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Some good sites for Australia are:

http://www.users.on.net/proformat/auspass1.html
http://www.users.bigpond.com/Tall_Trees/Hotlinks/Shipping.htm
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/
http://www.pcug.org.au/~kenblair/immrec.htm
http://peter.larson.net/shipping/page.html
http://www.CyndisList.com/austnz.htm#Ships

http://www.naa.gov.au/index.htm

http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/
http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/convicts/

http://www.southernx.com.au/convict.html
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publications/cf/index/search.htm
http://proni.nics.gov.uk/exhibiti/austra/contents.htm (IRL>AUS)

http://203.111.111.137/cgi-bin/bdm?form=indexes (This is the NSW Births,
Deaths and Marriages index -

Here are some Australian mailing lists which may be of use when you find out
where the convicts ended up
Australia-L@rootsweb.com
can include shipping
AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com
genealogy-queensland@mail.st.net.au

Archives of Australia ( different than National Archives of Australia which is also good) which is a state by state guide is a well worth it site as it tells you what is kept where and how to get it.

http://www.naa.gov.au/index.htm
For those searching for the birth, marriage or death of a passenger at
sea, the following information concerning what you may find in British
records, may be helpful.

The General Register Office's Marine Registers record births and deaths
at sea on ships registered in Great Britain or Ireland from 1 July 1837.
These are available through LDS libraries everywhere. The IGI covers
events 'at sea.' Less well known however are the records held at the
Public Record Office in Kew, England. If the name you are seeking does
not appear in the Marine Registers of the GRO, then you should consider
a search in the records held at Kew.

Briefly, the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 required masters of UK
registered ships to deposit logs of their voyages with the Registrar
General of Shipping and Seamen. Details of births, marriages and deaths
of passengers were extracted, entered into registers, and the details
forwarded periodically to the GROs of England (and Wales), Scotland and
Ireland. (Note however that marriages were not recorded by the GRO who
hold no marriage records in the Marine Registers.)

They are held in the following series of records:

1. BT158 Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers At Sea 1854 - 1890

These have been filmed and may consequently be available through your
LDS library. Note that marriages were recorded only up to 1883 and
births only up to 1887.

2. BT159 Registers of Deaths of British Nationals at Sea 1875-1888
2a BT160 Registers of Births of British Nationals at Sea 1875-1891

These have also been filmed and may be available through your LDS
library. These registers also include deaths of seamen.

3. BT334 Registers and Indexes of Births, Deaths and Marriages of
Passengers and Seamen at Sea, 1891-1972

In an ideal situation, all these entries should appear in the GRO Marine
Registers but in practice there are many omissions as records were not
always forwarded. The GRO Marine Registers themselves began much earlier
than the BT records mentioned above but again there are many omissions
in the early years. As stated, marriage records are not recorded in the
Marine Registers. It will be seen therefore that in order to search for
a record of an event at sea, it may be necessary to search all of the
above sources. Recognise also that until the Registration Act of 1874,
Masters were not required by law to notify the RGSS of births and deaths
on board and although the events should have been entered into the log
this was not always done.

Finally there is also a class of miscellaneous returns at the PRO:

4. RG32 General Register Office: Miscellaneous Returns of Births,
Marriages and Deaths.

These record births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of British
subjects, nationals of the Colonies, Commonwealth and countries under
British jurisdiction, on British and foreign ships.

These records are available on film, are indexed in RG43 also filmed,
and may therefore be available through the LDS library system.

This is just an overview of the most likely sources for locating
information of events at sea. You may wish to view the information and
on-line leaflets at the PRO's website http://www.pro.gov.uk

If after extensive searching in all the above sources you are still
unable to confirm the birth, marriage or death of your ancestor as
expected, you may have to consider whether this story was just a
romantic notion... always check the normal GRO registers of birth,
marriage or death if you are unsuccessful in the marine registers - you
could be surprised.

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