Passenger Lists

The Waimate, one of the ships belonging
to the New Zealand Shipping Company
[State Library of Western Australia;
Ship Index B14a]

Key Resources

FamilySearch
The FamilySearch website is the best place to begin your search for passenger arrivals in New Zealand. From the home page under Browse by Location, select Australia and New Zealand - New Zealand, Immigration Passenger Lists, 1855-1973. Once you've located someone in the index, you can view a digital copy of the original passenger list.

Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1835 to 1910
NZ Bound
These two websites both have a large number of transcribed passenger lists to help you find your New Zealand bound ancestors.

Passenger arrivals in newspapers

Papers Past
This website has digitised copies of New Zealand newspapers and is a very useful source for passenger arrivals.

Shipping index 1852-1880: arrivals and departures, New Plymouth, New Zealand
This set of microfiches has been compiled from entries in the Taranaki Herald.

What other information can I find?

Use our catalogue to find other material relating to passenger lists for New Zealand. Search under the name of ships or ports in New Zealand with keywords such as emigration, immigration, immigrants, passenger lists.

Don't forget to use our Family History Bookmarks under headings such as:
new.zealand-passenger.lists
new.zealand-immigration
new.zealand-shipping