Passengers arriving in Australia in the 1960s….
Well, many still came by ship, as £10 POMs…. An emigration scheme. The National Archives of Australia has digitised many of the passenger lists for that era. It is the arrivals manifest for each voyage, and it is the list that was lodged at the FIRST port of call in Australia, provided that voyage was across the Indian Ocean, ie via Suez or around Cape Town, in South Africa. It often reflects part of the info that you can find on the Departure passenger lists at Ancestry and FindMyPast etc, but it does extend well into the 1960s.
Home page for National Archives of Australia:
https://www.naa.gov.au/It can be a tedious process to find the aeroplane Incoming Arrival Cards, but do NOT give up, they are usually in strict alpha order by surname, then by given names. They are usually in batches of around 2400, and so around 1200 passengers per bundle (each card has back and front).
Here is a possibility: (it is page 607 and page 608 of 2376)
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=12001710&S=607 Notice it has a DoB, a nationality, a passport number, and other identifying info about a passenger with same name as your person of interest on . You will likely eliminate this chap, based on his date of birth. Page 608 gives you the Immi Stamp permitting arriving to Australia, stating date and airport etc.
Here is another possibility: (it is page 471 and 472 of 2298) - this batch is very poorly sorted, but the indexer has been careful and the NAA index has found it.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=12554824&S=471 It is for a chap flying from NEW ZEALAND (Wellington) to Sydney for FOUR DAYS … an Engineer, likely work related, but obviously if only intending to stay in Australia for 4 days, he was transiting.
Here is another possibility … this is a SHIP … the Canberra. So page 50 of 62. Tourist class, arriving June 1963.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11990360&S=50Mr and Mrs …. With their proposed address for Tasmania.
There are eight jurisdictions that make up the federation of Australia. Each one has its own parliament, and so, from a family history perspective, there’s eight separate BDMs… so just as Scotland’s People looks after Scotlands bdms, well NSW BDM looks after NSW, and Qld BDM looks after Queensland, etc. NO centralised register covering all the jurisdictions.
Each BDM has its own set of rules, but in general terms, members of the general public are not given access to NON historic records. So, there’s time restrictions…. In NSW it is 100 years for births, 50 years for marriages and 30 years for deaths.
I am still pondering how to help. I agree, we need more clues. … any middle name, profession/occupation, if married, etc.
I have living rellies who are actually old enough to be parents to people born in 1939. Some of them are retired NSW BDM senior officers, some are clergy, some are retired Archivists. They are concerned for the Australian strict rules about privacy of the individual. In Australia that extends to the person’s names, date of birth, etc.
May I suggest perhaps a NEW thread with a link back to this thread. New thread to go on the Australia board, asking for help on this thread on Renfrewshire board. Ask for all replies to go to Renfrewshire board, and perhaps ask for the Australia thread to be locked to avoid duplications.
In meanwhile, I will pull thinking cap down further.
JM
