Series:
Descriptive Lists of Immigrants, with Details of Name, Marital State, Age, Children, Religion, Literacy, Native Place, Trade and Applicant (Sponsor).
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
29 Aug 1851
End Date:
07 Nov 1889
Excludes Dates:
02 Aug 1867 - 07 Jul 1883
Creating Agency:
| Immigration Agents Department (TA211) | 01 Jan 1841 | 31 Dec 1855 |
| Immigration Board (TA212) | 01 Jan 1855 | 31 Dec 1886 |
Related Series:
| CB7/34 List of Vessels Carrying Bounty Immigrants. | 01 Jan 1854 | 31 Dec 1856 |
How to Use:
Digital images of part of this record series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages. Copies may be made for private research/study but any other use requires permission from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. Please note that in some volumes blank pages have not been digitised.
Digitised images of the records have been indexed and digital images can also be found in the "Tasmanian Names Index" at http://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names
Series notes:
This series consists of descriptive lists of immigrants arriving in Hobart and Launceston.
From 1851 to 1867 each volume contains a number of 'books' and each 'book' lists the immigrants arriving on usually one, but sometimes more, ships. These lists were apparently compiled after the ship's arrival.
The first two volumes of this series contain lists of immigrants who arrived prior to the regulations of January 1854 while the remainder list immigrants arriving under the 1854 regulations and later amendments.
Each 'book' (except the first seven) in the volumes covering the period 1851-67 contains a roughly alphabetical list of immigrants and gives the following additional information about each - marital status, age religion, education, native place, trade, sponsor, amount of bounty and a remarks column which contains miscellaneous information about the immigrant including assessments of the immigrant's character. There are also summaries of the number of immigrants, births and deaths, trades, native countries and religion. The names of ships' officers and other officials such as matron and schoolmaster who received payment from immigration funds are also listed.
The two volumes for 1883 - 89 do not contain summaries of the names of the ships' officers and the remarks column often includes the name and address of the immigrant's employer and the wages paid.
Arrangement is roughly chronological except for the first two volumes in which the 'books' are arranged in a random fashion.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Indexed by Archives Office
Items: