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Cornish Emigrants to New Zealand

Passenger Lists 1858 - 1884

 

This is an on-going project, currently the following lists are available:-   Assisted Emigrants to Lyttleton/Canterbury, 1858 - 1884   Other Cornish Arrivals at Lyttleton, 1872 - 1884   Cornish Arrivals at:-   Bluff, 1875 - 1884   Nelson/Marlborough, 1874 - 1880   Wellington, 1872 - 1884   Auckland, 1873 - 1877   Hawkes Bay, 1872 - 1880   New Plymouth, 1874 - 1878   Port Chalmers, 1872 - 1883   Some lists contain links to the surgeon's report for that particular voyage.

Other Resources

1. An article on immigration by Jessie Evans, OPC for St Dennis includes details of ports, resources etc.   2. Te Ara: Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Overview of journeys History of Immigration 3. A List of Resources, compiled by OPC, Blanche Charles. A very comprehensive set of pages.   4. New Zealand BMDs - a searchable database.

5. Papers Past: digitised newspapers and periodicals covering the period from 1840 to 1915 Search page

6. New Zealand Yesteryears: Passenger lists, images of ships used and many other details.

7. New Zealand Genealogy Society Requires registration

8. The Farthest Promised Land by Rollo D. Arnold. The full text describes the reasons for emigration, the conditions during voyages and the 'transformation' of the immigrants. The names of the many people mentioned can be found in the Index of Immigrant Surnames.

9. A few names of Cornish people from the Death Notices of The New Zealander newspaper   10. A limited number of full transcriptions of MIs, available on the Internment.net website.

11. A specialist mailing list hosted by Rootsweb.

Special thanks for contributions are due to Christine Parker, OPC for St. Breward and St. Kew.

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