Colonial Australia: 1788 to Federation

Date: 1788 to 1900
Location: [unknown]

This page has been created to capture all categories and free space and project pages that exist on Wikitree that relate to Colonial Australia. It is a work in progress to identify what exists prior to redefining the preferred layout.

Once implemented content from this page may disappear.

For more information please contact Veronica Williams

Project and Topic Pages

• Australia, Australian Convicts 1788-1868
• Australia, Born in the Colony 1788-1900
• Assisted Immigrants (1838-1898) and Bounty Immigrants (1828-1842)
• Kangaroo Island Early Settlers
• Prussian Settlement in Australia - German Australians
• Earl Grey's Famine Orphan Scheme 1848-1850
• Eureka Stockade 1854
• Explorers of Australia
• Bushrangers

Project Guidelines to assist Wikitreers improve these profiles can be found here.

Categories

• Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)
• Van_Diemen's Land (1825-1856)
• Swan River Colony (1829-1832)
• Colony of Queensland (1859-1900)
• Colony of Western Australia (1832-1900)
• Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)
• Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)
• Colony of Tasmania (1856-1900)

Location Category Information Boxes (CIB) will be used on all landing-level place name categories and to link any towns that have had name changes.

For the guidelines to create Australia Project Categories, please click here.

Notes

A category exists for

• Category: Queensland, Pre-Separationists - before annexure from NSW and became its own colony.

We may need to consider creating similar categories to hold relevant topics under NSW

Convicts

• Australian_Convict_Penal_Colonies

Military and Maritime

• Colonial_Military_Forces
• Guide to Imperial Forces 1788-1870.

Free Space Pages

• Colonies
  
  • The South Australian Company
• Maritime
  
  • The Wreck of the Osmanli
  • Straitsmen and Straits Women Whaling and seal hunting community - the pre-colonial maritime frontier.
• Convicts
  
  • Links on this FS page need fixing - Australian Convict Penal Colonies
  • The content on this page needs to be moved - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Convicts