Pandora Research Collection
Establised 15 September 2014 - Last updated 6 November 2024
Contact email: nz19thcentury@outlook.com

Kimihia te mea ngaro - The search for that which is lost
by Eruera Te Kahu (Edward Sutherland) - Whangaehu River - December 1891
From Beyond Betrayal by Keith Newman (2006) page 204

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Pandora's Box (1990-1997)

Records received by Archives NZ prior to 1985 were arranged into 'record groups' and this collection is organised in the same way. Lists of archives held for each record group are kept in binders and these can be ordered through Collections Search via the agency code ARNZ. Most of the same general agency information can be found via Collections Search. Some articles have been written that feature records in this collection - see Listing.

Survey Plans
Collection of 124 New Zealand & Chatham Islands surveyor plans 1840-1849 Trove AJCP: CO 700
A listing of a few of the thousands of plans for the Wellington and Taranaki Districts

Useful resources for 19th Century NZ records Last updated 15 June 2022
Ships mentioned in "The New Zealand Genealogist" 1970-2015

NZC New Zealand Company
See Separate Listing

Australasian Insurance and Banking Record
Index to New Zealand Fire Listings Dec 1876 to 1907 and by Place 1876 to 1892

Fire Listings: 1877 - 1878 - 1879 - 1880 - 1881 - 1882 - 1883 - 1884 - 1885 - 1886 - 1887 - 1888 - 1889
Fire Listings: 1890 - 1891 - 1892 - 1893 - 1894 - 1895 - 1896 - 1897 - 1898 - 1899 - 1900 - 1901
Indexes: 1892 - 1893 - 1894 - 1895 - 1896 - 1897 - 1898 - 1899

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
New Zealand Weather Summaries 1877-1902

Australasian Joint Copying Project
AJCP CO 209 Governor Despatches 1830-1862
AJCP 3828 58th Regiment Muster Roll 01 Apr to 30 Jun 1846 and History of the Regiment

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Crown Lands Department Head Office
AABD Series 28382 Applications for Land by Military Settlers 1860-1864

Ministry of Commerce
AAWF W4456/1/1 List of Companies Incorporated under "The Joint Stock Companies Act 1860"

Taranaki Education Board
ABDU W3570 1/1 Series 1 Listing of School Examination Schedules 1879, 1883-1896

Hawera District Court
ABIB W3865 21641 Box 25 Opunake Magistrate's Court - Civil Record Book 1888-1896

The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
Name Index to New Zealand Trademarks (1868-1906)
Third Schedule Classification of Goods for Applications
Archives NZ Ref: ABPJ 24130 W5797 Registers of "Applications to Register Trade Marks" (1890-)
Archives NZ Ref: ABPJ 7416 W5046 Trade Mark Registers (1873-)

Surveyor Field Notebooks
ABWN 24475 Taranaki Survey Field Books
ABWN W5817 24474 Box 11 No.37 Hutt Valley References 1844-1845

Cape Egmont Lighthouse
ADOS 17057 ML-CapeEgmont6/1 Visitor Book 1881-1904
ADOS 17057 ML-CapeEgmont6/2 Visitor Book 1905-1925

Canterbury Land District Name Index
CAYN 23298 CH1032/276-277 and 288 1853-1864 and Notes

Timelines
Military Total Abstinence Society

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Record Groups

AD Army Department
AD 1 1865/1127 Robert Reid Parris reports to the Native Minister Apr 1865
AD 1 1865/1577 Return of Courts Martial, Taranaki Military Settlers May 1865
AD 1 1865/2271 James McKenna, No.4 Company, Taranaki Military Settlers
AD 1 1865/2456 Captain Carthew's 58 unserviceable rifles - No.4 Company TMS
AD 1 1865/3564 Taranaki Military Settlers - wives & children arriving via the 'Wild Duck'
AD 1 1865/3902 Opunake Roadway Construction
AD 1 1866/0928 Taranaki Military Settler Commissions
AD 1 1866/1291 Captains Livesay & Harris 43rd Regt report to General Chute
AD 1 1866/1779 John Wilkinson, Interpreter December 1865
AD 1 1866/4905 Taranaki Military Settlers - State of Surveys Jul-Sep 1865
AD 1 1867/4410 Opunake Hut Construction for Troops
AD 1 1868/4376 Hutt Cadets
AD 1 1868/4522 Resignation of Lieutenant Henry Braithwaite
AD 1 1868/4648 Report on Hutt Stockades
AD 1 1870/1020 Tender of services to form a Wainuiomata Volunteer Corps
AD 1 1871/599 Erection of Telegraph between Umuroa and Warea to be delayed
AD 1 1872/1603 Account of Whatino Skirmish 01 Jun 1865
AD 1 1881/1528 Nelson Contingent at Parihaka November 1881

AD 3/3 and 3/4 Inwards Correspondence Register 1866 Entries in Archway 4147
AD 3/5 Inwards Correspondence Register 1868 Entries in Archway 3872
AD 3/6 Inwards Correspondence Register 1869 Entries in Archway 6567
AD 31/8/8/1 Otago Contingent Taranaki Military Settlers
AD 31/8/8/2 Melbourne Contingent Taranaki Military Settlers
AD 31/9/9b Crown Grants to be issued to the Forces at Patea
AD 32/71 5004 Men tried by Courts-martial 1864-1868

AD 51/1 Inwards Correspondence Register Deputy Adjutant General 1859-1862
AD 51/2 Inwards Correspondence Register Deputy Adjutant General 1862-1863, 1864
AD 51/3 Inwards Correspondence Register Deputy Adjutant General 1865, Part 1868
Entries in Archway 1859 (38), 1860 (543), 1861 (611), 1862 (734), 1863 (2216), 1864 (2513), 1865 (183)

ARM 41 Capitation Rolls
ARM 41 06 1869/1o Taranaki Light Infantry Volunteers 1868
ARM 41 08 1871/1l Taranaki Cavalry Volunteers 1867
ARM 41 12 1874/1o Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1867
ARM 41 12 1874/1p Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1868
ARM 41 12 1874/1q Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1869
ARM 41 12 1874/1r Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1870
ARM 41 12 1874/1s Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1871, Fernground Rifle Volunteers 1871
ARM 41 12 1874/1t Fernground Rifle Volunteers 1872 Upper Hutt
ARM 41 12 1874/1u Fernground Rifle Volunteers 1873 Upper Hutt
ARM 41 12 1874/1v Hutt Rifle Volunteers 1873 and 1874
ARM 41 13 1874/2aa Taita Rifle Volunteers 1870
ARM 41 13 1874/2ab Taita Rifle Volunteers 1871
ARM 41 15 1875/1bo Highland Rifle Volunteers 1872
ARM 41 15 1875/1bp Highland Rifle Volunteers 1873
ARM 41 15 1875/1br Wellington Scottish Volunteers 1874
ARM 41 16 1876/1ay Wairoa Rifle Volunteers 1869 (Waverley)
ARM 41 17 1877/1bc Wainuiomata Rifle Volunteers 1871
ARM 41 17 1877/1bd Wainuiomata Rifle Volunteers 1872
ARM 41 17 1877/1be Wainuiomata Rifle Volunteers 1873
ARM 41 22 Nelson Naval Volunteers 1875-1884
ARM 41 26 1883/3d Opunake Rifle Volunteers 1882
ARM 41 26 1883/3e Opunake Rifle Volunteers 1883
ARM 41 45 1896/1l Nelson City Rifle Volunteers 1882
ARM 41 113 1911/44aj Nelson Artillery Volunteers / H Battery 1881
ARM 41 131 1911/62y Opunake Mounted Rifles 1901
ARM 41 131 1911/62z Opunake Mounted Rifles 1902
ARM 41 131 1911/62aa Opunake Mounted Rifles 1903
ARM 41 131 1911/62ab Opunake Mounted Rifles 1904
ARM 41 131 1911/62ac Opunake Mounted Rifles 1905
ARM 41 139 1911/70i Stoke Rifle Volunteers 1881 (Nelson)
ARM 41 152 1911/83c Waimea Rifle Volunteers 1881 & 1882 (Nelson)

BDM Registrar General Births, Deaths, Marriages
BDM 1 1875/347 Letter written by Rev Charles H. Nicholls Upper Hutt 15 May 1875
BDM 1 1875/405 Letter written by Rev Charles H. Nicholls Upper Hutt 02 Jul 1875
BDM 1 1875/579 Letter written by Alfred Ludlam Hutt 21 Aug 1875
BDM 1 1876/641 Letter written by Dr J. G. F. Wilford Coroner, Hutt 25 Sep 1876
BDM 1 1880/197 Letter written by Henry Clapcott Registrar, Wellington 14 Jun 1880
BDM 1 1881/431 Letter written by Joseph Godfrey Holdsworth Wellington 15 Nov 1880
BDM 1 1881/652 Letter written by Joseph Foord Wilson Registrar, Motueka 18 Oct 1881
BDM 1 1881/713 Letter written by Joseph Godfrey Holdsworth Wellington 16 Nov 1881
BDM 1 1918/199 Notification of deaths from infectious diseases and Statistics
BDM 3/3 Index to Inwards Correspondence 1882-1886

C Customs
C 2/2 Inwards Correspondence Register 1864 As far as is known these letters do not survive

CO-W Joint Stock Companies Wellington
CO-W1 1923/141 Kingston Park Estate, Epuni, Lower Hutt 1923-1928
CO-W1 1941/45 Homedale Investment Company Limited 1941-1954 (Wainuiomata)
CO-W1 CO-WW3445/2 Wellington Patent Slip Company Shareholders 1889-1898

CS Civil Secretary
CS 1 1853/113 Letter Deputy Registrar to be appointed at the Hutt
CS 2/1 Inwards Correspondence Register 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, Part 1853

Deputy Adjutant General
1862/130 Taranaki War Compensation Files - Claims 1 to 20

G Governor
G7/1 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Jul 1847 to Jul 1848 - Wellington Cemetery Memorial 1846
G7/2 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Jul-Nov 1848 - Waiwetu Road, Lower Hutt & Earthquake
G7/3 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Nov-Dec 1848
G7/4 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Jan-Mar 1849
G7/5 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Mar-Jun 1849 (Inventory & some transcripts)
G7/6 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Jun-Jul 1849 (Inventory)
G7/7 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Jul-Aug 1849 (Inventory)
G7/8 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Aug-Oct 1849 (Inventory)
G7/9 Inwards Despatches from Lieut-Governor Eyre Oct-Dec 1849 (Inventory)
G13 1/15 Removal of Natives from Hutt Cultivations in February 1846 Related papers
G13/3 No.2 G. Von Tempsky re establishment of a Volunteer Force June 1866
G13/3 No.122 Draft Memorandum of formation of Native Contingent
G16/4 Inwards Naval & Military Correspondence Aug-Dec 1864 Nos 72-96
G25/1 Despatches Lt-Governor Grey to Lord Stanley 1845-1847 - some transcripts
G30/11 Duplicate Despatches 1846 Nos 100-110
G37/1 Private Secretary's Miscellaneous Outward Letterbook 1844-1847

IA Colonial Secretary's Office - Internal Affairs
IA 1 1844/6 Letter Reporting intention of Natives to occupy Land on the Hutt
IA 1 1844/1541 Hard Labour Prisoners Auckland Gaol 15 Jul 1844
IA 1 1844/1691 Native Affairs 1843-1844
IA 1 1845/2017 Letter Permission to exchange town for country lands at Wellington
IA 1 1847/949 Letter Cattle damage roads in the Lower Valley of the Hutt
IA 1 1856/3265 Letter John Morrison to the Colonial Secretary's Office
IA 1 1858/1341 Memorial by William CRANN and Erasmus ARMITAGE New Plymouth
IA 1 1860/2309 Letter Petition of Ann Howlin widow of Pensioner John Howlin
IA 1 1862/517 Letter As to erection of a beacon in French Pass
IA 1 1863/441 Letter Coroners Inquest for James Riddle, Wainuiomata
IA 1 1873/3111 Plans of Lowry Bay - Lower Hutt Racecourse - Waiwetu 1868-1873
IA 3/1/4 Inwards Correspondence Register 1844 Entries in Archway 1382
IA 3/1/5 Inwards Correspondence Register 1845 Entries in Archway 273
IA 3/1/6 Inwards Correspondence Register 1847 Entries in Archway 482
IA 3/1/16-17 Inwards Correspondence Register 1861 Entries in Archway 2743
IA 3/1/17-18 Inwards Correspondence Register 1862 Entries in Archway 2874
IA 3/1/30 Inwards Correspondence Register 1877/1-4187 Entries in Archway 6895
IA 12/2 Blue Book 1841 digitised online
IA 12/3-4 Blue Book 1842 digitised online
IA 12/5 Blue Book 1843 digitised online
IA 12/6 Blue Book 1844 digitised online
IA 12/7 Blue Book 1845 digitised online
IA 34/30/53 Otago: Cancelled Deposit Cheques on Contracts 1865-1875

IM Immigration
IM1 1876/1077 Passengers ex 'Fritz Reuter'

IM-N Immigration Nelson
IM-N-4/1/1 Applications for Assisted Passengers 1849-1853 partial list
IM-N-4/1/3b Nelson Applications for Assisted Passengers 1864-1871
IM-N-4/1/4 Nominated passengers 1855-1862 & 1872
IM-N-11/1/1 Index to Nelson Immigrant Passage Money Accounts 1859-1874
IM-N-12/1/2 Nelson Immigrants Passage Money Receipt Butts 1859-1862, 1872-1873

IM-W Immigration Wellington
IM-W-2/1 Wellington Immigrants 1864-1869
IM-W-3/4 Register of Promissory Notes due 1855-1857

J Justice Department
J2/2 Inwards Correspondence Register 1863 Entries in Archway 578
J46 1/1 Coroner's Inquest for Thomas HOSEMAN 1846 (Boulcott Farm)

JC-W Justice Wellington
JC-W 6/2/8 Destitute Persons Act Wellington Maintenance Book 03 May 1895 to 15 Apr 1897

Wellington Magistrate Court
Civil Proceedings Action Register (I) 1872-1877
Civil Proceedings Action Register (II) 1874-1878

JC-WG Justice Courts Wanganui
JC-WG 1/1/1 Wanganui Police and Petty Sessions Court 1845-1847
JC-WG 1/12/11 Indictment Book 1860s

LE Legislative Department (Agency AEBE)
LE 1 Series 18507 Guide to finding Public Petitions Committee records
LE 1 Series 18507 186 1881/14 Waste Lands Committee 1881 Minute Book and accompanying papers
LE 1 Series 18507 217 1884/7 Tinwald Town District Petition 1884

Schedules of Petitions presented to the House of Representatives printed in the JHRs
1876 Nos 1-308, 1877 Nos 1-483, 1878 Nos 1-355, 1879 Nos 1-150 and 1-400
1880 Nos 1-378, 1881 Nos 1-384, 1882 Nos 1-496, 1883 Nos 1-543, 1884 Nos 1-563
1885 Nos 1-430, 1886 Nos 1-460, 1887 Nos 1-178 and 1-511, 1888 Nos 1-504
1889 Nos 1-511, 1890 Nos 1-308, 1891 Nos 1-22 and 1-726, 1892 Nos 1-740
1893 Nos 1-592, 1894 Nos 1-731, 1895 Nos 1-519

LE 9/1 Inwards Correspondence Register 1876-1900
Letters referred to in this register are not held in the records of the Legislative Department.

LS Lands and Survey
Brief History and Inventory of Lands & Survey Department Records Last updated 04 June 2018
LS 34/1 Index to a Register of Returned Soldiers Land Holdings 1916-1930
LS 65 Schedule of Applicants for Land Orders under the Waste Lands Act 1858

LS-N Lands and Survey Nelson
Descriptive List: Nelson Applications for Depasturing Licenses & Leases
LS-N1 1855/190 Letter William Jenkins re Survey of Native Reserves in the Sound
LS-N1 1858/65 Letter William Jenkins re John Davis, Port Underwood
LS-N1 1858/95 Letter William Jenkins re Hohepa te Kiaka & Rawiri Kahuwara
LS-N1 1860/59 Letter William Jenkins re Robert Register

LS-N 3/1 Commissioner of Crown Lands Inwards Correspondence Registers
1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 In Archway surviving correspondence is grouped annually under LS-N1

LS-N 22/1 Register of Applications for Depasturage Licenses 1857-1858
LS-N 42/1 Applications for Mineral Leases 1852-1876
LS-N 42/1 Applications for Prospecting Licences 1865-1876
LS-N 45/3/16 Westland & Nelson Coal Fields Miscellaneous papers 1878-1890

LS-NA Lands and Survey Napier
LS-NA 6/1/8 Register of purchasers of Napier Town Sections 05 Apr 1855

LS-NP Lands and Survey New Plymouth
Lands & Survey New Plymouth Records Inventory Last updated 04 July 2019
LS-NP 5/3/5 Book 2 Land selected by Military Settlers in Patea & Taranaki Districts
LS-NP 12/4 Land Purchasers Opunake & Oeo Survey Districts
LS-NP 12/7 Allotment Book Opunake - Ngatitamarongo Block 1917-1953
LS-NP 14/5 West Coast Settlement Reserves - Purchases of Leases Opunake (1894-1947)
LS-NP 18/1/4 Schedule of Land Orders for Colonial Forces in the Patea District 11 Mar 1867
LS-NP 18/1/6 Land Register Patea District 20 June 1870
LS-NP 18/1/8 Taranaki Military Land Order Counterfoils 1864-1869
LS-NP 19/10/14 West Coast Settlement Reserves Native File XX/58 1918-1920


Wellington Land District Records

Wellington Land Deeds Books
AFIH 22395 W5691 Item 100 Volume 1 1845-1851 at www.lynly.gen.nz
AFIH 22396 W5691 Item 101 Volume 2 1851-1858
AFIH 22396 W5691 Item 102 Volume 3 1849-1858 at www.lynly.gen.nz
AFIH 22396 W5691 Item 103 Volume 4 1859-1862

Wellington Land District Survey Office Plans
AFIH 22355 Box 10 Index in order of Plan Number and Place

Applications for land by Military Settlers - Wellington 1860-1861

LS-W Lands and Survey Wellington
Lands & Survey Wellington Records Inventory
ABWN W5817 24476 Box 16 Surveyor Field Book Register 1842-1962

LS-W2 Commissioner of Crown Lands Some inwards letter transcripts (1853-1879)
LS-W7/1 Survey Office Wellington - Index to Outwards Letterbook (1856-1859)
LS-W8/1 Commissioner Crown Lands Wellington - Outwards Letter Book (1855-1856)
LS-W9/11 Perpetual Lease Tenure Files PL 1-46 (1884-1890s)
LS-W9/58 Native Township Leases 1898 Nos 1-90
LS-W12/1 Wellington District Waste Land Board Minutes 1866-1883
LS-W14/4/4 Cancelled Land Scrip issued to NZ Company purchasers 1857
LS-W14/5/7-9 Scrip Receipts 1-209 (1853-1864)
LS-W14/6/11 Potential Claimants under the 1877 Manawatu Land Orders Act
LS-W15/51 Applications for Land Nos 9201 to 9250 (1893-1894)
LS-W15/52 Applications for Land Nos 9251 to 9350 (1894)
LS-W15/53 Applications for Land Nos 9351 to 9400 (1894)
LS-W15/54 Applications for Land Nos 9401 to 9427 (1894-1895)
LS-W16/1 Register of Applications for land Nos 1 to 1270 (1853-1858)
LS-W16/2 Register of Applications for land Nos 1271 to 2673 (1858-1864)
LS-W16/3 Register of Applications for land Nos 2674 to 4523 (1864-1873)
LS-W16/4 Register of Applications for land Nos 4524 to 6138 (1873-1886)
LS-W16/5 Register of Applications for land Nos 6139 to 6900 (1886-1887)
LS-W16/6 Register of Applications for land Nos 6901 to 9086 (1887-1893)
LS-W18/17 Allotment Book - Hutt Valley Settlement (1926-1950s)
LS-W20/18 Ledger of Miscellaneous Leases & Licenses 1899-1911
LS-W20/20 Deferred Payment Ledger 1877-1881
LS-W25/2 Licenses to Occupy Land (Deferred Payment) Nos 1-158, 172-200 (1872-1881)
LS-W25/3 Licenses to Occupy (Deferred Payment) Nos 401-600 (1885-1886)
LS-W25/4 Licenses to Occupy (Deferred Payment) Nos 1201-1400 (1889)
LS-W29/1/1 Register of Rangers Inspections 1885-1898 (Deferred payment lands)
LS-W32/1/1 Land Claims 1-397 (1860s Mostly military)
LS-W32/3/3 Correspondence relating to land claims 1860
LS-W32/3/4 Partial List of NZ Company Claimants - Wanganui
LS-W32/3/7 Grants for Military, Naval and Volunteer Services
LS-W32/3/8 Wellington Province Land Orders 07 Jul 1860 (65th Regiment & others)
LS-W34/2/2 Correspondence relating to Powers of Attorney 1851-1858
LS-W50/1 Register of Cancelled Scrip 1859-1873
LS-W50/3 Receiver of Land Revenue Letter Book 1858-1863
LS-W61/1/1 Letters to Commissioner of Crown Lands (1853-1860, 1873-1874, 1880)
LS-W62/1 NZ Company Land Claims Deposited Documents - Claim numbers 2, 4-8, 10, 12-20, 23-24, 26-29, 31-36, 39-40
LS-W62/1/31 NZ Company Miscellaneous exhibits - claims not identified 1839-1876
LS-W62/1/32 NZ Company Miscellaneous exhibits - unidentified 1841-1860

LS-W63/1/5 Listing of some draft Crown Grants of Land
for Hutt, Ohariu, Porirua, Turakina, Right and left bank Wanganui River and Wangaehu

LS-W63/2/11 Alphabetical List to Reports of Claims to Land - Commissioner of Crown Lands
LS-W64/7/21 NZ Company Alphabetical List of Parties who signed Memorandum of Arrangement
LS-W64/7/22 NZ Company Claimant Cases Greenwood - Hornbrook - Wade - Featherston
LS-W64/7/23 NZ Company Resident Land Owners Compensation Scrip Register No.1
LS-W64/7/26 NZ Company Land Holders Scrip issued after 05 Jul 1850
LS-W64/7/27 NZ Company Purchasers to whom compensation has been awarded
LS-W64/8/12 NZ Company Cancelled Scrip Certificates 1848-1850
LS-W64/9/29 NZ Company Principal Agent Wellington Miscellaneous Inwards Letters 1843-1850
LS-W64/9/30 NZ Company Copies of letters from Absentee Landowners
LS-W64/10/32 NZ Company Resident owners of original land orders 1852
LS-W65/1/15 NZ Company Wellington Country Section Owners
LS-W65/1/18 NZ Company Hutt Certificate Book c1843
LS-W65/1/22 NZ Company Sections that have reverted to the Crown
LS-W65/2/28 NZ Company Register of Sections Horowhenua District
LS-W65/2/29 NZ Company Listing of Manawatu & Horowhenua Section Owners
LS-W65/2/30 NZ Company Listing of Land Holders Manawatu
LS-W65/2/31 NZ Company Register of Sections Rangitiki, Turakina, Featherston, Pahautanui
LS-W65/1/23 Country Districts Wainuiomata Lowry Bay and Orongorongo
LS-W65/2/32 Register of Sections Masterton, Greytown and Taratahi Plain

LS-W65/3/43 Register of Country Section Selections for the following:
Hutt Valley 1-191; Harbour 1-69; Wainuiomata 1-38; Lowry Bay 1-5
Pahautanui 1-33, 63-69; Pakuratahi 1-14

LS-W68/1-15 Wellington Land Claims Commission Reports 1851-1869 mostly Wainuiomata
LS-W69/1 Inwards Letters to the Deputy Inspector of Surveys 1876/1-108
LS-W73/20 Discharged Soldiers Land 1922-1953
LS-W73/23 Land Settlement Renewable Leases 1926-1953

Land Transfer Office Wellington
LTO-W 299-9-AE Name Index to Volumes 1-41 1871-1913 - What to do next
"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "Y", "Z"
LTO-W 299-33 Volume 1 Register of Incorporated Companies 1862-1887
LTO-W 299-178-Volume 1 Wellington District Land Transfer Index 1871-1913 Folios 1-934
LTO-W 299-179-Volume 2 Wellington District Land Transfer Index 1871-1913 Volume 2 Folios 1-210 Last updated 15 June 2018


M Marine Department
M 2/1 Inwards Correspondence Registers 1870, 1871
M 3/1-21 Departmental Index Opunake Harbour 1881-1913
M 3/1-10 Departmental Index Pencarrow Lighthouse 1870-1899
M 3/5-21 Departmental Index Cape Egmont Lighthouse 1880-1913

MA Maori Affairs
MA 7/1/1 Some Maori Letters to Governor Grey 1846-1847
MA 7/2/2 Governor's outwards letter book to Maori 16 Feb to 31 Oct 1846
MA 24/12 Partial Inventory of Miscellaneous Documents (wide date range)

NM New Munster
NM 8/7 1845/366 David Dick & George Saywell Wainuiomata 1845
NM 8/7 1846/54 Native outrage upon settlers at the Hutt Report 01 Mar 1846
NM 8/9 1846/257 Boulcott Farm Hutt Police Magistrate Arthur Edward MacDonogh Report 17 May 1846
NM 8/9 1846/260 Boulcott Farm Hutt Lt George Hyde Page Report 16 May 1846
NM 8/9 1846/261 Hutt Company of Militia 20 May 1846
NM 8/9 1846/427 Hutt Company of Militia 02 Sep 1846
NM 8/10 1846/277 Hutt Militia Journal 16 May to 31 May 1846
NM 8/10 1846/331 Return of items destroyed and plundered by the Insurgent Natives dated 16 Mar 1846
NM 8/26 1848/149 Letter Memorial of William Swainson for a road to Wainuiomata
NM 8/50 1851/14 Return of Houses specially licensed for the sale of spirits
NM 9/1 Inwards Correspondence Register 1844 Entries in Archway 103
NM 9/2 Inwards Correspondence Register 1848 Entries in Archway 919
NM 10/5 General Outwards Correspondence Hutt Valley 1844-1846
NM 10/6 General Outwards Correspondence Hutt Valley Mar 1846 - Jan 1847
NM 11/2 Blue Book 1849 digitised online
NM 11/3 Blue Book 1851 digitised online

NP Nelson Province
NP 5/6 1867/42 Letter Edward Stafford re William Jenkins' service
NP 7/5 1860/679 Moutere Memorial 05 Dec 1860 - Request to be made a separate Electoral District
NP 7/2B 1857/347 Letter William Jenkins re Native Interpreter's Salary
NP 7/3B 1859/82 Letter John Morrison relative to his dissolution of Partnership
NP 7/4B 1860/286 Letter William Jenkins re translation of native letters
NP 7/11 1864/225 Letter William Jenkins writing from Birmingham, UK
NP 7/11 1864/329 Letter William Jenkins re lecturing on Emigration to NZ
NP 7/12 1864/904 Letter William Jenkins re rebuilding of Wirape's hut
NP 7/12 1864/905 Letter William Jenkins re recommencing duties as Native Interpreter
NP 9/4 Superintendent's Inwards Correspondence Register 1857, 1858, 1859
NP 9/5 Superintendent's Inwards Correspondence Register 1860
NP 23/7/15 Passenger monies received by the Immigration Secretary, Nelson 1857-1867
NP-NTF5 3/3 Nelson Trust Fund Ledger 18 Jun 1853 to Dec 1869

New Zealand Gazette
Motor-Driver Testing Officers 1931 by Name and by Place

Old Land Claims
OLC 3/4 Auckland: Depasturage and timber-cutting licenses 1848-1854
OLC 5/8/31 Counterfoils to Certificates issued under Land Claims Settlement Extension Act 1858
OLC 8/1 Old Land Claims Commission Letter Book 1840-1844

P Police
P 12/6/11 Index to 1877 Police Gazette
P 12/7/12 Index to 1878 Police Gazette (available via Archway AAAJ 5803 W5609/1)
A Police Gazettes infosheet outlines the holdings in the Archives NZ offices
and describes the type of information that can be found in them.
Article: New Zealand Police Gazette by Heidi Kuglin
- The New Zealand Genealogist Sep/Oct 2010 pages 203-205
Article: Researching the New Zealand Police Gazettes 1863-1899 by Trish McCormack
- The New Zealand Genealogist Nov/Dec 2010 pages 250-252
Article: Researching the New Zealand Police Gazettes 1900-1940 by Trish McCormack
- The New Zealand Genealogist Jan/Feb 2011 pages 6-9

PC Patent Office
PC10 NZ Applications to Letters Patent - Guide to records

PO Post Office
PO 2/1 Inwards Correspondence Register 1888
PO-N 1/4 Chief Postmaster Nelson Correspondence 1870

PTO Public Trust Office
AEGD 26558 1 New Plymouth diary of John JOHNSON 1847-1850 and 1854-1857
PTO 13/22 Index to Wellington Curator of Intestate Estates Letter Book 1866-1873
PTO 66/82 Index to Egmont Farmers Union Account Book 1894-1905

Public Works Department
PWD 24/1258/3 Hutt Housing Scheme 1935 Native Reserve Section 58
PWD 24/1258/3 Hutt Housing Scheme 1936
PWD 24/1258/47 Hutt Land Owners 1939 Waterloo to Taita Railway Line

T Treasury Department
T1 1856/68 Journal of Daily Events Native Department Auckland 28 Jul to 2 Aug 1856
T 1/2 M1845/34 Auckland Certificates for Publican s Licenses 1845
T 1/2 W1845 Wellington Sub-Treasurer Inwards Correspondence 1845
T 1/2 W1846 Wellington Sub-Treasurer Inwards Correspondence 1846
T 3/1 Inwards Correspondence Register 1856

TP Taranaki Province
From Provincial Gazettes: Unpaid Road Rates 1855-1859
TP 5/5/14 Index to letters received from Private Persons 1858
TP 5/5/16 Letters from Private Persons 1860
TP 5/5/17 Letters from Private Persons 1861
TP 8/1/2 Land Claimants under the Volunteer Land Act 1865
TP 8/1/2 Memo re suppression of rebellion between Hungatahua & Patea rivers 1866
TP 9/1/3 Inventory of lists of people given assistance 1860
TP 10/1/3 List of applicants for relief 1863
TP 10/1/4 Miscellaneous Papers
TP 12/5/10 Register of Warrants 1859-1860

UNZ University of New Zealand
UNZ 20/24/24 Index to University of NZ Students 1872-1905

Vaccination
Introduction to Vaccination in New Zealand - includes index of Vaccinators and Inspectors

Valuation Department
V-NP W1175-44-2-87 Valuation Roll Opunake Town District 1914-1928

WA War Archives
WA 89 154 89q War Diary 3rd Wellington Infantry Battalion December 1917
WA 89 154 90s War Diary 3rd Wellington Infantry Battalion January 1918

WP Wellington Province
Wellington Armed Police 1846-1850
Land Regulations 1851-1865 & Compensation & Land Scrip Acts 1855-1857
WP 3 1859/175 Letter John Morrison asks to be immigration agent
WP 7/1/23 Five Miscellaneous Enclosures to Superintendents Letters 1863-1868
WP 7/1/24 Fifteen Miscellaneous Enclosures to Superintendents Letters 1863-1868
WP 8 Inward Letters 23 Aug 1865 to 8 May 1868 - Alfred Ludlam, Lower Waiwetu District 3 May 1868
WP 11/1/7 Vouchers relating to Road Boards & Public Works 1855-1876
WP 11/1/8 Vouchers relating to Grants in Aid 1867-1869
WP 11/1/9 A few Wellington Provincial Treasury Receipts 1862-1867 (Wanganui Bridge Debentures)
WP 11/3/11 Wanganui / Rangitikei Dog Collar Registrations 1857-1868
WP 11/5/14 Public Works Ledger - Hutt Valley only