Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896

This database contains a collection of assisted immigrant passenger lists to New South Wales, Australia, for various years between 1828 and 1896. “Assisted immigrants” are individuals whose passages were either subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is comprised of six different series of records. They are: Returns of convicts’ applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense; Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists); Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists); Persons on early migrant ships (fair copy); Passenger lists of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-55; and Members of the Family Colonization Loan Society, 1854-57.