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• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense. Series 1190, Reel 699. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales; New South Wales Government. Persons on bounty ships (Agent

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Certificates of Naturalization. NRS 1039. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Registers of Certificates of Naturalization. NRS 1040. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Lists of Aliens to whom Certificates of Naturalization have been issued. NRS 1041. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1816-1825, 1898-1911 $

  Original source: Ships musters. Vols. 4/4771

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900 $

  Original source: Immigration Deposit Journals. Microfilm, 5264, 9 reels. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Immigration Deposits (refunded or declined). Microfilm, 5266, 4 reels. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922 $

  Original source: New South Wales Government. Inward passenger lists. Series 13278, Reels 399-560, 2001-2122, 2751. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Government. Reports of vessels arrived (or Shipping reports). Series 1291, Reels 1263-1285, 2851. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

• FamilySearch - Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842 ^FREE

  This index covers the following series: Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-1832 (4/4823); Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832 - Jan 1833 (4/4824); Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-1842 (4/4825-4891).

• Free Settler or Felon?

  Online searchable index of inhabitants of the Newcastle, Hunter & Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales pre 1850.

• Research Guide - Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Australians in New South Wales

  From the National Archives of Australia.

• State Archives and Records NSW - Assisted Immigrants Index

  Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59, Moreton Bay 1848-59 and Port Phillip 1839-51. The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

  • Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists - State Archives & Records, New South Wales

    Immigrants arriving in Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59; Port Phillip, 1839-51; Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59; Sydney, 1860-79; Sydney, 1880-96.

• State Archives and Records NSW - Convicts - Indexes to Convict Records

  Online searchable databases from State Records New South Wales.

  • State Archives and Records NSW - Convicts Index

    A searchable database containing certificates of freedom; bank accounts; deaths; exemptions from Government Labor; pardons; tickets of leave; and, tickets of leave passports. Includes: Certificates of Freedom, 1823-1869; Convict Bank Accounts, 1837-1870; Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32; Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation and Pardons, 1810-19; Tickets of Leave, 1810-1875; Tickets of Leave Passports, 1835-1869; Convict Death Register, 1828-1879; Recommendations for Absolute and Conditional Pardons, 1826-1856; Convict Pardons, 1791-1873.

• State Library of Queensland - British convict transportation registers

  Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database. These include prisoners sent to New South Wales, Van Diemen

• Tantivy - Fireside Hypothesis

  A complete listing of assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney aboard the Tantivy in 1853 and a list of persons with the surname Ford whom arrived in Australia aboard individual ships.