Index to Passage Certificates 1887 – 1906
This Index was compiled from Series ID 7002 (A/13350), Register of Passage Certificates.
Background
This Register, kept by the Sub-Immigration Agent, Warwick, records applications by sponsors of immigrants. Register details include date of application, names of applicant and nominee, amount paid for passage certificate, amount paid for outfit, total paid, receipt number, to whom the passage certificate forwarded, the date forwarded, date received, number, date delivered and remarks. Also includes nine additional loose documents from Insurance certificates to receipts for monies paid, personal letters and copies of Passage Remittance Certificates. The Index contains 655 entries.
The image below (click for larger image) is an extract from the register for Applicant Thomas HALL and Nominees W ARMSTRONG, wife and family and, John ARMSTRONG and wife dated 31 January 1887
Explanatory Notes
- Check all possible spelling variants
- All given names are abbreviated as initials as they appear in the original record
- Mc and Mac names are interfiled
- O names are not indexed with an apostrophe e.g. O DWYER
- Asiatic names have not been anglicised and appear as recorded in the original record.
- Extended names are derived from the Register entry and the signatures of the individuals. They are indexed as e.g. W[illiam] or Jas [James]
- * denotes indexed entries from the loose papers
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Index to Passage Certificates 1887-1906 (PDF 39KB)
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