passenger lists--Scotland to NZ

[speleobat2]

I just found a relative who moved from Scotland to New Zealand after 1891. He died in Wyndham, NZ in 1918. I'm wondering if there are any passenger lists of arrivals in NZ or other immigration records. Haven't found them in the NZ archives, but I also have never looked for this kind of record before!

Carol

[Currie]

Hello Carol,

I can’t think offhand of any NZ immigration or passenger list website that covers all arrivals.

They should show up at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/

Maybe the links on this page will be useful http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/handsonhist ... logy-links

All the best,
Alan

[speleobat2]

Thanks Alan!

Lot's to work with there. I dropped my subscription to ancestorsonboard/findmypast. Too expensive for what you get, but I can narrow the search with the free search and then work with your links.

I tried the cemeteries link for NZ, but didn't find my George Taylor. I do have his dc registration number if I decide to spend the money and order it. I found his original date of death and location on his parents gravestone in Portlethan, Kincardinshire in the MI booklet for Portlethan. It still amazes me how much information people used to put on their gravestones. Some of them read like books! Lucky for us!

Carol

[Alan SHARP]

Passenger lists and shipping movents would be the most studied subject for any family historian down under. That's how New Zealand and Australia became populated these last 150 odd years.

All NZ and Au Genealogy Societies, and interest groups, have extensive material gathered from a wide range of published material, as do the family history sections of Public Libraries, at the main ports of entry. (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin) The larger NZ public libraries can even be searched online, and for free, for basic information. Also try local museums, and their web sites, as they had family history collections, before most public libraries set up family history sections.

Another excellent and free site is Papers Past. More regional papers are being digitised and added every few months. Just pop in the name, or locality, or other identifyer and see what comes up. Don't forget to try varients on spelling.

Alan.

PS Had a quick look at the 2 Otago papers on www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz and only found a George TAYLOR who died in an accident in 1904. Had to refine the search as hits were over 500, and I may have cast the net to narrow. A full general search to a bracketed name, say over just a few days either side of a death date, may be more helpful. Archway is another good site to pick up probates on.

[Alan SHARP]

Hi MARY

Just a quick note while my cuppa cools. Already late for what I need to do today, because I found a dead bull this morning.

Any way I typed Dunedin Cemeteries into google and followed the link to the Dunedin City Cemetery data base. They appear to have a good and easy to use one there. The surname you gave me poped straight up when I put only it into the surname box and selected the 1980 - 1989 search period. It immediately came up with Robert's details for 1980 and noted in a separate box that Janet was buried adjacent in 2003. Did not even have to sort through a list with that surname.

Google the undertaker's name for contact details, and then approach them for next of kin or executor's address. If being PC and will not release the info, put on the hard story about being on the otherside of the world and that your mother's correspondence, has be misplaced with in the faimly so contact, has been lost. Then ask for them to contact same on your behalf. With any luck the Kiwi cousins will contact you.

Cheers,

Alan.

[emanday]

Hi Alan,

Thanks, but I already had their death dates, etc... from that site

However, I hadn't thought about contacting the funeral directors. I'll give it a try.

Fingers crossed.