Transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
Return to German Emigrants to South Australia

ship Australia, 530 tons, Captain C.A. Jansen, from Hamburg 1st November 1854, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 4th March 1855

The South Australian Register, Monday March 5th 1855:—
Arrival: the ship Australia, bringing 211 German and Prussian passengers, arrived at the lightship anchorage yesterday, previous to the departure from the river Elbe there was a sad mortality amongst the children, there being no fewer than 22 deaths of children and two of adults, arising from cold and damp. The births during the voyage were three in number. The Australia brings a very valuable cargo........then under imports a list longer than the passenger list, a sample is listed here ...30 tins coffee, 1 case containing a turner's bench, 1 carriage, and cooking utensils, 4 wheels, a purifying grain machine, 1 casks cucumbers, 2 cask chains and coffee mill, 2 cases tools, 3 cases furniture, and looking glasses, 24 boxes wine, 6 do. Maderia, 4 do. Rhenish wine, 4 do. Champagne, 4 do. Brandy, 1 barrel Cumin. ...and lots and lots of very unusual items of trade.
An index from the State Library South Australia (SLSA) shows that 235 German migrants should have been on the Australia, I have been able to find 235 as listed below.— Regards Robert.

note.— There are very few surviving original lists of German passengers, so the data below has been compiled from a variety of sources, such as contemporary newspaper(s), internet sources, input from descendants and the South Australian Heraldry Genealogy society, (SAGHS).
I know the list is incomplete and may contain errors, so any feedback with additions or corrections, will be most appreciated. Please contact me using the link above. Regards Robert, Adelaide

NAA http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ResearcherScreen.asp

GMI http://graememoad.com/Family/WC_IDX/SUR.HTM

BBI Brandenberg Index from Ancestry

note: where maiden name of wife is indicated, it has been included in the given name column within ( )

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)

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