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Immigration to South Australia: Immigration schemes

This State Library of South Australia guide has information on passenger lists, newspaper indexes and immigration schemes. It includes some resources about immigration to other states.

Pike Index to emigrant labourers applying for free passage

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.

Barwell Boys

Index to applications for assisted passage as a farm apprentice 1922-1924
Microfiche

Barwell Boys Oral Histories
Interviews with 12 former Barwell Boys in 1992-1996. Transcripts are available for some of the interviews.
Little Brothers' & Barwell Boys' Association (SRG 503)
Some records of the Association 1923-1988.
Reminiscences of Geoffrey Bardsley
Reminiscences of a Barwell Boy apprentice Geoffrey Bardsley who arrived on the 'Benalla' in 1922.
Diary of welfare officer on S.S. 'Balranald' to voyage to Australia
Copy of diary of Joe Willie Scholefield, welfare officer on the S.S. 'Balranald' which brought 50 'Barwell Boys' to South Australia in 1924.

Indexes to agricultural and domestic labourers 1911-1939

Applications for assisted passage by agricultural labourers 1911-1914 Microfiche

Application for agricultural labourers by South Australian residents 1912-1914 Microfiche

Index to applications for assisted passage as agricultural labourers 1921-1924 Microfiche

Index to applications for assisted passage as a boy migrant 1927-1929 Microfiche

Index to applications for assisted passage as a domestic helper 1921-1930; 1938-1939 Microfiche

Note: These are indexes to original documents held at State Records of South Australia

Barwell Boys from the 'Ballarat'

Group of young men from the Barwell immigrant labour scheme 1923. (B 2197)

Child migrant records in Australia

Child Migrants: Accessing records held by Commonwealth and State Archives - CAARA website compiled in response to the 'Lost Innocents: righting the record' Senate Inquiry.

Child Migrants Trust - Independent support and information service for former child migrants and their families.