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Resources - Cornish Emigrants to Australia

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

New South Wales

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

Queensland

Government of Queensland historical BMD search
Births, 1829-1914
Deaths, 1829-1929
Marriages, 1829-1929
Forms for Ordering Certificates Queensland State Archives, Indexes of Assisted Passengers (pdf files)
Assisted Immigration, 1848-1884
Assisted Immigration 1883-1912 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

South Australia

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.

Victoria

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 - Unassisted Immigration 1852 - 1923 and Assisted Immigration 1839 - 1871.
Port Phillip (the name of the State of Victoria prior to 1851) Indexes to Assisted Immigrants.
Victorian Government Gazettes Online Archive.
Index to Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841 - 1925.

All States

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.