Archives Hub – British Women’s Emigration
This site focuses on organisations created to encourage educated middle-class women to migrate to British colonies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa in the late 1800s-early 1900s.
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Shipping and migration
Auckland City Libraries – Digital Library – Combined Research Database Search
This search offers a a combined search of all library in-house databases for local and family history information. The databases include:• Address to Queen Victoria – Search for one of the 25,000 children who signed a congratulatory address to Queen…
Pre-1839 Foreigners in NZ
This site is dedicated to identifying those foreigners who arrived in New Zealand or were born here before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Qualification for name inclusion on this site is arrival before 6th February 1840. A search returns…
FamNet – NZ Settlers and Immigrants
This free online searchable database lists name, New Zealand arrival date and place, ship, birth date and place, genealogy database (GDB) link (paid) and notes.
Findmypast – Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
The National Archives (UK) Outward Passenger Lists for voyages departing the British Isles 1890-1960 (BT27) for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA detail 24 million+ records. The database covers many arrivals into Australia that are still unindexed…
Ancestry.com – UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960
This collection of passenger lists is fully indexed with digital images available. It contains 16+ million names from the Board of Trade (BT26) passenger lists of ships arriving in the United Kingdom from foreign ports outside of Europe and the…
Our Stuff
This site focuses on New Zealand and contains online resources such as lists of passengers, publicans, barmaids and juries plus naturalisations, directories, pioneer rolls and much more.
Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835-1910
Lists the movements of ships. Some passenger lists are available.
New Zealand Ireland Connection
This site highlights the connections between New Zealand and Ireland. A list of New Zealand’s Irish Immigrants is available online (contributions welcome).
Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers – New Zealand – March 1848 to January 1851
This site also includes a corrected version of Dr Hocken’s appendix to his 1898 book Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand (Otago) which lists passengers from Great Britain to Otago (Port Chalmers) 1848-1851.