The State Library of South Australia provide a number of relevant guides on its website including:
STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
State Records of South Australia has mostly complete passenger lists for the period 1847 to 1940. Prior to 1847 these passengers lists are incomplete as not all have survived. A Fact Sheet on Immigration to South Australia is available on their website.
This page lists South Australian-related online, networked and microform resources as well as print publications available for use within the National Library of Australia.
Online
Ancestry (Library Edition)
To access Ancestry (Library Edition), visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Ancestry'. NB: Currently Ancestry provides no South Australian-specific immigration records.
Findmypast (World Edition)
To access Findmypast (World Edition), visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Findmypast'. Currently, Findmypast has the following South Australian-related travel and migration records available:
- Emigrants seeking free passage to South Australia 1836-1841
(9236 entries)
- Passengers To South Australia on board Buffalo 1836
(289 entries)
- South Australia Naturalisations 1849-1903
(2958 entries)
- South Australia Passenger Lists 1847-1886
(165087 entries)
- South Australia, Immigrant Agricultural Workers 1913-14
(289 entries)
State Library of South Australia
The State Library of South Australia currently hosts the following resources online:
- Horner Index to overseas departures by passenger ship from South Australia 1836-1887
The Horner Index was compiled by Sally Horner from the Register newspaper and is an alphabetical list by passenger of departures from South Australia directly for overseas between 1836-1887. It does not list departures for interstate or intrastate ports.
South Australian Maritime Museum
The South Australian Maritime Museum also provides useful resources:
- Passengers in History
Provides online access to entries for 328,000 passengers and 20,000 voyages to South Australia between 1836 and 1964 from the passengers data base developed by the SA Maritime Museum. Also includes material from Ian Nicholson's list of ships’ logs and diaries, Log of Logs.
Networked resources in the Library
In addition to those online databases available for use within the Library the following CD-ROM products are also made available:
- Bound for South Australia: passenger lists 1836-1851
Provides passenger lists for the 3000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851. Includes additional information such as names, ages and occupations for many of the 60,000 local and overseas families and individual passenger arrivals
- Bound for South Australia : births and deaths on government-assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885
A complete listing of 323 voyages to South Australia between 1848 and 1885 under the auspices of the South Australian Government. Information for each ship includes the port and date of departure, date of arrival, number of emigrants, and their age-class and regions of origin. Includes a list of births and deaths at sea for these ships.
For more information about these resources, visit the eResources portal, click the browse eResources tab and search for the name of the resource.
Microfilmed and other published resources
The following microfilmed products and published works are available on open access in the Newspapers and Family History zone:
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
|
Index to Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to South Australia: 1836-1841 |
mc N 492 (See also on Findmypast. To access Find My Past (World Edition), visit the eResources portal, click the Databases A-Z tab and search for 'FInd my past'.) |
| Official Passenger Lists, Mainly of Immigrants Arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom Assisted Passage Schemes, 1847-1886 144 microfiche GRG 48 Series 48A Includes passenger name index at front (Source 313) |
mc N 494 |
| Horner Index: index to departures by passenger ship from South Australia directly for overseas (not interstate or intrastate) taken from the Register newspaper Part 1 1836-1875, Part 2 1876-1887 21 microfiche Destination and route information are given if available from the newspaper |
mc N 1212 (See also Horner Index to overseas departures by passenger ship from South Australia 1836-1887 on the website of the State Library of South Australia |
| Alphabetical Index to in-coming passenger lists 1888-1908 GRG 41 Series 34 42 microfiche Also known as The Burdett Index |
mc N 1236 |
| Manifest of Shipping departing from Port Adelaide July 1841-May 1844 GRG 41 Series 10 Parts 1 and 2 4 microfiche |
mc N 1237 |
| Index to applications for assisted passage as a domestic helper 1921-30 / 1938-39 GRG 7 Series 15 1 microfiche |
mc N 1238 |
| Index to applications for assisted passage as a boy migrant 1927-1929 GRG 7 Series 16 1 microfiche |
mc N 1239 |
| South Australian Record Series No. 14 - Arrivals Index Part 1 2 microfiche This collection of arrivals to South Australia is compiled from a variety of records: obituaries, biographies and other newspaper reports; prison, hospital and other institutional records; Government and Police Gazettes; and other sundry material |
mc N 1328 |
| Application by Nominee for Assisted Passage previously paid for by Nominator in South Australia 1911-1917 GRG 7 Series 2 Indexed by Nominee 3 microfiche |
mc N 1897 |
| Application for Agricultural Labourers by South Australian Residents 1912-1914 GRG 7 Series 4 Indexed by Labourer 1 microfiche |
mc N 1898 |
| Application for Assisted Passage by Agricultural Labourers 1911-1914 GRG 7 Series 3 1 microfiche Includes miscellaneous correspondence relating to applications |
mc N 1900 |
| Newspaper Index: Index to persons arriving in South Australia from overseas (including New Zealand) as recorded in the Adelaide Times, South Australian and South Australian Register 1846 – 1887 GRG 56 Series 68/7 36 microfiche A Key to the Newspaper Index is also provided at the same call number. (3 fiche) The Key provides the date of the newspaper for the reference in the index. |
mc N 1901 |
| Alphabetical Index to Persons nominating Relatives, etc. for Free Passage from Europe to South Australia 1876-1879 GRG 7 Series 44 2 microfiche This is an index to the free immigration certificates and to nominations for free passage to South Australia contained in GRG 7/40 and GRG 7/42 respectively |
mc N 1902 |
| List of Certificates issued under the Assisted Passage Regulations GRG 35 Series 39 3 microfiche Volume 1 : 31 October 1862 - June 1867, July 1872 - September 1885 Volume 2 :Alphabetical indexes by nominee [and] nominator to list of certificates issued under the assisted passage regulations, 20 September 1878 - 29 June 1885 |
mc N 1904 |
| A-Z Index of Special List of Naturalisation Records 1853, 1854, 1856-64 GRG 24 Series 55 1 microfiche |
mc N 1905 |
| Alphabetical index by applicant [and] nominee to schedule of free immigration certificates for continental and United Kingdom immigrants, September 1876 - April 1879 GRG 7 Series 40 4 microfiche |
mc N 1907 |
| Schedule of Free Immigration Certificates September 1876 - April 1879 U.K. Nos. 1-2107, Continental nos. 1-135 GRG 7 Series 40 Indexed by nominee 3 microfiche |
mc N 1908 |
| Schedule of Free Immigration Certificates September 1876 - April 1879 U.K. Nos. 1-2107, Continental nos. 1-135 GRG 7 Series 40 Indexed by applicant 3 microfiche |
mc N 1909 |
| Schedule of Certificates issued under the Assisted Passage Regulations October 1862 - June 1867, July 1873 - June 1885 GRG 35 Series 39 2 microfiche |
mc N 1910 |
| Immigration Application for Agricultural Labourers by South Australian Residents Nos. 1-232 (1912–1914) GRG 7 Series 4 Indexed by applicant 1 microfiche |
mc N 1915 |
| Alphabetical Index to Persons nominated for Free Passages from Europe to South Australia, September 1876 - April 1879 GRG 7 Series 39 Special List 3 microfiche An index to the free immigration certificates and to nominations for free passage to S.A. contained in GRG 7/40 and GRG 7/42 respectively |
mc N 1929 |
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Detail from Disembarking from a ship, Adelaide, ca. 1910 [transparency] 1890
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MARITIME MUSEUM
The South Australian Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide provides a passengers database which includes entries for 250,000 passengers and 20,000 ships which arrived between 1836 and 1961. The database, which is currently only available onsite at the Museum, also includes over 1000 pictures of ships.
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![[Port Adelaide, South Australia]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/port_adelaide_south_australia_detail.jpg?itok=gJQN2-R2 "[Port Adelaide, South Australia]")
Detail from Gill, Samuel Thomas. [Port Adelaide, South Australia] [picture] / S.T.G [184-] < http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2984553 >
SHIP DESERTERS
The following resources on microfiche are available on open access:
South Aust. deserters register
1852-1876, 1877-1882, 1883-1890
Call Number mc N 889
Ship deserters : [register for the period of 1891-July 1952]
Call Number mc N 1150
