The 1853 'South Australian Government Gazette', unlike other years published a number of shipping lists and other notices and reports of voyages. Most of these have been extracted from the gazette for publication in this handy form. They are organised here under the following headings
- Passenger lists - 20 lists for 12 voyages. most of these are lists of
labourers, but there are also lists of passengers nominated for passage,
nominees of land purchasers, persons for whom money has been paid, and a
list of pauper immigrants.
- voyage summaries
- miscellaneous passenger notices
- agents' quarterly reports
- notices relative to charter
- miscellaneous regulations and notices. These cover Female Emigration
Society regulations and some returns of emigration deposits
The passenger lists generally give the following information
- single labourers - name
- married labourer - name of head of the family, all in the family and
ages of all
- pauper list - name and age (including children)
- persons "nominated for passage" - names (all in family), ages, name of
depositor and amount paid
- nominees of land purchasers - name & age of emigrant or nominee
(includes children), deposits, amounts paid for passage and "outfit",
remarks, application number.
Ships with passenger lists
- Calcutta
- Calabar
- Caucasian
- Hercules
- Magdalena
- Marshall Bennett
- Mary Green
- Neptune
- Olivia
- Ramillies
- Standard
- William Stewart
The passenger lists, voyage summaries and reports will particularly interest
those with emigrant ancestors on the ships listed. The regulations and other
notices published here offer great insight to emigrant ships and conditions
generally around the mid 19th century.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required. |
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