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History 

In October 1769 the bark "Endeavour", captained by James Cook, sailed down the East Coast of the North Island on a voyage of discovery.  As part of his meticulous charting of the unknown territory, Cook named the Bay in honour of Sir Edward Hawke, First Lord of the Admiralty. The actual Bay (the water) is Hawke Bay, and the the province (the land area) is Hawke's Bay. Napier is located on the east coast of North Island, in Hawke Bay. Ahuriri was renamed Napier when the Pakeha settled via overland routes in the late 1840's.  Napier was declared a port of entry in 1855.  The Royal Bride, 526 tons, from London under Captain Laker was wrecked at Napier on June 22nd 1863 two miles from the harbour entrance after dragging anchors. No lives were lost. She carried 24 assisted emigrants. Source: NZ wrecks.

Some indexed passenger lists are at Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum. The Hawkes Bay Museum, 9 Herschell Street/ 65 Marine Parade P.O. Box 248. Napier. info@hbct.co.nz  curator.archives@hbct.co.nz Phone: 64-6-835 7781 Fax: 64-6-835 3984 Also have some Hawkes Bay directories and newspapers e.g. Waipawa Mail

HBH Tuesday 4 January 1881
Tauranga, Monday
Arrived - Lady Jocelyn, ship, 92 days, from London. She brings settlers for Vesey Stewart's special settlement. The passengers are all well. Vesey Stewart Tauranga  Carisbrook Castle to Auckland 1875. Rakaki 1881, Oxford 1881, May Queen 1881, Lady Jocelyn 1878

Emigrant Vessels & Lists

NZ-HAWKES-BAY-N-POVERTY-BAY search
Hawke's Bay passenger lists
Denise & Peter's Stuff passenger lists
Ships to Napier
Napier Shipping wayback
Napier: Reports of the Immigration Commissioners
Napier (Ahuriri) Settlers 1850's-1870
Passengers to Napier 1850's onwards
Hawke's Bay Shipping
H.B. Williams Memorial Library Gisborne
NZ Immigrant Shipping from Hamburg 1872 - 1876
Norsewood Cemetery and Ships

Below is a list of ships which called and disembarked passengers at Napier and was compiled by Mr Bruce Williams who has kindly given his permission to list it on this site. Lookup contact listed at AUSNZ Passenger Lists.  A lot of the passengers were Scandinavian who settled near there. The barque "Rangoon", 374 tons, was the first direct vessel from London via Sydney and arrived Napier 24 July 1864. Next was the "Strathallan" which made a total of three trips to Napier.

Ship - Arrival Date in NZ

Ship	Arrived		Ship	Arrived
ADAMANT	11 Jan 1879		IONIC	Nov 1883
AORANGI	1891		IONIC	16 Feb 1888
ARAWA	21 Nov 1886		KAIKOURA	27 Feb 1887
BALLARAT	15 Sep 1872		KAIKOURA	1 7 Jul 1887
BEBINGTON	20 Nov 1874		KAIKOURA	3 Dec 1887
BEBINGTON	15 Jul 1876		KAIKOURA	1891
BERAR	11 May 1865		KING OF ITALY	6 Sep 1865
CELAENO	2 Feb 1872		MATAURA	9 Nov 1877
CHILE	29 Dec 1872		MAY QUEEN	7 Nov 1879
CITY OF AUCKLAND	Oct 1875		MONTMORENCY	24 Mar 1867
CLARENCE	5 Jan 1875		OPARI	26 Jul 1879
COLUMBUS	15 Aug 1877		OXFORD	1 Mar 1877
COUNTESS OF KINMORE	8 Jun 1875		PLEOINE	28 Nov 1880
DORIC	8 Jun 1886		QUEEN OF THE NORTH	2 Feb 1874
DOUGLAS	25 Sep 1873		RAKAIA	9 Sep 1879
E.P. BOUVERIE	19 Oct 1873		RANGITIKEI	15 Apr 1883
EARL GRANVILLE	4 Mar 1880		RANGOON	23 Jul 1864
EASTMINSTER	15 Jan 1880		RENFREWSHIRE	4 Jan 1878
ENGLAND	19 Mar 1871		RIMUTAKA	12 Aug 1886
EXCELSIOR	3 Oct 1870		RIMUTAKA	1891
FERNGLEN	20 Mar 1877		RUAPEHU	29 Jan 1887
FRIEDBURG	24 Aug 1875		SCHIEHALLION	26 May 1874
FRITZ REUTER	17 Mar 1875		STAD HAALEM wayback	15 Apr 1879
GAINSBOROUGH	28 Feb 1878		STRATHALLAN	24 Nov 1864
GERALDINE PAGET	5 Jun 1880		STRATHALLAN	17 Dec 1865
HALCIONE	24 Aug 1871		TONGARIRO	1891
HALCIONE	4 Jul 1874		TRIUMPH	26 Nov 1883
HELEN DENNY	22 Oct 1874		WAITARA	21 Dec 1876
HELEN DENNY	20 Sep 1875		WARWICK	1 Mar 1879
HERMIONE	15 Aug 1882		WEST AUSTRALIAN	1 Jul 1864
HOVDING	15 Sep 1872		WESTERN MONARCH	2 Jan 1880
HOVDING	1 Dec 1873		WEYMOUTH	3 Jul 1866
HUDSON	12 Feb 1875		WILD DUCK	19 Jan 1865
HUDSON	11 Feb 1876		WILD DUCK	20 Dec 1867
HUDSON	14 Mar 1879		WILD DUCK	21 Jan 1870
IDA ZIEGLER	13 Oct 1867		WINCHESTER	26 Jul 1874
INVERERNE	Mar 1874		INVERNESS	28 Oct 1876
INVERNESS	Nov 1875		ADAMANT	11 Jan. 1879

Wairarapa Archive
1. The Invererne was a full-rigged ship of 900 tons which made a number of immigrant voyages to New Zealand in the 1870s, finally being wrecked near Java in 1876.  Items relating to a voyage of the 'Invererne' from Britain to Napier, 1873-4, bringing Scandinavian immigrants. Includes passenger lists, newspaper reports, official correspondence from and to immigration officials, a letter from Julius Vogel, list of occupations of passengers, list of births and deaths during the voyage, an account by the ship's doctor, list of gratuities due to inspecting officers and crew.

2. List of passengers sailing on the 'England', departing London Dec 1871, signed by Captain G. Harrington and Shaw Savill, brokers. List includes Larsen family.
    Article from Parade magazine of Jun 1972 relating to the voyage of emigrant ship 'England' to New Zealand, and smallpox epidemic on board among Scandinavian emigrants. Creators : Bateson, C.H. (fl.1972).  
    Copies of articles from Evening Post newspaper from 9 March to 1 May 1872 relating to arrival of 'England', quarantining of Scandinavian immigrants, enquiry into the voyage, journey of immigrants to Masterton and Scandinavian camp at Kopuaranga. Instructions to matron of 'England', Mrs Hall, from agent general I.E. Featherston. 
    Alexander Svend Dreyer (1820-1905) acted as interpreter and overseer to the Scandinavian immigrants at the Scandinavian Camp. The area was named Dreyerton after him, until 1904 when the area was renamed Kopuaranga.
    Letter from A.S. Dreyer to Under-Secretary of Public Works, containing statements from Christopher Eriksen (fl.1872)and Johannes Jespersen (1821-1906), passengers on 'England', regarding illness of passengers and treatment by Dr John Leigh.
    Copies of articles from Wellington Independent relating to immigrant ship 'England' arrival in Wellington with smallpox, enquiry into conditions on the voyage and progress of the Scandinavian immigrants.

3. Photocopy of, and transcript of article in Hawke's Bay Herald of 2 Dec 1873, about the arrival of emigrant ship 'Hovding' at Napier.
Transcripts of three articles from Hawkes Bay Herald, 2-4 Dec 1873.
Advertisement for immigrants from 'Hovding' wanting employment.
Article relating to enquiry into bad conditions on the 'Hovding' voyage.
Letter to newspaper from Captain Carl Nordby of 'Hovding' regarding the length of voyage.

4. Articles from Dannevirke Evening News 16 Sep 1922 to 17 Oct 1922 relating to Scandinavian settlement of southern Hawke's Bay, particularly Norsewood and Dannevirke. Articles mention immigration scheme, voyages, bush fires, early settlers and early buildings.

5. Articles from Dannevirke Evening News about Scandinavian settlements of southern Hawke's Bay, published in 1940. Included are immigration policy, voyages, pioneering days, dairy industry, transport, churches, contribution of Scandinavians to New Zealand life.

6. Article published in the New Zealand Herald 5 Nov 1976 about Scandinavian emigration to New Zealand and settlement of Seventy Mile Bush.

7. Mac (Malcolm Richmond) Larsen (1923-1985), descendant of Norwegian immigrants to Mauriceville. Founder of New Zealand Norway Society, for which he published a magazine 'Hovding' till his death. He researched Scandinavian immigration to New Zealand and his own genealogy, publishing 'Happiness is sharing your heritage' in 1976.

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG
Hawke's Bay Emigration Records, 1870-1879
New Zealand Department of Immigration (Main Author)

Note Location Film
Names of ships and dates of arrival:
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066524 Items 1-13
England 1 Dec 1870, Hovding - 1872, 13 Aug 1873 Ballarat 13 Jun 1872 Chile 12 Sep 1872 Inverene 28 Nov 1873 Queen of the North 22 Oct 1873 Schiehallion 10 Feb 1874 Halcione 24 Mar 1874 Winchester 2 May 1874 Helen Denny 28 Jul 1874 Bebington 28 Jul 1874 (loose pages)

Hudson 20 Nov 1874 Clarence 24 Sep 1874 (diary) Fritz Reuter 25 Nov 1874 (loose pages) Countess of Kinmore 16 Mar 1875
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066524 Items 14-17

Friedenburg 10 May 1875 Helen Denny 26 Jun 1875 (loose pages) Inverness 21 Aug 1875 (loose pages) Hudson 23 Oct 1875 Bebington 12 Feb 1876 (loose pages) Inverness 28 Jul 1876 (loose pages) Waitara 10 Sep 1876 Fernglen 9 Dec 1876 Mataura 12 Aug 1877 Renfrewshire 29 Sep 1877 Gainsborough 3 Nov 1877 (loose pages) City of Auckland 25 Jul 1877 (loose pages VAULT BRITISH Film 1066525 Items 1-11

Adamant 28 Sep 1878 (loose pages) Hudson 20 Nov 1878 (loose pages) Rakaia 30 May 1879 (loose pages) May Queen Aug 1879 (loose pages)
New Zealand Shipping Co. passenger lists: Tongariro 22 Jan 1891 Kaikoura 22 Jan 1891 Rimutaka 5 Feb 1891 Aorangi 8 Jan 1891
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066525 Items 12-19

Various ships (loose pages) Rangoon 23 Nov 1863 West Australian 15 Mar 1864 Strathallan 13 Jul 1864 Wild Duck 26 Jan 1865 Berar 31 Jan 1865 King of Italy 30 May 1865 Strathallan 29 Aug 1865 Weymouth 9 Mar 1866 Wild Duck 7 Sep 1867 Montmorency 24 Mar 1867 Ida Ziegler 11 Jul 1867 VAULT BRITISH Film 1066526 Items 1-12

Wild Duck 2 Oct 1869 Excelsior 27 Apr 1870 Celeono 2 Nov 1871 Hovding 31 May 1872 Halcione 31 May 1871 Douglas 14 Jun 1873 E.P. Boveric 1 Jul 1873 Inverene 21 Nov 1873 Schulvallion(?) 1874 Halcione Mar 1874 Winchester 2 May 1874 Bebington 28 Jul 1874
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066526 Items 13-24

Helen Denny 28 Jul 1874 Hudson 20 Nov 1874 Countess of Kintore 16 Mar 1875 Helen Denny 26 Jun 1875 Inverness 21 Aug 1875 Bebington 11 Feb 1876 Waitara Dec 1876 Columbus 4 May 1877 Gainsborough 3 Nov 1877 Oxford 12 Mar 1877 Hudson 20 Nov 1878 City of Auckland 24 Jul 1878
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066526 Items 25-36

Adamant 27 Sep 1878 Warwick Nov 1878 Stad Haalem 15 Feb 1879 Rakaia 30 May 1879 Orari 24 Apr 1879 Western Monarch 30 Sep 1879 Eastminster 25 Oct 1879 Earl Granville 29 Nov 1879 Geraldine Paget 25 Feb 1880
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066526 Items 37-45

Pleoine 1 Sep 1880 Hermione 4 May 1882 Rangitikie 24 May 1883 Ionic 22 Sep 1883 Rimutaka 3 Jul 1886 Ruapehu 18 Dec 1886 Doric 21 Apr 1886 Arawa 9 Oct 1886 Kaikoura 1887 Ionic 31 Dec 1887
VAULT BRITISH Film 1066527 Items 1-11

Timaru Herald Friday 22 August 1889
Mr Rees went to England with a big land settlement scheme. He returned with a dozen immigrants, without even a fin of the tame whale with which he promised to compensate the Maoris for the loss of their land. The twelve immigrants - he might have chucked in another, if it was only a baby, just for the luck of the odd number - were collected at Clitheroe, Lancashire, and they are all relatives. There are three married couples - the youngest couple seemed to be still enjoying their honeymoon; three single females - the youngest twelve years; two single males, and a cautious benedict of mature age, who left his wife at home to take care of the la.. el ?peaates - he wanted to see something more before venturing to remove his household goods to the home of the Maori. The single married man said he was a "railway worker." The comprehensiveness of this piece of information left me a wide filed for conjecture as to whether he was a chief commissioner or a common navvy, or to which one of the many special vocations lying between these two grades he was devoted.

HB Herald 21 Aug 1882
Mon 21 Aug 1882
19 - Rotorua from Auckland via Poverty Bay. Mr & Mrs GREY. Major RICHARDSON. Messrs WALKER, NICHOLSON, G.A. BUTTLE, R. WATERHOUSE, J.R. DAVIES, NICOLL, THOMSON, BRUNSKILL, ATCHISON, HIRIONE. 4 steerage and 30 immigrants ex Hermione.
19 - Rotorua for Melbourne via Wellington & South. Mrs HAWKINS. Messrs PALMER, BARNETT, RAMEY, HYLANS, NICOLLS, ANSWELL, THORNTON & DAWKES

Sept 10 1864 HBH
Port of Napier. Sept 6 West Australian from London via Wellington- cargo for - GORDON, TUXFORD, TYLEE, Mrs WILSON.

Hawkes Bay Herald 18 May 1865
Arrived from Wellington 16 May 1865 on the Queen,  (emigrants ex Berar, from London)

"Helen Denny",  sailed 28 July 1874, arrived Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 22 October 1874.  photo. Cornwall passengers only listed:

Families:

OLDS, John	    20	  Farm labourer
Susan 		    22

ROWE, Ezekiel	    33    Farm labourer
Elizabeth	    34
Elizabeth A	    13    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs]
Eliza J		     8
James Henry	     6
Ezekiel L	     4

JANE, Richard	    28    Blacksmith
Elizabeth	    31
"       	     6
Samuel 		     3
Thomas 		     8 mths

JAMES, James	    29    Miner
Anna 		    32
John  		     5
Peter 		     3
James H   	     1
Mary  		   Inf

KITTOW [sic - KITTO?]
William		    35    Farm labourer
Mary A 		    40
Daniel		    12    [transferred to Single Mens' Qtrs]
Elizabeth T	     9
William T 	     5
Eli     	     1

HARVEY. Thomas 	   33    Farm labourer
Elizabeth	   27
John T     	   11
Elizabeth A 	    9

WILLIAMS, William   40    Farm labourer
Elizabeth	    38
Elizabeth J	    18    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs]
William B  	    16    [transferred to Single Mens' Qtrs]
Joseph               9
Annie  		     7

WILLIAMS. William Hy 35    Labourer
Elizabeth A	    28
Elizabeth J 	    10
William John         6
Symons H   	     4
Rosa A     	     1

PHILP. William 	   28    Farm labourer
Jane    	   26
Emma 		    2�
Ann        	    8 mth

BLEWETT, John      31    Farm labourer
Mary     	   31
John      	    6

LAGOR, William	    40    Farm labourer
Malvina		    40
Lucinda		    16    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs]
Ann    		    13        "    "    "
William		    10
Harriet	             9
John   		     7
Charles 	     5
Leah   		     11 mths

LORY, Hannibal 	    42    Farm labourer
Jane     	    42
Elizabeth	    16    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs]
Susan Jane	    14        "    "    "
Alice     	    13        "    "    "
Ann       	    12        "    "    "
Caroline  	     8
Louisa L  	     4
John N     	     2

THOMAS, John	  	    38    Labourer
Catherine  	    36
Priscilla	    19    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs]
John*    	    17    [transferred to Single Mens' Qtrs][NETTLE]*
Elizabeth*          16    [transferred to Single Womens' Qtrs][NETTLE]*
William              8
Minnie               6

LEAN, John T  	     26    Labourer
Mary A  	     27

Single Men:
John WOON   	     23    Farm labourer    
John PHILLIPS	     24    Farm labourer
William PEARCE	     20    Farm labourer
Edwin PEARCE 	     19    Carpenter
Edward JOHNS	     23    Farm labourer
William TAY 	     29    Farm labourer
Richard LORY	     19    Farm labourer
Hughey RICHARDS	     25    Farm labourer
Orlando LAGOR  	     20    Farm labourer
James BLACKMORE	     21    Labourer
LEAN***
Henry  	             16    Sailor
William 	     14
Edwin  	             12
Charles 	     10

Single Women:
LEAN***
Elizabeth  	      45    Servant
Catherine 	      23    "
Elizabeth 	      18    "
Sarah A  	       8
Mary J   	       5
*** presumably a widowed mother and her children - not permitted to travel
in family quarters without a husband/father!

Eliz'th J WILLIAMS    18    Servant
Eliza J PEARCE 	      18    Domestic Servant
Susan CHEGWIN 	      35    Nurse [Matron]
Mary N LORY  	      18    Servant
Jane LAGOR  	      19    Servant
Emily PEARCE 	      18    Servant
Catherine PEARCE      33    Servant
Elizabeth ROWE	      38    Laundress

Otago Witness, 20 February 1875, Page 3
IMMIGRATION BLUNDERS.
Under the heading "More Immigration Muddle," the Bruce Herald publishes a letter from Wm Henry Williams, who tells his story as follows : � "I, along with about 100 more from Cornwall, engaged with the agent there, Mr John Bennet Nichols, to go by the ship Merope, bound for Canterbury, as he told us that there were no more ships going to Otago that year (this was in March). Accordingly, we were sent on to Plymouth, under the impression that we were to be sent by the ship Merope ; but to our dismay, on arriving there we were told by the agent at Plymouth, a Mr Wiggs, that we should have to go in another ship, the Helen Denny, bound for Napier. On remonstrating with him about sending us so far out of the way, he told us plainly that 'we should have to go wherever the Government had a mind to send us. ' I wrote back to Mr John Bennet Nichols, but Mr Wiggs intercepted his letter to me, and tore off the one half, and wrote at the bottom, that we should have to go on to Napier, ' sealed and stamped the same, and sent it to me. Our luggage was then seized and sent aboard, and we had to follow. Now, Mr Editor, before this happened, I had written to my brother in-law, Mr Samuel Bray, who was residing at Maungatua, Otago, that I was, to sail for Canterbury. He accordingly went up to Canterbury to meet me (this I have found out since I came down in search of him). But, the worst of all has to be told. I had to leave my wife and family at Napier, as I have not sufficient means to take them down. Now, sir, I must work for six months before I can earn enough money to bring my wife and family down here, the place where I wanted to come to at first."

Otago Witness, 3 October 1874, Page 3
The Times reports that during the last week of July some 300 Cornish miners and their families left their native county for the north of England, the Colonies, and the United States. New Zealand heads the list of the countries whither the emigrants have gone. These men are stated to be among the best and most skilful miners in the county, and this very circumstance is the prime cause of their leaving it. They allege that under the present system of mining in Cornwall, good men have no inducement to work, a s they are placed, on the same level as inferior hands, and hence they have left to find some better field for their energies. They seem, in fact, to be just the kind of men New Zealand wants.

Star, 6 January 1875, Page 2
Napier, Jan. 5
Arrived - Clarence, from London, with 348 immigrants, all well. There were 21 deaths, chiefly infants from diarrhoea. there were two births. The passengers are now being landed and are a promising-looking shipment.

Otago Witness, 8 September 1877, Page 11
Per Shaw, Saville, and Co.'s ship Helen. Denny. Russell, Ritchie, and Co., agents. Mrs
Joseph and son, Mrs Pyke, Messrs Clemance (2), Kent, Smith, Starkey, Wright, Dalzell, Bragg,
Wilkes, Davies, Pall, Blyth, Mayne. Steerage - Mrs Walker, Messrs Richards, Restarick,
Caskey, Gridley, Rollins, Barrett (2), Beattie.

Bibliography

• Berling, Svea. Hamburg to Hawke's Bay : German pioneer settlers who arrived on the Fritz Reuter and the Friedeburg in 1875 / German pioneer settlers who arrived on the Fritz Reuter and the Friedeburg in 1875. Thesis -University of Auckland, 1995. 96 leaves

• Gordon, L.C. Immigration into Hawkes Bay 1858-1876. MA Thesis. Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington, 1865

• Keesing, Norma. Immigration of the Scandinavian people to Hawke's Bay Hastings, NZ : N. Keesing, 1993. 37 p.

• Larsen, Malcolm Richmond. Happiness is sharing your Heritage Contains information on first Norwegians to arrive in New Zealand on the ships England, Hovding and Inverne and their descendants / Mac Larsen. Wellington : M. Larsen, 1976

• Fletcher, Cheryl, 1947- Gifts from the past / Carterton, N.Z.: C. Fletcher, 1999 286 p. Story of Scandinavian settlement in the Wairarapa bush told by a member of the Larsen family.
   

• Johanna's World. Norwegian Pioneers at Norsewood. Told by OM Andresen. Translated by Johan Bonnevie. (2001) 2006.
  This book deals with a group of people who left south easy Norway in 1873 bound for NZ in the "Hovding." It tells of the Norway at the time they left and before, why they left, family names and ages, and the ship's history. It is mostly the story of Johanna Johannesen who, having left Norway aged 17 in the Hovding bound for Napier, New Zealand, married another passenger, Christian Christiansen, and settled in Norsewood. They lived a life of grinding poverty, years of back-breaking work, loneliness amid the Seventy Mile Bush.
  Lots of reminiscences by their descendants make this a very personal history. Old photos of settlers and the town, Norsewood; sawmilling; the ship Hovding; etc ...280pp; b/w photos and illustrations; map; illustrated s/covers.
   

• Books for researching German /Polish ancestors in New Zealand from the 1870s.
  Pobag-Jaworowski J. W. Polish settlers in Taranaki
  Ogonowska-Coates, Halina. Krystyna's story. Wellington: Bridget Williams, 1992.
  Pob�g-Jaworowski, J. W. Polish settlers in New Zealand, 1876-1976. Wellington: J. Pob�g-Jaworowski, 1976.
  Memories of the Life of J F H WOHLERS published in German in 1883 and English in 1895.Germany missionary to NZ
   

• Links with the past : Scandinavians in New Zealand. [Napier, N.Z.] : Scandinavian Club of Hawkes Bay, 1989. 78 p.
  People of the Bay : proceedings and miscellaneous items of the 1991 Hawke's Bay Genealogy Conference and New Zealand Society of Genealogists annual general meeting : Hastings, 17-19 May 1991. Hawke's Bay Genealogy Group, Conference Committee, 1991. 298 p. Passenger lists., history Hawkes Bay region.

• Andresen, �ystein Molstad. R�tter emigranthistorie i sytten brev : norsk utvandring til Australia og New Zealand gjennom 200 �r / �se Grindheim. Oslo : Ansgar, c1988. 183 p. Norwegians-Immigrants- AUS & NZL.  U of  Auckland Library has a copy.

• Stevenson, H.K. "Port and People, Century at the Port of Napier" 1975 (wayback)

• Webb, Alice F. Pilgrimage - A biography of Anthony Spur Webb - Index of names, immigrants to Norsewood, Ormondville

• The Scheme

• Index to Story of Napier 1874 to 1974: Footprints along the Shore by Dr M D N Campbell. example
  Publisher: Napier City Council. 252pp; b/w photos; index; appendices; bibliography; maps on endpapers; hard cover, dj. Forward by Mayor Peter Tait
  History throughout the years. Depressions and booms. Gardens
  Reclamation of swamps creating Napier South
  Earthquake 3 Feb. 1931 and reconstruction.
  List of signatories (with occupations) to a petition of 1874.
  
  German Immigration to the Manawatu
  The major significant immigration of German people to New Zealand was the immigration of "Polis" people from East Prussia in the 1870s. These people were treated historically as German in official and by decimation but were actually Polish usually Catholic. Following is one such immigration:----------Michael (33) and Franciszka (23) KRAKOWSKIE and Johan(1) arrived in New Zealand at Wellington, on the 23 January 1876 on the ship "SHAKESPEARE". The Shakespeare was an iron hulled fully rigged sailing ship built in 1855 in Newport. It was 206 feet long and 23 feet wide and 21 feet high. It was owned by Robert M. Sloman & Co. and registered in Hamburg. It left Hamburg on the 7 October 1875 and arrived Wellington 23 January 1876. As there had been one case of typhoid fever during the voyage the immigrants were inspected and cleansed on Somes Island quarantine station on the 31st January and released on the 1 February.
  
  These Polish/German settlers were then posted to Jackson Bay on the remote south Westland coast, such immigrants were not well liked or treated well. The ship which was taking them was the Waipara. They refused to leave the ship at Jackson Bay and were brought back to Hokitika (5 Feb 1876), where they settled, those that stayed on at the bay all perished. Some force was used in trying to get the immigrants to settle in Jackson Bay which is a remote and inhospitable place with mosquitos and poor unproductive land. Some did settle there but they too eventually left to settle in Taranaki and elsewhere.  There was a government enquiry into the treatment of these settlers as they were classed as German convicts.
  
  Evening Post, 24 January 1876, Page 2
  The ship Shakespeare arrived in this harbor early this morning. She left Hamburg on the 8th October, and thus has made the voyage from port to port in 108 days. She brings Government immigrants to the number of 390 souls, which are equal to 338 statute adults. Unfortunately she has sickness on board, and the dreaded yellow flag was seen flying at the main-truck as she came up the bay. The Health Officers quickly went alongside, and ascertained that there had been seven cases of low fever during the voyage, one of which was sill under treatment, although in a fairway towards convalescence. It was considered necessary to send the ship into quarantine for a day or two, ad to land the passengers on Somes Island, that both ay undergo a strict course of cleansing and disinfection, while any cases of fever could be isolated. It is not thought that any lengthened detention will be needful. It seems that there were several cases of low fever at Hamburg when the vessel left. In addition to the fever, there were 24 other cases of sickness, but not of any serious nature. Two infants died during the voyage. The Shakespeare is a ship of 882 tons, Captain Jongensen is the commander, and Dr. H. C. Utterhart surgeon-superintendent. Messrs. Johnston & Co. are the agents.
   

• Daily Southern Cross, 2 September 1872, Page 3
  Lyttelton: Saturday. The 'Friedberg' arrive from Hamburg yesterday, with 292 passengers. The ship is clean, and the passengers healthy and in good spirits.

Here is an overview of Genealogy Society of Norway (DIS-Norge) web pages in English:

1. Genealogy data base (DIStreff): www.disnorge.no/distreff/ Click on [English] and you get an English version.
2. "Who's researching where" (Slektsforskerbasen): www.disnorge.no/sfbasen/
3. Genealogical resources:www.disnorge.no/genress/
4. Queries (Slektsforum): www.disnorge.no/slektsforum/  You must register to use this forum but it is free. Click on [Engelsk] at your profile page to get the English version. Slektsforum has a dedicated forum for Australia/New Zealand-Norwegian genealogy:
Slektsforum Forum Index -> Queries -> Emigration/Immigration and other countries -> Emigration -> Australia/NZ
Norway Genealogy  Norway 1801 census online and additional info from The National Archives of Norway.
5. Norsewood
6. The ship "Palmerston" from Hamburg bound for New Zealand. Ole Hansen

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