Please contact the State Records Research Centre:
Postal Address: GPO Box 464, Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: 08 7322 7077
Email: staterecords@sa.gov.au
Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Series ID, GRG7/9
This series consists of completed application forms for assisted passage for immigrants travelling to South Australia from the United Kingdom, including boys travelling to work as farm apprentices in Australia under the Balliol Boys’ Club and Dreadnought immigration schemes. The forms include personal details about the applicants, their address in the United Kingdom, referees, name of their parent or guardian etc., date of arrival in South Australia and name of the ship they travelled on. Some of the applications include a photograph of the migrant. There are approximately 1500 files in this series. State Records of South Australia also holds two partial indexes to this series (GRG7/11 and GRG7/18) which may help identify relevant records.
These records are open access and can be viewed by any member of the public. To arrange access to these records please contact State Records of South Australia.