Immigrant diaries (1822-1895)

Listings arranged by year and date of departure.

Key to abbreviations

1 = first class;   2 = second class;   3 = intermediate class;   4= steerage class

f = female;   m = male

a = travelling with family members;   b = travelling with companion;   c = travelling alone

ADB = Australian Dictionary of Biography;   EC = Emigrant Commissioners; retro = retrospective account; rtns = returns to Britain; SS = steamship

1820s

Diarist: Ludlow, John

  • Departure: 06 November 1822
  • Port: Portsmouth
  • Destination: Hobart
  • Ship: Andromeda
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4166
  • Notes: unfinished; possibly a naturalist

Diarist: Townsend, William

  • Departure: 24 June 1825
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Rio de Janeiro
  • Ship: York
  • Class: -mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 112
  • Notes: working passage as captain's clerk

Diarist: Widdowson, Henry

  • Departure: 17 November 1825
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Hobart
  • Ship: Albion
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2116
  • Notes: taking up land grant

Diarist: Forbes, J.D.

  • Departure: 24 March 1827
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Guildford
  • Class: -mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7565
  • Notes: guard captain on convict ship

Diarist: Mathew, Felton

  • Departure: 08 August 1829
  • Port: Sheerness
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Morley
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 15
  • Notes: convict ship; surveyor for Mitchell

1830s

Diarist: Massingberd, Peregrine

  • Departure: 18 June 1832
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Hobart
  • Ship: Edward Lombe
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M719
  • Notes: part retrospective; returns 1833

Diarist: Menzies, Robert

  • Departure: 28 December 1836
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Hope
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3282
  • Notes: Letts diary; surgeon; returns 1837

Diarist: Tait, Rev Mr

  • Departure: 11 May 1837
  • Port: Firth of Forth
  • Destination: Hobart/Sydney
  • Ship: North Briton
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1412
  • Notes: letter; Presbyterian clergyman

Diarist: Hamilton, Rev William

  • Departure: 11 May 1837
  • Port: Firth of Forth
  • Destination: Hobart/Sydney
  • Ship: North Briton
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2117
  • Notes: Presbyterian clergyman; + spiritual diary

Diarist: Walpole, Rev J. Kidd

  • Departure: 10 July 1837
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Andromache
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4073

Diarist: Mort, Thomas

  • Departure: 19 September 1837
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Hobart/Sydney
  • Ship: Superb
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: M 3308
  • Notes: see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: A, Mr

  • Departure: 15 November 1837
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Launceston
  • Ship: Clifton
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4058

Diarist: Rawson, Samuel

  • Departure: 04 April 1838
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Florentia
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 204

Diarist: Bloxsome, Oswald

  • Departure: 04 April 1838
  • Port: Plymoth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Florentia
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 336

Diarist: Menzies, Margaret

  • Departure: 09 August 1838
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Earl Durham
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3261
  • Notes: surgeon's wife; emigrating

Diarist: Sceales, John

  • Departure: 26 August 1838
  • Port: Leith
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: North Briton
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2717

Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur

  • Departure: 11 November 1838
  • Port: Portsmouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Royal George
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M675
  • Notes: see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: Taylor, Harriet

  • Departure: 16 September 1839
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Wilmot
  • Class: 3fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2009

Diarist: Manning, Arthur

  • Departure: 29 October 1839
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Earl Grey
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 289
  • Notes: bounty ship; returning to Australia

1840s

Diarist: Brown, John

  • Departure: ?? March 1840
  • Port: ?
  • Destination: Adelaide/Melbourne/Sydney
  • Ship: ?
  • Class: ?mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M849
  • Notes: missing pages; returns 1845

Diarist: Clifton, Louisa

  • Departure: 06 December 1840
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Western Australia
  • Ship: Parkfield
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2801

Diarist: Kershaw, George

  • Departure: 20 August 1841
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Columbine
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M435
  • Notes: bounty ship; acts as schoolmaster on ship

Diarist: Mackenzie, John

  • Departure: 29 September 1841
  • Port: Greenock
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Robert Benn
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 685
  • Notes: typescript missing; bounty ship

Diarist: Champion, Thomas

  • Departure: 18 October 1841
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
  • Ship: Andromache
  • Class: 3ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1093

Diarist: Wills, William

  • Departure: 30 October 1841
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Louisa
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M934

Diarist: Meade, Susan

  • Departure: 12 April 1842
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Caledonia
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4053

Diarist: Hope, Louis

  • Departure: 25 March 1843
  • Port: Portsmouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: ?
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M980
  • Notes: traveller; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: Carter, John

  • Departure: 24 October 1844
  • Port: Portsmouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: General Hewett
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm 1618

Diarist: Blyth, Thomas

  • Departure: 14 September 1846
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Hobart
  • Ship: Tropic
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2310

Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur

  • Departure: 18 March 1848
  • Port: Sydney
  • Destination: London
  • Ship: Walmer Castle
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M675
  • Notes: return visit to England; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: Roberts, S.E.

  • Departure: 17 June 1848
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Symmetry
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3272

Diarist: Nichols, William

  • Departure: 24 January 1849
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: James Gibb
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8166
  • Notes: EC ship; 31 year old labourer

Diarist: Harbottle, William

  • Departure: 11 March 1849
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Scotia
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 828
  • Notes: EC ship

Diarist: Stamp, Edward

  • Departure: 18 June 1849
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Tasman
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 29
  • Notes: bounty ship

Diarist: Martin, John

  • Departure: 28 June 1849
  • Port: Cork
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Mt. Stuart Elphinstone
  • Class: 2mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M387
  • Notes: state prisoner on convict ship; to Hobart

Diarist: Hodgson, Sir Arthur

  • Departure: 28 October 1849
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Thomas Arbuthnot
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M790
  • Notes: returning to Australia; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: Henderson, Mr.

  • Departure: 07 December 1849
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Hashemy
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7902
  • Notes: religious instructor on convict ship

1850s

Diarist: Taylor, Francis

  • Departure: 22 February 1850
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Stag
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2514
  • Notes: EC ship; agriculturist

Diarist: Woolley, Harry

  • Departure: 19 September 1850
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Roman Emperor
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 955
  • Notes: returns 1865

Diarist: Kennaway, William

  • Departure: 21 June 1851
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Lyttleton
  • Ship: Canterbury
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4249
  • Notes: pub 1973

Diarist: Hindmarsh, J.H.S.

  • Departure: 18 November 1851
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Havering
  • Class: ?mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4156
  • Notes: verse account of the voyage

Diarist: Haslett, Dr Samuel T.

  • Departure: 21 April 1852
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: London
  • Ship: Vanguard
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7385
  • Notes: return voyage

Diarist: Hoey, James H.

  • Departure: 11 July 1852
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Birmingham
  • Class: 2mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M862. Reel 5. Items 60-92 (inclusive)
  • Notes: Letter in the form of a journal. Travelling with Catherine and James Buckie, and Brother Tom. Followed by a description of the journey to Ballarat with Tom, leaving Melbourne on 25th of October, 1852 and returning to meet the Cleopatra at Melbourne.

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 22 July 1852
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Prince Albert
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1363
  • Notes: retrospective

Diarist: Pegler, Edwin

  • Departure: 22 July 1852
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Prince Albert
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3128
  • Notes: gold digger;+ gold fields diary

Diarist: Severn, Thomas

  • Departure: 13 August 1852
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbounne
  • Ship: Prince Alfred
  • Class: 2mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 710

Diarist: Stapleton, Bryan

  • Departure: 15 August 1852
  • Port: Deal
  • Destination: Wellington
  • Ship: True Briton
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4054
  • Notes: troop transport; traveller; returns 1854

Diarist: Towle, Edward

  • Departure: 21 August 1852
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Cape Town
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 2ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2345
  • Notes: journal posted home at Cape; gold digger

Diarist: Sheraton, Richard

  • Departure: 07 September 1852
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Duke of Wellington
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4061
  • Notes: retrospective

Diarist: Francis, Edwin

  • Departure: 16 October 1852
  • Port: Bristol
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Clara Symes
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5768
  • Notes: completed in Sydney in 1915;bootmaker

Diarist: Stobart, Rev. Henry

  • Departure: 09 November 1852
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Resolute
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1033
  • Notes: also M467; travelling as tutor

Diarist: Hunt, Atlee

  • Departure: 24 May 1907
  • Port: Marseilles, France
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Orontes
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1100

Diarist: Knight, Henry

  • Departure: 21 November 1852
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Java
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3169
  • Notes: EC ship; 50 deaths on board

Diarist: Pillow, Samuel

  • Departure: 06 January 1853
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Digby
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 914
  • Notes: also mfm M388; retrospective

Diarist: Annison, G.

  • Departure: 22 January 1853
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Emigrant
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3878
  • Notes: gold digger/carpenter

Diarist: Lovell, John

  • Departure: 23 January 1853
  • Port: Bristol
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Elizabeth
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M401
  • Notes: crew member

Diarist: Dodds, Henry

  • Departure: 12 February 1853
  • Port: Liverpool (?)
  • Destination: Sydney (?)
  • Ship: Frances
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3850
  • Notes: copy of a copy

Diarist: Bird, Edwin

  • Departure: 13 March 1853
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Marco Polo
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6064

Diarist: Harding, Henry

  • Departure: 24 March 1853
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Ida
  • Class: ?m?
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M674
  • Notes: EC ship

Diarist: Whittingham, Henry

  • Departure: 01 May 1853
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Duke of Wellington
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8433
  • Notes: also keeps letter book

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 03 May 1853
  • Port: London St.Paul's Island
  • Destination: St. Paul's Island Melbourne
  • vCalphurnia
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6119 MS 4143
  • Notes: gold digger; returns 1854 continuation volume

Diarist: Cannan, Jane

  • Departure: 07 May 1853
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Hempsyke
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 401
  • Notes: letters

Diarist: Ronald, Byron L.

  • Departure: 25 May 1853
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Heart of Oak
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
  • Notes: see sisters' diaries: 1857, 1861

Diarist: Jemima (surname ?)

  • Departure: 07 July 1853
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbounre/Sydney
  • Ship: Star of the East?
  • Class: 2fb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M591
  • Notes: travelling with Hitchcocks

Diarist: Barton, Mr.

  • Departure: 30 August 1853
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Irene
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2893
  • Notes: gold digger

Diarist: Peters, Edmund

  • Departure: 04 September 1853
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: London
  • Ship: Chowinghee
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M830
  • Notes: returning gold digger

Diarist: West, Theo

  • Departure: 19 October 1853
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Palmyra
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3660
  • Notes: returns; probably traveller

Diarist: Hoare, Frederick

  • Departure: 04 May 1854
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Red Jacket
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M405
  • Notes: gold digger; returns 1856

Diarist: Whitings, John Warren

  • Departure: 25 May 1854
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Lightning
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5071
  • Notes: first pages lost

Diarist: Bray, William

  • Departure: 12 June 1854
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 2ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: also quarantine log; gold digger

Diarist: Davies, Thomas

  • Departure: 16 July 1854
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Lord Raglan
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 200
  • Notes: EC ship; 25 year old plumber

Diarist: Braine, Emily

  • Departure: 23 December 1854
  • Port: ?
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Eagle
  • Class: ?fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8413
  • Notes: 11 year old girl

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 12 March 1855
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: Liverpool
  • Ship: James Baines
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4055
  • Notes: Letts diary; return trip

Diarist: MacCaul, Gilbert

  • Departure: 02 October 1855
  • Port: Glasgow
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Sea Star
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm G21,338
  • Notes: gold digger; returns 1858

Diarist: Hoare, Frederick

  • Departure: 14 April 1856
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: Liverpool?
  • Ship: New Great Britain
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M405
  • Notes: unfinished; return voyage

Diarist: Tindall, Grace

  • Departure: 27 September 1856
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Anna
  • Class: ?fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3281
  • Notes: religious diary

Diarist: Reeves, J.W.

  • Departure: 05 October 1856
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Queen of the West
  • Class: 2ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6442
  • Notes: surveyor?

Diarist: Archer, Samuel

  • Departure: 16 February 1857
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2343
  • Notes: round trip as surgeon

Diarist: Ronald, Janet

  • Departure: 05 October 1857
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Invincible
  • Class: 1fb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
  • Notes: see diaries by brother & sister: 1853, 1861

Diarist: Forwood, William

  • Departure: 20 November 1857
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • vRed Jacket
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M870
  • Notes: 3 versions of first days; returns 1858

Diarist: Gratton, Annie

  • Departure: 10 June 1858
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbounre
  • Ship: Conway
  • Class: 4fc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3304
  • Notes: 280 single women on board

Diarist: Brown, C.

  • Departure: 02 November 1858
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Bon Venue
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4003
  • Notes: also mfm G7753; traveller; returns 1859

Diarist: Joseph, Solomon

  • Departure: 18 June 1859
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Morning Star
  • Class: 2mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6395

1860s

Diarist: Allardyce, Hugh

  • Departure: 20 July 1860
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Btitain SS
  • Class: 3mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: letter journal

Diarist: Cairnes, Claudius

  • Departure: 16 October 1860
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: James Booth
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 127

Diarist: Elliot, Charles

  • Departure: 24 July 1861
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Prince of the Seas
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M387

Diarist: Ronald, Henry

  • Departure: 20 Octobr 1861
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2758
  • Notes: see diaries by brother & sister: 1853, 1857

Diarist: Blasdall, Mark

  • Departure: 19 February 1862
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: City of Brisbane
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 957
  • Notes: also mfm G24,760; EC ship

Diarist: White, James Espie

  • Departure: 09 September 1862
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Henry Fernie
  • Class: 3mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M864
  • Notes: retrospective; returns 1865

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 25 January 1863
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 193
  • Notes: traveller; written in French

Diarist: Good, Abijou

  • Departure: 28 February 1863
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Rockhampton
  • Ship: Beejapore
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 513

Diarist: Hughes, Joshua

  • Departure: 13 April 1863
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Montmorency
  • Class: 3mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2078

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 23 June 1863
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Auckland
  • Ship: Ganges
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4145
  • Notes: in print, periodical unknown

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 15 October 1863
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 2mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346

Diarist: Anketell, Elizabeth

  • Departure: 30 November 1865
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Queen of Australia
  • Class: 1fc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M388

Diarist: Matthews, Daniel

  • Departure: 22 January 1867
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Somersetshire SS
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2195/3/1-4
  • Notes: returning to Australia; see entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography

Diarist: Smith, Alexander

  • Departure: 23 January 1867
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Norfolk
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5599

Diarist: Edelsten, Frederick A.

  • Departure: 25 July 1867
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: City of Adelaide
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M837
  • Notes: traveller/businessman:returns;1868

Diarist: Harvey, H.

  • Departure: ?? October 1867
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Norfolk
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4009
  • Notes: book of letters; travelling for health

Diarist: Greaves, George

  • Departure: 14 December 1867
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: takes steamer to Sydney

Diarist: Walker, James

  • Departure: 14 December 1867
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 4m?
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: retrospective

Diarist: Randall, George

  • Departure: 12 June 1868
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Planet
  • Class: 3ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2107

Diarist: Clarke, Arthur

  • Departure: 26 August 1868
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Conflict
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 6792
  • Notes: EC ship; aged 15

Diarist: Higson, Daniel

  • Departure: 11 August 1869
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2501
  • Notes: see diary for return 1869; visits diggings

Diarist: D'Ouseley, Rosamund

  • Departure: 12 August 1869
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1fc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: on to Sydney

Diarist: Parrington, Joseph

  • Departure: 20 October 1869
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Storm King
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1384
  • Notes: journal letter; partly in verse

Diarist: Hall, Edwin

  • Departure: 27 October 1869
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Yorkshire
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 3688
  • Notes: traveller

Diarist: Higgins, Henry

  • Departure: 17 November 1869
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Eurynome
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1057
  • Notes: brother dies on voyage

Diarist: Higson, Daniel

  • Departure: 04 December 1869
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: Liverpool
  • Ship: Loch Awe
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2501
  • Notes: see diary out; working passage home

1870s

Diarist: Shennan, William

  • Departure: 05 February 1870
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Crusader
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 596
  • Notes: EC ship

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 04 June 1871
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: retrospective

Diarist: McDonald, Duncan

  • Departure: 10 July 1871
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Glen Osmond
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 8156
  • Notes: traveller; visiting family

Diarist: Buchan, Louise

  • Departure: 22 March 1872
  • Port: Melbourne
  • Destination: Liverpool
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: reverse voyage

Diarist: Ricou, J.P.

  • Departure: 06 April 1872
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Indus
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M437
  • Notes: also M469

Diarist: Campbell, John

  • Departure: 23 October 1872
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Great Britain SS
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2346
  • Notes: chief steward; death of Captain Gray

Diarist: MacAndrew, I.F.

  • Departure: 27 October 1876
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Harbinger
  • Class: 1ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 5521
  • Notes: traveller; returns via Hong Kong

Diarist: Loraine, William

  • Departure: 06 March 1877
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Lord Warden
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M942
  • Notes: dies on board

Diarist: Reay, William

  • Departure: 30 August 1877
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Parramatta
  • 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2586

Diarist: Shaw, Samuel

  • Departure: 20 November 1877
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Tyburnia
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2829
  • Notes: quarantined

Diarist: Allbon, Elizabeth

  • Departure: 21 March 1879
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Samuel Plimsoll
  • Class: 4fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1966
  • Notes: daughter born on voyage; quarantined

Diarist: Hufton, Edward

  • Departure: 15 May 1879
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Sydney
  • Ship: Northbrook
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2813
  • Notes: published 1960; steelworker

Diarist: Barringer, W.

  • Departure: 17 June 1879
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Superb
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 1105
  • Notes: ship's newspaper for voyage; traveller

Diarist: C., E.

  • Departure: 08 August 1879
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Hesperus
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4056

Diarist: Chambers, William

  • Departure: 29 September 1879
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Sobraon
  • Class: -m-
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 201
  • Notes: working passage as steward

1880s

Diarist: Pearson, George

  • Departure: 27 September 1880
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Auckland
  • Ship: Lady Jocelyn
  • Class: 2ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M979
  • Notes: traveller; returns from Sydney via Suez 1881

Diarist: Lord, Richard

  • Departure: 08 September 1882
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
  • Ship: Austral
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M1859
  • Notes: returns

Diarist: Westmoreland, Charles

  • Departure: 16 October 1882
  • Port: Plymouth
  • Destination: Rockhampton
  • Ship: Melpomene
  • Class: 4ma
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M2348

Diarist: anon

  • Departure: 19 May 1883
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Brisbane
  • Ship: Scottish Admiral
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 4100
  • Notes: also mfm G24,759; EC ship

Diarist: Walpole, Margaret

  • Departure: 13 June 1883
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne/Sydney
  • Ship: Pathan SS
  • Class: 1fa
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2209
  • Notes: via Suez; surgeon's wife; settles in Albany

Diarist: Turner, Alexander

  • Departure: 20 July 1883
  • Port: Greenock
  • Destination: Townsville
  • Ship: Eastern Monarch
  • Class: 4mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M1131
  • Notes: quarantined

Diarist: Brennand, Stephen

  • Departure: 18 August 1883
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Adelaide
  • Ship: Harbinger
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: mfm M977

Diarist: George (surname ?)

  • Departure: 12 December 1884
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: Eusemere
  • Class: 4mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7873
  • Notes: journal letter

Diarist: Coy, Thomas

  • Departure: 06 January 1885
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Hobart
  • Ship: Doric SS
  • Class: 2mb
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7932
  • Notes: travels on to Melbourne

Diarist: Thorpe, D. Losh

  • Departure: 03 November 1888
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Melbourne
  • Ship: ?
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 2693
  • Notes: unfinished; sailing ship

1890s

Diarist: Evans, Alf

  • Departure: 05 September 1895
  • Port: London
  • Destination: Fremantle
  • Ship: Fifeshire SS
  • Class: 1mc
  • National Library of Australia Call No.: MS 7163
  • Notes: returns

Guide compiled by Andrew Hassam, Harold White Fellow, 1992. Last updated 21 August 1996

Page published: 22 Jan 2020

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