Passenger Lists

German Emigrants to South Australia, 1837-1851

(project in progress)

This is another new project of immigrants arriving in South Australia, from Germany, 1837-1851. These lists have been transcribed from the original passenger lists, by Robert Janmaat of Adelaide, who has generously shared them with TheShipsList. Where available, extracts regarding a particular ship have been included, from the Sydney Shipping Gazette and the South Australian Register. The South Australian Government Gazette (return showing deaths on board Emigrant ships 1849 to 5th June 1865) has also been consulted.

South Australian Maritime Museum, steerage exhibition

from the Robert Janmaat Collection

note: the original lists were created by an individual unfamiliar with German names, so name spellings from the Biographical index SA (BISA) have been included in brackets. The list below has been compiled from a variety of sources such as the BISA, the Birth-Death-Marriage (BDM) index, the newspaper list (above), online research and has also been cross-checked to a list by Dulcie Love, long time convenor of the Germanic research group at the South Australian Heraldry Genealogy Society (SAGHS). There are a few gaps in this list, but from my experience in researching German passenger lists, I have found that quite a few German settlers migrated from South Australia to Victoria and Queensland.
Any feedback and/or correction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you — Robert

Clicking on the hyper-links below for each year highlighted, will take you directly to the list of ships for that year.
   1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1841 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 . . . off-site resource links

• 1837
  • ship Solway, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide (Kangaroo Island) 16th October 1837

• 1838
  • barque Bengalee, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide (Kangaroo Island) 19th November 1838
  • barque Prince George, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 20-21 November 1838

• 1839
  • ship Zebra, from Altona / Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 2nd January 1839
  • barque Catharina, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 22nd January 1839

• 1841
  • barque Skjold, from Altona, Germany to Port Adelaide 27th October 1841

• 1844
  • ship George Washington, from Hamburg & Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 12th September 1844

• 1845
  • ship Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 18th September 1845

• 1846
  • ship George Washington, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 22nd January 1846
  • barque Pauline, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 27th September 1846
  • ship Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 28th October 1846

• 1847
  • ship Heloise, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 17th March 1847
  • barque Hermann von Beckerath, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 15th December 1847
  • ship Gellert, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 20th December 1847

• 1848
  • barque Pauline, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 31st March 1848
  • ship President Smidt, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 8th April 1848
  • ship Leontine, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 1st August 1848
  • barque Victoria, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 6th November 1848
  • ship Alfred, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 6th December 1848

• 1849
  • barque Steinwaerder, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 12th January 1849
  • ship Godeffroy, from Hamburg via Plymouth & Melbourne to Port Adelaide 1st March 1849
  • ship George Washington, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 2nd March 1849
  • barque Louise, from Hamburg, Germany to Port Adelaide 23rd March 1849
  • ship G.H. Wappäus (Georg Heinrich), from Hamburg via Melbourne to Port Adelaide 31st March 1849
  • barque Auguste & Meline, from Bremen to Port Adelaide 2nd April 1849
  • barque Dockenhuden, from Hamburg via Melbourne to Port Adelaide 21st May 1849
  • ship Princess Louise, from Hamburg to Port Adelaide 7th August 1849
  • barque Wilhelmina Maria, from Hamburg to Port Adelaide 30th August 1849
  • ship Australia, from Hamburg to Port Adelaide 10th September 1849
  • ship Ocean (aka Wolga), from Hamburg to Port Adelaide 14th September 1849
  • barque Pauline, from Bremen, Germany to Port Adelaide 9th December 1849

• 1850
  • ....

• 1851
  • ...

Clicking on the hyper-links below for each year highlighted, will take you directly to the list of ships for that year.
   1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1841 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 . . . off-site resource links

Links to other South Australian Resources (clicking on off-site links will open a new browser window)

State Library South Australia shipping and passenger records
State Records of South Australia passenger lists - incoming
Family History South Australia Barry Leadbeater
Bound for South Australia Di Cummings

Sources: State Library South Australia, official passenger lists, mainly of immigrants arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom assisted passage schemes, 1847-1886 GRG 35/48a (formely ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference number for further research) ; BDM Indexes

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