Forum: New Zealand Genealogy

Hello, I would just like to thank those of you who take the time to respond to genealogical novices like me! I have already posted one message, but can you tell me, how you research modern day relatives in New Zealand if you can't access the records!! Can yoou access Ancestry in New Zealand? I...

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I'll start the NZ forum off. :) Anyone with BURROW ancestry - descended from William BURROW and Mary EVANS from Devonshire, who arrived in NZ in early 1887 - please get in touch with me. Leave me a PM or email me. Thanks Burrow Digger

Back row from L to R Flo Emma Amy Daisy. Front Row Bob and Ju at a New Zealand Railway station From L to R Daisy Bob and Ju at a Wedding. Some members of the family no names mentioned. Jun and Bob with Grandchildren

Hi, Can anyone help me please with tracing the following relatives. I have just received four death reports from New Zealand, and have found that I have further relatives born between 1931 and 1937, and a marriage after 1930, but can't seem to access any records because of the date restriction! Can...

I am trying to find information on Stanley who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1920's; originally from Manchester. Could anyone assist me? Thanks

I trying to find when a photographer called "Clarke Bros(late Crombies) opposite Union Bank, Queen St, Auckland." came into being. I have just gotten hold of a photo of a gentleman and the only clue to who the man is, is the name of the photographer who took the photo. Knowing just when this...

Herbert Benjamin WILLIAMS and Mary Jane nee MILLRAY married in Christchurch 30 Dec 1886. They had 9 children 1. Herbert Frederick WILLIAMS (1889-1978) 2. George Ingram WILLIAMS (1890-1944) 3. James Ernest WILLIAMS (1892-1924) 4. Jessica Everett...

Good news! FamilySearch has started to add digital images of New Zealand probate records to its collection. There's no surname index on FamilySearch, but apparently you can use an index at www. archway.archives.govt.nz to find probate file numbers for particular people and then browse...

Hello folks, I've been trundling along slowly with my little research project on my ancestor George Griffith/s New Zealand Gold Rush adventure, and have managed to find some references to George having been in Hokitika. He is mentioned in an advertisement in the West Coast Times in March 1866,...

Hello folks, On a bit of a whim I've decided to put up a blog on my gt gt grandfather George's Griffiths time in New Zealand. http:// goldrushadventure.blogspot.com/ I have a few photos I have always intended to investigate, and the blog seemed to be a way of doing this and build up a...

I am trying to find my relatives who emmigrated to New Zealand between 1859 and 1865.His name was James Bridges,b.1833 in Sheerness,Kent.He married Eliza Ann Watt and had four children:Eliza Ann,b.1856,Portsea,Portsmouth.James Frederick,b.1857,Portsea,Fanny Rose,b.1859,Portsea,and Adele...

I spotted an item in the local newspaper announcing that the Waipa District Council have just released a cemetery database at http://rid.waipadc.govt.nz/cemetery/ for the following cemeteries; Hautapu, Leamington, Pukerimu, Ohaupo, Paterangi, Pirongia, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Pukeatua and Puahue....

|help| My man, Septimus McClure, was married in Somerset 9 Aug 1906 & then did a runner. I have found him in NZ in the "Auckland Weekly News for 20 Jan 1916" under "AUCKLANDERS FILLING SOUTHERN QUOTA FOR 11th REINFORCEMENTS ... McCLURE, Septimus – Manurewa" and again on the NZ Death entries...

Waldemar MALAQUIN my gr-grandfather came to NZ in 1876, he lived in Christchurch until his death in 1926. I have a fair amount of detail on him and his family, but would love more. The MALAQUINs married into ELLIS,WILLIAMS, HARRIS, BENNETT, RICHARDS, HADLER families plus others. If anyone can...

Hello folks, Can someone help me unravel some Holmes people, please? George Holmes of the Lyttelton Railway fame, built a mansion in Moonee Ponds, near Melbourne in the 1850s. After he left for Lyttelton the house was subsequently occupied by John Holmes, barrister-at-law, from 1870-1872. ...

My mother's aunt Eliza Luke Williams, b Exeter 1847 and her husband James Dickson, b Gatehouse of Fleet, Kircubrightshire, Scotland (also 1847) lived in or near Napier, Hawk's Bay, where he died 16th June 1916. I have a picture of a quite impressive monument to him there. I remember my mother...

I am attempting to find information on my great great grandparents William Campbell & Anna Campbell (nee Henry) who emigrated from Scotland to NZ on ship called "Margaret" about 1841. I cannot find a passenger list for "Margaret" on or around 1841. I do not have date or place of birth or marriage...

Alexander McStay married Lois Croll in 1922, possibly in Wellington. Could anybody help me find any children of Alexander and Lois please. Thanks kevynne

Hello there James Rankin was born in Elgin Scotland 1886 parents John Rankin and Margaret Allen. James married my gt grandmother Helen Casey (miss Fox) she had been married before to Francis Casey and had two children with him, one being my grandmother and Helen Casey who died aged 22 in 1921....