BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA - PASSENGERS 1836-1888 by Diane Cummings

WE'RE BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA!

presented by DIANE CUMMINGS

OUR ANCESTORS travelled the world
and now call AUSTRALIA home

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BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA PASSENGER LISTS 1836-1851 including to Passenger Lists for virtually
EVERY SHIP THAT ARRIVED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
between 1836 and 1851 plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc.)
for 60,000 families and individual passengers)
who came to South Australia between 1836-1851, from overseas and nearby colonies.
plus Reports on many of the voyages, and at least 20 Ship Diaries
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CLICK ANY OF THESE PICTURES BELOW TO BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY

WHERE THEY CAME FROM

Why did OUR ANCESTORS farewell their families and friends, travel the world, and now call AUSTRALIA home ?

A TYPICAL JOURNEY

TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA

PASSENGER LISTS 1836-1851

1836-1851 [Updates]

PASSENGER LISTS for EMIGRANTS BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA between 1852-1865

The SOUTH AUSTRALIAN newspapers sent a special reporter to each ship arriving in South Australia,
to list the passengers on board that ship from the PASSENGER LIST held by the Captain.
The reporter's list was published in the next publication of the newspaper.
We understand that microfilms of the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER Newspapers
are held in State Libraries across Australia.

More often than not, these published lists are the only source available of a passenger list
for a particular ship. Where possible we have compared these list with photocopies
of the actual passenger list(many of which are difficult to read).
As a result, the information on some images may not be 100% accurate.

Given the difficulty Agents must have had in understanding the people applying
for a passage (language - often broad and hard to understand),
and how difficult it probably was for the reporter to interpret
the writing on the actual passenger list
we are often amazed at how accurate (or how incorrect) these lists can be.

In 1839 there were less than 10,000 persons in the new colony.
1841: there were ... persons in the colony.
1844: The first census, on the 26 February 1844, recorded 17,366 people.
1861: Some 25 years after the first settlers arrived, this number had increased to 126,830.

The wooden three-masted barque was the most common type of deep-water cargo-carrier in the middle of the 19th century (1850s). When four-masted barques started to appear in the 19th century (the 1800s), they were often called full-rigged ships since they had three square rigged masts, and a ship was more highly regarded than a barque
(a barque is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fully square rigged except for the sternmost one, which is fore-and-aft rigged). The typical cargo-carrier of the early 1900s was the four-masted steel barque.

SHIP LAYOUT

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NOTE: The contents of these pages are the combined work of many people and whilst we aim for accuracy in all we do, remember Murphy's Law.
Should you discover your family name or similar on these lists, remember this - many of the names on Passenger lists were written
as the writer heard them, and many of the passengers were unable to spell their own names.

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