New Zealand
Births/Baptisms Marriages/Divorces Deaths/Burials
- Births, deaths & marriages indexes
Contains:
Births 1840-1900; 1901-1920- Marriages 1840-1900; 1901-1920
- Deaths 1848-1900; 1901-1920
- War deaths 1914-1918.
Microfiche Drawer no. 51 -52, Call no. mc 1720
- Varcoe's New Zealand Marriages (Cross Reference) Index, 1840-1956
At http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/marriages/
This database is used in conjunction with the marriage indexes above, allowing the user to match up brides with grooms (primarily using the Bride 1 and Groom 2 fields, respectively) with their folio numbers.
Parish Registers-Cemetery Transcripts-Monumental Inscriptions: by Placename
- New Zealand Cemetery Records [as at 1 Dec] 1985
Cemetery records: 1840-1982. Use the index on fiche 1 to identify fiche number of cemetery.
Microfiche Drawer no. 53; Call no. mc 1701
Immigration & Shipping
- New Zealand Assisted Passenger List 1855-1871 from here to there
"Ships into Lyttelton - sometimes Timaru"
Index 1855-1860; 1860-1867; 1867-1871.
Microfiche Drawer no. 53; Call no. mc N 1204 - Immigrant Ships to New Zealand, 1835-1910
This is an index of approximately 3000 ships that visited New Zealand. Arranged by port, then by year of visit. It does not include passengers’ names.
Available in eResources or at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shipstonz/shipstonz.html
Newspapers
- The New Zealand Herald Anniversary and Death notices, 1934-1970
Guide to index and transcription slips.
Microfiche Drawer no. 53; Call no. mc N 1399 - Papers Past
Contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1840 to 1915 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.
Available at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Other
- Index to New Zealanders who served in other forces during World War I
A listing of over 2,700 names of men and women who served in Australian, British, Canadian, French, Italian and South African forces.
Compiled from several World War I lists held in the National Archives, New Zealand (ADI, 10/234).
Microfiche Drawer no. 53; Call no. mc N 1354
