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Listings arranged by year and date of departure.
Key to abbreviations
1 = first class; 2 = second class; 3 = intermediate class; 4= steerage class
f = female; m = male
a = travelling with family members; b = travelling with companion; c = travelling alone
ADB = Australian Dictionary of Biography; EC = Emigrant Commissioners; retro = retrospective account; rtns = returns to Britain; SS = steamship
1822
Diarist: Ludlow, John
Departure: 06 November 1822
Port: Portsmouth
Destination: Hobart
Ship: Andromeda
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4166
Notes: unfinished; possibly a naturalist
1825
Diarist: Townsend, William
Departure: 24 June 1825
Port: London
Destination: Rio de Janeiro
Ship: York
Class: -mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 112
Notes: working passage as captain's clerk
Diarist: Widdowson, Henry
Departure: 17 November 1825
Port: London
Destination: Hobart
Ship: Albion
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2116
Notes: taking up land grant
1827
Diarist: Forbes, J.D.
Departure: 24 March 1827
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Guildford
Class: -mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7565
Notes: guard captain on convict ship
1829
Diarist: Mathew, Felton
Departure: 08 August 1829
Port: Sheerness
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Morley
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 15
Notes: convict ship; surveyor for Mitchell
1832
Diarist: Massingberd, Peregrine
Departure: 18 June 1832
Port: London
Destination: Hobart
Ship: Edward Lombe
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M719
Notes: part retrospective; returns 1833
1836
Diarist: Menzies, Robert
Departure: 28 December 1836
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Hope
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3282
Notes: Letts diary; surgeon; returns 1837
1837
Diarist: Tait, Rev Mr
Departure: 11 May 1837
Port: Firth of Forth
Destination: Hobart/Sydney
Ship: North Briton
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1412
Notes: letter; Presbyterian clergyman
Diarist: Hamilton, Rev William
Departure: 11 May 1837
Port: Firth of Forth
Destination: Hobart/Sydney
Ship: North Briton
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2117
Notes: Presbyterian clergyman; + spiritual diary
Diarist: Walpole, Rev J. Kidd
Departure: 10 July 1837
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Andromache
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4073
Diarist: Mort, Thomas
Departure: 19 September 1837
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Hobart/Sydney
Ship: Superb
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: M 3308
Notes: see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
Diarist: A, Mr
Departure: 15 November 1837
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Launceston
Ship: Clifton
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4058
1838
Diarist: Rawson, Samuel
Departure: 04 April 1838
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Florentia
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 204
Diarist: Bloxsome, Oswald
Departure: 04 April 1838
Port: Plymoth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Florentia
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 336
Diarist: Menzies, Margaret
Departure: 09 August 1838
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Earl Durham
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3261
Notes: surgeon's wife; emigrating
Diarist: Sceales, John
Departure: 26 August 1838
Port: Leith
Destination: Sydney
Ship: North Briton
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2717
Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur
Departure: 11 November 1838
Port: Portsmouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Royal George
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M675
Notes: see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
1839
Diarist: Taylor, Harriet
Departure: 16 September 1839
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Wilmot
Class: 3fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2009
Diarist: Manning, Arthur
Departure: 29 October 1839
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Earl Grey
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 289
Notes: bounty ship; returning to Australia
1840
Diarist: Brown, John
Departure: ?? March 1840
Port: ?
Destination: Adelaide/Melbourne/Sydney
Ship: ?
Class: ?mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M849
Notes: missing pages; returns 1845
Diarist: Clifton, Louisa
Departure: 06 December 1840
Port: London
Destination: Western Australia
Ship: Parkfield
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2801
1841
Diarist: Kershaw, George
Departure: 20 August 1841
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Columbine
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M435
Notes: bounty ship; acts as schoolmaster on ship
Diarist: Mackenzie, John
Departure: 29 September 1841
Port: Greenock
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Robert Benn
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 685
Notes: typescript missing; bounty ship
Diarist: Champion, Thomas
Departure: 18 October 1841
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
Ship: Andromache
Class: 3ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1093
Diarist: Wills, William
Departure: 30 October 1841
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Louisa
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M934
1842
Diarist: Meade, Susan
Departure: 12 April 1842
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Caledonia
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4053
1843
Diarist: Hope, Louis
Departure: 25 March 1843
Port: Portsmouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: ?
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M980
Notes: traveller; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
1844
Diarist: Carter, John
Departure: 24 October 1844
Port: Portsmouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: General Hewett
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm 1618
1846
Diarist: Blyth, Thomas
Departure: 14 September 1846
Port: London
Destination: Hobart
Ship: Tropic
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2310
1848
Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur
Departure: 18 March 1848
Port: Sydney
Destination: London
Ship: Walmer Castle
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M675
Notes: return visit to England; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
Diarist: Roberts, S.E.
Departure: 17 June 1848
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Symmetry
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3272
1849
Diarist: Nichols, William
Departure: 24 January 1849
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: James Gibb
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8166
Notes: EC ship; 31 year old labourer
Diarist: Harbottle, William
Departure: 11 March 1849
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Scotia
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 828
Notes: EC ship
Diarist: Stamp, Edward
Departure: 18 June 1849
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Tasman
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 29
Notes: bounty ship
Diarist: Martin, John
Departure: 28 June 1849
Port: Cork
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Mt. Stuart Elphinstone
Class: 2mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M387
Notes: state prisoner on convict ship; to Hobart
Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur
Departure: 28 October 1849
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Thomas Arbuthnot
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M790
Notes: returning to Australia; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
Diarist: Henderson, Mr.
Departure: 07 December 1849
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Hashemy
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7902
Notes: religious instructor on convict ship
1850
Diarist: Taylor, Francis
Departure: 22 February 1850
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Stag
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2514
Notes: EC ship; agriculturist
Diarist: Woolley, Harry
Departure: 19 September 1850
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Roman Emperor
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 955
Notes: returns 1865
1851
Diarist: Kennaway, William
Departure: 21 June 1851
Port: London
Destination: Lyttleton
Ship: Canterbury
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4249
Notes: pub 1973
Diarist: Hindmarsh, J.H.S.
Departure: 18 November 1851
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Havering
Class: ?mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4156
Notes: verse account of the voyage
1852
Diarist: Haslett, Dr Samuel T.
Departure: 21 April 1852
Port: Melbourne
Destination: London
Ship: Vanguard
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7385
Notes: return voyage
Diarist: Hoey, James H.
Departure: 11 July 1852
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Birmingham
Class: 2mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M862. Reel 5. Items 60-92 (inclusive)
Notes: Letter in the form of a journal. Travelling with Catherine and James Buckie, and Brother Tom. Followed by a description of the journey to Ballarat with Tom, leaving Melbourne on 25th of October, 1852 and returning to meet the Cleopatra at Melbourne.
Diarist: anon
Departure: 22 July 1852
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Prince Albert
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1363
Notes: retrospective
Diarist: Pegler, Edwin
Departure: 22 July 1852
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Prince Albert
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3128
Notes: gold digger;+ gold fields diary
Diarist: Severn, Thomas
Departure: 13 August 1852
Port: London
Destination: Melbounne
Ship: Prince Alfred
Class: 2mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 710
Diarist: Stapleton, Bryan
Departure: 15 August 1852
Port: Deal
Destination: Wellington
Ship: True Briton
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4054
Notes: troop transport; traveller; returns 1854
Diarist: Towle, Edward
Departure: 21 August 1852
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Cape Town
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 2ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2345
Notes: journal posted home at Cape; gold digger
Diarist: Sheraton, Richard
Departure: 07 September 1852
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Duke of Wellington
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4061
Notes: retrospective
Diarist: Francis, Edwin
Departure: 16 October 1852
Port: Bristol
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Clara Symes
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5768
Notes: completed in Sydney in 1915;bootmaker
Diarist: Stobart, Rev. Henry
Departure: 09 November 1852
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Resolute
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1033
Notes: also M467; travelling as tutor
Diarist: Hunt, Atlee
Departure: 24 May 1907
Port: Marseilles, France
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Orontes
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1100
Diarist: Knight, Henry
Departure: 21 November 1852
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Java
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3169
Notes: EC ship; 50 deaths on board
1853
Diarist: Pillow, Samuel
Departure: 06 January 1853
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Digby
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 914
Notes: also mfm M388; retrospective
Diarist: Annison, G.
Departure: 22 January 1853
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Emigrant
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3878
Notes: gold digger/carpenter
Diarist: Lovell, John
Departure: 23 January 1853
Port: Bristol
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Elizabeth
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M401
Notes: crew member
Diarist: Dodds, Henry
Departure: 12 February 1853
Port: Liverpool (?)
Destination: Sydney (?)
Ship: Frances
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3850
Notes: copy of a copy
Diarist: Bird, Edwin
Departure: 13 March 1853
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Marco Polo
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6064
Diarist: Harding, Henry
Departure: 24 March 1853
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Ida
Class: ?m?
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M674
Notes: EC ship
Diarist: Whittingham, Henry
Departure: 01 May 1853
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Duke of Wellington
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8433
Notes: also keeps letter book
Diarist: anon
Departure: 03 May 1853
Port: London St.Paul's Island
Destination: St. Paul's Island Melbourne
vCalphurnia
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6119 MS 4143
Notes: gold digger; returns 1854 continuation volume
Diarist: Cannan, Jane
Departure: 07 May 1853
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Hempsyke
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 401
Notes: letters
Diarist: Ronald, Byron L.
Departure: 25 May 1853
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Heart of Oak
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
Notes: see sisters' diaries: 1857, 1861
Diarist: Jemima (surname ?)
Departure: 07 July 1853
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbounre/Sydney
Ship: Star of the East?
Class: 2fb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M591
Notes: travelling with Hitchcocks
Diarist: Barton, Mr.
Departure: 30 August 1853
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Irene
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2893
Notes: gold digger
Diarist: Peters, Edmund
Departure: 04 September 1853
Port: Melbourne
Destination: London
Ship: Chowinghee
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M830
Notes: returning gold digger
Diarist: West, Theo
Departure: 19 October 1853
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Palmyra
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3660
Notes: returns; probably traveller
1854
Diarist: Hoare, Frederick
Departure: 04 May 1854
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Red Jacket
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M405
Notes: gold digger; returns 1856
Diarist: Whitings, John Warren
Departure: 25 May 1854
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Lightning
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5071
Notes: first pages lost
Diarist: Bray, William
Departure: 12 June 1854
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 2ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: also quarantine log; gold digger
Diarist: Davies, Thomas
Departure: 16 July 1854
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Lord Raglan
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 200
Notes: EC ship; 25 year old plumber
Diarist: Braine, Emily
Departure: 23 December 1854
Port: ?
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Eagle
Class: ?fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8413
Notes: 11 year old girl
1855
Diarist: anon
Departure: 12 March 1855
Port: Melbourne
Destination: Liverpool
Ship: James Baines
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4055
Notes: Letts diary; return trip
Diarist: MacCaul, Gilbert
Departure: 02 October 1855
Port: Glasgow
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Sea Star
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm G21,338
Notes: gold digger; returns 1858
1856
Diarist: Hoare, Frederick
Departure: 14 April 1856
Port: Melbourne
Destination: Liverpool?
Ship: New Great Britain
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M405
Notes: unfinished; return voyage
Diarist: Tindall, Grace
Departure: 27 September 1856
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Anna
Class: ?fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3281
Notes: religious diary
Diarist: Reeves, J.W.
Departure: 05 October 1856
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Queen of the West
Class: 2ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6442
Notes: surveyor?
1857
Diarist: Archer, Samuel
Departure: 16 February 1857
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2343
Notes: round trip as surgeon
Diarist: Ronald, Janet
Departure: 05 October 1857
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Invincible
Class: 1fb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
Notes: see diaries by brother & sister: 1853, 1861
Diarist: Forwood, William
Departure: 20 November 1857
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
vRed Jacket
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M870
Notes: 3 versions of first days; returns 1858
1858
Diarist: Gratton, Annie
Departure: 10 June 1858
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbounre
Ship: Conway
Class: 4fc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3304
Notes: 280 single women on board
Diarist: Brown, C.
Departure: 02 November 1858
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Bon Venue
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4003
Notes: also mfm G7753; traveller; returns 1859
1859
Diarist: Joseph, Solomon
Departure: 18 June 1859
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Morning Star
Class: 2mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6395
1860
Diarist: Allardyce, Hugh
Departure: 20 July 1860
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Btitain SS
Class: 3mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: letter journal
Diarist: Cairnes, Claudius
Departure: 16 October 1860
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: James Booth
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 127
1861
Diarist: Elliot, Charles
Departure: 24 July 1861
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Prince of the Seas
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M387
Diarist: Ronald, Henry
Departure: 20 Octobr 1861
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
Notes: see diaries by brother & sister: 1853, 1857
1862
Diarist: Blasdall, Mark
Departure: 19 February 1862
Port: London
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: City of Brisbane
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 957
Notes: also mfm G24,760; EC ship
Diarist: White, James Espie
Departure: 09 September 1862
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Henry Fernie
Class: 3mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M864
Notes: retrospective; returns 1865
1863
Diarist: anon
Departure: 25 January 1863
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 193
Notes: traveller; written in French
Diarist: Good, Abijou
Departure: 28 February 1863
Port: London
Destination: Rockhampton
Ship: Beejapore
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 513
Diarist: Hughes, Joshua
Departure: 13 April 1863
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Montmorency
Class: 3mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2078
Diarist: anon
Departure: 23 June 1863
Port: London
Destination: Auckland
Ship: Ganges
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4145
Notes: in print, periodical unknown
Diarist: anon
Departure: 15 October 1863
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 2mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
1865
Diarist: Anketell, Elizabeth
Departure: 30 November 1865
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Queen of Australia
Class: 1fc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M388
1867
Diarist: Matthews, Daniel
Departure: 22 January 1867
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Somersetshire SS
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2195/3/1-4
Notes: returning to Australia; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
Diarist: Smith, Alexander
Departure: 23 January 1867
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Norfolk
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5599
Diarist: Edelsten, Frederick A.
Departure: 25 July 1867
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: City of Adelaide
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M837
Notes: traveller/businessman:returns;1868
Diarist: Harvey, H.
Departure: ?? October 1867
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Norfolk
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4009
Notes: book of letters; travelling for health
Diarist: Greaves, George
Departure: 14 December 1867
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: takes steamer to Sydney
Diarist: Walker, James
Departure: 14 December 1867
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 4m?
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: retrospective
1868
Diarist: Randall, George
Departure: 12 June 1868
Port: London
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Planet
Class: 3ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2107
Diarist: Clarke, Arthur
Departure: 26 August 1868
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Conflict
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6792
Notes: EC ship; aged 15
1869
Diarist: Higson, Daniel
Departure: 11 August 1869
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2501
Notes: see diary for return 1869; visits diggings
Diarist: D'Ouseley, Rosamund
Departure: 12 August 1869
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1fc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: on to Sydney
Diarist: Parrington, Joseph
Departure: 20 October 1869
Port: London
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Storm King
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1384
Notes: journal letter; partly in verse
Diarist: Hall, Edwin
Departure: 27 October 1869
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Yorkshire
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3688
Notes: traveller
Diarist: Higgins, Henry
Departure: 17 November 1869
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Eurynome
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1057
Notes: brother dies on voyage
Diarist: Higson, Daniel
Departure: 04 December 1869
Port: Melbourne
Destination: Liverpool
Ship: Loch Awe
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2501
Notes: see diary out; working passage home
1870
Diarist: Shennan, William
Departure: 05 February 1870
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Crusader
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 596
Notes: EC ship
1871
Diarist: anon
Departure: 04 June 1871
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: retrospective
Diarist: McDonald, Duncan
Departure: 10 July 1871
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Glen Osmond
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8156
Notes: traveller; visiting family
1872
Diarist: Buchan, Louise
Departure: 22 March 1872
Port: Melbourne
Destination: Liverpool
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: reverse voyage
Diarist: Ricou, J.P.
Departure: 06 April 1872
Port: London
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Indus
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M437
Notes: also M469
Diarist: Campbell, John
Departure: 23 October 1872
Port: Liverpool
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Great Britain SS
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
Notes: chief steward; death of Captain Gray
1876
Diarist: MacAndrew, I.F.
Departure: 27 October 1876
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Harbinger
Class: 1ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5521
Notes: traveller; returns via Hong Kong
1877
Diarist: Loraine, William
Departure: 06 March 1877
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Lord Warden
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M942
Notes: dies on board
Diarist: Reay, William
Departure: 30 August 1877
Port: London
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Parramatta
4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2586
Diarist: Shaw, Samuel
Departure: 20 November 1877
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Tyburnia
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2829
Notes: quarantined
1879
Diarist: Allbon, Elizabeth
Departure: 21 March 1879
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Samuel Plimsoll
Class: 4fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1966
Notes: daughter born on voyage; quarantined
Diarist: Hufton, Edward
Departure: 15 May 1879
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Sydney
Ship: Northbrook
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2813
Notes: published 1960; steelworker
Diarist: Barringer, W.
Departure: 17 June 1879
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Superb
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1105
Notes: ship's newspaper for voyage; traveller
Diarist: C., E.
Departure: 08 August 1879
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Hesperus
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4056
Diarist: Chambers, William
Departure: 29 September 1879
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Sobraon
Class: -m-
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 201
Notes: working passage as steward
1880
Diarist: Pearson, George
Departure: 27 September 1880
Port: London
Destination: Auckland
Ship: Lady Jocelyn
Class: 2ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M979
Notes: traveller; returns from Sydney via Suez 1881
1882
Diarist: Lord, Richard
Departure: 08 September 1882
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
Ship: Austral
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M1859
Notes: returns
Diarist: Westmoreland, Charles
Departure: 16 October 1882
Port: Plymouth
Destination: Rockhampton
Ship: Melpomene
Class: 4ma
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2348
1883
Diarist: anon
Departure: 19 May 1883
Port: London
Destination: Brisbane
Ship: Scottish Admiral
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4100
Notes: also mfm G24,759; EC ship
Diarist: Walpole, Margaret
Departure: 13 June 1883
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
Ship: Pathan SS
Class: 1fa
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2209
Notes: via Suez; surgeon's wife; settles in Albany
Diarist: Turner, Alexander
Departure: 20 July 1883
Port: Greenock
Destination: Townsville
Ship: Eastern Monarch
Class: 4mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M1131
Notes: quarantined
Diarist: Brennand, Stephen
Departure: 18 August 1883
Port: London
Destination: Adelaide
Ship: Harbinger
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M977
1884
Diarist: George (surname ?)
Departure: 12 December 1884
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: Eusemere
Class: 4mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7873
Notes: journal letter
1885
Diarist: Coy, Thomas
Departure: 06 January 1885
Port: London
Destination: Hobart
Ship: Doric SS
Class: 2mb
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7932
Notes: travels on to Melbourne
1888
Diarist: Thorpe, D. Losh
Departure: 03 November 1888
Port: London
Destination: Melbourne
Ship: ?
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2693
Notes: unfinished; sailing ship
1895
Diarist: Evans, Alf
Departure: 05 September 1895
Port: London
Destination: Fremantle
Ship: Fifeshire SS
Class: 1mc
National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7163
Notes: returns
Guide compiled by Andrew Hassam, Harold White Fellow, 1992. Last updated 21 August 1996