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