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LINKS - Immigration, Shipping, Passenger lists
« on: Tuesday 02 November 10 23:07 GMT (UK) »
All New Zealanders have either migrated here or are descendants of migrants. Maori migration is traced through whakapaka while formal Pakeha (non-Maori) migration records began with New Zealand Company settlement from 1840. Over time there have been a variety of immigration schemes both provincial and national, as well as schemes focused on specific groups and nationalities, described here:

Archives New Zealand Research Guide – Migration.
http://archives.govt.nz/migration

Hocken Collection – Immigration to New Zealand.
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/hoc_fr_bulletins/22_bulletin.pdf

When Did They Come?

Determining the date and port of arrival of an ancestor to New Zealand is often difficult, since many shipping records remain unindexed or are indexed only by vessel. The following may provide clues to when and where an individual arrived and will allow more efficient use of online and archived shipping resources:

Date of first NZ event: first birth or baptism, marriage or death; school enrolment, membership of a local organisation, electoral roll entry etc.
Occupation: trade advertisements in local newspapers.
NZ Death certificate: ‘How long in New Zealand.’
NZ Intention to Marry Notice: ‘Length of Residence.’
Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Published as regional editions, these contained pocket biographies.
Obituaries in newspapers.
Monumental inscriptions.
First known residence in New Zealand.
Was a child named after the vessel (or occasionally, the captain)?
Oral tradition: diaries, letters or postcards, family anecdotes, bible notes.
Consider the possibility that they travelled with other relatives or friends. Do you know their vessel?


NOTE: The original passenger manifests of early immigration vessels may only name assisted emigrants, e.g., those whose passage was paid for by Government. Passengers who paid their own passage, such as Cabin or Intermediate passengers, may not appear in these lists. Their names usually appeared in contemporary newspapers reporting the vessel's arrival. Lastly, some immigrants worked their passage as crew and are very hard to find as crew lists were not published.

Resources:

Auckland City Library.
http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/DigitalLibrary/resourcepages/aucklandareapassengerarrivals.aspx?RD=~/DigitalLibrary

Dawn Chambers Genealogical and Historical Research Data
Includes shipping lists and the roll of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 29th Reinforcements.
https://www.nzpictures.co.nz/

Our Stuff.
Denise & Peter’s site which has lists by ship’s name or port of arrival.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/OurPassengerLists.htm

Emigrants from Cornwall ENG to New Zealand ports.
This collection of PDF files lists emigrants to various New Zealand posts between 1858 and 1884.
   Assisted emigrants to Lyttelton/Canterbury 1858-1884.
   Emigrants to Auckland 1872-1880.
   Emigrants to Wellington 1872-1880.
   Emigrants to Other Ports (Canterbury/Lyttelton, Christchurch, Hawke’s Bay, Invercargill, Marlborough, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Otago, Bluff, Picton, Taranaki, Timaru, Westland) 1872-1884.
Provides name, age, married status, parish/county, departure date, arrival date, vessel, notes and reference.
https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/extra-searches/emigrants/
URL updated 6 August 2023 by Spades.

The Farthest Promised Land by Prof. R. Arnold:
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-ArnFart.html

FamilySearch (Beta). New format (2010). Excellent site with many databases. For NZ Immigration Passenger Lists 1871-1915 and other New Zealand resources click on 'Australia and New Zealand'.
https://beta.familysearch.org/

Fencibles Ships.
The Fencibles were a corps of retired British Army soldiers who arrived in NZ with their families between 1847 and 1852 and formed a local defence force which protected the early settlers of Auckland. Includes a link to the New Zealand Fencible Society.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shipstonz/royal_nz_fencibles.html

Find My Past.
A pay-per-view site for UK departures 1890-1960, Free index search.
http://www.findmypast.com/home.jsp

The First Four Ships to Canterbury in 1850.
Features photographs of the surviving passengers (taken in 1900) and other information.
http://www.firstfourships.co.nz/

Immigrant Ships to NZ 1835-1910.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shipstonz/shipstonz.html

Immigration into Australia. Online Indexes and Passenger Lists.
http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipindex.htm

New Zealand-Ireland Connection. Includes list of immigrants from IRL to NZ.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/historyarthistory/nzic/index.html
ELLERKER - Beverley ERY ENG
HEALEY - IRL?
MURDOCH - Wigtownshire SCT, Otago and Westland NZ
PALING - Nottinghamshire ENG
RILEY - Flamborough; Cottingham; South Dalton ERY, Manitoba CAN, & London ENG
STURTON - Arnold, Nottinghamshire ENG
SUTTRON - All, NRY & DUR ENG
TAYLOR - London ENG
TYLER - London ENG
TERNAN/TIERNAN - Dublin IRL

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Re: LINKS - Shipping
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 July 12 04:51 BST (UK) »
New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG).
Shipping database (members only, login required).
http://www.genealogy.org.nz/Shipping_Database_362.aspx

New Zealand Bound.
Provides a wealth of background information on the main NZ ports, with links and passenger lists.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/

New Zealand Shipping Company.
New Zealand-based vessels of NZSC calling at Pitcairn Island 1912-1959.
http://www.nzsc.co.uk/Passengers/Passenger_Lists.html

Nelson Early Settlers Database.
Arrivals 1841-1850.
http://ww1.applications.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/early-settlers/

Passenger Arrivals at Port Chalmers, Otago, March 1848-January 1851.
(An expanded and corrected version of Dr Hocken's lists)
http://www.ngaiopress.com/drhocken.htm

Petone Settlers Museum (Wellington). Passenger Database 1839-1897.
http://huttcity.info/en/Leisure--Culture/Museums-and-galleries/Our-museums/Petone-Settler-DB/

Pre-1839 Foreigners in New Zealand.
http://sites.google.com/site/pre1839settlersinnz/home
Lists non-Maori who were living or had lived in New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/SearchPage.aspx
One researcher discovered the passenger list of the Ganges which arrived in Auckland in February 1865 from Queenstown, Co. Cork.
There may be other passenger lists available.

Shadows of Time. The home page for this site is defunct, but the ships listed arrived in NZ prior to 1865.
http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/ships.html

Puke Ariki Museum - Taranaki Area Passenger Arrivals 1843-1885.
Covers arrivals to and departures from New Plymouth.
http://www.pukeariki.com/Research/TaranakiResearchCentre/PassengerList.aspx

The Ships List. Numerous links to passenger lists including NZ, USA, CAN and AUS.
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/index.htm

Yesteryears. Has shipping lists and other useful information.
http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/index.html

Toitū Otago Settlers Museum.
Excellent resources for early emigration to Otago.
www.toituosm.com/
This website includes some very helpful essays discussing the experience of immigration to New Zealand in the 1800’s.
http://www.otago.settlers.museum/learn/across-the-ocean-waves

ELLERKER - Beverley ERY ENG
HEALEY - IRL?
MURDOCH - Wigtownshire SCT, Otago and Westland NZ
PALING - Nottinghamshire ENG
RILEY - Flamborough; Cottingham; South Dalton ERY, Manitoba CAN, & London ENG
STURTON - Arnold, Nottinghamshire ENG
SUTTRON - All, NRY & DUR ENG
TAYLOR - London ENG
TYLER - London ENG
TERNAN/TIERNAN - Dublin IRL

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A bright eye to the main chance': Brogdens' Navvies - British labourers building New Zealand's railways. Massey University (2020).
file:///C:/Users/House/Downloads/BLONDELLMAThesis.pdf
This excellent thesis includes a near-complete list of Brodgen Navvies and their families who arrived in New Zealand.
 
Log of Logs, Volume 1, 2 and 3, by Ian Nicholson.
A list of ships traveling into Australian and New Zealand waters between 1788 and 1990. Contain metadata about log book sources and places each ship visited.
Available to download for free at https://zenodo.org/record/6901
file:///C:/Users/House/Downloads/LogofLogsVol1.pdf

White Wings, Vol.1 and Vol. 2 by Sir Henry Brett.
Volume 1 (1924):
https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre01Whit.html
Volume 2 (1928):
https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre02Whit.html

Burials on Matiu Somes Island 1872-1919
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nzlhvrsg/matiu_somes_burials.html

Quarantine Island, Otago resources
https://studylib.net/doc/6884277/quarantine-island-resources

Somes Prisoners. Quarantine Ships: 1872-1920
https://www.oocities.org/somesprisonersnz/quarantineships.html

Ancestral Journeys of New Zealand
This book series recounts the various voyages of ten ships which brought European emigrants to New Zealand between 1851 and 1902.

The Chrysolite: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1861-1862 (2014). Belinda Lansley
In Sickness and in Health: Brother's Pride and Bahia: Two Ships. Two Fates. One Arrival Date. Lyttelton Heads, 1863 (2013). Belinda Lansley
The Wool Clipper Glentanner: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1857-1861 (2013). Belinda Lansley
The John Temperley: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1865-1866 (2016). Belinda Lansley
The Clipper Ship Sebastopol: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1861-1863 (2012). Belinda Lansley
Shaw, Savill & Albion Co's Zealandia: Immigration Ship 1869-1902 (2014). Belinda Lansley & Marolyn Diver
The Lancashire Witch: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1856-1867 (2013). Belinda Lansley
The Voyages of the Gananoque: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1860-1864 (2013). Belinda Lansley
The Cashmere: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1851-1863 (2016). Belinda Lansley

The Scholefield Papers
This collection of over 6000 pages of original letters and family trees was assembled under the direction of Guy Hardy Scholefield (1877-1963) around the time of the New Zealand centennial celebrations held in 1940. The papers resulted from the creation of a 'pioneer roll', the concept being that anyone whose family was established in the Wellington Province up to 1855 would be eligible for inclusion.
The Scholefield Papers are now available on Wellington City Recollect, a database of photos, books, maps and ephemera reflecting the Capital's past. Go to Collections.
https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/

Journey to New Edinburgh documentary series
Developed by Toitū Otago Settlers Museum with support from the Otago Settlers Association, this eight-part documentary series traces the footsteps of Otago’s early European pioneers from its genesis in Scotland through to the challenging realities the settlers faced when they arrived. 
https://www.toituosm.com/whats-on/watch
Episode 1: Genesis
Episode 2: An Ideal Settlement 1843-48
Episode 3: Pilgrims
Episode 4: Big Players Little Enemy
Episode 5: Making it Work
Episode 6: The Coming of the Highlanders
Episode 7: The Greening of the South
Episode 8: A New Breed
ELLERKER - Beverley ERY ENG
HEALEY - IRL?
MURDOCH - Wigtownshire SCT, Otago and Westland NZ
PALING - Nottinghamshire ENG
RILEY - Flamborough; Cottingham; South Dalton ERY, Manitoba CAN, & London ENG
STURTON - Arnold, Nottinghamshire ENG
SUTTRON - All, NRY & DUR ENG
TAYLOR - London ENG
TYLER - London ENG
TERNAN/TIERNAN - Dublin IRL