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WE'RE BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA!

presented by DIANE CUMMINGS

OUR ANCESTORS travelled the world and now call AUSTRALIA home
On the following webpages, we have links to Passenger Lists for virtually
EVERY SHIP THAT ARRIVED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
between 1836 and 1851
(60,000 local and overseas families and individual passengers).

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BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
PASSENGER LISTS 1836-1851
including a host of additional information
(individual names, ages, occupations, etc)
for many of the 60,000 families/individuals
who came to South Australia between 1836-1851,
Reports on many of the voyages,
plus 20 Ship Diaries
WHERE THEY CAME FROM
Why did OUR ANCESTORS farewell their families and friends, travel the world, and now call AUSTRALIA home ?
A TYPICAL JOURNEY
including almost 3000 SHIPPING LISTS for South Australia (1836-51)
TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA


The SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER newspaper sent
a special reporter
to each ship
arriving in South Australia, to list the passengers on board that ship
from the PASSENGER LIST held by the Captain.

The reporter's list was published in the next publication of the newspaper.

We understand that microfilms of the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER Newspapers
are held in
State Libraries across Australia.
CLICK OUR PORT-HOLE TO DISCOVER WHO ARRIVED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
More often than not, these published lists are the only source available of a passenger list
for a particular ship. Where possible we have compared these list with photocopies
of the actual passenger list(many of which are difficult to read).
As a result, the information on some images may not be 100% accurate.

Given the difficulty Agents must have had in understanding the people applying for a passage
(language - often broad and hard to understand), and how difficult it probably was for the reporter
to interpret the writing on the actual passenger list
we are often amazed at how accurate (or how incorrect) these lists can be.

In 1839 there were less than 10,000 persons in the new colony.
1841: there were ... persons in the colony.
1844: The first census, on the 26 February 1844, recorded 17,366 people.
1861: Some 25 years after the first settlers arrived, this number had increased to 126,830.

1836-1840     1841-1845     1846-1850     1851    

For Shipping after these dates - visit: LINKS, SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The wooden three-masted barque was the most common type of deep-water cargo-carrier in the middle of the 19th century (1850s). When four-masted barques started to appear in the 19th century (the 1800s), they were often called full-rigged ships since they had three square rigged masts, and a ship was more highly regarded than a barque
(a barque is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fully square rigged except for the sternmost one, which is fore-and-aft rigged). The typical cargo-carrier of the early 1900s was the four-masted steel barque.

NOTE: The contents of these pages are the combined work of many people and whilst we aim for accuracy in all we do, remember Murphy's Law.
Should you discover your family name or similar on these lists, remember this - many of the names on Passenger lists were written
as the writer heard them, and many of the passengers were unable to spell their own names.

SHIP LAYOUT

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Website designer: Di Cummings