NRS-5317 | Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board's Immigrant Lists)

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Each entry records the name, age, marital status, calling, native place, religion, and education of the immigrant. Also recorded are the names of relations in the colony; names and addresses of parents; and any complaints respecting treatment aboard ship.

The majority of ships travelled from a British port to Sydney. However, there were numerous arrivals from Hamburg in the 1850s, when considerable numbers of immigrants from Germany were recruited to come to New South Wales (which included Moreton Bay until 1859). In addition, the William Prowse (1853) and the Palmyra (1854) arrived from Madras carrying Eurasians; and the Annie H. Smith, N. Boynton, Sierra Nevada, Star of the West and the Ivanhoe arrived from New York in 1877-78.

Also called the Board's Immigrant Lists, arrangement is alphabetical by the name of ship within each year. The series generally provides more information about immigrants than the Agent's Immigrant Lists (NRS 5316), which it complements, but it is incomplete.

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.

See NRS 5317: Persons on bounty ships ('Board's Immigrant Lists), 1848-1891 for an item list.

(4/4904-5036). 133 boxes.

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