Australia Genealogy & History Project

TERRITORIAL PROJECTS

District and Capital
New South Wales/Canberra

Victoria/Melbourn

Tasmania/Hobart
South/Adelaide

Western/Perth

Northern Territory/Darwin

Queensland/Brisbane

ISLANDS
There are hundreds of islands around Australia.
List of all islands
Table of largest islands
1996 census of all islands
Social Trends of Islanders

Websites of larger islands
Bathurst
Bruny Island
Cocos (Keeling)
Flinders Island
Fraser (great sand island)
Groote Eylandt
Kangaroo
King Island
Lord Howe Island

Maria Island
Mornington
Norfolk incl evacs of Pitcairn
Tasmania, the largest island
Torres Straight Islands

EMIGRANTS

There are several categories in this section, Emigrants and Ships lists with surnames of Transported Convicts plus ancillary files. Whenever possible the destinations will be given. Submitters of donated files will be credited and fully hold their copyrights.
Convicts To NSW by Peter Mayberry

Emigrant Ships Index Page
Convict Ships Index Page
Australia Pioneers by Patricia Downes

MAILING LISTS AND BOARDS

Australians from County Clare
South Wales Message Board

Canberra Message Board.
All Mail Lists In Australia

AUTOMATED QUERY BOARDS

Australia General
Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Convicts (1788-1868)

FAMILIES OF AUSTRALIA

HOME PAGES: NOTE: Each family group reported to admin will have their own file folder and can update their family information anytime they wish.
John Dennis
Gimple
Ned Kelly
Frank Killeen
David McGirr photo
Stewart
James Judge
Other family surnames will follow as provided.

Anna's Home Page, convicts, etc.

Bronwen Koka Website

Cyndis List for Australia Over 1,000 links to research help here in Australia.

Pioneer Families of Hunter Valley

Pioneer families of Gympie, Queensland, a mining community.

Family of James O'Hara

Dennis Family, index of records.

About copyrights

General how to find records

County Clare Tithe (partial)

Penrhys Cemetery Surname Index for New South Wales
Locating Cemeteries

Cemetery Notes
Ireland Genealogy Project
NOTE:
Nearly half of all convicts exiled to Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, were from Ireland.
Use the IGP database link above to help find their details.

PDF and DOC Files

Cataraqui shipreck

CEMETERIES

WE HONOR GENEALOGISTS WHO DIED HELPING OTHERS
The recent brush fires in Australia took the lives of three genealogists whom were helping others.

Click here to view their stories.

HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA

Before 1776 England sent political prisoners to Colonial America.
As the Revolutionary War heated up, England had to sent prisoners to places like Australia and New Zealand and Van Dieman's Land, which is now Tasmania.
From 1788 the British shipped a thousand Irish citizens a month to New South Wales.

Today thousands of Australians owe their ancestry to the Irish who came from Ireland more than two hundred years ago.

Convicts, and later settlers, came from every county in Ireland. About half were from Ireland, and the remainder from England, Scotland and Wales.

Inspiration for this website was provided by my friend Frank Killeen who lives in Victoria, Australia. Others pitched in and by many requests we started this website, part genealogy and part history.

This project will display records, photographs, culture, genealogy, history, Irish who settled there, old documents, stories about their ancestors, histories of old families in Australia, family group sheets, anything other researchers can key on to find you.

The records are set up in file folders with one folder per family surname. Each family who submits data will have their own file folder. To submit your material to this website, please contact the Webmaster.
This is a twenty year long project which will be a lot of hard work and fun.

We are designing a website for each part of Australia. Volunteers who live in Australia can adopt and build those district web pages. If you want to adopt your own territory, please speak up.

Ancient History of Australia Before the last ice age

MILITARY
Irish rebellion in Ireland 1798
Prisoners of that rebellion were transported to Australia
Australia in WWII
About the 39th and other groups of brave young men who stopped the Japs on New Guenea.
Summary of the battle of the Coral Sea
People in America rarely speak of this battle, but Australians take the broader view that the battle stopped the Jap advance and saved Australia from bombing and invasion.
Summary of the battle of midway
Bad day for the Japs. They thought to lure the American fleet into a head to head fight, but during that battle they lost four aircraft carriers, and the Pacific War. They tucked in their tails and headed home in shame to Japan, which was already being bombed.

Indexes to Assisted Immigrants, 1839-96
State Records NSW
The archives and records management authority for NSW Government. State Records provides access to records detail history.

Indexes to immigration and shipping records
The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through assisted immigration schemes.

NRS 5264 Immigration deposit journals, 1853-1900
These journals record moneys deposited in the Colony by persons wishing to sponsor the immigration of a nominated person or group.

Archives In Brief 1 - Shipping and arrival records
State records and indexes, of passengers arriving in New South Wales, 1788-1922.

Archives In Brief 51 - Archives in by subject Immigration
Sooner or later most Australian family historians will come to the end of the line of ancestors born here.

Archives In Brief 33 - Chinese migration to New South Wales
An overview of resources held by State Records that relate to Chinese settlement in New South Wales.

Archives In Brief 24 - Shipping and arrival records - additional sources
A brief overview of sources other than those listed in Archives in Brief 1, that relate to immigrant arrivals in NSW.

Index to vessels arriving in Sydney, 1837-1925
This index relates to vessels arriving in Sydney only, name and type of vessel, and date of arrival.

Archives In Brief 79 - India and NSW - Migration and trade
Major sources held by State Records that relate to trade and migration between India and New South Wales.

Immigration from many lands