PIONEERS & SETTLERS BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA

SOURCES AND RESEARCH RESOURCES


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PRIMARY SOURCES:

Original documents are held at the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), State Records of South Australia (SRSA), National Library of Australia (NLA) and Archives Office of Tasmania.
Many of these are available on microfiche, and are often difficult to read.

  • Ship Manifests & Embarkation documents GRG56/68/52 and GRG41-8
  • Purser's accounts [SASR A538/B8] - crew list
  • Colonial Office report by Hindmarsh [PRO CO3/4 pp135/45]
  • SLSA Source 58: "A Folder of Newspaper Clippings", available at the State Library of South Australia.
    This folder provides a valuable research resource on the Pioneers of this Colony.
  • The South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (newspaper)
  • The South Australian Register (newspaper)
  • The South Australian Observer (newspaper)
  • The South Australian News (newspaper)
  • The Adelaide Independant (newspaper)
  • Hobart Courier (newspaper)
  • South Australian Births Registrations 1842 to 1906
  • South Australian Deaths Registrations 1842 to 1915
  • South Australian Marriages Registrations 1842 to 1916
  • The Register of Free Passages to South Australia 1836 to 1840 (PRO London)

The publishers of South Australian newspapers sent special reporters 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. 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. Microfilms of these newspapers are held in State Libraries across Australia.

For more information on documents held in the South Australian Archives, please see the SA State Records Resources website - http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/readingroom/advice.

REFERENCE BOOKS & ARTICLES:

  • A Free passage to paradise? Passenger lists of United Kingdom emigrants who applied for free passage to South Australia 1836-1840, Pat Button (1992)
  • Barefoot and Pregnant? Irish Famine Orphans in Australia , Trevor McClaughlan, 1991
  • Biographical Index of South Australians, 1836-1885, Jill Statton (ed.), 1986 [Referenced as BISA]
  • Harz to Adelaide: 1848-1854, From the Harz Mountains (Kingdom of Hanover) to Adelaide and Beyond: Government Sponsored Emigration 1848-1854, Renate Vollmer, South Australian Genealogist 20:2, April 1993
  • Manning's Place Names of South Australia, Geoffrey H. Manning, 1990
  • Migrant Ships for South Australia 1836-1860, Ronald Parsons, 1988
  • Shipping Arrivals and Departures, South Australia, 1627-1850, A Guide for Genealogists and Maritime Historians, R.T. Sexton, 1990
  • South Australian Records prior to 1841, E.A.D. Opie, 1917 [Referenced as Opie]
  • The Long Farewell, Don Charlwood, 1982

RESEARCH LINKS - remember that details for the following websites may change:

  • State Library of South Australia - www.slsa.sa.gov.au
  • South Australia Archives (State Records of South Australia) - www.archives.sa.gov.au
  • Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) - Index of Unassisted Passengers to Victoria - http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au
  • NSW State Records - 1839-1851 Port Phillip Immigrant Index - http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives
  • National Archives of Australia - http://www.naa.gov.au
  • Peter Larson's "OzShips" - http://www.ozships.net
  • Barry Leadbetter's "Family History South Australia" - http://www.familyhistorysa.info
  • The Dead Person's Society (Melbourne, VIC Australia) - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc
  • Family Search's "International Genealogical Index" (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
  • Beverley Matthews' "The Marion Passengers" - http://www.users.on.net/esmarion/passeng.htm
  • Sue Swiggum's "The Ship's List" - http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia
  • Cyndi's List - http://www.cyndislist.com/austnz.htm
  • Records of Immigration to Australia and New Zealand - http://members.pcug.org.au/~kenblair/immrec.htm
  • Emigration Information of the Nineteenth Century - http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

DISCLAIMER

Quite a number of Ship Manifests are held at the State Library of South Australia and at the South Australia Archives (State Records of South Australia).
Regarding my request to "make these records available at the State Library and on my CDs", Kathy Gargett, SA State Records ReferenceAccess, referred me to the Administration Manager of Corporate Services, Department of Trade and Economic Development, Adelaide, South Australia.
The Administration Manager, Nathan Hissen, emailed me on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 12:35 pm - In our recent telephone conversation, I made a commitment to you to find a resolution regarding the granting of permission for you to publish records relating to the Africaine. I consider records of this nature are definitely in the public's best interest to be widely available and therefore if permission is still necessary, then consider it granted. On August 19th 2010 I discussed with this gentleman the possible extension of this permission to include records relating to Ship Manifests held at SRSA being made widely available, eg. at the State Library of South Australia and on my CDs. He replied "then consider it granted".

CONDITIONS OF USE:

Please read carefully:
This CD is for use on a "single computer".
If this CD is for use in a Society, Group or Public Library you will need a library licence,
obtainable from the publisher Gould Genealogy & History (formerly Gould Books), PO Box 675, Modbury SA 5092
Telephone (08) 8396 1110. Email: inquiries@gould.com.au
You will then be issued with a library certificate for this product.
Please note that this licence allows for the CD to be used only in situ at the library or society reading room.

Purchasers and Users of this product are reminded of the following:
1. Discover and Enjoy learning more about the people and the voyages to South Australia covered on this CD.
2. The Purchaser/User of this CD is required not to exceed the 10% Copyright Rule, in accordance with the Australian Copyright Act
3. The Purchaser/User of this CD is permitted to share, with family members, extracts from this CD - not exceeding the 10% Copyright Rule.
4. Using the content of this CD for financial gain is not permitted, without permission from the author [refer to the publisher].
5. Using the content of this CD for Look Up Service is permitted, providing this does not exceed the 10% Copyright Rule and is not for financial gain.
6. Placing extracts from this CD on the Internet is not permitted.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I'm sure you appreciate just how much work has gone into creating this CD. Transcribing the passenger lists has taken many many hours, and then to create graphics of all the lists and webpages. Without the help and support of the following people and organisations, this project may never have been completed.

Special thanks to:
My husband Ken and family; South Australian Genealogy (AUS-SAGEN) Listers especially Ros Dunstall, Peter Hooper and Stephanie Cocks; Transcribers: Malcolm Frost, Neville Hesketh, Peter Lawson, Brad Collins, Robert Janmaat and many others including me [Di Cummings]; Margaret Brown and Judy Healey for their invaluable work on the 'Free Passages'; the amazing volunteers at The Pioneers Association of South Australia; Tony Leschen and the State Library of South Australia; Kathy Gargett and the SA State Records; Anne Burrows and the State Library of Victoria; Australian Joint Copying Project (National Library of Australia, Mitchell Library and PRO London); David Tuckwell for his photos of the early pioneers headstones; researchers Barry Leadbetter, Robert D Blair, Sue Swiggum, Graham Jaunay and Sue Woods; and last but certainly not least - Lynn Dillon and Anne Dow, and the Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group. Special thanks also to the many family history researchers who have offered amazing work on their webpages so that we can learn more about our families.

THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE BY THE AUTHOR - Diane Cummings:

  • CD - Bound for South Australia: Passengers 1836-1851 (2005) - Vol.1 in the Pioneers & Settlers Bound for South Australia series
  • CD - South Australian Goldseekers in Victoria, 1851-1853 (2007).
  • CDs - Pioneers & Settlers Bound for South Australia series for 1836-1838, 1839-1845, 1846-1850, and 1851-1853
    •        plus a Special CD featuring a full Index of Passengers who arrived in South Australia between 1836-1853, plus other features still being considered.
    To purchase copies of these resources, please contact Gould Genealogy - www.gould.com.au

  • Pioneers & Settlers Bound for South Australia - a series of Books featuring a comprehensive list of passengers for 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840 and 1841-1845.
    To purchase copies of these resources, please contact The Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~safpfhg/index.html