In an appendix to his 1898 book, Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand (Otago), Dr Thomas Morland Hocken published lists of passenger arrivals from vessels despatched from Great Britain to the settlement of Otago, between 1847 and 1850. The information in the registers varies considerably. There were considerable delays in making land available to settlers, who were temporarily housed in poor conditions in Auckland and the Waikato. These registers record those who entered New Zealand under two short-lived schemes: ‘Small Farmers with Capital’ 1886-1888 [(ACFQ 8238) IM 18/1a], Indexed into the General Biographical Index c1840-1880s, People who received reduced fare passages under arrangements the government entered into with two shipping companies, Shaw Savill & Albion and the NZ Shipping Company, 1904-1906. New Zealand Shipping Company. New Zealand Society of Genealogists and local branches. There are no dates provided and it is searchable by name on Archway. 1910 NZSCo together with Shaw, Savill and White Star Line took control of the Canadian-Australasian Line (James Huddart) and recommenced services between New Zealand - Australia and Canada. All we know about them is in these lists. Such as: Departmental index of inwards letters [ACFS 8240 IM-CH1 1 /], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - Inwards letters [ACFT 8246], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - outwards correspondence [ACFT 8248], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - papers relating to the despatch of immigrants [ACFT 8249], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - surgeons' journals [ACFT 8250], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - medical journals [ACFT 8251], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - surgeons' requisition books [ACFT 8252], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - passenger lists [ACFT 8253], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - miscellaneous ships' papers [ACFT 8254], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - cash books [ACFT 8255], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer – ledgers [ACFT 8256], Secretary to the Immigration Commissioners and Immigration Officer - miscellaneous account papers [ACFT 8257], Forms for nominating immigrants [ACFU 8260 IM-NP1/1], "Halcione" Surgeons requisition book [ACFU 8261 IM-NP2/1], Agreements between employers and immigrants [ACFU 8262 IM-NP3/1]. A number of ‘boys’ (many late teens) from Parkhurst Prison in England were pardoned, on condition they went to New Zealand and, in some cases, served apprenticeships. Fencibles appear in the General Biographical Card Index. See end of table for births and deaths on board. It is worth checking all three sections of the index. [(ACFQ 8237) IM 17/1; REPRO 1642]. Names are in the General Biographical Index. There may also be information in resources such as New Zealand’s Heritage (1973), The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966) and the online encyclopaedia Te Ara. Search this database of New Zealand ships passenger lists, over 2,400 passenger lists from the 1800s and 1900s : Search HERE: Additional Resources Passenger Lists to New Zealand at Sooty's Homepage Denise and Peter's Passenger Lists over 1,000 passenger lists … The records include about half the total number of immigrants in the period. Passenger lists - Misc smaller ports in New Zealand, 1850-1880; A-Z Passengers with Undefined Ports of Entry in New Zealand, 1854-1867; A-Z Ship Stonz - Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910 Ships from United Kingdom and Ireland The entries in the registers are in numerical order. New Zealand Company records contain information about immigrants to New Zealand 1839-1850. Ashburton, departed from London, England, stopped in Nelson, New Zealand, and arrived in Lyttelton, New Zealand, 19 December 1859. By 31 March 1941 they were in 158 foster homes. Other records: ‘Evacuation of Children from UK 1940-1946’ [(ACIE 8798) EA W2619 (Box 61) 108/4/3 part 1], ‘Official Index of children’ [(ACGO 8369) IA 37/1], ‘Samples of Correspondence … Lists of Children where sent, escorts, etc’ [(ACGO 8369) IA 37/3], ‘Minutes and reports of British Children's Reception Committee 1940’ (ACGO 8460) IA 146/1], ‘British Children Evacuated to New Zealand 1940-1945’ [AADK W4075 (Box 15) 9/8/10] Restricted, War – British Children – General Correspondence 1940-1942’ [CW W1043 40/2/66] Restricted, War – British Children – Education 1941-1943’ [CW W1043 40/2/84] Restricted, War – British Children – Proposed remission of contributions to foster parents 1942-1946’ [CW W1043 40/2/88] Restricted. R100 [ABKF 6794]. Passenger lists on ships continued until 1965, when cards completely replaced lists for both air and sea travel. ’. The Nomination Scheme continued until early 1891 and resulted in the immigration of 31,693 people. Refunds – Waikato Immigrants c1866-1877 [BAAZ 4688] (AK), Register of Applications for Grants for Waikato Immigrants 1867-1882 [BAAZ 4689/1a] (AK), Waikato Immigration - Applications for Crown Grants 1868-1877 [BAAZ 4690] (AK). The pensioners settled in villages to the south and east of Auckland, at Ōnehunga, Howick, Panmure and Ōtāhuhu, as a chain of defence to protect Auckland from an imagined Māori threat. They are referred to as the Social Security passenger lists. The passenger lists held in Wellington [ADBO 16135] cover both assisted and unassisted immigrants who arrived by ship from 1883 until 1973. The inbound passenger lists also include airplane arrivals in Auckland beginning in 1939 and continuing through 1965. There are gaps and records are often not well organised. Agents in Britain recruited immigrants or they were nominated by people already living in New Zealand. Because New Zealand is two islands in a remote part of the world and European immigration has been going on for only the last 150 years, and until the 1950s the only real way of getting to NZ was by ship, it stands to reason that NZ passenger lists would be an important part of anyone's New Zealand genealogy research. These lists (which sometimes include crew lists) were compiled by shipping companies and collected by customs officials when ships arrived. Labour Department archives include various records of immigration, particularly of people who were not British [L20 – L30]. Canterbury Provincial Government immigration: Shipping papers relating to 13 provincial scheme voyages 1860-1874 [CH 290] (CH), Provincial government material relating to immigration (indexed) [CH 287] (CH), Canterbury Passenger Lists 1855-1884 [ACFS 8243] (W). Cards usually note arrival dates and give references to passenger lists. Includes port to port passenger lists within New … Labour Department files relating to immigration in the 1950s and 1960s are extensive. (CH), Department of Labour Christchurch District Office, Immigration Division [CH6] (CH). The Internet. All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means You have to buy units to the passenger list but the site can be searched for free. Fitted ships with refrigerated capacity for NZ meat in 1881. Regulations for Married Couples and Families stated: “If the Emigrant is unable to pay the whole of the money before sailing, he will be required to sign a promissory note for a sum equal to double the amount remaining unpaid.” According to this promise, repayment was to be in quarterly installments beginning three months after landing. Pensions preemptive Schedules 1853-56, Lands & Survey Department [BAAZ 4708/1a] (AK), Auckland Deposition Books may include additional details [Series 5989] (AK), Imperial Pensions (General Biographical card index), Treasury Department Registers 1865-1891 [ADRK 17399]. The scheme was greeted with great public enthusiasm in New Zealand when announced on 25 June 1940 and over 3000 children were nominated for assisted passages. Board of Trade records of passenger lists are held at National Archivies … Help us improve your experience by taking this short survey, Te hoatu taurewa i ngā mauhanga kāwanatanga, He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni, The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand, Open Government Third National Action Plan, Proactive release of official information, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, Other useful records of ships and their voyages, AP 9/3; AREPRO 4711/448 (AK); REPRO 1615 (W), ‘Waikato’ Immigration Scheme 1864-1865, Land grants: unassisted immigrants 1874-1883, Index cards to temporary permit files 1930-1960, Nominal card index to subsidy scheme for immigration from Britain 1950s-1960s, (ACIE 8798) EA W2619 (Box 61) 108/4/3 part 1, ACGO 8335 IA3 58 / 1/58 1901/1261-1902/765, Other possible sources of immigration information. Index cards to temporary permit files 1930-1960, including a separate index to stowaways, deserters The records include about half the total number of immigrants in the period. If you know the vessel's name - check Gavin's website 'Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835 to 1910' to obtain the arrival port and date in New Zealand. These card indexes are held in the Wellington Reading Room. Those who came by ship are recorded in passenger lists (unindexed) [SS1]. The card indexes do not include crew members or passengers who embarked after the ship had left Britain, such as in Australia. [ACHU 19328]. Other relevant material in our Wellington archive includes: Specific files on Special Settlements [(ACFQ 8226) IM 6/1-11] Some on Micro 1921-1922. Also includes travel within New Zealand ports. The Social Security Department used these Passenger Lists to check people's eligibility for old age pensions. Boys and girls came to New Zealand in parties of 15-25 until late 1952 when the scheme was halted. Date: 13 Mar 1931 From: New Zealand Shipping Company : Records Ref: fMS-Papers-4293-097-13 Description: Passenger list for R.M.S. Files held at our Wellington archive include some lists of the children, reports from voyages out and some reports on individual children. Families are listed first, followed by single men and single women. Naturalisation records from 1949 hold information on Polish children who became New Zealand citizens. and sick seamen at the end. http://www2.symet.net/whitehouse/nzbound/lists.htm, Free Trial - Ancestry.com US Deluxe Membership. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists. In the South Island special settlements were attempted at Karamea, Jacksons Bay and Stewart Island. Other records include: Dutch settlers [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/1/58] [Search Series 8814 and record number 22/1/58], Dutch settlers, including from colonies in SE Asia [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/1/72] [Search Series 8814 and record number 22/1/72], Drafts: Correspondence, Lists and Schedules 1950-1966 [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/8/1-325] [Search Series 8814 and record number 22/8/*], Netherlands Drafts 414-425, 1967 [ABKF 947 W5182 22/8 (Box 313)] [Search Accession W5182 and box 313], Netherlands/Dutch Drafts 1966-1967 [ABKF 947 W5199 22/3/2 (Box 5)] [Search Series 947 and record number 22/3/2]. General Biographical Index c1840-1880s [Bio 1], Assisted Immigration Scheme Index 1871-1888 [IM 15], Canterbury Provincial Assisted Immigrants Index. These include arrivals to Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. For access contact: Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, There is an index to these files and it is open access. Cyclopedia of New Zealand (6 volumes 1897-1906). A person over 12 years of age was reckoned an adult; a child between one and twelve was half an adult; infants under one year were free. Registers held are: Canterbury & Timaru 1871-1874 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/1], Auckland (very small & incomplete register) 1873 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/1a], Hawkes Bay 1871-1874 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/2], Marlborough 1871-1874 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/3], Nelson & Hokitika 17 February 1872-1874; Greymouth 2 May 1872-1874 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/4], Otago 1871-1874; Ōamaru 1872-1874; Invercargill 1872-1873; Riverton 1872-1873 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/5], Invercargill 1873-1874 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/7], Wellington 1878-1880 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/11], Wellington 1881-1890 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/12], Wellington 1890-1891 [(ACFQ 8230) IM 10/13], Papers relating to Cancelled Nominations 1873-1889 [Search Series 8223 using the keywords ‘cancelled nominations’ [(ACFQ 8223) IM 3/1-3], Nominated immigration bills and promissory notes, Canterbury 1871-1879 [(ACFQ 8231) IM 11/13]. [ABRR 6889/1]. The name ‘Fencible’ comes from the word ‘defence’. Papers Past Digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals published between 1839 and 1949. New Zealand – Passenger lists of Army Department, New Zealand Company, Taranaki Provinice and Internation Affairs Department, 1850. The FamilySearch site has additionally enabled word searching to be done of the passenger list. to retrieve any portion of the site. Access restrictions may apply. Search by name/s, place, year. Later they were passed on to the Social Security Department. New Zealand – Passenger lists from foreign ports to Canterbury 1855-1871. The Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington has the largest collection of microfilm newspapers from around New Zealand, and many are available and searchable on their ‘Papers Past’ website. The passenger lists are unindexed. In Wellington we hold many outwards ship passenger lists up to 1973 in the Social Security Department records [ADBO 16135], but the sequences are far from complete until after 1910. The register entries give specific file references for correspondence and are not the correspondence itself. Register of Immigrants 1874-1883 (not including lapsed applications). For 1840-1880s our Wellington archive holds records of government-assisted immigrants only, mostly ship passenger lists. Available in the Reading Room. An alphabetical card index is available in our Auckland archive. 1. Microform - 1999. NZ Bound Index Search Hints Lists Ports B T 27/. It takes about an hour to search six months of lists for one name. Please follow the link for further explanation. There are also columns showing the amount of total cost of the passage, how much p… It lists immigrant ships to Lyttelton and gives dates where passengers lists appear in 1850s-1870s newspapers. 387.2 NEW. Shipping Index, Port of Wellington entry 1856-1887 (alphabetical, in the Wellington Reading Room, created by NZSG, Wellington), The Comber List or Index (original held in the Wellington Museum of City and Sea) has entries, in chronological order of departure date, for most immigrant ships which arrived in New Zealand from Britain 1839-1889. You do not need a FamilySearch account to access these records. Some access restrictions apply. This study is organized by Family Groups (lineages descending from a single individual). Birth and marriage records (Central Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Wellington). A few went home after the war, but most stayed in New Zealand. Additionally, ships’ papers from nineteenth century voyages, especially in the 1870s, may include reports on the voyages and other information. The passenger lists are grouped in three or six month periods by port: Auckland, or Wellington, or the minor ports which were Lyttelton and Bluff. Information can sometimes be found in customs records [ACIF 16482] and may also be found in immigration scheme records. You can search these arrival records in our collection. No boys were sent after 1843 and this system of immigration was officially discontinued in 1845. Labour Department archives also include immigration records after 1900 and a few may be found under the Customs Department. Child Welfare, Army, External Affairs and Labour created records. Find My Past across Australia and New Zealand covering 1788 to the late 1800s. Children up to the age of 11 are listed with their parents. Many passenger lists are now online. Migrant Ships Arriving in New Zealand 1839-1860 by Perth DPS (Australia); over 100 NZ passenger lists of ships that arrived in Auckland, Bluff, Dunedin, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Otago, Port Nicholson, Timaru, Wanganui and Wellington. ‘Lists of Immigrant Debtors to the Provincial Government of Otago for Passage Moneys’ 1848-1872 (2 photocopies 1869 & 1872) [ACHU 19316]. Database of 1843-1885 arrivals to and departures from New Plymouth, from the passenger lists published in the Taranaki Herald. Assisted Immigration to Canterbury 1855-70. The records for minor ports hold some emigration records for 1886 and then from 1895. After the Second World War 504 ‘displaced’ Yugoslavs entered New Zealand 1949-1951. Entries are in: ‘Nominal Rolls of Displaced Persons Entering New Zealand 1949-1952’ [(ACGV 8834) L 22/1-10] [Search Series 8834 [Search Series 8834 and Box 1], A file: ‘NZ Police reports on Yugoslavs 1948-1952’ gives brief official reports on Yugoslavs seeking to sponsor other Yugoslavs, usually relatives, to New Zealand. This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. Passenger lists, 1871-1888 [microfilm] - Collections Online - Auckland War Memorial Museum condensed Customs Department Greymouth. Passenger lists of assisted immigrants to various ports in New Zealand. The many records for this scheme include: Land records for Waikato Immigrants c1860-1879 [BAAZ 4687] (AK), Register of Immigrants 1864-65, and Register of Contingent Land Payments and Transfers 1864-1876 (various lists; photocopies for viewing) [BAAZ 1967] (AK). So if you have identified the name of the passenger you are looking for, and have a date range for their voyage to New Zealand it is easiest to search using the FamilySearch website. New Zealand Company: 1838-53. Over 700 Polish refugee children arrived on the US warship General Randall, 31 October 1944, with about 100 Polish adults. If no specific ship name or date are known, it is necessary to search the passenger lists which can only be done at our Wellington archive. Card indexes have been created, from all surviving passenger lists and immigrant information at Archives New Zealand in Wellington, of those assisted to New Zealand by the New Zealand Company, other colonising ventures, provincial and central governments, 1840-1880s. From the 1860s onward a number of other specific group or nationality migrations can be identified at different periods, and we have material on some of these groups. New Zealand Shipping Company Passenger Lists 1875-1950 New Zealand Shipping Company Passenger Lists 1875-1950, Book. Serving Genealogists since 1998 With 942 Ships, 250 ship photographs, 2434 Passenger Lists, FamilySearch Historical Records provide searchable ship passenger lists for New Zealand. ISTG™ NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2016 and may NOT be The earliest outbound lists are from minor ports (ports other than Auckland or Wellington) and begin in 1886. Identifiable groups, among many other arrivals by sea and air 1950s-1960s, are: Belgians - Drafts 1962-1965 [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/14/1-14)] [Search Series 8814 and Belgian], Greeks - Drafts 1962-1966 [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/3/15] [Search Series 8814 and 22/3/15], Germans & Austrians - Drafts 1956-1964 [(ACGV 8814) L 1 22/4/1-46] [Search Series 8814 and 22/4/*], Assisted Migrants whose Cards and Files have been Destroyed – Up to Draft 110 [(ABKF 8004) W5199/1-5] [Search Series 8804 and Box 3], Registered Case Files of Temporary-entry Immigrants [(ACGV 8832) L20]. Also, please don't ask what individual passengers did after they arrived In New Zealand. Ship Passenger Lists (6 ships of 13) 1862-1863 [BAAZ 4115/1a] (AK), Ship Passenger List (War Spirit) 1863 [BAAZ 4115/1a] (AK), Other groups arrived in 1866 & 1873 to join this Bohemian settlement. Single Women “Cooks, Housemaids, General Servants, Dairy-maids, etc ... not under 15 nor over 35 years of age” could come under slightly different conditions. The Fleets. Nominated migrants might appear in other records as well, such as Register Books of Lists of Passage Orders. There were special settlements in the Bay of Islands, at Albertland in the Kaipara Harbour, at PÅ«hoi north of Auckland, at Katikati in the western Bay of Plenty. Use a search engine and enter ‘Immigration New Zealand’ and then refine the search. Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, March 1848 - January 1851 Passenger Lists for - Otago - Port Chalmers - Dunedin Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to New Zealand, 1852 onwards [microform] Papers Past can be searched for “shipping intelligence” and other passenger lists, e.g. Columns include name, age, county and occupation. 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