Who Are They?
These photographs were taken on board the Asturias in November 1948, by Pat Piggott. His wife Irene (Rene) and son Michael are pictured with other passengers. If you can identify them, please let us know.
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In England and Australia, the organisation best placed to assist former child migrants to find relatives is the Child Migrants Trust. The Trust, established in Nottingham, England, in 1987, works on behalf of former child migrants who are seeking information about their childhood and family history, or who wish to be reunited with members of their family. The Trust has records of all births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales from 1890 to 1993.
After research has located relatives, social workers perform the delicate task of counselling and making the first contacts between the client and family members. The Trust operates from two locations in Australia and one in the United Kingdom.
After research has located relatives, social workers perform the delicate task of counselling and making the first contacts between the client and family members. The Trust operates from two locations in Australia and one in the United Kingdom.
Established by Sir Richard Linton in 1925, the Big Brother Movement Organisation supports and assists a wide range of young Australians to reach fulfillment within their lives. The BBM Awards program enables promising young Australians to widen their horizons by visiting Britain in a number of broad categories including the arts, music and sports. The website of the BBM includes a forum to contact friends.
Fairbridge Kids is the web presence of The Old Fairbridgians' Association of Western Australia. The Association was formed in 1930 and served, and still does serve, as a benevolent organisation with its main mission to enhance the welfare of Old Fairbridgian's - those children whose home for part of their lives was at the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra in Western Australia. Many migrant children from the UK were settled at Fairbridge.
This WA Maritime Museum "Welcome Walls" is a fascinating site that allows you to search the historic "Passages" database of arrivals in Western Australia, and to register names on the "Welcome Walls"
Download a Fact Sheet from the Australian Government National Archives of Australia which lists addresses of Reading Rooms and Opening Hours.
Addresses of other national archives including Asia and the Pacific, UK and Ireland, Europe, the Americas and Africa can be found here.
"Convictions" - Australian Shipping on the Net; this site contains shipping and passenger information for Australia and, to an increasing extent, New Zealand. As well as arrival and departure details, where possible, background information is also provided."
The National Archives is the official archive for England, Wales and the central UK government, containing 900 years of history from Domesday Book to the present. There is an extensive 'Family History' section.
Genealogy Search Australia, the free Australian Genealogy and Family History Search Engine and Directory for the most useful Australian and International family history and ancestry sites. Extensive lists of convicts, bushrangers, ships, passenger lists, censuses, cemeteries, genealogical clubs and societies and family history sites
This site contains millions of family history records online. Although you need to subscribe to download copies of documents, you can do a simple search for free that can give information such as date of arrival in another country, and port of arrival. At the site, choose the tab marked 'migration' then refine your search (for example, choose 'Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960') then 'search'.
The online source of civil registration, open census records, old parish registers and wills for Scotland. The "Family Records" section will be of interest to those researching family history.
"Passenger lists with over 24 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide. Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890.
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With ancestorsonboard, you can search for passenger list records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Passengers include not only immigrants and emigrants, but also businessmen, diplomats and tourists. Images of the passenger lists are available to download, view, save and print."
