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Australian immigrants

We are looking for the ancestry of early immigrants to Australia.

Location: Australia
Members: 22
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2025

Early arrivals

Many Australian families can be traced back to early arrivals in Australia, but making the connection back to Britain is often not so straight forward.

I am keen that we should use this forum to identify those key people, and then work together to trace their ancestors back to Scotland (or Ireland, or England).

A starting point is the list in The Douglas Archives of 'Australian arrivals', and 'Douglas convicts shipped to Australia'. Suggestions for additions to these lists would be very welcome.

Please make your contributions as full as possible, with dates and places included, as appropriate.

Discussion Forum

Record cards for early Douglas Immigrants to Australia - 1790s

Started by Ronald Drysdale Oct 18, 2025. 0 Replies

Was the first Douglas in Australia (1788) a convict called William Douglas?

Started by Ronald Drysdale. Last reply by William Douglas Sep 29, 2024. 7 Replies

Bombay Douglas.

Started by stephen light. Last reply by William Douglas Mar 20, 2018. 4 Replies

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Comment by Daryl John Douglass on August 21, 2009 at 13:21
Lots of info on William (george) Douglass after he unwillingly 'migrated' to Australia in 1804. The Cross-Flood foundation have two volumes on his children and their descendants (William Married Rose Flood in 1809, hence the connection)
 

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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