Single Female Assisted Immigrants to New South Wales (1848-1887)

This dataset contains data on single, female, assisted immigrants arriving in New South Wales, Australia between 1848 and 1887 compiled from shipping lists held by the NSW State Archives. It contains information on 3,768 single (unmarried), female, assisted (sponsored or subsidised) immigrants and any children travelling with them arriving in Sydney, NSW between the opening of the Female Immigration Depot in 1848 and its closure in 1887. This sample was selected by using a random number generator to choose one ship arriving in Sydney for each year of the period. Data for each woman or child was transcribed by hand from digitized copies of 'NRS 5316 Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96' made available online by NSW State Archives. For information about data collection, cleaning, and the variables used see the Data Schema.