NRS-5316 | Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists)

Full description

The entries record for each immigrant: name, age, sex, calling, marital status, native place and education. From 1848 NRS 5317 contains more information about each immigrant and so is the more useful series.

Printed indexes to these records were published. This series is indexed in Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales No.29: Immigration: Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59 (1987, in 3 volumes); Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales No.28: Immigration: Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Sydney, 1844-59 (1985 with Supplement, 1985); Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales No.27: Immigration: Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Moreton Bay, 1848-59 (1985) (hardcopies available in Western Sydney reading room). Their content is included in the online Assisted immigrants index 1839-1896.

(4/4782-812; microfilm copy SR Reels 2134-2143). 31 vols.

For digital images from the microfilms see our Assisted immigrants digitised shipping lists 1828-1896.

Note:
This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.