors, marines and officers who sailed with them.
Australia's Red Coat Regiments, 1788-1870 Lists of members of the 25 British Infantry Regiments, Service Regiments and Marine Detachments who served in Sydney, Australia, between 1788 and 1870.
1788
1870
Australia
NSW
Sydney
Index to vessels arriving in NSW, 1788-1922 Extensive list of searchable resources of ships and passengers arriving in New South Wales from 1788, on the NSW State Archives and Records website.
South Australian pioneer families Searchable database of pioneering South Australian colonists comprising combined collections of passenger lists, births, marriages, and deaths.
Australia
SA
State Records SA - Index of Resources Index of extensive historical resources available on the State Records SA website. Most records are images (PDF format) of original documents.
SA Departures for overseas, 1836-1887 (Horner Index) Extensive records of passengers departing South Australian ports for overseas destinations during the period 1836-1887, transcribed from The Register. Displayed as PDF images of transcribed catalogue cards, hosted on the State Library of South Australia website.
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1887
Australia
SA
Adelaide
SA Passenger Lists, 1836-1851 Search a State Library of SA collection, 'Bound for South Australia', with details of more than 3000 ships that came to SA between 1836 and 1851.
1836
1851
Australia
SA
Adelaide
SA Passenger Lists, 1847-1883 Passenger lists for ships bound for South Australia, transcribed from newspaper reports or the South Australian Government Gazette.
1847
1883
Australia
SA
Adelaide
SA Shipping arrivals and immigration, 1803-58 This searchable collection of passenger lists for about 1,250 ship arrivals in South Australia includes almost 28,000 families. The database contains shipping and emigrants from Germany up to 1853, the UK and Ireland up to July 1850, and other ports up to 1847.