This page lists Victorian-related online, networked and microform resources as well as print publications available for use within the National Library of Australia.
Background
The Port Phillip District officially separated from New South Wales to become the colony of Victoria on 1 July 1851.
In 1852 the new Legislative Council of Victoria passed into law the following Acts relating to passengers and immigration into Victoria:
Laws relating to the carriage of passengers by sea (15 & 16 Vic., No. XLIV [1852] ss. XIII and XIV),
The Act to Regulate the Conveyance of Passengers to the Colony of Victoria 1852 (16 Vic., No. XVII)
These laws include a description of the official schedules (forms) upon which the masters of ships were to record the names of passengers and which were to be delivered to the Office of Customs. It is these generally these forms which have been transcribed, indexed, microfilmed and/or digitized and made accessible.
Online
Ancestry (Library Edition)
To access Ancestry (Library Edition), visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Ancestry'. Ancestry currently provides the following Victoria-related immigration and travel resources via its online database:
- Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839–1923
- New South Wales, Australia, Passengers Arriving at Port Phillip, 1846
Findmypast
To access Findmypast, visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'Findmypast'. Currently, Findmypast has the following Victoria-related travel and migration records available:
- Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
- Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
- Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915
- Marriages At Sea, 1854-1972
Currently, the Public Record Office of Victoria has the following freely accessible indexes available online:
Networked resources in the Library
In addition to the Library's subscription databases, the following shipping and passenger-related CD-ROM resources are available for access within the Library:
- Marine Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria 1853-1920
This resource contains an index to and images of records of births, deaths and marriages on board international and coastal ships bound for Victoria between 1853 and 1920. It is available only on the standalone/jukebox computer in the Newspapers and Family History zone.
For more information about these resources, visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for the name of the resource.
Microfilmed and other published material
The following microfilmed products and published works are available on open access in the Newspapers and Family History zone:
Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) microfiche
In addition to those indexes and digitised records available online via Ancestry or the PROV website, the Library has the following PROV "Immigration to Victoria" series of records on microfiche:
Title |
Call number |
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Registers of Assisted Immigrants 1839-1871
134 microfiche |
mc N 761 |
Immigration to Victoria
- Overseas and Intercolonial Ports 1846-1852: a guide to the Register of Inward Shipping and Index (8 fiche)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1852-1859 (fiche 001-069)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1860-1869 (fiche 070-127)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1870-1879 (fiche 128-179)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1880-1889 (fiche 180-255)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1890-1899 (fiche 256-337)
- Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1900-1923 (fiche 338-514)
- Index to Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1852-1859 (1 fiche)
- Index to Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1860-1869 (1 fiche)
- Index to Inward passenger lists, foreign ports 1870-1879 (1 fiche)
- Index to Inward overseas passenger lists, foreign ports 1880-1889 (1 fiche)
- Index to Inward overseas passenger lists, foreign ports 1890-1899 (1 fiche)
- [Introduction to] Inward overseas passenger lists, foreign ports 1900-1923 (1 fiche)
NB: If the letter “F” appears in the 'Port' column of the relevant online indexes, then the above passenger lists should be consulted.
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mc N 1135 |
Immigration to Victoria : index to inward passenger lists British ports 1852-1923
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1852-1859 (45 fiche, including introduction)
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1860-1869 (27 fiche including introduction)
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1870-1879 (18 fiche)
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1880-1889 (41 fiche, including introduction)
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1890-1899 (129 fiche, including introduction)
- Inward passenger lists, British ports 1900-1923 (977 fiche)
If the letter “B” appears in the 'Port' column of the relevant online indexes, then the above passenger lists should be consulted.
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mc N 1655 |
Immigration to Victoria : inward passenger lists, New Zealand ports 1852-1923
390 microfiche
If the letter “N” appears in the 'Port' column of the relevant online indexes, then the above passenger lists should be consulted.
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mc N 2256 |
Other (non-PROV) microfiche
Shipping Intelligence from Newspapers - Passenger Indexes
Shipping Intelligence from Newspapers - Shipping Movements