Emigration and Immigration

Anonymous 1830 Image from The Art of European Migration

Highland Clearances

For those interested in the Highland Clearances, information is available using the following example as a guide.

If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's. This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland. Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923 Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923

Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923

This was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood".

The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye. (This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.

Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists including Convict Transportation

General

• Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records and Indexes

• The Ships List

• Ancestors on Board

• Olive Tree Genealogy includes many shipping lists

• Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871

• Outward Passengers from Victoria to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1876

• Transportation of Convicted Criminals from South Australia

• Debbie Beavis British Passenger List Research 1878 - 1960

• Data Marines War Brides

• Dutch Passenger Lists pre-1736

• Dutch Passenger Lists after 1736

• A Scottish Emigration Database

• Moving Here, 200 Years of Migration to England

• Virtual Jamestown- Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686

• Passenger lists and emigrant ships from Norway Heritage

• The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives - The Future of Our Past, Archives of Shipping Lists

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Collection of Passenger Lists

To Australia

NSW

Information from: Mary from Italy

What passenger lists contain This information applies to passenger lists obtained from the NSW state government.

If you find a passenger in the immigration indexes:

• State Records NSW - Indexes Online tick the "Order" box and click on "submit order".

Some lists are more detailed than others, but the one I got, dating from 1857, contained the following information:

1. List of immigrants per ship (sorted by family groups) containing:

Name

Whether married or single

Age

Trade

Native place and county

Religion

Whether person can read and write

Remarks

2. List of immigrants per ship as inspected by the Immigration Board, containing:

Name

Whether married or single

Age

Trade

Native place and county

Parents' names and, if alive, their residence

Religion

Whether person can read and write

Relations in the colony

State of bodily health, strength and probable usefulness

Any complaints respecting treatment on board the ship

Remarks by Immigration Board

3. Particulars:

Number of births and deaths during the voyage

Date and place of departure and arrival

Number of days on voyage

Master's name

and one or two bits of technical information like tonnage.

The list I received was a photocopy of the pages which included the two families I wanted and the other names on the page, not all the passengers on the ship.

It costs AUS$25 (about £11, depending on the exchange rate at the time of ordering). If you have more than one person in a family, only give one name, and you'll get the whole family. If you have another person on the same ship but in a different family, it costs an extra $6.

Victoria

• Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923

Queensland

• Indexes - Immigration 1848-1912

Other

• 1852-1857 Highlands and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists

• Chartists Transported to Australia

• Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters

• Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists

• Australia's Redcoat Settlers

• Database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991

• Leaving from Liverpool

• South Australian Passenger Lists 1836-1851

• Westernport Settlement Between Its Establishment on November 24th, 1826 and Its Abandonment on February 27th, 1828

• Australian shipping 1788-1968

Convicts to Australia

• The British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867

• A List Of Convicts Sent to New South Wales in 1787

• A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors Sent to Australia

• Convict Australia

• Descendants of Convicts Group Inc, Transported Convict Ancestors, 1788-1868

• NSW Convict Women on Ships arriving from England and Ireland 1788-1828

• Irish Convicts to New South Wales

• Alphabetical List of 2000 Convicts Transported on The 3rd Fleet in 1791

• Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 1782 - 1821

• Convicts Transported from Kent to Australia in 1851-1852

• The Transportation of Lincolshire Convicts to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda

• Convicts Tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• Prisoners Sentenced to Transportation From Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• The Great North Road Convict Trail

• Fremantle Prison History and Convict Database

• Female Convict Factories - Tasmania Including Branches at Brickfield, Launceston, Hobart

• Convict History & Culture Norfolk Island

• Convict Stockade

To New Zealand

• New Zealand Bound

• Auckland Area Passenger arrivals 1838-1886 and 1909-1921

• Taranaki area passenger arrivals 1852-1885

To The USA

• Ellis Island

• Ellis Island Photo Gallery

• The Forgotten of Ellis Island Deaths in Quarantine 1909-1911

• A Searchable Database of Immigrants Arriving at Castle Garden, America's first official Immigration Centre

• Extract from The New York Daily Times August 14th 1885 about The Opening of the Castle Garden Centre

• Immigrant Servant Database

• New York Arrivals

• 1860 Ship Arrivals in New York

• California Bound Passenger lists for those arriving in California by ship and wagon train 1848-73

• The Immigrant Ancestors Project

• New England (MA) Pilgrim and Great Migration Ship Lists Early 1600's

• Germany to Pennsylvania Ships carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.

• Early Settlers in Maryland

• Galveston, Texas Immigration Database

• Ancestors from Norway

• Database of Irish Immigrants to North America

• Some Passenger Lists from Ireland and London to New York

• The Welsh American Index

• Emigrants from Wales to the USA

• French Immigrants in North America

• Belgian Passengers to America in 1856

• The Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association

• Japanese Immigrants to the USA 1887-1924

• The Allan Line -United Kingdom to North America

To Canada

• inGeneas - Passenger Lists, Immigration Records, Genealogy Documents.

• Library & Archives Canada - Arrivals in Canada 1865-1922

• Nanaimo Family History Society - Passenger List Indexing Project

• Child Emigration from Great Britain to Canada Between 1869 and The Early 1930s

• Bristol Home Children

• The Petworth Emigration Project - 1830s emigration from Sussex and other counties in the south of England to Ontario

To South Africa

• British Emigrants to South Africa 1820

• German Genealogy in South Africa

• Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820

To South America

• The Cornish in Latin America

• British Presence in Southern Patagonia

• Brits in South America Database

• British Settlers in Argentina and Uruguay—studies in 19th and 20th century emigration

• Irish Passengers to Argentina (1822-1929)

• Scottish Emigration to Argentina and Patagonia 1800-1950

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