Introduction
Search the Tasmanian Names Index for arrival and departure records or browse this guide to find out about all the resources available on arrivals, immigration and departures that occurred in Tasmania.
Our records cover the years from 1803 through to 1900.
People could have arrived in Tasmania as:
- Unassisted passengers – they paid their own way
- Assisted passengers – subsidised or paid for by an immigration scheme
- Crew on a ship
- Military
- Convicts
Finding ancestors in early immigration records can be a challenge, especially if they arrive as free settlers in the 1800s.
Most records are for the Port of Hobart. Few records have survived from other ports. It can be worth checking passenger lists for other colonies such as South Australia and Victoria as ships carrying passengers to Tasmania often called there.
