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American Fever Australian Gold: American and Canadian Involvement in Australia's Gold Rush
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'American Fever Australian Gold' re-enacts the life and experiences of the men and women from the USA and Canada who ventured to the Victorian goldfields. The authors have retraced the footsteps of these pioneers who braved the high seas to seek their fortune in Australia during 1850-1870 era ...
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An Era at Port Phillip Heads 1830-1900
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This booklet is not intended to be a detailed history of life at Pot Phillip Heads, but rather a record of some interesting stories associated with the place.
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Argus Passenger Index 1846-1851
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This is primarily an index to the names of passengers arriving in Melbourne taken from the newspaper 'The Argus'. It includes passengers arriving from and departing to interstate and overseas, ...
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Argus Passenger Index 1852-1855
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This is primarily an index to the names of passengers arriving in Melbourne taken from the newspaper 'The Argus'. It includes passengers arriving from and departing to interstate and overseas, ...
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Argus Passenger Index 1856-1860
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This is primarily an index to the names of passengers arriving in Melbourne taken from the newspaper 'The Argus'. It includes passengers arriving from and departing to interstate and overseas, ...
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Argus Passenger Index 1861-1865
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This is primarily an index to the names of passengers arriving in Melbourne taken from the newspaper 'The Argus'. It includes passengers arriving from and departing to interstate and overseas, ...
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Argus Passenger Index 1866-1868
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This is primarily an index to the names of passengers arriving in Melbourne taken from the newspaper 'The Argus'. It includes passengers arriving from and departing to interstate and overseas, ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 10: Vessels Enrolled At Melbourne to the End of 1859
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 17: Huddart Family and Parker of Geelong and Melbourne
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The importation of coal for use in the Victorian goldfields from the 1850s was originally handled via the port of Geelong and the first major operator in that ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 21: Ships Registered at Melbourne 1860-1875 A-L
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The first in a set of two volumes covering the ships that were registered at Melbourne for the period 1860-1875, this book covers owners names from A-L.P Listed alphabetically by ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 22: Ships Registered at Melbourne 1860-1875 M-Z
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The second in a set of two volumes covering the ships that were registered at Melbourne for the period 1860-1875, this book covers owners names from M-Z.P Listed alphabetically by ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 8: Vessels Enrolled Melbourne 1839-1854
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 9: Vessels Enrolled At Melbourne Up to 1859
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Coming South, Victorian Archives of Immigration 1839-1923: A Guide to the Public Record Office
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Documents which show when and how people migrated to Victoria in the 19th and early 20th centuries are one of the rich sources for research held by the Public ...
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Geelong Customs Register of Ships: Vessels Registered at the Port of Geelong, Victoria before 1900
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This title originally produced in 1969, has been reprinted with minor additions 2003. Nothing from the original volume has been deleted, but some information such as official numbers, name of ...
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Inland Rivers Revisited
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Following the release of the each edition of the 'Ships of the Inland Rivers' the author received a large number of correspondence, offering additional information on ships that were listed, and others that weren't. Those that were able to be verified have been included in this new book ...
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Marine Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria 1853-1920 - CD
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This CD-ROM index contains records of births, deaths and marriages on board international and coastal ships bound for Victoria between 1853 and 1920. The index contains over 6200 entries. For ...
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Passengers Arriving From Overseas to the Port Phillip District Pre 1852
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The existing passenger lists for people arriving prior to 1852 mainly cover assisted immigrants. This new list reconstructs passenger lists from newspapers, letters, diaries and other obscure sources, and marries ...
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Scots in Geelong and District to 1860
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While this is not a listing of all Scots in Geelong and district to 1860. Instead it looks at who the early settlers of Scottish nationality or descent were, why they came here, and how they encouraged others to do likewise. Those identified in the "People: A-Z"; section were carefully give a good cross-section of the Scottish community ...
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures Victorian Ports Volume 2 1846-1855
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This extensive work provides a record of shipping movements in and out of ports within Victoria from 1798 to 1855. The compilations is similar in format and intent to those ...
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures Victorian Ports Volume 3 1856-1860
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This extensive work provides a record of shipping movements in and out of ports within Victoria between 1856-1860. The compilations is similar in format and intent to those ...
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Ships of The Inland Rivers
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This classic work, first published in 1987 and compiled by well known maritime historian, Ronald Parsons, has been through numerous editions and printings, the latest being a reprint of ...
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Ships of the Inland Rivers: An Outline History and Details of all Known Paddle Steamers, Barges and Other Commercial Vessels Trading on the Murray-Darling System (CD)
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This classic work, first published in 1987 and compiled by well known maritime historian, Ronald Parsons, has been through numerous editions and printings, the latest being a reprint of the ...
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Shipwrecks Along the Great Ocean Road
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More large ships have been wrecked along Victoria's West Coast than on any comparable stretch of Coastline in Australia, and the stories of their loss are woven into the legend ...
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South Australian Goldseekers at the Golddiggings of Victoria 1851-1853
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For those that have South Australian ancestors who went to the Victorian goldfields, this CD-ROM provides passenger lists from Adelaide to Melbourne and back, diaries, biographies, newspaper articles and more ...
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Tales From the Surf Coast, Shipwreck Coast and Their Hinterlands
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The Clipper 'Lightning' in Geelong 1862-1869
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The Foreword starts as follows: 'Most maritime writers appear to have glossed over the visits made by the splendid clipper 'Lightning' to Geelong in the years 1862-69, probably with good ...
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Victorian Shipwrecks: All Wrecks in Victorian Waters and Bass Strait, Including King Island and the Kent Group
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Since the first sailors came to the colony, the Victorian coastline has proved fatal to many ships, wooden and iron sailing ships, then steamers, ran aground, struck reefs, collided, foundered ...
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Wreck 1891 and Other Maritime Memories
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A great deal of our history lies on the seabed off South Western Victoria where there have been several hundred wrecks. As the author of many standard works on Australian ...
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Wreck of the Ship Eric the Red
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While the great oceans swallowed thousands of ships without trace, the ultimate graveyard for those bound for Melbourne was the rugged coastline of south western Victoria. Here, windjammers, ...
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Wrecks Along the Gippsland Coast
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The toll of wrecks around the Gippsland coast is high, but after examining charts showing the maze of rocks, reefs and small islands dotted out into Bass Strait, ...
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Wrecks in the Rip, Port Phillip Bay
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Viewed from the shore, Port Phillip Heads appear to afford ample room for the safe navigation of vessels proceeding to and from the ports of Melbourne and Geelong. However, more ...
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