NZ Bound Index Search Hints Ports
Passenger Listings
for Vessels
bound for New Zealand
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.
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Then do a ship search on the same site is see date she left the
UK, add 45 days and find arrival in the NZ newspapers on 
to see if a newspaper item exists for the arrival date. To
save a newspaper page image hold down ALT + Print
Screen at the same time. Open a document in an image/photo editor or MS Word.
Paste the screen shot by holding down CTRL and V at the same time, edit
and save. Record the name of the newspaper, date and page number in the
file name. |
Multiple Lists - over 4772 lists online on various website - 'only a drop in the bucket'
- NZ Bound check site index & check individual ports 256 lists + + and cabin passenger lists + 25 outward bound
- Denise & Peter's Home Page comprehensive site over 1046 lists
- Gavin's site over 116 lists
- A-Legget Liley-Young Assisted English Immigrants 1870s The Farthest Promised Land online
- AUSNZ Passenger Lists
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild over 22 lists
- Barbara's links
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Shelia's
emigration page London to New Zealand 1875-1878
& Passenger Lists
UK to NZ 1884 - 1910 over 700 vessels
ReproA 377 - 447 SS1 (Social Security Depart., Wellington) Arrival dates are as shown in the Comber Index or NZ Herald Shipping News for ports other than Auckland. For Auckland, the date shown in the Auckland Harbour Master's Register of Inward Shipping (held at Archives NZ, Auckland) - NZSG - Shipping Database
- Ships to NZ from Hamburg 1872 - 1876
- Cornwall emigration to NZ
AUCKLAND
- Albertland & Districts Museum passenger lists 11+ lists
- Auckland area inward passengers 1838-1886 with a few for 1887 to 1889 from newspaper and those for the 1909 and 1915-1921 periods are courtesy of Archives New Zealand although largely it is from late 1915 onwards. Also, newspaper reports for Kororareka, Russell and New Zealand Company settlements from 1838 to 1845. Trans-Tasman migration not included except the RMS. Often those in steerage were also not included in the newspaper reports. To obtain a full listing just entered the name of the ship and the year. Try different spelling variations. Also vessel newspaper reference. Comprehensive site Check for spelling variations by doing a search like BR*.* P.S. Wait for the Java script to finish loading before trying to do a search.
- Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters 150 lists from New Zealand Herald
- Genies' Jottings Sydney to Auckland, London to Auckland arrivals
- The Daily Southern Cross 1849 - 1865 passenger Lists 81 lists
- Shamere's {Pam's P} Auckland arrivals in 1860 + Fencible ships 40+
- Sooty's 16 lists
- Pearl's site recreated search over 17 lists
- GENEoNZ - early Auckland, 20 lists & Nelson lists, 13 lists, and early Bay of Islands ship arrivals
- Keith & Sonya immigrants lists Auckland 7 lists
- 1863-65 Auckland 14 lists
- Carter Family - Auckland & Lyttelton 8 lists
- Familia (wayback) 15 lists Auckland
- Vessels (wayback) Doric (Feb. 1885),Ganges (1865), Swiftsure, Fernglen, Star of India (1st Waikato Militia) 5 lists
- Tauranga and Auckland arrivals 16 lists
- Clipper and Sailing Ships to Auckland
Lower NORTH ISLAND
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Taranaki
- passenger arrivals and departures from the newspaper Taranaki Herald 1852
to 1885
- under first name try Captain, Major, M.H.R., servant, women, men, children
- under surname try Regiment, Royal, Artillery, file, sappers, miner, men, etc. - Petone Settlers Museum Passenger Database Wellington only between 1839-1897 and Wellington as first port of call
- Lindel's Pad New Plymouth arrivals and lookups 21 lists
- Emigrants Manchester Block, Wellington Province 18 lists
- Helen's lists 26 lists plus miscellaneous listings
- Pam's site (wayback) 50+ lists for Wellington
SOUTH ISLAND
- Nelson - NZ Company passengers & shipping lists published in newspaper 1841-1850 (covers 70 vessels)
- Nelson 5 lists Anne Longton, Edward Thornhill, Ocean Mail, Opawa, Slains Castle
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Emigration to Canterbury : Shipping Lists 1856-1874
42 lists
Christchurch Library site - Request a search: Passenger Lists into Lyttelton 1855 - 1870
- Canterbury Association manifests
- Bev's site The Star newspaper shipping intelligence 77 lists & growing
- South Canterbury arrivals search 19 lists
- Arrivals for the Otago Settlement, 1848-1851 20 lists
- Bluff 40 lists
- Southland and national wide passenger lists over 2411 Passenger lists, 239 ship photos and 30 shipboard diaries
Miscellaneous
- Early immigrant ships to NZ 1835 -1910 and lists 89 lists & images
- Trish's site Aurora Cuba Duke of Roxburgh Lord William Bentinck Queen Bee Rotomahana Sir Edward Paget Zealandia.
- Sandra's site 19 lists
- Wageners Down Under Shipping Pages 18 lists
- Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
Shipping Outward from NZ [22 lists]
Vessel - on other sites |
Voyage | Port - Port |
Remarks |
| Flock House | 1924-1931 | Boys & Girls | |
| Alhambra | 1874 | Melbourne to Hokitika, Lyttelton, OTG, Greymouth, Nelson, WTN | |
| s.s. Aorangi | 1892 | London to Auckland | voyage account |
| Arab | 1841 | Gravesend to Wellington | |
| Arawa RMS | 1913 | London to Wellington | |
| Arawa RMS | 1924 | Southampton to Auckland and | Lyttelton |
| Athenic RMS | 1912 | London to NZ ports | |
| Aurora | 1840 | London to Wellington | |
| Australia | 1852 | Saint John, NB to Melbourne | established Brunswick |
| Avalanche | 1877 | bound for NZ got as far as Portland | when she collided with the Forrest |
| Ballarat | 1872 | London to Napier | |
| Ballochmyle broken link c&p to wayback | 1874 | London to Lyttelton | voyage account |
| Barbara Gordon | 1850 | Wellington & Lyttelton from London | Henry LeCren and his cousin Joseph Longden are passengers |
| Birman | 1842 | Gravesend to Wellington | |
| Bolton | 1840 | London to Wellington | |
| Carisbrooke Castle sm | 1875 | Auckland | Immigrants for the Kati Kati Settlement |
| Caroline Agnes wayback | 1855 | England to Lyttelton | Evans family |
| Caroline Coventry | 1869 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Catherine Stewart Forbes | 1852 | London to Auckland | |
| Celoeno | 1870 | NZ | |
| Cheviot | 1859 | Glasgow to Pt Chalmers | |
| Christian McAusland wayback | 1874 | London to Pt Chalmers | photo |
| City of Dunedin | 1865 | Wellington to Nelson | wrecked |
| City of Sydney | 1883 | San Francisco to Auckland | wreck photo another list |
| Clara | 1865 | Newfoundland to Auckland | |
| Clarence | 1874/5 | Gravesend to Hawke's Bay | voyage account |
| Columbus | 1864 | London to Auckland | |
| Comte de Paris | 1840 | Akaroa | French website |
| Corinthic | 1905 | UK to NZ | |
| 1880 | Plymouth to Auckland | ||
| Eastern Monarch | 1874 | Plymouth to Lyttelton | voyage account |
| Eagle Speed | 1864 | Gravesend to Auckland | |
| Edwin Fox | 1878 | Plymouth to Lyttelton | page 2 at bottom |
| Egmont | 1856 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Empress wayback | 1865 | Gravesend to Auckland | |
| England | 1871 | Gravesend to Wellington | Scandinavian migration |
| Ernestina | 1865 | London to Auckland | |
| Gertrude | 1863 | London to Auckland | note |
| R.M.S Gothic | 1895 | London to NZ | |
| Halcione wayback | 1872 | London to Wellington | |
| Hindostan | 1873 | London to Auckland | |
| Høvding | 1873 | Oslo to Napier | |
| Høvding | 1873 | Oslo to Napier | |
| Hydaspes | 1869 | Gravesend to Lyttelton | |
| Ida Zeiglar | 1861 | London Auckland | |
| Invercargill wayback | 1878 | Liverpool to Port Chalmers | diary |
| R.M.S. Ionic | 1925 | Southampton to Auckland | images |
| Kaikoura | 1868 | Panama to Wellington | Pacific travel |
| RMS Kaikoura | 1885 | Plymouth to NZ ports | |
| Lady Egidia | 1861 | Glasgow to Pt Chalmers | another listing & poem |
| Lady Jocelyn | 1880 | London to Tauranga | photo |
| Lady Jocelyn | 1878 | London to Belfast to Auckland | |
| Lord Burleigh | 1856 | London to Auckland | ?W.H. Ripley |
| Magnet | 1840 | Sydney to Waikouaiti Bay, Otago | saloon sc intermed sw sm |
| Maori | 1853 | London to Nelson | another site |
| Maori | 1858 | Gravesend to Lyttelton | |
| Mandarin | 1843 | London - Hobart - AKD -WTN | |
| Margaret | 1852 | Nova Scotia to NZL | |
| Maukin | 1846 | Sydney to Auckland | Mar |
| Matoaka | 1859 | Gravesend Auckland | |
| Matoaka | 1865 | London to Auckland | |
| Mermaid | 1859 | Liverpool to Auckland | diary |
| Monarch | 1870 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Mystery | 1859 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Northern Bride | 1860 | Liverpool to Auckland | |
| Nourmahal | 1859 | London to Auckland | another list |
| Queen of Beauty | 1863 | London to Auckland | |
| Oamaru | 1884 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Oxford | 1881 | Downs to Auckland | |
| Pakeha | 1864 | PEI to New Zealand | |
| Peagas | 1865 | London to Auckland | |
| Portland | 1864 | London to Auckland | |
| Prince Edward | 1859 | PEI to Auckland | |
| Piako | 1879 | Plymouth - Lyttelton | voyages fire on board |
| Rakaia | 1882 | London to Lyttelton | |
| RMS Rangitane | 1940 | NZ to Liverpool | sank 27 Nov. 1940 300 miles off NZ |
| RMS Remuera | 1912 | London to NZ | images |
| RMS Rangitiki | 1951 | London to Wellington | Helen's site |
| RMS Remuera | 1916 | Plymouth to NZ | |
| RMS Remuera | 1935 | London to Auckland | images |
| RMS Rimutaka | 1894 | London & Plymouth to WTN | diary |
| RMS Rimutaka | 1921 | UK to NZ | Helen's site |
| RMS. Ruapehu | 1888 | Plymouth to Wellington | |
| Reihersteig | 1864 | Cape of Good Hope to Auckland | |
| Rob Roy | 1865 | London to Auckland | |
| Romulus | 1862 | Gravesend to Auckland | another listing |
| St. George | 1842 | ENG - Auckland | |
| Sebastopol | 1863 | Gravesend to Lyttelton | Helen's site |
| Shalimar | 1862 | Liverpool to Auckland | via Melbourne |
| Sir Edward Paget | 1850 | London to Auckland | 70 passengers |
| Sir William Bentinck | 1841 | Gravesend to Wellington | |
| Southern Cross | 1955 | Southampton to Wellington | image |
| Speed Eagle | 1864 | London to Auckland | |
| St George & Mandarin 1843 site | 1842 | Portsmouth to Auckland | Parkhurst Boys another site Pearl's |
| Two shiploads of boys from Parkhurst Prison arrived in 1842 and 1843. The youngest were 12 and the oldest 20. | |||
| Star of India/Euterpe | 1863 | MLB to NZL | zip file |
| Star of India | 1863 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Stately | 1851 | London to Auckland | |
| Sussex | 1874 | Gravesend to Port Chambers | ticket list |
| Sydendam | 1881 | London to Auckland | cabin passengers only |
| Terror - schooner | 1844 | Sydney to Auckland | Jul Aug. Oct Nov. 1845 Mar Apr Dec |
| Tongariro | 1884 | London to New Zealand | |
| Tornado | 1859 | Liverpool to ALK & Wellington | cabin passengers only |
| HMS Cordelia | 1860 | Sydney- Auckland - New Plymouth | HMCS Victoria |
| Waimate | 1875 | London to Lyttelton | |
| War Spirit | 1863 | London to Auckland | another listing |
| Wimmera s.s. | 1918 | Auckland to Sydney | Sank |
| Waitangi | 1878 | Plymouth to Lyttelton | photos |
| Wanganui | 1883 | London to Lyttelton | diary |
| Weymouth | 1866 | London to Wellington | |
| William Miles | 1860 | Bristol to Lyttelton | |
| Wild Deer | 1874-75 | Greenock to Otago | item |
| Wild Duck | 1862 | London to Wellington | |
| Zealandia | 1858 | Arrived Lyttelton | |
| Zealandia | 1870 | London to Lyttelton | |
| Zealandia | 1862 | London to Lyttelton | |
Please report any invalid links & email addresses. Always double check the information with the original list as the flamboyant handwriting maybe faded, difficulty to read and you might be able to work out who was travelling together.
The ships and masters were limited, by the "The Passenger Acts" (different Acts for different countries at different times, but all along the same vein with the result being better conditions for the emigrant), to 2 tons displacement per passenger. ( varied for different time/countries). As part of the Act(s), children were considered ½ an adult, for under 14 (sometimes under 12) and 1/3 an adult under 7. Infants were free. As you can imagine, this sometimes caused Captains to "fudge" the ages, to cram more on board, but it also caused the parents to do the same, because the fares for children were rated with the same percentage. This is why some people find their "rellies" with an age two or three years younger than they expect!! Ages on passenger lists are subjective with the compiler writing down what he was told. No proof of age was required. Information courtesy of Sue Swiggum co-owner TheShipsList.
Page last updated July 20, 2008
