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Overseas: Australasia
This page lists some of the places in the Australasia for which the Society holds sources. For details click on the link to SOGCAT, the library catalogue, and do a Subject search for the specific place which you are interested in. Please read the SOGCAT tutorial for more detailed help on how to search the on-line catalogue.
An Introduction to the Geographical Resources at the Society includes an explanation of place names used in the catalogue and the Abbreviations list will help you to interpret the sources which you have found in SOGCAT.
The staff of the Society can make limited searches in some of these sources for a fee (reduced rate for Members of the Society).
Recent additions to the library are also listed in the Genealogists' Magazine.
Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
Australia | New Zealand | Pacific Islands
AUSTRALIA
GENERAL SOURCES:
- Immigration
- General Registers
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- STATES:
New South Wales | Northern Territory | Queensland | South Australia | Tasmania | Victoria | Western Australia
Immigration
The best web sites for Australian sources are probably cyndislist and the site of our counterpart the Society of Australian Genealogists. The Society of Genealogists also holds a vast array of sources for immigration into Australia of which the most notable are:-
Emigrants & expats.: a guide to sources on UK emigration & residents overseas: PRO readers’ guide, no. 20 [SP/PER]
Log of logs: a catalogue of logs, vols. 1-3: journals, shipboard diaries, letters & all forms of voyage narratives, 1788-1998, for Australia & New Zealand & surrounding oceans: Roebuck Society publication, nos. 41, 47 & 52 [AUA/PER]
Across the ocean wide: an index of those persons sentenced to transportation in Nottinghamshire 1784-1867: Nottinghamshire FHS records series, vol. 103 [NT/PER]
Army deserters from HM Service (in Australia & New Zealand) compiled from the “Victoria Police Gazette”, vol. 1 [1853-58] & vol. 2 1859-70 & miscellaneous entries 1853-70 [Typescript] [AUA/V/G 8-9]
Australia “First fleeter” names of some of the officers, marines, crew & convicts (male & female) landed at Sydney Cove, Australia on 18 Jan. 1788 extracted from “Sydney Cove” by John Cobley [Typescript] [AUA/NSW/G 28]
Calendar of Annandale emigration (extracted from the Annandale Observer 1857-1907) [Photocopy] [SC/L 188]
Coastal passengers to Port Phillip 1839-45 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Convict families that made Australia, vol. 1: containing genealogical details of 250 convicts, their wives, children & grandchildren [AUA/G 145]
The convict settlers of Australia: an enquiry into the origin & character of the convicts transported to New South Wales & Van Dieman’s Land 1787-1852 [AUA/G 56 & 58]
Convict ship “York” bound for Australia 1862: list of convicts & country [Typescript] [Australia tracts box]
Convict transportation registers [to New South Wales & from 1812 to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)] 1787-1830 HO 11/1-7 [Microfilm] [Mf 4096-4097]
Cornish-Australian heritage: a biographical register of Cornish-Australians 1788-1998: Australian heritage series, vol. 1 [AUA/PER]
The crimes of the first fleet convicts [AUA/G 3]
The crimes of the Lady Juliana convicts - 1790 [AUA/G 5]
The deserters: a complete record of military & naval deserters in Australia & New Zealand, 1800-65 [AUA/G 38]
A directory of Scots in Australasia 1788-1900, part 1 [Shelf 9 (AUA/GEN)]
First fleet convicts & settlers 1787-88 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
First fleet families of Australia, containing genealogical details of 456 first fleeters, their children & grandchildren [AUA/G 85]
The first fleeters: a comprehensive listing of convicts, marines, seamen, officers, wives, children & ships [AUA/G 100]
The founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the first fleet [AUA/G 89]
Fourth fleet families of Australia: containing genealogical details of 205 fourth fleeters, their children & grandchildren [AUA/G 30]
Irish emigration lists 1833-1939: lists of emigrants extracted from the Ordnance Survey memoirs for counties Londonderry & Antrim [IR/G 158]
Irish families in Australia & New Zealand, revised vols. 1-2: Abbott-Lyttle 1788-1985, vols. 3-4 L-Z 1788-1981 [AUA/G 28A-D]
Is yours an SS Great Britain family? [The story of the famous liner’s 32 round trips to Australia between 1852 & 1875 - with the names & personal details of 14,000 passengers] [AUA/G 88]
Lincolnshire convicts to Australia, Bermuda & Gibraltar: a study of 2000 convicts [AUA/G 134]
Passengers arriving at Port Adelaide from South Australian & intercolonial ports 1837-45 [AUA/SA/L 3]
The pioneer register, vols. 9-10: containing genealogical details of 100 pioneers, their children & grandchildren, with the pioneer register spouse supplement to vols. 6-10 [AUA/G 71]
Second fleet families of Australia containing genealogical details of 349 Second fleeters, their children & grandchildren [AUA/G 20]
Settlers & seditionists: the people of the convict ship Surprize 1794 [AUA/NSW/G 9]
Ships’ deserters 1852-1900, including stragglers, strays & absentees from HM ships [AUA/G 58]
Some transportees from Gloucestershire 1815-18: Gloucestershire historical studies, vol. 3 [GL/PER]
Transportation from Gloucestershire 1821-30 crimes & criminals: Gloucestershire historical studies, vol. 9 [GL/PER]
The Third fleet convicts: an alphabetical listing of names, giving place & date of conviction, length of sentence & ship of transportation [AUA/G 34]
Third fleet families of Australia: containing genealogical details of 311 third fleeters, their children & grandchildren [AUA/G 27]
Third fleet transport Albemarle: an alphabetical listing of convicts, masters, crew, naval & military [AUA/G 143]
Transportations to Australia, extracted from the Newcastle quarter sessions (1831-55) [Typescript] [AUA/G 114]
Transported beyond the seas: an alphabetical listing of criminals prosecuted in Hertfordshire who received transportation sentences to Australia 1784-1866: Hertfordshire Family & Population History Society special publication, no. 1[HT/PER]
Transportees from Gloucestershire to Australia 1784-1842: Gloucestershire record series, vol. 1 [AUA/G 146]
The Women of the 1790 Neptune: the 78 convicts named on the cover & those who came free [AUA/G 113]
Country wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
The British overseas: a guide to records of their births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials available in the UK: Guildhall Library research guide 2. 3rd rev. edn. [ML counter]
Birth, death & marriage certificates in Australia [AUA/R 5]
Birth, death & marriage records in Australia: Bridging the generations - 4th Australasian Genealogical Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry, Canberra, 1986 [AUA/G 80]
Parish registers in Australia: a list of originals, transcripts, microforms & indexes of Australian parish registers [AUA/R 4]
International Genealogical Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
500 Australians who died in Vietnam: “The Australian” special edition 3-4 Oct. 1992 [Photocopy] [Store A (AUA/GEN)]
Australian & New Zealand marriages 1849-54 & deaths 1853-54 as published in the Australian & New Zealand Gazette, The Spectator, The New Zealand Gazette, The New Zealand Journal & the New Zealander [Microfilm] [Mf 2845]
Australasian births, marriages & deaths 1840-64 (extracted from the Newcastle Courant) [Shelf 9 (AUA/REG)]
Australasian genealogical computer index, series 3 [Microfiche] [Overseas microfiche cabinet]
The battle of Alamein Australian casualties: “The Australian” special edition 24-25 Oct. 1992 [Photocopy] [AUA/G 137]
Cemeteries in Australia: a register of transcripts [AUA/M 1]
HAREFIELD (St. Mary Military Cemetery): MIs of Australians buried in the churchyard [HT/M 25]
Names of all Australian armed forces people killed in action 1939-47 & Korea 1950-53 & a guide to Australian war cemeteries 1914-18 & 1939-47: James McClelland’s convict, pioneer & immigrant series of Australia [Photocopy] [AUA/M 2]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. See the on-line library catalogue for details.
To search the Online Library Catalogue (SOGCAT) click Search
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes directories of residents and businesses and lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Australia wide directories include:
Street’s Indian & colonial mercantile directory for 1873 [IND/D 1873]
The Australian handbook 1879 [AUA/D 1879]
The Australian handbook ... shippers’ & importers’ directory & business guide for 1890 [AUA/D 1890]
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania & Pacific directory, 1898 [AUA/D 1898]
Australian national phone directory [1997] [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
To search the Online Library Catalogue (SOGCAT) click Search
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide. Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required. eg.
The Australian genealogist: official organ of the Society of Australian Genealogists, vols. 1-9 part 3 (1933-59) [AUA/PER]
Descent: the journal of the Society of Australian Genealogists, vol. 1 onwards (1961 to date) & index to vols. 1-18 (1961-88) [AUA/PER]
The Irish link: Irish family history magazine, Australia & New Zealand, no. 1 onwards (1984 to date) & index to nos. 1-29 (1984-94) [AUA/PER]
The Scots link: the Scottish family history magazine, Australia & New Zealand, no. 1 onwards (1987 to date) & index to nos. 1-20 (1987-92) [AUA/PER]
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved in England and Wales 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] .
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] is on-line at www.findmypast.com website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives.
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] is on-line at www.findmypast.com website.
Assisted migrants to New South Wales since the formation of the Board of Emigration up to the end of 1832 compiled from official returns [Typescript] [AUA/NSW/G 27]
Colonial Secretary’s correspondence 1826-31 index to convicts (& others) [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
A desperate set of villains: the convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay 1796 [AUA/NSW/G 41]
Re-index of the Deane index 1823-40 (settlers, military, convicts etc. from Colonial Office, NSW correspondence) [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Convicts & employers (NSW) index 1828, 1832-33, 1838 - Jan. 1844 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
A decent set of girls: the Irish famine orphans of the Thomas Arbuthnot 1849-50 [AUA/NSW/G 31]
General return of convicts in New South Wales 1837 [AUA/NSW/G 4]
Immigration: index to assisted immigrants arriving Sydney & Newcastle 1844-59 & arriving Sydney 1860-79 [Overseas folio shelves] & arriving Sydney 1880-96 [AUA/NSW/G 16]
Index of New South Wales convict indents [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to New South Wales immigration deposit journals 1853-1900 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to passengers into the port of Newcastle [New South Wales] 1865-81 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to probationary convicts of Sydney & Moreton Bay 1849-50 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to unassisted arrivals to NSW 1842-55 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New South Wales: M(I) 1788-1800 [Typescript] [AUA/NSW/R 1]
New South Wales pioneer series: CMB 1788-1855, ZMD 1856-88 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
New South Wales convict marriage banns 1826-41 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Extracts from the Sydney Gazette: ZMD 1839: Chatham Papers [Manuscript] [SP/PRO]
Index to birth, marriage, death & funeral notices in the Sydney Herald 1831-53 [Photocopy] [AUA/NSW/R 2-5]
New South Wales: C(I) pre 1856, Z(I) 1856-99, M(I) pre 1856 to 1899, B(I) pre 1856, D(I) 1856-99 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Musters & lists New South Wales & Norfolk Island 1800-02 [AUA/NSW/G 3]
Musters of New South Wales & Norfolk Island 1805-06 [AUA/NSW/G 17]
General musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island & Van Dieman’s land, 1811 [AUA/NSW/G 5]
General muster of New South Wales 1814 [AUA/NSW/G 6]
General muster & land stock muster of New South Wales 1822 [AUA/NSW/G 2]
Census of New South Wales Nov. 1828 [AUA/NSW/C 1] & on CD-ROM [CD-ROM cabinet]
New South Wales & Port Phillip general Post Office directory for 1839 [residents list only] [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Greville’s Post Office directory New South Wales 1875-77 [AUA/NSW/D 1875-77]
The official Post Office directory & gazetteer of New South Wales 1878-79 [Summer Palace shelves]
The official Post Office directory of New South Wales 1882 [AUA/NSW/D 1882]
New South Wales probate index 1800-1982 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of New South Wales. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name(see below).
Armidale | Ashfield | Baldry | Bathurst | Canberra | Coolah | Cumnock | Curra Creek | Currawong | Dubbo | Enfield | Hargraves | Hornsby Shire | Hunter River Valley | Illawarra | Kurrajong Heights | La Perouse | Liverpool | Lue | Manly | Narrandera | Newcastle | Newtown | Norfolk Island | Parramatta | Peak Hill | Point Gellibrand | Port MacQuarie | Prospect | Pyramul | Randwick | Ryde | Sandhills | Sutton Forest | Sydney | Tamworth | Tannabutta | Toganmaine | Tomingley | Tumut | Warren Shire | Windeyer | Wollongong | Woronora
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Port Darwin passenger lists Nov. 1873 - Dec. 1914 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Northern Territory index to aliens’ births 1888-1922 & deaths 1875-1922; overlanders (or drovers) arriving in the Northern Territory 1879-83; mining permits 1896-1911 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Lone graves of the Northern Territory 1839-1976; Index Northern Territory of Justices of the Peace, special magistrates, barristers, solicitors, practitioners & notaries 1896-1965 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Northern Territory 1881, 1891 & 1901 census indexes [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Northern Territory probate indexes 1885-1941; index of administrations granted & sealed by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory 1954-62; index for Darwin inquest book 1875-1905 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of Northern Territory. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Anthony Lagoon | Darwin | Katherine | New Castle Waters | Palmerston
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Immigration index to assisted immigrants arriving Moreton Bay (Brisbane) 1848-59 [Overseas folio shelves]
Irish & Cornish immigration to Moreton Bay [Queensland] 1848-59 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Queensland pioneers index: index to births, deaths & marriages 1829-89 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Queensland: C(I) 1829-56, M(I) 1839-99, B(I) 1829-56, D(I) 1856-99 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Queensland FHS cemetery index [Microfilm] [Mf 979-985]
A pre-separation population index of the Moreton Bay region 1824-59, together with a short history of the region [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Pugh’s almanac & Queensland directory for 1895 [CD-ROM cabinet (AUA/DIR)]
Pugh’s almanac & Queensland directory for 1899 & 1901 [AUA/QL/D 1899 & 1901]
Queensland intestacies, insolvencies & wills: index to notices in the Queensland Government Gazette 1859-85 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Transmission of real estate by death, vols. 1-6: 1878-1919 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of Queensland. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Brisbane | Mount Isa
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Alphabetical index to incoming passenger lists 1888-1908 [for South Australia] [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Deaths in South Australian hospitals & asylums 1865-1946 [AUA/SA/R 8]
Deaths on emigrant ships to South Australia 1849-66; South Australian police mortuary returns 1865-1939 [AUA/SA/R 9]
A free passage to paradise?: passenger lists of UK emigrants who applied for free passage to South Australia 1836-40 [AUA/SA/G 21]
Naturalizations, South Australia, pre 1904 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Passengers arriving at Port Adelaide from South Australia & intercolonial ports 1837-45 [AUA/SA/L 3]
South Australia convicts sentenced to transportation 1837-51 [Shelf 9]
The transportees: an alphabetical listing of all individuals sentenced to transportation in South Australia [AUA/SA/G 24]
Register personal notices, vols. 1-3 1836-70 [AUA/SA/R 1-3]
South Australia index to births & marriages 1842-1906, deaths 1842-1905 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
South Australian births 1842-1906 & deaths registrations 1842-1915 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
South Australia 1841 census returns & index [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
1891 census of South Australian vine growers [Shelf 9]
The South Australian general almanack & general directory for 1843 [AUA/SA/D 1843]
Steven’s Geelong, western district & squatters’ directory of Victoria combined with Mount Gambier, Port MacDonnell & Penda in South Australia 1866 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Sands & McDougall’s directory of South Australia 1971 [AUA/SA/D 1971]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of South Australia. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Adelaide | Burra | Gawler | Magill | Mitcham | Morialta | Mount Gambier | Penda | Port MacDonnell | Wellington district
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Assisted migrants to Van Dieman’s Land since the formation of the Board of Emigration up to the end of 1832 compiled from official returns [AUA/T/G 5]
Index of assisted immigrants (to Tasmania) 1841-89 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to Tasmanian convicts miscellany 1821-54 (index to the convict assignment lists for 108 ships held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney) [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to more Tasmanian convicts papers re convicts ships 1814-45 (shipping lists of 172 ships held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney) [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Unassisted immigrants & coastal passengers to Hobart, Tasmania 1829-65 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The North West Post (1887-1916): an index for family historians, vol. 2 - 1901-05 [AUA/T/G 6]
Whitton’s & O’Shea’s indexes to The Mercury ZMD 1854-99 [AUA/T/R 1]
Tasmanian pioneers index CMB 1803-57, ZMD 1858-99 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Gravely Tasmanian: a friendly guide to some Tasmanian graveyards, vols. 1-3 [AUA/T/M 1-3]
General musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island & Van Dieman’s land, 1811 [AUA/NSW/G 5]
The Tasmanian Royal kalendar, colonial register & almanack 1849 [Store A (AUA/T/D 1849] & on CD-ROM [CD-ROM cabinet]
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania & Pacific directory 1898 [AUA/D 1898]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of Tasmania. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Hobart | Port Arthur | Sidmouth | Yolla
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Argus passenger index 1846-65 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Coastal passengers to Port Phillip 1839-45 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Convicts of the Port Phillip district [AUA/V/G 15]
Port Phillip Herald passenger index 1840-46 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Early pioneer families of Victoria & the Riverina: a genealogical & biographical record [AUA/V/G 4]
Immigration to Victoria: overseas & intercolonial ports 1846-52 & inward passenger lists [from] foreign ports 1852-79 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Passenger lists: Victoria, Australia outwards to New Zealand 1852-70 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Port Phillip records: passengers from Commonwealth & foreign ports 1838-51, from Liverpool 1839-51, from Scotland 1839-51, from southern England & Ireland 1839-48 & Port Phillip district land & immigration receipts 1849-50 [AUA/V/L 5]
The Somerset years: government assisted emigrants from Somerset & Bristol who arrived in Port Phillip, Victoria 1839-54 [AUA/V/L 16]
Supreme Court [of Victoria] criminal sessions Nov. 1850 - Dec 1865 & index 1855-1928 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Tickets of leave & certificates of freedom [Victoria] index 1840-51 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victorian Argus court reports 1851-56 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victorian Police Gazettes criminals index 1853-58 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victorian prisoners index (males) c. 1850-1900 & (females) 1855-1918 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Nominal index for pre 1904 Victorian naturalizations 1852-1903 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Argus births, deaths & marriages index 1846-60 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Colonial round up, vol. 1: a directory of Lincolnshire born emigrants who married in the state of Victoria, Australia, 1866-1913 [Typescript] [AUA/V/G 5]
Melbourne Argus index to birth notices, part 1: 1914-20 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victoria (early churches): CMB(I) 1837-53 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victoria: ZM(I) 1853-1913, D(I) 1854-1940 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Victoria pioneers index CMB 1837-55, ZMD 1856-88 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Victoria index to death registrations 1914-40 [Microfiche] [AUA/V/RED/82675/1-250]
Victoria: MIs on public buildings [AUA/V/M 2]
The Port Phillip almanac & directory for 1847. Facsimile reprint [Store A (AUA/DIR)]
The squatters directory containing a list of all the occupants of Crown lands in the intermediate & unsettled districts of Port Phillip, the names, estimated area & grazing capabilities of their respective runs ... compiled from the government gazette ... [1849] [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Sand’s & McDougall’s Melbourne & suburban directories for 1862-1900 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The official Post Office directory & gazetteer of Victoria containing the names, residences & occupations of the inhabitants of the post towns of the colony, together with a list of trades & professions in Melbourne & suburbs ... 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871-72, 1875 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Official Post Office professional, commercial, trade, farming & squatting directory of Victoria 1880-81 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Butler & Brooke’s national directory of Victoria 1866-67 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The age annual 1877 [AUA/V/D 1877]
Victorian municipal directory & gazetteer for 1879 & 1898 [AUA/V/D 1879 & 1898]
Victorian vine-growers of 1891 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Victoria Post Office commercial directories for 1884-85, 1888-89, 1891-1900 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Sand’s & McDougall’s directory of Victoria 1974 [AUA/V/D 1974]
Victoria electoral rolls 1841-51, 1856-57, 1899, 1908, 1912 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Probate index - Victoria 1841-99 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of Victoria. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Albury | Avoca | Back Creek | Ballarat | Beechworth | Bendigo | Browns | Bullumwaal | Buninyong | Burwood | Camperdown | Castlemaine | Chewton | Clunes | Colac | Collingwood | Cowes | Creswick | Daylesford | Diggings | Dunolly | Echura | Emerald Hill | Footscray | Geelong | Gippsland | Gisborne | Heidelberg | Kilmore | Kyneton | Lilydale | Macedon | Maldon | Malmsbury | Marnborough | Melbourne | Mulgrave | Oakleigh | Ovens | | Port Phillip | Richmond | Riddells Creek | Sandhurst | Sandridge | Scarsdale | Smythesdale | Sunbury | Taradale | Thomastown | Wangaratta | Wedderburn | Williamstown
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Dictionary of Western Australians 1829-1914, vol. 1: Early settlers 1829-50, vol. 2: Bond 1850-68, vol. 3: Free 1850-68, vol. 4: the challenging years 1868-88, vol. 5: the golden years 1889-1914 [AUA/WA/G 1-6]
Forced labour for the west: Parkhurst convicts “apprenticed” in Western Australia 1842-51 [AUA/WA/G 12]
Passenger arrivals in Western Australia 1898-1925 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (AUA/WA/GEN)]
Shipping passenger arrivals from overseas: Albany, Western Australia 1873-99 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Western Australia index to the general register of births, marriages & deaths: Z(I) 1841-95, MD(I) 1841-96 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Western Australia pioneer index: ZMD 1841-1905 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (AUA/REG)]
A colony detailed: the first census of Western Australia 1832 [AUA/WA/C 1]
The “Herald” Western Australian almanack & commercial directory for 1873 [AUA/WA/D 1873]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the state of Western Australia. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Australind | Bunbury
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New Zealand
GENERAL SOURCES:
- Immigration
- General Registers
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- LOCAL SOURCES
The best web sites for New Zealand sources are probably cyndislist and the site of our counterpart the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. The Society of Genealogists also holds a vast array of sources for immigration into New Zealand of which the most notable are:-
Emigrants & expats.: a guide to sources on UK emigration & residents overseas: PRO readers’ guide, no. 20 [SP/PER]
Log of logs: a catalogue of logs, vols. 1-3: journals, shipboard diaries, letters & all forms of voyage narratives, 1788-1998, for Australia & New Zealand & surrounding oceans: Roebuck Society publication, nos. 41, 47 & 52 [AUA/PER]
Army deserters from HM Service (in Australia & New Zealand) compiled from the Victoria Police Gazette, vols. 1-2: 1853-70 [Typescript] [AUA/V/G 8-9]
Aliens naturalized in New Zealand 1843-1916 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The deserters: a complete record of military & naval deserters in Australia & New Zealand, 1800-65 [AUA/G 38]
A directory of Scots in Australasia 1788-1900, part 1 [Shelf 9 (AUA/GEN)]
From here to there: New Zealand assisted passenger list 1855-71 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Irish families in Australia & New Zealand, revised vols. 1-2: A-L 1788-1985, vols. 3-4: L-Z 1788-1981 [AUA/G 28A-D]
Passenger lists: Victoria, Australia outwards to New Zealand 1852-70 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Patrick Henderson Shipping Company paying passengers to NZ ports 1871-80 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Port of Wellington entry 1856-87: passenger index & ships’ index [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Register of New Zealand immigrants of Scottish birth arriving before 1 Jan. 1921, vol. 1, parts 1-2: Registration nos. 1-7083 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Ships’ deserters 1852-1900, including stragglers, strays & absentees from HM ships [AUA/G 58]
The voyage of the Lady Egidia to New Zealand 1860-61 [including a list of passengers & births & deaths aboard]: Family Tree Magazine, vol. 16, no. 7 [PER/FAM]
The British overseas: a guide to records of their births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials available in the UK: Guildhall Library research guide 2. 3rd rev. edn. [ML counter]
International Genealogical Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
Australasian births, marriages & deaths 1840-64 (extracted from the Newcastle Courant) [Shelf 9]
Australasian genealogical computer index, series 3 [Microfiche] [Overseas microfiche cabinet]
Australian & New Zealand marriages 1849-54 & deaths 1853-54 as published in the Australian & New Zealand Gazette, The Spectator, The New Zealand Gazette, The New Zealand Journal & the New Zealander [Microfilm] [Mf 2845]
New Zealand index to General Register of births, marriages & deaths: ZM(I) 1840-1920, D(I) 1848-1920 & war deaths 1914-18 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New Zealand air related deaths 1899-1987 & New Zealand river drownings 1840-87 from the New Zealand Gazette: New Zealand cemetery records 1985: composite transcriptions [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New Zealander: CMB 1845-59 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New Zealand cemetery records 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 & 1998: index [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. See our on-line catalogue for details.
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The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes directories of residents and businesses and lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
New Zealand wide directories include:
Stevens’ & Bartholomew’s New Zealand directory 1866-67 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Wise’s New Zealand commercial directory1872-73 [NZ/D 1872-73]
Wise’s New Zealand directories1875-76 & 1906 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office directories1885-86 & 1896-97 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Street’s Indian & colonial mercantile directory for 1873 [IND/D 1873]
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania & Pacific directory 1898 [AUA/D 1898]
Who’s who in New Zealand & the western Pacific 1932 [NZ/G 9]
New Zealand electoral rolls 1865-66, 1876-77, 1880-81, 1893 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New Zealand electoral roll 1893: index of first women electors [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
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The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide. Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required. eg.
New Zealand genealogist, vol. 1 onwards (1970 to date) [NZ/PER]
The Irish link: Irish family history magazine, Australia & New Zealand, no. 1 onwards (1984 to date) & index to nos. 1-29 (1984-94) [AUA/PER]
The Scots link: the Scottish family history magazine, Australia & New Zealand, no. 1 onwards (1987 to date) & index to nos. 1-20 (1987-92) [AUA/PER]
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved in England and Wales 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN]
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] is on-line at www.findmypast.com website.
Deceased person’s estates, Canterbury (as published in the Mercantile & Bankruptcy Gazette) 1887-1914 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to deceased estates notified in the New Zealand Gazette 1866-1900 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Index to the Canterbury death duty registers 1867-1914 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Intestate estates notified in the New Zealand Gazette 1843-69 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
New Zealand probates, vol. 1: an index to pre-1900 records [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Public trust deceased estates, Canterbury 1901-58 (extracted from lists in the New Zealand Gazette) [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
Wills at Lands & Deeds, Wellington: index to some of the wills at the Lands & Deeds Office ... c.1833 - c.1910 [Microfiche] [Overseas cabinet]
The Society has material on the following and other places in the New Zealand. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name (see below).
Albertland | Arrowtown | Ashburton | Auckland | Balclutha | Bay of Plenty district | Bluff | Brackenfield | Canterbury area | Caversham | Christchurch | Clutha, Upper | Dunedin | East Cape district | Fielding | Gore | Green Island | Hampden | Hawera | Hawkes Bay | Invercargill | Kurow | Lawrence | Lumsden | Lyttelton | Manawatu | Marlborough | Milton | Mornington | Mosgiel | Naseby | Nelson area | North East Valley | | Northland district | Oamaru | Otago district | Palmerston | Parnell | Port Chalmers | Queenstown | Ranfurly | Rangitikei district | Riverton | Roslyn | Ruapeke | Southland district | St Kilda | Tapanui | Taranaki district | Thames district | Tuapeka | Waikato district | Waikouaiti | Waipu | Wairarapa district | Wakatipu | Wanganui district | Warrington | Wellington district | West Coast district | Westland district | Winton
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Pacific Islands
The British overseas: a guide to records of their births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials available in the UK: Guildhall Library research guide 2. 3rd rev. edn. [ML counter]
Log of logs: a catalogue of logs, vols. 1-3: journals, shipboard diaries, letters & all forms of voyage narratives, 1788-1998, for Australia & New Zealand & surrounding oceans: Roebuck Society publication, nos. 41, 47 & 52 [AUA/PER]
International Genealogical Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania & Pacific directory 1898 [AUA/D 1898]
Who’s who in New Zealand & the western Pacific 1932 [NZ/G 9]
The Society has material on the following and other islands in the Pacific. For details please use the drop-down menu in the search box below for a Subject search for the place name.
Christmas Island | Pitcairn Islands | Tonga | Vanuatu
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