IN ORDER OF DATE OF IMMIGRATION or PASSAGE. Some later records are border crossings, and not passenger records, although may be listed under that word. Early records are mainly to North America. Immigration to India was mainly movement of British troops.
Click on green coloured links to open to records for a specific location within a 10- year time period. Within these main pages, may be other links to specific ship records for listing of all passengers. Some dates are departure and some are for arrivals, not always easy to determine. “e’ means estimate of ages.
The National Archives records passengers from Ireland and the United Kingdom ca 1820 – 1912
Early History of Canadian Immigration
ARRIVALS OR DEPARTURES
1700s
To Australia: 1700s
To North America: 1700s
1800s
To Australia: 1800-1819
To India: 1800-1819
To North America: 1800-1819
(Both Canada and USA)
NOTES ON USA PORTS
Official passenger lists for New York only date from 1820 and are often incomplete, but published periodicals sometimes provided names earlier than that. Often the names were given orally and misspelled because of that.. Some of the Irish departed from English ports.
Here is a summary of the New York port situation over the years.
- prior to 1820: No record keeping was required
- starting in 1820: All passengers’ names were recorded on the ship’s passenger lists
- prior to 1855: No processing, passengers just walked off the ship
- 1855 to 1890: Castle Garden
- 1890 to 1891: Barge Office
- 1892 to 1897: Ellis Island
- 1897 to 1900: Barge Office (Ellis Island closed due to fire)
- 1900 to 1924: Ellis Island
- 1924 to 1954: Ellis Island (special cases only)
Other ports in America where immigrants landed, included:
- Baltimore 1820 to 1948
- Boston 1820 to 1943
- Galveston 1844 to 1954
- New Orleans 1820 to 1945
- Philadelphia 1800 to 1945
- San Francisco 1893 to 1953
Immigration to Australia: 1820-1839
Immigration to Canada: 1820-1839
Immigration to India: 1820-1839
Immigration USA: 1820-1839
Immigration: Canada 1840-1849
Passengers: India 1840 to 1851
Immigration USA: 1840-1849
Immigration Australia: 1850-1859
Immigration Canada: 1850-1859
Immigration India: 1850-1859
Immigration to South Africa 1850 – 1959
Immigration USA: 1850-1859
Immigration Central & South America: 1850-1869
Immigration to Australia: 1860-1861
Immigration to Canada: 1860-1869
Immigration to India: 1860-1869
Immigration New Zealand: 1860-1869
Immigration South Africa: 1860-1869
Immigration to USA: 1860-1869
Immigration: Australia 1870-1879
Immigration: Canada 1870-1879
Immigration: Europe 1870-1879
Immigration: New Zealand 1870-1879
Immigration: South Africa 1870-1879
Immigration: USA 1870-1879
“The Indian Indentured Labourers of Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago were placed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Amongst others these included the Indian Emigration Passes to Fiji for the period 1879 to 1916. These records comprise over 60,000 individual passes issued to Indians who were to come to Fiji as indentured labourers.” Source this link
Passengers: Australia 1880-1889
Passengers: Canada 1880-1889
Passengers: South Africa 1880-1891
Passengers: USA 1880-1889
Passengers: Canada 1890-1899
Passengers: China 1890-1899
Passengers: New Zealand 1890-1899
Passengers: South Africa 1890-1899
Passengers: USA 1890-1899
1899
A Gillespie left SINGAPORE on ship New Guinea, arrived Freemantle, Australia Feb 20, 1899
1900s
G Maitland Gillespie age 20, birth abt 1882. Residence New York. Departure Hamburg, GERMANY Dec 27, 1902 Arrival Boulogne; Southampton; New York ship Moltke. Occupation Kaufmann.
Passengers: Australia 1900-1909
Passengers: Canada 1900-1909
Passengers: China 1900-1909
Passengers: New Zealand 1900-1909
Passengers: South Africa 1900-1909
Passengers: USA 1900-1909
Passengers: Australia 1910-1919
Passengers: Canada 1910-1919
Passengers: New Zealand 1910-1919
Passengers: USA 1910-1919
1914
Between 1903 and 1914 was the building of the Canal in Panama. When it was finished in 1914 it created a safer and quicker passage for ships moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and up along the North American west coast. Until 1914 the ships had to make a very dangerous journey all the way south to go around the tip of South America. Because of the turbulent waters in that region, there were many early ship wrecks.
1916
Constane Gillespie birth abt 1887. Departure Shanghai, CHINA Arrival London, England Aug 10, 1916.
1917
The Great War had ended in 1918, and peace returned for a few years.
Passengers: Australia 1920-1929
Passengers: Canada 1920-1929
Passengers: China 1920-1929
Passengers: Germany 1920-1929
Passengers: New Zealand 1920-1929
Passengers: USA 1920-1929
Many more Gillespie passengers to and from China, but without dates. (See Asia: China)
Passengers: Australia 1930-1939
Passengers: Canada 1930-1939
Passengers: China 1930-1939
Passengers: Germany 1930-1939
Passengers: USA 1930-1939
Passengers: Australia 1940-1949
Passengers: China 1940-1949
Friday, Sept 30, 1949 Empress of Canada, from Montreal, Canada to Liverpool, England – passengers Mr E Gillespie; Mrs Gillespie
Passengers; Australia 1950-1959
Passengers: China 1950-1959
1950
Mr J Gillespie arrived in New York on the ship, M V Britannic from Liverpool, England, 1950,
1954
1954 A Gillespie, 31, birth 1923, departed Wellington, arrived Sydney, New Zealand on ship MONAWAI, immigration, shop keeper
Passengers: Australia 1960-1969
1960
Felicity A Gillespie, 23, b 1937, secretary, immigration, departure port London, England. Arrival port Wellington, NEW ZEALAND. Other ports mentioned. On ship Rangitata. Date of event 1960
Total Records: 1,385
Source of Records: Mormon website Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922; Ellis Island records; Library & Archives, Canada. Printed volumes. Times of India. The Ships Lists website. Ontario Ministry of Consumer Affairs website; Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild; National Archives of Australia; Cork Canada 1847 Deaths.; Nanaimo Family History Society; Queensland Government. Toronto Immigration Database, Olive Tree Genealogy; South Africa Genealogy. Ancestry.com; Cyndis List; Immigrant Ancestors Project; Cape and Natal News. Hawaiian Genealogy Indexes
