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Topic: Emigration: New Zealand to Australia early 1900s (Read 489 times)
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OzJen
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Greetings, All.
I'm looking for the emigration of my gt-grandfather and his family from New Zealand to Australia - not sure if they came to Sydney or Melbourne first (possibly Sydney?); most likely leaving from Auckland.
I've been able to get the timeframe down to 1906 - 1911 inclusive. Can anyone suggest how I can find them? I've spent a lot of time searching websites and have also tried to find them in records in the Wellington branch of Archives NZ, although I didn't have time to check every record available. Finding this information will allow me to find out a lot more about this family.
His name was Ernest H Bennett, his wife was Elizabeth Ann (Annie). By the time they left NZ they had children Edith, Cora, Ruby, Pearl, Albert and Mercia.
Any suggestions, please, anyone?
Many thanks,
OzJen
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Lucy2
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Hi OzJen 
Do you already have information on Ernest H. and Elizabeth Ann from their time in New Zealand ? Or are you wanting that also ?
It seems that both were NZ-born ... and being British subjects, they were free to travel from here to OZ without the need to go through any immigration process (which effectively means, that there will be no documentation for them other than perhaps names on a passenger list - if one can be found).
There really aren't a lot of remaining passenger lists for trans-Tasman travel unfortunately. And whilst newspapers of the day often published shipping lists (arrivals and departures) you really need a definite date to be able to search - and sometimes passenger names are not all listed. The PROV website (Public Record Office of Victoria) has the best selection of records for passenger arrivals (see "Unassisted arrivals"). Also check the NSW State records website online passenger indexes.
Can help you with some NZ records for families of Ernest and Elizabeth Ann ... if that's what you are wanting.
Later edit : Oh ... I see from another thread, that you probably already have the NZ information ?
Lu
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althea
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If you know there location when in NZ have you tracked directories and electoral rolls to narrow years down further. Were the children of school age, would they have left while one was still in school..thus the date they left will be in school discharge
Bye
Althea
Same story with AUS records
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OzJen
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Thank you, Althea and Lucy2, for resonding to my question.
I will check out the PROV website, Lucy - I hadn't heard of that before.
The school registration idea may also be a possibility for the eldest 2 children. Thanks Althea.
Lucy, I'm interested in anything you can send me about the families of these people. I still have loads of gaps.
Cheers,
OzJen
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wivenhoe
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Hello,
I am assuming that you do not know that this man died in Victoria, and a Victorian death cert. will give you the information that you want - has provision for place of marriage, names and ages of all children, name of spouse, years in the state plus other states of Australia.
Victoria BDM
Ernest Hauswell Bennett d. 1939, parents Frederick Jabos Bennett and Ellen Short
The death cert. would cost you $17.50, downloadable to view at
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-earch?action=getHistIdxSearchCriteria.
Wife Elizabeth d. in 1956, so she would have given the information for the death cert. - best source.
I don't know if you have any of this -
BDM NSW
Mercia Elizabeth Bennett d. 1964 St Leonards, Sydney parents Alfred Ernest and Elizabeth Mary.
Cora Kaye d. at St Leonards and she was Cora Bennet m. Clarence O Kaye 1922, Sydney. Her parents are Ernest Hauswell and Elizabeth Ann.
Ernest is mentioned in the Melbourne Argus newspaper 1929, a fishmonger opening a herbalist shop so you might find him in the Melbourne Post Office Directory.
Wivenhoe.
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OzJen
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Thanks Wivenhoe.
I didn't have either of those BDM entries and will follow them up ASAP.
I'll also look up the Argus entry as well.
Thanks for your input; it's much appreciated.
OzJen
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OzJen
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Hi Lu,
Yes, that IS interesting. That's the year their father died. They were born in 1899. Any idea how that can have happened? They were 40 years old, and living in Australia, when their births were registered ... 
None of the information on Ernest's or Elizabeth's death dertificates casts any light on how long they were in Australia. I've worked out the 1906 - 1911 timeframe for their emigration based on a court case Ernest was involved in back in Auckland (found in PapersPast), and the birth of their last child in Australia which I know occurred in 1912. Due to Ernest's circumstances at the time, I'm not sure he/they left with much fanfare either - it may have been a quiet exit.
There was very little family contact as Ernest's branch of the family grew up and went their own ways in Australia. There was some ill-feeling and information wasn't passed on, so now no one I've been able to find knows much about the family's early days at all - they're a bit of a mystery, and so I'm trying to work out their story by finding documentary evidence. 
This is why I'm trying to find a shipping list or some other document that shows their departure date and destination.
Regards,
OzJen
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OzJen
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Addition to the previous posting:
Mercia was born in NZ in 1905 so I know the family were there then. Ernest features in a newspaper article in 1906; I believe he owned a business in Auckland until then.
Regards,
OzJen
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Certainly the wife may have been around at the time, but she isn't necessarily the death informant.