Official lists of passengers arriving in South Australia from overseas - Customs Department (GRG41/34)

This series contains official passenger lists of ships arriving in Port Adelaide from overseas. The Customs Department required masters of incoming ships to prepare and forward passenger lists to the Department.

Information recorded on passenger lists varies but generally include ship's name, master's name, tonnage, where bound, ports of embarkation and disembarkation, names of passengers, age (adult or child), occupation, nationality and number of passengers. Lists may contain names of passengers disembarking at Australian ports other than Adelaide. Not all lists have survived.

These passenger lists are being progressively made available at https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/passenger-lists-view.

Arranged chronologically. 42 volumes/bundles. Formerly Acc. 764.

For indexes see the paper Special List to GRG41/34 in the Research Centre for the period 1888 - 1908. For the period 1888 -1924 use the online index at http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/index-ships-arriving-and-passenger-lists. An index of ship names is also available in the Research Centre and online.

Additional Notes:

- For official passenger lists prior to 1888 see GRG35/48/1.

- Passenger lists from 1941 are held by the Adelaide Office of the National Archives (CRS D5077 and CRS D2002).

- Copies of these lists are held by the State Library of South Australia as Source 764.

- Passenger lists held in England relating to voyages prior to 1890 were "irregularly" destroyed in 1900 by order of the Board of Trade.

- For partial transcript of these lists for the period 1888 - 1914 see GRS16344.