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Records in this collection
- Aliens Registered in the Northern Territory 1916–1921
- Calais Lacemaker immigrants to South Australia 1848
- Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1870
- Convicts in South Australia sentenced to transportation 1836–1852
- Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879
- Emigrants seeking free passage to South Australia 1836–1841
- Emigration: Where to Go
- Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea
- New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859
- New South Wales assisted passenger lists
- New South Wales unassisted passenger lists
- New South Wales, Convict Arrivals 1788-1842
- New Zealand Emigration and Gold Fields
- New Zealand for the Emigrant 1890
- Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
- Passengers to South Australia on board Buffalo 1836
- Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
- Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew
- Queensland Early Pioneers Index 1824-1859
- Queensland Immigration Registers 1922-1940
- Queensland Naturalisations 1851-1904
- Queensland Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922
- Queensland passports index 1915-1925
- Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911
- Queensland, Brisbane Register of Immigrants 1885-1917
- Queensland, Maryborough Registers of Rations Issued to Immigrants 1875-1884
- South Australia Naturalisations 1849-1903
- South Australia, immigrant agricultural workers 1913-14
- South Australian ex-convicts
- Victoria coastal passenger lists 1852-1924
- Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
- Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
- Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915
EMIGRANTS SEEKING FREE PASSAGE TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1836–1841
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This collection is an extract from the Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to South Australia 1836–1841.
Under this scheme, labouring classes received free passage if they were aged 15 to 30 years of age and had two references.
Preference was given to married applicants.
At this time persons who elected to pay their own passage paid as follows:
• Steerage passengers £15-20
• Middle Berth £35-40
• Cabin class £70.
This index does not include fee-paying passengers of the period. Very few shipping manifests survive and of those that do not all name the passengers and this means individuals paying their own passage in this era remain unknown. State Records of South Australia record series that may name fee-paying passengers in the timeframe include:
• GRG 56/68/5: Lists of passengers arriving from overseas ports 1836-45
• GRG 56/68/52: Miscellaneous passenger lists 1837–39 (11 vessels only listed)
• GRG 41/8: Manifests of incoming shipping at Port Adelaide 1838–42
All children in the scheme under 14 years were charged £3 while those under 1 year were free.
A number of emigrants recorded multiple occupations in their application but only the first of these is listed using a standard listing (that is, all masons are called simply masons). Some extinct occupations are explained within brackets.
Ages recorded in years; years and months (y:m); months (m); weeks (w); days (d); some as under a certain age as (u7).
The list also includes those who made application but never followed through with emigration.
Data provided by Graham Jaunay.