At 06:42 PM 12/01/01 +1100, you wrote: >Sandy thank you for this. It seems we had a rather large influx of >Germans. Is there any where on record which would give a break down on how >many people came to Australia in the mid 1800's from various countries , >e.g. how many Germans, how many Americans etc etc I don't think anyone has extracted figures for the 1800s. If this is incorrect please advise. I would also like to know the answer. There would be a few major difficulties in compiling figures. If it were done from arrivals, there were many who arrived from England although they were from elsewhere in Europe or other nationality. If done from census extracts, country names would cause problems. Someone from current Poland might have put Russia, Hungary, Prussia or Poland. Someone else from Schlesweig-Holstein might put Scandanavia, Denmark or Germany. Russians from Palestine might put Syria or Turkey (Ottoman Empire). Italians and Bohemians sometimes put Austria. These are typical of statements on naturalizations and on alien registration forms during WW1. If taken from naturalizations a nationality survey would only give the numbers for heads of families, with family size unknown. Estimate of numbers of pre-1904 naturalizations from the indexes - NSW approx 6,000, Vic 13,000, SA 6,500, Tas 1,175, WA & Qld not on hand. Breakdown of nationalities from the 1918 census. Not included are about 2,000 internees who were released after the census, mainly Germans, some Austrians, & Turks. Chinese - 19,655 Italians - 4,754 Scandanavians - 4,598 Germans - 4,589 Japanese - 3,523 Greeks - 3,454 Russians - 3,416 Americans - 2,229 Austrians - 1,114 Malays - 948 French - 945 Swiss - 590 Turks - 527 Spanish - 496 Syrians - 399 Filipinos - 210 Belgians - 197 Bulgars - 170 Javanese - 109 Portugese - 53 Afgans - 50 Gary =================== Gary Luke feraltek@zeta.org.au fax +61-2-9519-9907 Sydney, Australia