Cornish Emigrants to Australia

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Specialised Mailing List - Cornish to Australia, including a searchable archive.

Recommended Reading - The Cornish Miner in Australia by Philip J. Payton. ISBN 0 907566 51 0

1828 - 1842, Bounty Immigrants to New South Wales
1828 - 1842, 1848 - 1849 Ships' Passenger Lists of Arrivals in New South Wales (contain significant differences to 1.)
1850 - 1859, Ships' Passenger Lists of Arrivals in New South Wales
1860 - 1888 Ships' Passenger Lists of Arrivals in New South Wales
1848 - 1912, Ships' Passenger Lists of Arrivals in Queensland
Some Obituaries for Cornish Emigrants can be found here.
1839 - 1913 Newspaper marriage notices for Cornish Emigrants (and later silver & golden weddings)

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Index searches, State records Authority of New South Wales
Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney & Newcastle, 1844-59
Assisted Immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59
Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1860-79
Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1880-96
Miscellaneous Immigrants, both assisted and non-assisted, 1828-43

Government of Queensland historical BMD search
Births 1829-1914, Deaths 1829-1929, Marriages 1829-1929
Forms for Ordering Certificates Queensland State Archives
Assisted Immigration, 1848-1912 Queensland State Archives
Inquest Indexes, 1859-1886 Queensland Cemeteries
Moreton Bay Courier 1845-1859 A list of surnames with links to scanned articles.
Surname search available (top left), lots of Cornish names

Emigrants to S. Australia (advertisement, 1839)
South Australia Cemeteries, Surname search available (top left), lots of Cornish names
Cemetery records for Burra, Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo are available on these websites -
Council of Goyder and Copper Coast (N.W. of Adelaide)
Passengers Lists, 1803-1850, searchable by surname
Marriages, 1836-1852, searchable by surname
Another cemetery database
What one can expect to find on South Australia BDM Certificates.

Bendigo Cemetery Trust - website includes a searchable database, currently (2008) incomplete, covering several cemeteries in the area. Cornish Association of Bendigo and District and Victoria.
Public Record Office Victoria, including Passenger Lists for Unassisted and Assisted Immigration.
Port Phillip (the name of the State of Victoria prior to 1851) see New South Wales.
Victorian Government Gazettes Online Archive.
Index to Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841 - 1925.

CoraWeb - contains many useful links
What one can expect to find on an historical Australia BDM Certificate.
A limited number of full transcriptions of MIs, available on the Internment.net website.
Historical Australian Newspapers 1803 - 1954.