Introduction
Arrival, immigration and departure records from 1803-1900 include varying levels of detail.
What is online?
Search and view many records in the Tasmanian Names Index, including passengers arriving and departing Tasmania.
Guides to immigration records
- Guide to records on child migrants from 1919
- Free immigration 1803-1946
- Assisted immigrant ships 1832-1889
- Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania: Records Relating to Free Immigration (comprehensive)
Records series online
- 1828-1833 Register of ships’ departures, with lists of crews and passengers (CUS33)
- 1831-1834 Governors Office – Despatches received from the Secretary and Under-secretary of state relating to advances to emigrants (GO3)
- 1829-1970 Marine Board of Hobart – Reports of ships arrivals with lists of passengers (MB2/39)
- 1837-1841 Colonial Secretary’s correspondence relating to arrivals of immigrants (CSO5/1/10)
- 1841-1843 Immigration Agents Department – Nominal register of arrivals under the Bounty System (CB7/9)
- 1851-1867, 1883-1889 Board of Immigration – Descriptive lists of immigrants arriving in Hobart and Launceston (CB7/12)
- 1853-1862 Board of Immigration – Register of the hiring and disposal of immigrants (CB7/16)
- 1867-1884 Board of Immigration Lists of bounty immigrants who arrived in Tasmania via Melbourne (CB7/23)
- 1870-1872 Immigration Board – Register of immigrants arriving from Germany (CB7/28)
- 1920-1943 Individual files by name concerning the nomination, arrival and settlement of people in Tasmania (SWD4)
- 1924-1935 Returns from the Immigration Office to the Commonwealth Immigration Office of Nominations, Immigration and Emigration (SWD14)
- 1946-1960 State Immigration Office – Migrant files (M1 – M7371) Files of British migrants arriving under the Joint Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Australian Government (AA59)