Immigration to South Australia: Western Australia

This is a list of passengers who disembarked at Albany, Western Australia. Many of the shipping passenger lists include passengers for eastern states, New Zealand and other overseas ports. These have not been included in this list.

This index has been compiled from Immigration Department records held by the National Archives and the shipping passenger lists at the Battye Library located at the State Library WA.

This database contains details of approximately 26,800 immigrants including convicts and their guards arriving in Western Australia from the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and other ports of Australia. It includes passenger arrivals in Western Australia, 1839-1890; ship's crew list 1829-1887; overland arrivals in Esperance 1893-1895; passenger arrivals in Esperance 1863-1896.
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Free passengers, troops, pensioner guards and warders travelling on convict vessels and troopships were not usually named. They are being tracked down by working through alternative colonial and military records. Data has been gathered from the Battye Library's 'Ships Index', the 'Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians', F.H. Broomhall's 'The Veterans', Fremantle 'Harbour Master Reports' and colonial nnewspaper's 'Shipping Intelligence' columns.

Search for passengers arriving by ship in Fremantle and other Western Australian ports between 1921 and 1949; or arriving at Perth airport between 1944 and 1949