British Abroad, British Abroad : Classification : Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists
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| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, School / Educational Records, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
| Title: | The Genealogist Website |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | The Genealogist Website |
| Extra Info: | Subscription site. Includes many university registers, trade directories and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Alex Rogers' Website |
| Link: | http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/2299/geneal... |
| Description: | Alex Rogers' Website |
| Extra Info: | Includes some lists of passengers to Australia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Archives Office of Tasmania - Names Indexes |
| Link: | http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/ |
| Description: | Archives Office of Tasmania - Names Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Click on Research, then Family History. Includes passenger details, convicts, naturalisations and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Bound For South Australia 1836 |
| Link: | http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au/ |
| Description: | Bound For South Australia 1836 |
| Extra Info: | Follow the journey of those who sailed to Australia in 1836. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children |
| Link: | http://www.britishhomechildren.org/ |
| Description: | British Home Children - Information and Database |
| Extra Info: | Need to register to look at the database, shows the agency, ship and arrival year and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children Website |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada 1870-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Over 100,000 British children were sent to Canada by over 50 different child care organisations. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | British India Family History |
| Link: | http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/ |
| Description: | British India Family History |
| Extra Info: | Includes a list of some who were born and died on the voyage to India. Also has photograph of some of the British railway workers of the area. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British South Africa - A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/britishsouthafri00c... |
| Description: | British South Africa - A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Extra Info: | Online Book. Lists the names of many settlers and the ships on which they sailed. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
| Link: | http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/ImmNat/Pass/ |
| Description: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) |
| Link: | http://www.castlegarden.org/ |
| Description: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) - (1820-1892) |
| Extra Info: | Immigration centre prior to Ellis Island. Search by name of the individual fro the 11 million immigrants, or by ship. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 1  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 1 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 1 |
| Extra Info: | This volume brings together a list of all Scots emigrants appearing in ships' passenger lists before 1825. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 2  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 2 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 2 |
| Extra Info: | This volume is based largely on previously published information, such as government serial publications, newspapers, articles in periodicals and family histories. It does however include some previously unpublished ships' passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 3 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 3 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 3 |
| Extra Info: | This volume has been compiled from Scottish newspapers and magazines. Mainly birth, marriage and death announcements. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 4  |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 4 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 4 |
| Extra Info: | This volume is compiled from the Scots who died in North America, but whom, instead of registering their testaments in Edinburgh, registered them with the prerogative court in Canterbury. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 5 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 5 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 5 |
| Extra Info: | This volume has an emphasis on Scottish settlers to Canada, East New Jersey and Virginia. Includes many passengers who travelled on the four ships from Greenock to Quebec in 1821. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 6 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 6 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 6 |
| Extra Info: | This volume contains abstracts of all documents pertaining to North America recorded in the Edinburgh Register of Deeds 1750-1825. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol 7 |
| Link: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 7 |
| Description: | Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Volume 7 |
| Extra Info: | This volume contains several hundred entries based on monumental inscriptions which identify individuals who settled in Canada, the United States and the West Indies. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information |
| Title: | East India Company Ships |
| Link: | http://www.eicships.info/ |
| Description: | Information on all the ships, voyages and seafarers of the East India Company's mercantile services. |
| Extra Info: | Work in progress -- expect more data in future. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Families in British India Society |
| Link: | http://www.new.fibis.org/ |
| Description: | Families in British India Society |
| Extra Info: | The Fibis database and FIbiWiki sections appear to contain most of the information. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
| Title: | Family History South Australia |
| Link: | http://www.familyhistorysa.info/ |
| Description: | Family History South Australia |
| Extra Info: | Includes many ships passenger lists and naturalizations. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Free Settler or Felon Website |
| Link: | http://www.jenwilletts.com/ |
| Description: | Free Settler or Felon Website |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of convicts and free settlers in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales, Australia |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Freemantle Prison, Western Australia |
| Link: | http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/default.as... |
| Description: | Freemantle Prison, Western Australia |
| Extra Info: | Includes a convicts database with details of where they came from, the ship they travelled on, occupation and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Genealogy Quest |
| Link: | http://www.genealogy-quest.com/ |
| Description: | Genealogy Quest |
| Extra Info: | Although this is mainly a US site it has some transcriptions of ship's passenger lists from the very early years (1600's). Look under collections. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Genes Reunited : Search passenger lists  |
| Link: | Genes Reunited : Search passenger lists |
| Description: | Search UK departure passenger lists between 1890 and 1960. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Gjenvick Archives |
| Link: | http://www.gjenvick.com/ |
| Description: | Gjenvick Archives |
| Extra Info: | A large private collecton of historical documents from the 1800s through 1954 with emphasis on Steamship and Ocean Liner documents, photographs and passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Highland and Island Emigration Society |
| Link: | http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/HIES/1.html |
| Description: | Highland and Island Emigration Society |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists of mid 1850's from Scotland to Australia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910 |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910 |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of the dates of the journeys and some occupations and ages of the passengers. Includes ships and lists of the 'Parkhurst Boys' sent to New Zealand in 1842-3. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century |
| Link: | http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/the... |
| Description: | Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century |
| Extra Info: | Includes lists of organisations sponsoring the emigrants, information about the Allan Line, arrivals at Grosse Island in 1866, land records for those who bought land and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Libraries and Archives of Canada |
| Link: | http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/index... |
| Description: | Libraries and Archives of Canada |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin to Canada, immigrant diaries, naturalisations and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Lloyd's List marine news 1740 - 1837 |
| Link: | http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lloydsList/ |
| Description: | Lloyd's List marine news 1740 - 1837 |
| Extra Info: | Lloyd’s List is a newspaper devoted to shipping news. In particular it records the movements of ocean going vessels and marine news of casualties, ‘speakings’ and other events involving individual vessels. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT District through Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/manifestofpa0001190... |
| Description: | Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT District through Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. Lots of ships travelling from Japan, Hong Kong and the Far East. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters |
| Link: | http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ |
| Description: | Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters |
| Extra Info: | The sites lists ships by year and month as well as a surname search. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Melbourne Star - Blue Star Line |
| Link: | http://www.melbournestar.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Melbourne Star - Blue Star Line |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of the Malta convoys 1943, as well as some passenger lists. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Nanaimo Family History Society |
| Link: | http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/ |
| Description: | Passenger Ship Lists Indexing Project |
| Extra Info: | Indexing project for ships arriving in Canada approx 1900-1921. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Natal Settler Families, South Africa |
| Link: | http://www.genealogyworld.net/rose/ |
| Description: | Natal (now Durban) Settler Families |
| Extra Info: | Ships and passengers who arrived in Natal port (now Durban), South Africa. Also includes other information about Natal, including Chemists allowed to practice in Natal in 1899. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), USA |
| Link: | http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ |
| Description: | National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), USA |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists for New York arrivals for the Irish famine period 1846-1851. Can search by passenger, ship or date. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc. |
| Title: | Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy |
| Link: | http://ngb.chebucto.org/ |
| Description: | Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | Includes some passengers on the list of ships claiming to be English / Irish but born in Newfoundland. Also 1770 Muster Roll for Dartmouth (under passenger lists). |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | O'Flynn and Flynn One Name Study |
| Link: | http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/flynn/ |
| Extra Info: | O'Flynn, Flynn and variants. Includes naturalizations in New York and Georgia, Boston passenger lists and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Link: | http://www.poheritage.com/ |
| Description: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes British India Steam Navigation Company, the Orient Line and other companies absorbed into P&O. The archive contains photographs, ephemera, fact sheets on the individual ships, with the shipbuilders' details and more. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=SHIPNAME%2... |
| Description: | This link will take you to the internet archive search. In the search box at the top left replace the words SHIPNAME with the name of the ship you are interested in. |
| Extra Info: | Not all ships have been added to the keywords yet. For example type Trent. These are online books, sadly, without indexes. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There appear to be only four ships in the list Moltke, Finland, Kronprinz Wilhelm and Berlin. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Lusitania, Graf Waldersee, La Provence, St. Paul, Cincinnati and Columbia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Minas Geraes, Parima, Luisiane, New York, Prins Mauritz, Corrientes, La Bretagne, Vigilancia, Caracas, Maracas, Alleghany, Lapland and Celtic. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Ancon, Christopher, Prinzess Irene, Barbarossa, Mermudian, Tagus, Manuel Calvo, Mauretania, Merida, Panama, Metapan and Contre Admiral Coubet. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Duca Degli Abruzzi, Postdam and Kroonland. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. There does not seem to be an index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Cedric, Germania, Lituania, Cristobal, Coamo, Bermudian Minnetonka, Prinz Sigismund, Carpathia, Sibiria, Havana and Maracaito. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Furnessin, Annetta, Ponce, Ryndam, Suriname, Saratoga, Paul Paix, Prinz Joachim, Terence, United States Oceania, Minneapolis, Rosario di Giorgio, Marina, Obidense and Montevideo. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis152... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are President Lincoln, Bornu, Amerika and Venezia. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Link: | http://www.archive.org/details/passengercrewlis153... |
| Description: | Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. No index of ships or passengers. There ships in the list are Seguranca, Caledonia, Nieuw Amsterdam, Arabic, La Touraine Allemannia, Trent, Prins de Nederlander, Advance, Saratoga and Clement. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Passenger List for the Indian Queen |
| Link: | http://www.familytreecircles.com/indian-queen-2808... |
| Description: | Passenger List for the Indian Queen, Liverpool to Wellington, NZ 1857 |
| Extra Info: | Passengers on the Indian Queen, which left Liverpool on 1 November 1856 and arrived in Wellington on 30 January 1857. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
| Title: | Public Record Office of Victoria |
| Link: | http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguide... |
| Description: | Public Record Office of Victoria Online Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists, plus convicts index 1842-54 and certificates of freedom index within the convict index. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | Society for Irish Latin American Studies |
| Link: | http://www.irlandeses.org/ |
| Description: | Society for Irish Latin American Studies |
| Extra Info: | Includes names of Irish passengers to Argentina. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | South African Genealogy |
| Link: | http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/ |
| Description: | South African Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from England to South Africa and a list of medical practitioners, some of whom qualified at British univerities. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Link: | http://sa-passenger-list.za.net/index.php |
| Description: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from London, Glasgow, Liverpool etc. to Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. Also includes details of Haidee settlers. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | South African Shipping Lists and Transcriptions |
| Link: | http://www.genealogyworld.net/ellen/ |
| Description: | South African Shipping Lists and Transcriptions |
| Extra Info: | The shipping lists and transcriptions are from the South Africa Magazine in the late 1800's and early part of 1900's. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
| Title: | US National Archives |
| Link: | http://www.archives.gov/ |
| Description: | US National Archives |
| Extra Info: | Click on start your research, then access to archival databases(AAD). Includes a searchable database of passengers who arrived during the Irish famine 1846-1851. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | War of 1812 - Privateers and Letters of Marque |
| Link: | http://www.1812privateers.org |
| Description: | War of 1812 - Privateers and Letters of Marque |
| Extra Info: | List of privateers and the letters of marque that they received, also the ships they sailed in. |
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