The Genealogical Society of South Africa
eGSSA branch
The Genealogical Society of South Africa
eGSSA branch
The eGSSA branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa has embarked on a project to transcribe all the passenger lists in the South African Archives that the archivists can find for us and some wonderful information has been found at the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository and at the Roeland Street Archives, Cape Town. We thank both of these Archive Repositories and their staff for their help in making these documents available to us and thus to you..
The Passenger List Project transcription is co-ordinated by Richard Wolfaardt with the help of Sasa Malan. The transcriptions are being done by a handful of volunteers. Due to agreements signed with the archives, we will only be publishing the transcribed data and not the original images.
The first 7000 names of the Natal lists are now available on the eGSSA website in an easily searchable database, freely available to all. We will continue to add to the data as we proceed with the transcriptions. Each record found carries a full reference to the original.
Shipping records photographed during phase 1 of our project:-
Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository (NAB), Natal Immigration Board registers
Volume 64 Register of Immigrants Arrived 1849-1852 (in fact only 1850 to 1852 now in this volume)
Volume 65 Register of Immigrants Arrived 1858-1874
Volume 66 Register of Immigrants Arrived 1874-1886
Volume 67 Register of Immigrants Arrived 1887-1902
Volume 69 Register of Immigrants Arrived 1903-1904
Volume 63 Register of
Immigrants Arrived 1905-1910
(Vol 63 is described in the NAB Inventory as
'Register of Applications for Assisted Passages 1905-1911' but is, in fact, the
continuation of the series of 'Registers of Immigrants Arrived')
Roeland Street Archives, Cape Town (KAB)
IBC 6/1 Archives of the Immigration Board of Cape Town. 1857-1862
CC 3/8/1 Passenger lists per various ships in the form of newspaper lists cut out and pasted into a book - newspaper(s) unknown.
PWD 2/401 Passenger Lists: Lists of Emigrants per various ships, covers 1872-1884
PIO Archives of the Principal Immigration Officer, Cape Town. covers 1918-1919, 1929, 1934-1936, 1941-1944, 1946-1948
In phase 2 of the project we will start photographing passengers lists that were published in the Cape Town Gazette and Government Gazette. We are also hoping to identify other primary sources, in order to expand the database.
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