Passenger Lists
Explanation notes about the passenger lists
Each page is dedicated to one ship on one voyage. If a particular ship made more than one voyage, there will be a page for each voyage.
Each page has at least three sections.
The top section has the name of the ship and copyright notice.
The second section has the details about the particular voyage that this ship made, including those details that were available on the passenger list. Some passenger lists have very few details about the ship and the crew which means that the departure, captain, doctor, etc. may not be shown on the page.
The third section lists the people who are known to have traveled on this particular voyage. They are listed in groups under each surname, but they are not necessarily related or part of the same family. On the passenger lists, most wives or mothers are listed under their married name. For females who married, either before they sailed, or after they arrived, their married name and maiden name (if known) will be noted in brackets. If the age of the passenger is known, it will also appear in brackets. Those passengers who are on my tree are listed as a black and bold link.
The fourth section, if it exists, will include any notes about this voyage and or a passenger on the ship that the author has found.
Surnames
On the surname index page you can search for a surname by typing ctrl+f and type in the surname you are looking for. It should be a progressive search, meaning that as you type the name if it exists it will show before you have typed the whole name. Some female names will be followed by one or two other surnames in brackets, these are meant to indicate the males they married.
Surname Pages
On the surname pages where all the first names are listed under a particular surname, the number in brackets is the year of birth calculated from the year of arrival minus the age on the passenger list if known.
Mistakes
No attempt is made to correct any possible mistakes recorded on the passenger list.
If any mistakes in the ship details are brought to the author's attention, they will be included in a fourth section at the bottom of the page.
(Some passenger lists are incomplete, due to lack of time.)
Passenger Lists
The Queensland State Archives has made most passenger lists for ships arriving in Queensland ports freely available to the public. Near the bottom of this page you will find a list of alphabetical links to copies of PDF files, each of which contain all of the surnames starting with that particular letter of the alphabet. You should down load all of these files to a sub-directory on your hard drive where you might keep all your immigration material.
A note of caution.
Not all these lists on the Queensland Archives site are original passenger lists. Some of the original lists were lost or destroyed (floods 1893) and have since been recomposed from parts of the original list and other sources.
Adobe PDF Reader
If you don't have a copy of the PDF reader you can obtain a copy for free from the Adobe web site. Adobe seem to be pushing McAfee security software, so if you don't want it to be installed on your computer make sure when you go to the web site that you deselect that option.
I hope you have found some information here that is of some value to you and I wish you the best of luck in your research. You are welcome to have a look at my Home Page where you will find links to all of the people in my extended family and to other groups of unrelated people, or you can visit my Genealogy Blog where you will find postings about random items of genealogical interest and more links to other genealogy related sites.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my web site and reading this page,
Greg DAVIS