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