Old Newspaper Resources

[ConJPower]

G'Day Aussies

I'm looking for ideas and sources to search for ship comings and goings to Australian ports between 1860-1900 - I am aware of http://trove.nla.gov.au/ and have had some success there. 

Just wondering are there any other digitised records available that I may have missed.

Regards from Ireland
Con   

[Billyblue]

Con, are you looking for passenger shipping, or cargo lines, or ?
Shipping arrivals and departures are published on an almost daily basis in the "big city dailies",
even now, though whatever is in the paper is not a total list.  I know this because where my OH and I holiday on the Sunshine Coast (Qld) is on a shipping lane and there are always more ships go past our window than are named in the paper!

What precisely are you looking for?

Dawn M

[Neil Todd]

GDay...

Try.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=369775.msg3157040#msg3157040

This is by no means all but is a start. "The ships Lists" can be fruitful, but if a particular person why not let us know and we can see if we can help.

Neil

[majm]

Digitised newspapers ....     hope you enjoy armchair reading  here's the link to the pdfs for many historic mid 19th century newspapers useful re Australian research.   These are not as easy to go through as there's no keyword searchable options, but once upon a time these newspapers were only available in Public Libraries so at least you can get to them from your own armchair now.

http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/   While the heading suggests 1840-1845, there's actually a wider coverage than that at that link.   The Shipping lists were in many newspapers, often dedicated pages in the Commercial rags, and of course, there's a link to browse by subject or by title/year first published.

http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/14403897.html  This link covers 1844-1855, for The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List. 

As you are looking for 1860-1900, the Ferguson resources will at least give you the names of newspapers that were available in the decade before 1860, so a good starting point. 

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

New Zealand digitised newspapers 

If the ship came half way around the world to Australia, then it often went on to New Zealand.  And also if it went directly to New Zealand it frequently came across to Australia.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

There was of course serious consideration pre Federation for there to be a Federation of SEVEN colonies rather than SIX.  Initially the six did NOT include Western Australia, but did include New Zealand.  As it turned out, Western Australia joined in, and New Zealand declined.  So there's six foundation colonies.

One of the difficulties then for family history buffs, is that in the era 1860-1900 there can be difficulties finding passenger lists for inter-colonial travel, including from New Zealand to any of the other Antipodean colonies.

Cheers,  JM

[emilypos]

Hi Con

NSW State Records have an index ship arrivals 1837 -1925

http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=49

Is a Rootsweb mailing list called TheShipsList which has an associated web site that has a lot of info on ship arrivals to South Australia and North America

Bye
Emilypos

[majm]

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Cheers,  JM

[ConJPower]

thanks everyone - there are some great resources here.

I need to track the voyages of my 2 ship's captain ancestors - they were in the british merchant navy during the period mentioned - i already have tonnes of stuff on them so will consult the ones mentioned here to see have any slipped my research.  I'm writing a book on one of them actually based on his painstakingly dictated autobiography, which has survived in the family since the 20s.

thank you all very much

[Billyblue]

Hello again Con
If you can get access to (any of the) three volumes of "Log of Logs" by Ian Nicholson (now dec'd),
you may find more info.
These books were put together by Ian Nicholson and list all he could find, on records, lists, etc. of shipping in Australia and New Zealand. some ships appear in more than one volume, i.e. when he found something else of interest.

Dawn M