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These volumes are particularly valuable for the period
1860-62 when
the Board's Lists are missing; and after 1870 when
they no longer
supply the place of origin within the county in
Ireland.
Many months would usually pass between the
deposit of the money and
the arrival of the immigrant and researchers
should keep this time
lapse in mind when using these records.
The volumes contain an index to the
depositors, with the exception of .
4/4581 and 4/4582. 4/4578 and 4/4590 are separate
index volumes
covering the periods October 1856 to December 1857
and October 1876
to May 1878 respectively.
Location
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4/4577
4/4578
4/4579
4/4580
4/4581
4/4582
4/4583
4/ 4584
4/4585
4/ 4586
4/4587
4/4588
4/ 4589
4/4590
4/4591
4/4592
4/4593
4/4594
4/4595
4/4596
4/4597
4/4598
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1855-Sep 1856
Oct 1856-Dec 1857
Dec 1857-1858
1859
Jan-Aug 1860
Jul-Dec 1861
1862
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1864
1865
1875-Sep 1876
Oct 1876-May 1878
Oct 1876-May 1878
Jun 1878-Jun 1879
Jul 1879-Feb 1880
Mar-Dec 1880
Jan 1881-Oct 1882
Nov 1882-Oct 1883
Nov 1883-Dec 1884
1885-1887
1888-May 1900
Indexes
In volume
do.
Index only
In volume
do.
No index
do.
In volume
do.
do.
do.
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Next volume
Index only
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PART III
PASSENGERS DEPARTING
In the early years of the colony records of departing passengers were not
maintained:
"55. With Respect to the Departures and Deaths of Convicts and Settlers, I
have to Inform Your Lordship that no regular Account of these
Circumstances has been ever deemed Necessary to be kept here in a Separate
or distinct Form. The Departures are only registered in the Musters of
Ship's Companies, taken by My Secretary When they are about to Sail, and
then they are entered Correctly by Reference being frequently had to the
Original Indents, When Persons who ever had been Convicts offer themselves
as Passengers About to leave the Colony; and All the Circumstances of
their Cases, whether free, by Servitude or Free Pardon, are entered in the
List accompanying the Ship's Clearance from hence, and the further
precaution is Used of Ascertaining that such Persons thus about to depart
are Actually possessed of the Certificates or Free Pardons, which the
Books referred to may express ...
56. Settlers and All other Persons, Who Originally Arrived Free in this
Country, When about to leave it, are Inserted in the Ship's Musters
Attached to the Clearances, under the General Head of Free Persons. In
Cases of Sailors, Who had Absconded from the Ships in Which they Arrived,
and afterwards Embark in Others, they are described as Run from such or
the
such a Vessel; Young Persons Who have been born in this Country, or on
Inserted in
passage of their Mothers (Whether free or Convict Women), are
the Clearance of Ships, either as 'free by Birth in the Territory', or 'by
the Departures
Arrival'. In future I shall have a Correct Register kept of
of all Persons, Who at any time had been Convicts here ..."
1812
Governor Macquarie to the Earl of Liverpool, 17 November
Historical Records of Australia 1.7.615-6
been kept,
The registers
would appear to have
referred to in the last sentence
Ship's
of
would be the "Musters
being
abstracts from them. Series 2
t
crews
.
ships'
mustering of
andipa
Companies"
referred to in the first paragraph. The
Council
of
Act
_
thersiclmeoar.ainocesecotfiopnasxseinigiermspAwals.2le.g5a80l)is.ed totally by an
6 Geo.
kept57
eparting passengers were
Apart from
recordseftenoentrhegcuelnatrurlyis.tTshoefmceirchantsi
1894
of
Act
i in
r ossef
enda
l e
su,n5t 8
the
Q346.422/1) states:
at
Library
vlct c.60 Section 311 (copy in The State
... shall,
steerage passengers
"311. (1 The
carrying
master of every ship
a passengers
sign in duplicate
before
ship,
his
other
list
demanding a clearance for
forth the name and
part, that is toth:ay, a list correctly setting whether cabin or steerage,
passenger,
il..t.heicu
of
ship and of every
on boar
emigration officer
countersigned by the
(2) The
the
list shall be
by the master to
if there
:rp:ic:::.:hen delivered
officer
that
demanded, and
clearance is
... and
of customs from whom a
master one duplicate
shall thereupon countersign and return to the
shall
as
'I reti
inon
t:eat
ott
h:e
r dp
in New South
In a000r,
passengers were kept
departing
uance with this, lists of
Wales from
the beginning of 1898 (series 5).
the records
This
Government in 1923 and
Commonwealth
function passed to
from this date
thet11
departures
also
See
Library as impending
Mitchell
creditors.
Newspaper indexes in the
the benefit of
were frequently advertised for