African Immigrants to 19th Century Australia

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Australia
Surnames/tags: African_Ancestry Africa

African Ancestry Project

The table below shows Immigrants of African Ancestry who chose to migrate to Australia in the 19th Century. These people were not transported there.

It is important to note that this list is not complete, but is a working document. More research needs to be done and the best source is: Trove which is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia. It has Digitalised Newspapers.

asterisk * denotes uncertainty

Name	Year and Birthplace	Resident Country	Occupation	Year of Emigration	Died	State/Colony	Image	Traced
John William "Black Jack" Anderson	1806* Delaware United States of America	United States of America	Pirate	1832*	1836	Recherche Archipelago, Swan River Colony	"Black Jack Anderson".	Yes
John Wesley Anderson	1821 Philadelphia United States of America	United States of America	Seaman then Coalminer (in Australia)	1839	1859	Wormbete Forest, Colony of Victoria	Anderson Reunion Article, (1895), Hopetoun, Victoria.	Yes
Richard Bain	1877 Jamaica		Wharf Labourer	1899	after 1918	New South Wales		Yes
Peta Cruz	1856 Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	Labourer		1907	New South Wales		Yes
Hosea Easton	1849 Conneticut, United States of America	United States of America	Minstrel	1876	1899	Colony of New South Wales	A rare photo of the famous banjoist Hosea Easton, playing the part of Uncle Tom, in a Theatre in Melbourne, Australia circa 1880.	Yes
Bill Ford	1797 Charles Maryland United States of America	United States of America	Free Slave, Labourer	after 1837	after 1863	Colony of New South Wales	Hanging Rock Diggings, New South Wales	Yes
William Jones	1873 Boston United States of America	United States of America	Labourer	before 1891	after 1901	New South Wales		Yes
William King	1863 Ipswich United States of America	United States of America then England	cook, sailor, engineer	1887	1916	died at sea (formerly in Colony of Victoria)	William King (mugshot).	Yes
Gilbert Robertson	1794 Trinidad British West Indies	Scotland	Agriculatural Scientist, Newspaper Editor, Police Officer	1822	1851	Colony of Victoria	'The Colonist' professes to be 'The Journal of the People' (1832)	Yes
Robert Turnbull	1846 Barbados	Unknown	Sailor	Springbox*	1879	Colony of New South Wales	Governor's House of Maitland Gaol, where Robert Turnbull was an inmate	Yes