Recently I've been looking at immigration records after finding a long "lost" Radcliffe amongst the Bounty Immigrants. Ones I found who gave the IOM as their "Native Place" arrived in NSW from 1838 to 1842, so mostly disappeared from IOM records in those tricky years for researchers before the 1841 census. I thought it might be of interest to list some here.

Free immigrants whose passage was paid by the New South Wales government were known as “Bounty Immigrants” because of the bounties which were paid to the ships' masters for the safe delivery of their passengers under the `bounty scheme'. Under this scheme, an incentive was paid to recruiting agents in Britain to find suitable skilled labour and tradespeople, and ship them out to the new colony which needed manual labourers and housemaids. Newly married couples, and single men and women were given preference, while large families were rarely accepted. Details asked for the passenger records were the name of immigrant, his or her parents' names, occupation, age or birthdate, read and write, birthplace, relatives travelling with them, (sometimes) employer, (sometimes) comments, and the name and date of arrival of the ship.

The Archives Authority of New South Wales has the old card index to arriving passengers which they filmed for the years 1828-42 and are part of their Genealogical Research Kit [1] sold to many libraries. Since then the LDS have added the index to some Ancestry subscriptions and to the new beta search.

The spelling is how names were recorded on the index. I have put additions from the scan of the original card index (not from the original passenger record) in round brackets. My corrections/explanations are in square brackets. Other people might be able to spot errors, and post the correct families? A few I found were KERMODE entered as CARMODY; QUIRK entered as KIRK; CORKAN entered as GORKEN; (I assume) KINNISH entered as CUNISH; and JICK entered as CHEEKE.

These are the first four entries found:
Principal's Name John QUAIL (Joiner)
Estimated birth year 1807
Age in years 32 R.W. (Yes)
Native place of Principal Kirkmichael, Isle Of Man
Father's name Thomas Quail (Joiner)
Mother's name Elinor
Spouse's name Catherine Quail (Ladys maid) (aged 32) R.W. --
Native place of spouse Kirkmichael, Isle Of Man
Spouse's Father's name Thomas CARMODY (Tailor) [CARMODE/KERMODE?]
Spouse's Mother's name Elizabeth
Children: Sarah aged 2 years [bap 30 Oct.1836 Saint Mathews, Douglas daur of John QUAYLE & Catherine KERMODE]
Ship Orient
Date of arrival 04 Apr 1839
Volume 23
GS Number 416875
DGS Number 4117087
Image number 05696

[John QUAYLE bapt 24 AUG 1806 Kirk Michael son of Thos Quayle & Eleanor TEARE?]

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Principal's Name Elizabeth CLEMESHA [als KELLY]
(Occupation Domestic svt)
Estimated birth year 1809
Age in years 32
Native place of Principal , Isle Of Man
Father's name William KELLY (dead)
Mother's name E CHEEKE [Elizabeth JICK?]
Spouse's name Samuel CLEMESHA
Native place of spouse Beverley, Yorkshire, England
Spouse's Father's name Samuel Clemesha
Spouse's Mother's name Mary Wordsworth
(Children: Robert Benson 8 years; Wordsworth 5 years; Eliza Jane 9 years)
Ship Ayrshire
Date of arrival 25 Oct 1841
Volume 37
GS Number 416871
DGS Number 4117080
Image number 01976

[Elizabeth KELLY bapt 7 Sept.1809 Saint Mathews, Douglas, daur of Wm KELLY & Elizth JICK]

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Principal's Name Phillip SKILLACORN
(Occupation Farm servant)
Estimated birth year 1818
Age in years 22 [exact date given but too black to read] R.W. (Yes)
Native place of Principal St Michaels, Isle Of Man,
Father's name Phillip Skillacorn Butcher (dead)
Mother's name Margaret CROW
Spouse's name Ellen Skillacorn [CORKAN]
(Occupation Housemaid)
Age in years [black] R.W. (Yes)
Native place of spouse St Michaels, Isle Of Man,
Spouse's Father's name William Gorken (farmer) [CORKAN]
Spouse's Mother's name Judith Gorken
[Also on board] Sister Rebecca SKILLACORN 20 years (occupation child’s and ladysmaid?) [bapt 19 Mar.1820 Kirk Michael, daur of Philip SKILLICORN & Margaret CROW]
Ship Clyde
Date of arrival 21 Apr 1840
Volume 28
GS Number 416876
DGS Number 4117088
Image number 03153

[Philip SKILLICORN & Ellen CORKAN married 10 OCT 1837 Kirk Michael]
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Principal's Name James CAMASH
(Occupation Farm labourer)
Estimated birth year 1819
Age in years 22 R.W. (R.W.)
Native place of Principal Douglas, Isle Of Man,
Father's name Stephen Camash (Shoemaker)
Mother's name Isabella
Spouse's name Esther Camash
(Occupation Farm servant) Age 22 R.W. (R.W.)
Native place of spouse Douglas, Isle Of Man,
Spouse's Father's name John GORDON
Spouse's Mother's name Esther
(Brought out by Alexander Gilchrist)
Ship Adam Lodge
Date of arrival 30 Aug 1841
Volume 26
GS Number 416871
DGS Number 4117080
Image number 00233

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