LibGuides: Immigration to South Australia: Passenger lists 1836-1845

Port Adelaide 1845

Shipping at Port Adelaide by S.T. Gill, 1845 (B 16065)

Useful websites for South Australian shipping information

German Emigrants to South Australia, 1837-1866
Transcribed from original passenger lists by Robert Janmaat of Adelaide. Includes some extracts from the 'Sydney Shipping Gazette' and the 'South Australian Register'.

Passengers in History was compiled by the South Australian Maritime Museum (History Trust of SA). It includes references to the voyages of individual ships taken from the publication Log of Logs.

Bound for South Australia, passenger lists 1836-1851, compiled by Diane Cummings

Arrivals from interstate- indexes in the State Library

Not all 19th century travellers were able to come direct to Adelaide. For example in the early 1850s many ships sailed direct from London or Plymouth to Melbourne due to the attraction of the goldfields.

Therefore many immigrants came to Adelaide via coastal vessels.

The only records of these voyages are in newspaper reports. For some periods the State Library holds indexes to the newspaper lists.

Manifests of vessels arriving from overseas 1838-1842
Manifest records of vessels arriving at Port Adelaide which include names of crews and passengers.
Passengers arriving at Port Adelaide from South Australian coastal and intercolonial ports between 1837-1845 (Hodge Index)

See also '19th century departures - Horner and Hodge indexes'

Passenger and shipping indexes at the State Library

Index to register of emigrant labourers applying for a free passage to South Australia, 1836-1841 (Pike Index)
Alphabetical record by name of applicant. Includes age, occupation, U.K. address and sex and age of dependants (children). Not all applicants came to South Australia.
Chronological list of ships arriving from overseas with key to sources on the arrival of passengers 1836 to 1845 (also known as SA Pioneers arriving 1836 to 1845)
Lists of passengers arriving in South Australia from overseas ports, arranged alphabetically by passenger. Includes a separate list of passengers arriving on the Buffalo.
A Free passage to paradise? : passenger lists of United Kingdom emigrants who applied for free passage to South Australia 1836-1840
Index to ships arriving at South Australian ports from overseas 1836 to 1900

Immigration to South Australia: Passenger lists 1836-1845

Port Adelaide 1845

Useful websites for South Australian shipping information

Arrivals from interstate- indexes in the State Library

Passenger and shipping indexes at the State Library

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