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South Australian shipping and passenger resources...
Key Online Resource:
Index to passengers to South Australia to 1850s is available online at Family History South Australia in eResources or at
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/
Index to Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to South Australia: 1836-1841 (Pike Index)
Microfiche Compartment 15; Call Number mc N 492
Official Passenger Lists, Mainly of Immigrants Arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom Assisted Passage Schemes, 1847-1886, includes passenger name index at front (Source 313)
Microfiche Compartment 15; Call Number mc N 494
Newspaper Index:
Index to persons arriving in South Australia from overseas (including New Zealand) as recorded in the Adelaide Times, South Australian and South Australian Register 1846 – 1887 (passenger lists)
A Key to the Newspaper Index is also provided at the same call number. (3 fiche) The Key provides the date of the newspaper for the reference in the index.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1901
Arrivals index, Part I (South Australian record series, no. 14)
This collection of arrivals to South Australia is compiled from a variety of records: obituaries, biographies and other newspaper reports; prison, hospital and other institutional records; Government and Police Gazettes; and other sundry material.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1328
Bound for South Australia: births and deaths on government assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885
A complete listing on 323 voyages to SA under the auspices of the SA government. Information for each ship includes port and date of departure, date of arrival, no of emigrants, their age, class and regions of origin. Includes a list of births and deaths at sea for these ships.
Available in eResources
List of Certificates issued under the Assisted Passage Regulations 31 October 1862 - June 1867, July 1872 - September 1885, vol. 1 ; Alphabetical index by nominee [and] nominator to list of certificates issued under the assisted passage regulations, 20 September 1878 - 29 June 1885, vol. 2 (GRG 35/39)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1904
Schedule of Certificates issued under the Assisted Passage Regulations October 1862 - June 1867, July 1873 - June 1885 (GRG 35 Series 39)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1910
Alphabetical Index to Persons nominated for Free Passages from Europe to South Australia, September 1876 - April 1879
This is an index to the free immigration certificates and to nominations for free passage to S.A. contained in GRG 7/40 and GRG 7/42 respectively.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1929
Alphabetical Index to Persons nominating Relatives, etc. for Free Passages from Europe to South Australia 1876-1879
This is an index to the free immigration certificates and to nominations for free passage to S.A. contained in GRG 7/40 and GRG 7/42 respectively.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1902
Schedule of Free Immigration Certificates September 1876 - April 1879 U.K. Nos. 1-2107, Continental nos. 1-135 applicant (GRG 7 Series 40)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1909
Schedule of Free Immigration Certificates September 1876 - April 1879 U.K. Nos. 1-2107, Continental nos. 1-135 nominee (GRG 7 Series 40)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1908
Alphabetical Index to In-coming Passenger Lists 1888-1908 (Burdett Index)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1236
Application for Agricultural Labourers by South Australian Residents 1912-1914
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1898
Immigration Application for Agricultural Labourers by South Australian Residents Nos. 1-232 (1912–1914) (GRG 7 Series 4)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1915
Application for Assisted Passage by Agricultural Labourers 1911-1914
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1900
Application by Nominee for Assisted Passage previously paid for by Nominator in South Australia 1911-1917. Indexed by Nominee.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1897
Index to Applications for Assisted Passage as a Domestic Helper: 1921-1930; 1938-1939
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1328
Departures
Manifest of Shipping departing from Port Adelaide, July 1841-May 1844 (index)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1237
Horner Index: index to departures by passenger ship from South Australia directly for overseas (not interstate or intrastate) taken from the Register newspaper 1836-1875, 1876-1887 see
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=723
Destination and route information are given if available from the newspaper.
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1212
Ships' Deserters
Ships’ Deserters Reported: 1891-1921 (mainly at Spencers Gulf ports); 1910-1952 (reported at Adelaide)
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 1150
South Aust. Deserters Register :1852-1876, 1877-1882, 1883-1890
Microfiche Compartment 17; Call Number mc N 889