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==Highland Clearances==

For those interested in the Highland Clearances, information is available using the following example as a guide.

If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's.
This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland.
Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923
Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923


'''Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923'''

This was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood". 

The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye. 
(This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.


==Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists including Convict Transportation ==

'''General'''

*[http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records and Indexes]

*[http://www.theshipslist.com/ The Ships List]

*[http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ Ancestors on Board]

*[http://olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml Olive Tree Genealogy] includes many shipping lists

*[http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871]

*[http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=42 Outward Passengers from Victoria to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1876]

*[http://www.jaunay.com/convicts.html Transportation of Convicted Criminals from South Australia]

*[http://www.passengerlists.co.uk/ Debbie Beavis British Passenger List Research 1878 - 1960]

*[http://www.warbrides.co.uk/ Data Marines War Brides]

*[http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass1.html Dutch Passenger Lists pre-1736]

*[http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass2.html Dutch Passenger Lists after 1736]

*[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ A Scottish Emigration Database]

*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm Moving Here, 200 Years of Migration to England]

*[http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown- Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686]

*[http://www.norwayheritage.com/ Passenger lists and emigrant ships from Norway Heritage]

*[http://www.gjenvick.com/ The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives - The Future of Our Past, Archives of Shipping Lists]

*[http://www.immigrantships.net/ Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Collection of Passenger Lists

==To Australia==

'''NSW'''

Information from: [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=655 Mary from Italy]

'''What passenger lists contain''' This information applies to passenger lists obtained from the NSW state government. 

If you find a passenger in the immigration indexes:

*[http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-online#immigration-and-shipping State Records NSW - Indexes Online]  tick the "Order" box and click on "submit order".


Some lists are more detailed than others, but the one I got, dating from 1857, contained the following information:


'''1. List of immigrants per ship (sorted by family groups) containing:'''
:Name
:Whether married or single
:Age
:Trade
:Native place and county
:Religion
:Whether person can read and write
:Remarks


'''2. List of immigrants per ship as inspected by the Immigration Board, containing:'''
:Name
:Whether married or single
:Age
:Trade
:Native place and county
:Parents' names and, if alive, their residence
:Religion
:Whether person can read and write
:Relations in the colony
:State of bodily health, strength and probable usefulness
:Any complaints respecting treatment on board the ship
:Remarks by Immigration Board


'''3. Particulars:'''
:Number of births and deaths during the voyage
:Date and place of departure and arrival
:Number of days on voyage
:Master's name
and one or two bits of technical information like tonnage.


The list I received was a photocopy of the pages which included the two families I wanted and the other names on the page, not all the passengers on the ship.

It costs AUS$25 (about £11, depending on the exchange rate at the time of ordering). If you have more than one person in a family, only give one name, and you'll get the whole family. If you have another person on the same ship but in a different family, it costs an extra $6.


'''Victoria'''

*[http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23 Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923]


'''Queensland'''

*[http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/immigration.asp#immigrationindexes Indexes - Immigration 1848-1912]


'''Other'''

*[http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm 1852-1857 Highlands and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists]

*[http://chartists.net/Transported-to-Australia.htm Chartists Transported to Australia]

*[http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters]

*[http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/ Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists]

*[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/ Australia's Redcoat Settlers]

*[http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/emigranten/en/ Database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991]

*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/emigrants/ Leaving from Liverpool]

*[http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/SAShips1836-1840.htm South Australian Passenger Lists 1836-1851]

*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswgdhs/westport.htm Westernport Settlement Between Its Establishment on November 24th, 1826 and Its Abandonment on February 27th, 1828]

*[http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/ Australian shipping 1788-1968]

==Convicts to Australia==

*[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts The British Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1867]

*[http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/convicts1.html A List Of Convicts Sent to New South Wales in 1787]     
 
*[http://www.convictcentral.com/ A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors Sent to Australia]

*[http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/cons.htm Convict Australia]

*[http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc/Descendants of Convicts Group Inc, Transported Convict Ancestors, 1788-1868]
 
*[http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html Convicts to Australia]

*[http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/objectv.html Convicts to Australia in 1787]

*[http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem.html Convict Women to New South Wales from England and Ireland]

*[http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/ Irish Convicts to New South Wales]

*[http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/dps/3rdflt.txt Alphabetical List of 2000 Convicts Transported on The 3rd Fleet in 1791]

*[http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonIndexes/LastFarewell.html Devon Convicts Transported to Australia]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/trans1851.html Convicts Transported from Kent to Australia in 1851]  -and in 1852:-

*[http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/convictssearch.asp?catId=3169 The Transportation of Lincolshire Convicts to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda]

*[http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html Convicts Tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdriver/news/Transportations.html Convicts Transported from Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions to Australia]

*[http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/46/30 Prisoners Sentenced to Transportation From Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850] 

*[http://www.convicttrail.org/ The Great North Road Convict Trail]

*[http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/history/history6.cfm Fremantle Prison Convict Database]

*[http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/factory.htm Female Convict Factories - Tasmania Including Branches at Brickfield, Launceston, Hobart]

*[http://www.norfolkisland.com.au/history_and_culture/convict.cfm Convict History & Culture Norfolk Island]

* [http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/tiki-index.php Convict Stockade]

==To New Zealand==

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/index.htm Immigrants to New Zealand]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iltrico/ Immigrant Ships to New Zealand from the UK and Ireland 1835-1910]

*[http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/passengers/passenger.html Auckland Area Passenger arrivals 1838-1886 and 1909-1921]

*[http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/ Convictions, Australian and New Zealand Shipping]arrivals Aug 1771 - Aug 1967 / departures August 1768 - April 1968 / passenger lists, index of passengers, convicts and crew on vessels

*[http://www.pukeariki.com/en/resources/Pathfinders/researchingfamilyhistory.htm Taranaki area passenger arrivals 1852-1885]

==To The USA==

*[http://www.ellisisland.org/?gclid=COanpMTCtYcCFUxqMAod7jCcRA Ellis Island]

*[http://www.ancestorhunt.com/ellis_island_photos.html Ellis Island Photo Gallery]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/ The Forgotten of Ellis Island] Deaths in Quarantine 1909-1911

*[http://castlegarden.org/ A Searchable Database of Immigrants Arriving at Castle Garden, America's first official Immigration Centre]  

*[http://www.theshipslist.com/pictures/castlegarden1855.htm Extract from The New York Daily Times August 14th 1885 about The Opening of the Castle Garden Centre]

*[http://immigrantservants.com/ Immigrant Servant Database]

*[http://www.nyarrivals.com/ New York Arrivals]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ny1860ships/ 1860 Ship Arrivals in New York]

*[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/californiabound/cbindex.htm California Bound] Passenger lists for those arriving in California by ship and wagon train 1848-73

*[http://immigrants.byu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx The Immigrant Ancestors Project]

*[http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplist.htm New England (MA) Pilgrim and Great Migration Ship Lists Early 1600's ]

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagermanshipslists/ Germany to Pennsylvania] Ships carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.

*[http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/search.html Early Settlers in Maryland]

*[http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Galveston_Immigration_Database.asp Immigants to Galveston, Texas]

*[http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/ Ancestors from Norway]

*[http://www.cimorelli.com/ireland/irishpass.htm Database of Irish Immigrants to North America]

*[http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/irp5.htm Some Passenger Lists from Ireland and London to New York]

*[http://www.welshamericanindex.talktalk.net/ The Welsh American Index]

*[http://www.data-wales.co.uk/emmap.htm Emigrants from Wales to the USA]

*[http://www.francogene.com/migrants/ French Immigrants in North America]

*[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?id=WI.DucPassBelg Belgian Passengers to America in 1856]

*[http://www.omii.org/ The Swiss Anabaptic Genealogical Association]

*[http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/Japan/index.asp Japanese Immigrants to the USA]

*[http://www.gjenvick.com/PassengerLists/AllanLine.html The Allan Line -United Kingdom to North America]
 
==To Canada==

*[http://www.ingeneas.com/ inGeneas - Passenger Lists, Immigration Records, Genealogy Documents.]

*[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/index-e.html Arrivals in Canada 1865-1922]

*[http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/#mozTocId827533 Arrivals at Halifax and Quebec, 1900-1910]

*[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020110_e.html Child Emigration from Great Britain to Canada Between 1869 and The Early 1930s]

*[http://www.bafhs.org.uk/shirley/index.htm Bristol Home Children]

*[http://www.researchfamilyhistory.com/ The Canadian Registry of Irish Immigrants]

*[http://www.petworthemigrations.com/index.html The Petworth Emigration Project] 1830s emigration from Sussex and other counties in the south of England to Ontario in Canada.


==To South Africa==

*[http://www.1820settlers.com/modules.php?name=Genealogy British Emigrants to South Africa 1820]

*[http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7589/genea_en.html German Genealogy in South Africa]

*[http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/county/ntt/emigration/southafrica-1820/nttsa.htm Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820 ]


==To South America==

*[http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/cornishlatin/database/searchforanancestor.php The Cornish in South America]

*[http://patbrit.org/eng/index.htm British Presence in Southern Patagonia]

*[http://www.bisa.btinternet.co.uk/layout.htm Brits in South America Database]

*[http://www.argbrit.org/ British Settlers in Argentina]

*[http://www.irishargentine.org/passenger.htm Irish Passengers to Argentina]

*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/scotsinargpat/ Scottish Emigration to Argentina and Patagonia]



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