Now ships sailed the great ocean blue,
Forebears of both me and you;
Which way did they sail?
in wind of a gale
And where did they live and with who?
Forebears of both me and you;
Which way did they sail?
in wind of a gale
And where did they live and with who?
SHIPPING / IMMIGRATION
scroll down for seafarers, lighthouse/coast guards, ships & Old maps
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Assisted and Bounty Immigrants - Unlock the Past
http://www.unlockthepast.com.au/sites/default/files/Assisted%20&%20bounty%20immigrants.pdf ASSISTED IMMIGRATION 1830 – 1840s
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibit ion/objectsthroughtime-history/1830-1840s/ Assisted Immigrants 1848-1912 Arriving in Queensland on the Duke of Devonshire & Other Ships
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Immigr Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney, Newcastle, Moreton Bay and Port Phillip
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state- archives/indexes-online/indexes-to- immigration-and Australia's Early Immigration Schemes
http://www.angelfire.com/al/aslc/immigration.html Australia: Shipping /Immigration
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ auscdfhg/shipping_immigration.htm B
Bounty Ships Scheme to Australia
http://keithdash.net/Ships/Brilliantmain.pdf Bounty System
With increasing prosperity in Australia, came a growing demand for skilled labour and the Government responded to this need by introducing a number of assisted immigration schemes from 1832 onwards. The first of the assisted migration schemes began in 1832 when eight single women and eight mechanics and their families left England aboard the "Marianne". Each single woman received a bounty of £8 and each mechanic was advanced £20 against his future wages. From 1832 to 1835, 3074 people received assistance at a cost to the colony of £31,028-6-9. They were selected and ships chartered for them by Emigration Commissioners in the United Kingdom & during the voyage they were in the charge of the ship's master. http://www.roosen.com.au/RoosenComAuWeb/ Genealogy/Background/Bounty_System.html British shipping companies
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb~hfba.html C
Caird Library and Archive at the National Maritime Museum
http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/caird-library CastleGarden
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. http://www.castlegarden.org/ Clipper Ships
http://mcjazz.f2s.com/Clippers.htm Cowes Registry of Shipping 1786-1930 (Isle of Wight)
https://www.iwight.com/recordofficedatabases/shipping.aspx Cyndi's List
http://www.cyndislist.com/ships/ E
Ellis Island PASSENGER SEARCH
http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger F
Female Migration to Australia
Female migration to Australia commenced under the Emigration Commission of 1831-1832. The Commissioners assisted hundreds of women to migrate & in 1832 despatched two ships whose only passengers were female emigrants: the Red Rover from Cork to Sydney and the Princess Royal from London to Hobart. http://www.rushen.com.au/ships.html G
Genes Reunited- Travel & Migration
http://www.genesreunited.com.au/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/travel Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives
http://www.gjenvick.com/#axzz4CV13xia8 Passenger Lists – Immigrant Ships - Steamships, Ocean Liners – Historical Archives. Primarily Westbound Transatlantic Steamships and Ocean Liners that carried immigrants to America http://www.gjenvick.com/PassengerLists/index.html H
History of immigration from Ireland
https://museumvictoria.com.au/origins/history.aspx?pid=43 HistoryPoints.org
Absorbing the defunct site- Gwynedd marine Database http://historypoints.org/?mact=Search%2Ccntnt01%2Cdosearch%2C0&cntnt01returnid I
Immigration Archives - Historical Immigration, Documents, Images, Articles and More!
primarily European countries to North America http://www.gjenvick.com/Immigration/index.html# Immigration and shipping-SLQ
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/ Immigrants to Tasmania before 1905 with country of departure or ancestry beyond the UK & Ireland
http://vdlworldimmigrants.wordpress.com/listing-of-people/ Index of /Caggiano Palermo/Ship and Port Information/Ship Pictures
http://www.jeffdonofrio.net/Caggiano%20Palermo/Ship%20and%20Port L
List of immigrants to Van Demons Land /Tasmania before 1905 with country of departure or ancestry beyond the UK & Ireland (ongoing draft)
http://vdlworldimmigrants.wordpress.com/listing-of List of the principal records of British shipping and seamen, showing their present locations
https://www.mun.ca/mha/research/principalrecords.php Lloyd's Register Library catalogue search
Searchable subjects include: shipbuilding, surveying, shipping company history, offshore engineering, ship design, renewable energy, steam turbines, gas turbines, electrical systems, history of sail, engines, radio/radar, welding, marine art, hydrodynamics, vibration, hydrogeology, pollution, fishing boats and fisheries, seamanship, salvage, quality control, ship management, ship types, ports, marine engineering, materials, combustion, slavery, war losses, naval history, lubrication, heating/ventilation, pumps and piping, future ocean technology, naval architecture, fluid mechanics, dredging and marine navigation. http://www.lr.org/en/research-and-innovation/historical Lloyd’s Register of Ships
http://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/public_educatio The 1764 Register Book- Lloyd's http://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/public_educatio Lusitania Passenger and Crew list (last)
http://www.lusitania.net/passengerlist_htm_files/lusi%20spread%20she M
Maritime Museum of Tasmania
http://www.maritimetas Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Essex Museum
http://www.pem.org/sites/archives/mpd/mpdsidx.htm Migration to Australia 1832-1850
http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-56_u-426_t- 1075_c-4146/SA/9/Migration-to-Australia- 1832-1850/Mass N
N.S.W. 'Online' microfilm of shipping lists
https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs-5316 Nineteenth Century Immigrants' Records released online
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/840.htm?news=rss O
Objects Through Time- AUSTRALIAN MIGRATION HISTORY TIMELINE
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime-history/about-objects Olive Tree Genealogy: Search Free Ships' Passenger Lists
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ Online Resources for Maritime Topics
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Passenger Lists- Australia
http://slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/family_history/ Passenger lists & emigrant ships from Norway
http://www.norwayheritage.com/ Portuguese Passenger List
http://www.dholmes.com/ships.html Princess Alice- List of Names onboard when the Disaster Struck
http://www.alsbury.co.uk/princessalice/alice0.htm S
Seafaring Superstitions
http://www.dtmag.com/Stories/Weird%20Stuff/08-06-feature.htm Shadows of Time N.Z.
http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/ Shipping and Arrivals-WEBGEN Australia
http://www.webgenaustralia.com/shippingarrivals.html T
The Canterbury Association ships Bangalore, Dominion, Duke of Portland, Lady Nugent,
Midlothian and Canterbury in the East India docks. http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9517772 The Ships List
www.theshipslist.com W
Why Leave Home in England?
The life of the average English rural worker was extremely harsh, with little income, a poor quality of housing, no access to education, and no prospects of improvement for either himself or his children. For many, emigration to either Australia, North America or South Africa, was their only means of bettering their lot in life. Until the 1830's, however, emigration was actively discouraged by the government, as men were required for the American and European wars of the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries. It was also considered that any loss of manpower would drastically weaken the English economy. http://www.fairhall.id.au/resources/journey/journey.htm |
LIGHTHOUSES / COAST GUARDS
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Coast guards of Yesteryear
www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org |
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Records of the United States Coast Guard
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/026.html |
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ST. AUGUSTINE LIGHTHOUSE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MARITIME PROGRAM
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.org/LAMP/index.htm |
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TRINITY HOUSE PERSONNEL AT LIGHTHOUSES IN ENG., WALES & CHANNEL ISLANDS 1841-1910
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Lighthouses/index.html |
SEAFARERS
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Crew lists and logbooks
https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/crewlist.php |
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Families at Sea- More than a list of crew
https://www.mun.ca/mha/mlc/articles/shipmasters/families-at-sea.php I
Irish born and 1000 Canadian born merchant seamen and their voyages
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Jamaican Rum and the Royal Navy.
http://www.albany.edu/~wm731882/what_is_prohibition_final.html L
Lloyd’s Register of Ships
http://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/public_educatio Lloyd's 1764 Register Book http://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/public_educatio |
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Marine Archives, Sailors
http://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/sailors.html |
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http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/mariners-muster Merchant Navy - Certificates of Competency & Service/Masters' Certificates
http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/merchant-navy--certificates-of-competency-servicemasters Merchant Seamen Serving 1858-1917
No official registration of merchant seaman between 1857 and 1913. The Merchant Navy began to register seamen again in 1913. However, the entries for 1913 to 1917 have not survived. What records can I see online? http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your Mystic Seaport ONLINE RESOURCES & CATALOGS-
Search Art, Objects, Photography, and Ships Plans, Captains, Crew, Books, Manuscripts, Periodicals, Sound recordings and Videos http://library.mysticseaport.org/ |
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PortCities Southampton
Has digitised pages of Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930-1945. Search key data fields including ship name, year built, weight, any former names of the vessel concerned http://www.plimsoll.org/ |
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Researching Your Mariner Ancestors And The Vessels They Sailed On
http://www.mariners-list.com/index.php Royal Navy operations and correspondence 1660-1914
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Sailors wore an earring
http://www.dtmag.com/Stories/Weird%20Stuff/08-06-feature.htm Earrings were also worn for superstitious reasons & other reasons http://thedutchrose.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/but-words-are-words.html Seafaring Superstitions
http://www.dtmag.com/Stories/Weird%20Stuff/08-06-feature.htm Ship Terms & Definitions
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~cdaley/5003/ship_terms.pdf State Library of Victoria 'Blue Book'
Ask a librarian- Information on Mariner's contracts. http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ask-librarian Swansea mariners
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SHIPS
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Marine Archives, includes Lloyds Register
http://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/lloyds-register.html Mighty Seas
http://archive.is/www.mightyseas.co.uk Mystic Seaport Collections and Research Department: Online Resources
http://library.mysticseaport.org/ O
Old Ship Picture galleries
http://www.photoship.co.uk/ |
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Researching ships and seafarers
https://www.mun.ca/mha/index.php |
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Shipping Companies
http://www.benjidog.co.uk/allen/resources.html Ship Spotting
http://www.shipspotting.com/ships/index.php Shipwrecks of the Isle of Wight
http://www.wightfarmholidays.co.uk/iow/shipwrecks SUNDERLAND BUILT VESSELS LISTED (scroll down)
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Thames Tugs
http://www.thamestugs.co.uk/ The 1764 Register Book
http://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/public_education/reference-library/1764-register-book/ W
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OLD MAPS & SEA CHARTS
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ANTIQUE MAPS
https://www.bergbook.com/htdocs/mapindex.htm George Glazer Gallery
http://www.georgeglazer.com/ |
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NAUTICAL CHARTS
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htm |
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OLD MAPS & SEA CHART GALLERY
http://www.oldmapgallery.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=48 |
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