Immigration

Passenger lists of immigrant ships with departure and arrival dates and ports, surgeons and masters on board and types of passage; includes links to scans of the registers

Files of passengers (divided into nominated, assisted, domestics and full payers) containing name of passenger, name of ship, ages, marital status, where embarked and whether English, Scotch, Irish or other and amount paid for passage. Compiled from S13048

Names of boys involved in the Farm Lads migration scheme

Immigrant Remittances, IMA Maryborough 1864-1905. (S13055, S13060 & S13061)

Index of Immigration Deposits for Remittance Passengers [Nanango] 1863-1901. The register, S10562, was kept by the Court of Petty Sessions, Nanango to record deposits paid to the Court toward the cost of passage for immigrants travelling under a remittance fare.

Register of immigrants arriving by ship kept by the Assistant Immigration Mackay. Compiled from S13051

Passenger lists and other papers relating to immigrants arriving by ship in Queensland; and lists of crews and passengers on various immigrant ships arriving in Brisbane. Details vary. May include Immigration Department reports about passengers, giving name, age, occupation, and port of departure, whether assisted or nominated and the type of migrant such as domestic servant. Compiled from S13104 and S13105

Register entitled Immigration Book, kept by the Assistant Immigration Agent, Maryborough, of prospective immigrants nominated for passage

Details of immigrants and crew extracted from Colonial Secretary's correspondence

This series is a card register of immigrants and missing immigrants from various correspondence. The cards mainly register the administrative file movements of the Immigration Department's correspondence. Details may include name of ship, date of arrival, movements of files, name of correspondent and action. Some cards are annotated, eg. "file returned to" or details concerning an immigrant, for example, age at date of departure etc. There are stamp marks on many of the cards, for example, "Domestic". Compiled from S5631

Passenger lists and returns of immigrants landed and whether employed

Register of immigrants arriving at the Immigration Depot, Bowen 1885-1892.

Registers of arrivals kept by the Immigration Agent, Maryborough. Details include name of passenger, name of ship and arrival date

Immigrants arriving at and departing from the Immigration Depot at Rockhampton including name of ship and dates of arrival and departure. Details may vary.

Passenger lists of immigrant ships carrying passengers bound for Queensland, including ship's name, number, as well as departure and arrival dates

This index was compiled from several series of records relating to land orders as created by the Immigration Department between 1861 and 1878 held at Queensland State Archives. It has been combined from 2 previous Indexes - Land orders 1861-1874 and Land orders 1862-1878.

Information regarding people who enquired about immigration, or who were nominated or sponsored to immigrate to Queensland between 1905 and 1928

Records of migrants created by the Immigration Department and the State Migration Office relating to voyages of the Oronsay

Applications by sponsors of immigrants kept by the Sub-Immigration Agent in Warwick

Register of passport clearances showing file number, name, schedule number, vessel name and date of arrival, state disembarked, vessel and date of departure, reason for leaving, whether returning, government contribution, number and date of clearance

Registers of immigrant names, ship names and arrival dates, and rations issued

Land orders issued to immigrants on the completion of their obligations under the law at the time; as well as land orders issued to employers of immigrants.

Compiled from the Register of immigrants recording applicant details for immigration passage certificates as registered by the Assistant Immigration Agent, Toowoomba between 1864.​

Immigrant names, date of admittance at Toowoomba, name of ship, destination from Toowoomba and date of leaving; most immigrants in this register originate from Ireland

Record of engagement of immigrants who arrived at the Immigration Depot, Bowen. Details include ship, immigrant's name, name of the employer, names of places, and terms.

Arrival records per ship of immigrants who landed at the Immigration Depot at Townsville, Cairns, Cooktown, Thursday Island, Mackay and Bowen, as well as immigrants who landed in Brisbane and some ports outside Queensland

Records of immigrants arriving per ship at the Immigration Depot at Brisbane