Victoria Emigration and Immigration

Public Record Office Victoria: Early Victorian inward and outward passenger lists

Victoria

 * 1839-1871 - Australia, Victoria, Assisted Immigrant Arrivals at Victorian Ports, 1839-1871 Index ($)
 * 1839-1923 - Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923 Index ($)
 * 1839-1923 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1839-1923 - Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923 Index ($)
 * 1852-1924 -, Index
 * 1852-1915 - Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915 at FindMyPast, Index ($); also available at MyHeritage
 * 1852-1923 Australia, Inwards Unassisted Passengers to Victoria, 1852-1923 at MyHeritage ($) - index
 * 1852-1924 - at FamilySearch Browse images
 * 1852-1924 - Australia, Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924 Index ($)

Australia

 * 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

 * 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
 * Guide to penal transportation records: Ireland to Australia, 1788–1868


 * 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
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 ($)