NRS-5315 | Wage agreements and entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships

The agreements record the conditions under which the immigrant was to work for his or her sponsor. The certificates note the name, age, calling, native place, health, religion and education of the immigrant; the names of his or her parents; and the amount of bounty claimed. Included also are nominal lists of the immigrants, showing their name, age and calling, the number of their children, how the passage cost was defrayed; if they had been in quarantine, by whom they were engaged, and what their wages were. This series complements the Agent's Immigrant Lists (NRS 5316) but provides more information about the immigrants.Printed indexes to these records were published. This series is indexed in Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales No.29: Immigration: Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59 (1987, in 3 volumes) (hardcopy available in Western Sydney reading room). Its content is included in the online Assisted immigrants index 1839-1896.See Guide to Using the Archives Resources Kit for an item list.(4/4892-903). 12 vols. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.