This page holds a collection of resources dealing with emigration/immigration, shipping and passenger lists including convict transportation.
Highland Clearances
For those interested in the Highland Clearances, information is available using the following example as a guide.
If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's. This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland. Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923 Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923.
Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923
This was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood".
The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye. (This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.
General
- The Ships List
- Ancestors on Board
- Olive Tree Genealogy includes many shipping lists
- Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871
- Transportation of Convicted Criminals from South Australia
- Debbie Beavis British Passenger List Research 1878 - 1960
- Data Marines War Brides
- Dutch Passenger Lists pre-1736
- Dutch Passenger Lists after 1736
- A Scottish Emigration Database
- Moving Here, 200 Years of Migration to England
- Virtual Jamestown- Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686
- Passenger lists and emigrant ships from Norway Heritage
- The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives - The Future of Our Past, Archives of Shipping Lists
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Collection of Passenger Lists
- Australia Shipping / Immigration & Shipping Other Countries USA, UK, Canada
To Australia
New South Wales
Information from: Mary from Italy.
What passenger lists contain
This information applies to passenger lists obtained from the NSW state government. If you find a passenger in the immigration indexes:
- State Records NSW - Indexes Online tick the "Order" box and click on "submit order".
Some lists are more detailed than others, but the one I got, dating from 1857, contained the following information:
1. List of immigrants per ship (sorted by family groups) containing:
- Name
- Whether married or single
- Age
- Trade
- Native place and county
- Religion
- Whether person can read and write
- Remarks
2. List of immigrants per ship as inspected by the Immigration Board, containing:
- Name
- Whether married or single
- Age
- Trade
- Native place and county
- Parents' names and, if alive, their residence
- Religion
- Whether person can read and write
- Relations in the colony
- State of bodily health, strength and probable usefulness
- Any complaints respecting treatment on board the ship
- Remarks by Immigration Board
3. Particulars:
- Number of births and deaths during the voyage
- Date and place of departure and arrival
- Number of days on voyage
- Master's name and one or two bits of technical information like tonnage.
The list I received was a photocopy of the pages which included the two families I wanted and the other names on the page, not all the passengers on the ship. It costs AUS$25 (about £11, depending on the exchange rate at the time of ordering). If you have more than one person in a family, only give one name, and you'll get the whole family. If you have another person on the same ship but in a different family, it costs an extra $6.
Victoria
Queensland
Other
- 1852-1857 Highlands and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists
- 1881 British Census, Crew and Passengers On Ships Arriving In New South Wales (findmypast - £)
- Chartists Transported to Australia
- Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
- Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists
- Australia's Redcoat Settlers
- Leaving from Liverpool
- South Australian Passenger Lists 1836-1851
- Westernport Settlement Between Its Establishment on November 24th, 1826 and Its Abandonment on February 27th, 1828
Convicts to Australia
- The British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867
- A List Of Convicts Sent to New South Wales in 1787
- A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors Sent to Australia
- Convict Australia
- Descendants of Convicts Group Inc, Transported Convict Ancestors, 1788-1868
- NSW Convict Women on Ships arriving from England and Ireland 1788-1828
- Irish Convicts to New South Wales
- Alphabetical List of 2000 Convicts Transported on The 3rd Fleet in 1791
- Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 1782 - 1821
- Convicts Transported from Kent to Australia in 1851-1852
- The Transportation of Lincolshire Convicts to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda
- Convicts Tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes
- Prisoners Sentenced to Transportation From Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850
- The Great North Road Convict Trail
- Fremantle Prison History and Convict Database
- Female Convict Factories - Tasmania Including Branches at Brickfield, Launceston, Hobart
- Convict History & Culture Norfolk Island
- Convict Stockade
- Convict Records of Australia
- Australian Female Convict Database
To New Zealand
- New Zealand Bound
- Auckland Area Passenger arrivals 1838-1886 and 1909-1921
- Emigration to Canterbury : Shipping Lists 1856-1874 includes passenger list images
- New Zealand Yesteryears Beautifully presented site with significant maritime content including passenger lists.
To The USA
- Ellis Island
- Ellis Island Photo Gallery
- The Forgotten of Ellis Island Deaths in Quarantine 1909-1911
- A Searchable Database of Immigrants Arriving at Castle Garden, America's first official Immigration Centre
- Extract from The New York Daily Times August 14th 1885 about The Opening of the Castle Garden Centre
- Immigrant Servant Database
- New York Arrivals
- 1860 Ship Arrivals in New York
- California Bound Passenger lists for those arriving in California by ship and wagon train 1848-73
- The Immigrant Ancestors Project
- New England (MA) Pilgrim and Great Migration Ship Lists Early 1600's
- Germany to Pennsylvania Ships carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.
- Early Settlers in Maryland
- Galveston, Texas Immigration Database
- Ancestors from Norway
- Database of Irish Immigrants to North America
- United States Famine Irish Passenger Index, 1846-1851
- Passenger Lists from Europe to New York
- The Welsh American Index
- Emigrants from Wales to the USA
- French Immigrants in North America
- Belgian Passengers to America in 1856
- The Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association
- Japanese Immigrants to the USA 1887-1924
- The Allan Line -United Kingdom to North America
- Emigration/Immigration
- Mormon Migration
To Canada
- inGeneas - Passenger Lists, Immigration Records, Genealogy Documents.
- Library & Archives Canada - Arrivals in Canada 1865-1922
- Nanaimo Family History Society - Passenger List Indexing Project
- Child Emigration from Great Britain to Canada Between 1869 and The Early 1930s
- Bristol Home Children
- The Petworth Emigration Project - 1830s emigration from Sussex and other counties in the south of England to Ontario
To South Africa
- British Emigrants to South Africa 1820
- German Genealogy in South Africa
- Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820
To South America
- The Cornish in Latin America
- British Presence in Southern Patagonia
- Brits in South America Database
- British Settlers in Argentina and Uruguay—studies in 19th and 20th century emigration
- Irish Passengers to Argentina (1822-1929)
- Scottish Emigration to Argentina and Patagonia 1800-1950
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