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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. Search index B/T 27 Outward -bound covering 1890 - 1960 on ancestorsonboard, a commercial site. Work out the name of the vessel by putting in a few of the home liner names.

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 4752 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
• 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 

• 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 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 
• Emigration to Canterbury : Shipping Lists 1856-1874 42 lists
• Request a search: Passenger Lists into Lyttelton 1855 - 1870 
• Canterbury Association manifests
• Bev's site The Star newspaper shipping intelligence 51 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]

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. 

½ an Adult
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 May 05, 2008