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Page from the digitised passenger list of the Shackamaxon, arrived 3 Sep 1863

Digital shipping lists

This webinar provides a snapshot on how to use digital shipping lists

  • Migration
  • Webinar
  • State Archives Collection
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Assisted immigrants shipping lists

A chronological list of assisted ships arriving from 1828-1896

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Assisted immigrants digitised shipping lists 1828-1896

If you know the ship your assisted passengers arrived on you can search, view & download the digitised shipping list

  • Family history
  • Migration
  • State Archives Collection
A couple looking towards the horizon

Finding resources about immigration

Finding when your ancestors arrived in NSW can be challenging. This webinar highlights some resources that can help you with this research

  • Migration
  • Family history
  • Collections

Convict penal settlements

Penal settlements were places of incarceration and punishment for convicts who committed serious offences after reaching New South Wales

  • Convicts
  • Penal settlement
The ‘Australia’ at Watsons Bay

Shipping & free passenger records

This guide will assist researchers tracing free persons arriving in and departing from NSW as well as the movement of vessels

German migration stories

The first 'assisted immigrants' (predominately British) began arriving as early as 1828 but it was not until 1847 that the Colonial Government widened the scheme to include European workers with special skills, such as vine dressing and carpentry

Ocean liners Strathnaver and Mariposa in Sydney Harbour, 1932

Immigration & shipping guide

Key records and available indexes, relating to passengers arriving in New South Wales, 1788-1922

Letters re migration to NSW 1838-1857

These letters were sent by the Immigration Agent in response to complaints, transport arrangements, advertisements and financial arrangements relating to migration between 1838 and 1857. This index covers the names of individuals found in the letters

Distribution of 50 free girls (from the Foundling Hospital, Cork) who arrived July 1831 by the Palambam

‘Most came because their fare was paid for them’: NSW assisted immigration

Join us for this webinar led by Dr Richard Reid, to get a glimpse of the treasures in the NSW State Archives Collection that illuminate the assisted emigrant journey

  • Webinar
  • Collections
  • State Archives Collection

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