Deserters &Deserted South Australia 1838 to 1920

30,900 deserters from wives, families, ships, military and other service (e.g. apprenticeships and work contracts), the deserted, those failing to support their families, missing persons, escaped prisoners, absconders from asylums and industrial schools, convict expirees arriving from other colonies, and bigamists compiled from South Australian Police Gazettes, early SA Government Gazettes, and registers of ship deserters at the National Archives of Australia. All ship desertions are from Port Adelaide unless otherwise stated.