New Zealand Special Settlements

Organised Settlement in New Zealand

1837 colonists recruited in New South Wales by De Thierry for a settlement in Hokianga

1839 The New Zealand Company Settlements in Wellington / Nelson / Whanganui / Dunedin

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1839 Tory

1839 Cuba

1839 Oriental

1839 Aurora

1839 Adelaide

1839 Duke of Roxburgh

1839 Bengal Merchant

1839 Glenbervie (freight vessel)

1840 Blenheim

1840 Slains Castle

1840 Lady Nugent

1840 Olympus

1841 London

1840 Nanto-Bordelaise Company (Akaroa) French settlers led by Captain Jean François Langlois

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Comte de Paris

L'Aube warship preceded the Comte de Paris

1841 Kaihu Settlement Scheme

1841 ship Sophia Pate wrecked on the Kaipara Bar; many of the intending colonists drowned

1841 The Plymouth Company (New Plymouth)

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1840 William Bryan

1841 Slains Castle

1841 Amelia Thompson

1841 Oriental

1841 Timandra

1842 Blenheim

1841 Essex

1842 / 1843 Parkhurst Boys

1842 St. George

1842 Nelson - German Settlers organised by John Nicholas Beit & led by Rev J.C. Riemenschneider, Rev. J.F.H Wohlers, pastors J.W.C Heine & J.H. Trost.

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1842 St Pauli N.Z.Co. agent John Nicholas Beit recruited settlers in north Germany

1844 Skiold N.Z.Co. agents Carl & Fedor Kelling recruited Germans from Mecklenburg

1847 Royal New Zealand Fencibles - Military settlements around Auckland: at Onehunga / Otahuhu / Howick / Panmure / Mangere

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1847 Ramilles

1847 Minerva

1847 Sir Robert Sale

1847 Sir George Seymour

1848 Clifton

1848 Ann

1849 Berhampore

1849 Oriental Queen

1852 Inchinnan

1852 Berwick Castle

1848 The Canterbury Association

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1850 Charlotte Jane

1850 Randolph

1850 Sir George Seymour

1850 Cressy

1851 Lady Nugent

1853 Nova Scotian Gaelic Migration to New Zealand - Waipu - Scottish Presbyterians led by the Rev. Norman McLeod

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1853 Gazelle

1853 Gertrude

1857 Spray

1857 Breadalbane

1857 Ellen Lewis

1862 Albertland Special Settlement Association organised in Birmingham, England by the Rev. William Rawson Brame

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1862 Matilda Wattenbach

1862 Hanover

1862 William Miles

1862 Gertrude

1863 Annie Wilson

1863 Tyburnia

1863 Caduceus

1863 Victory

1863 Ida Zeigler

1863 John Duncan

1864 Nimroud

1863 Puhoi - Bohemian immigrants led by Captain Martin Krippner

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1863 War Spirit

1865 Liverpool (x2 voyages)

1864 Waikato Immigration Scheme Emigrants for the The Waikato Immigration Scheme were recruited in large numbers from the Cape Colony (South Africa), Britain and Ireland.

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1864 Bombay

1864 Waikato Military settlements

Alexandra

Kirikiriroa/Hamilton recruited by Lieutenant William Steele to form the 4th Waikato Regiment.

Cambridge

Harapepe

Horotiu

Kihikihi

Newcastle/Ngaruawhaia

Whatawhata

1866 Bay of Islands Special Settlement Ulster Irish Protestant settlers at Kawakawa (Whangae) led by the Rev. Richard Augustus Hall

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1866 Mary Shepherd

1866 Karere : Manawatu - Danish Settlers led by Lutheran Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad

1871 Palmerston North : Manawatu - Scandinavian settlers recruited by Julius Vogel's Assisted Immigration Scheme

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1871 Celaeno

1871 England

1871 The Emigrants and Colonists Aid Corporation The Manchester Block (Feilding) - farm labourers from Buckinghamshire & Middlesex organized by the Duke of Manchester and led by Colonel William Henry Adelbert Feilding

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1873 Duke of Edinburgh

1873 Salisbury

1873 Ocean Mail

1873 Mongol

1874 Woodlark

1874 Golden Sea

1874 Waikato

1874 La Hogue

1874 Euterpe

1872 70 Mile Bush Norsewood, Dannevirke; Pahiatua and Eketahuna, (southern Hawkes Bay) including 40 Mile Bush (the southern portion Masterton to Woodville) - Scandinavian settlers recruited by Julius Vogel's Assisted Immigration Scheme

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1872 Ballarat

1872 Høvding

1874 Fritz Reuter

1872 Friedeburg

1871 England

1872 Forfarshire

1872 Halcione

1873 Bebington

1872 Schiehallion

1872 Jessie Readman

1872 Glenlora

from 1872 Brogdens' Navvies

The English company, Brogden and Sons recruited about 1000 labourers and their families; arriving 1872 - 1873 to work on railway construction projects at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Picton, Oamaru and Invercargill. (see link for shipping lists)

1873 Port William (Stewart Island)

1874 Karamea

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1874 Adamant

1874 Chile

1873 Ocean Mail

1873 Michael Angelo

1875 Jackson's Bay West Coast organised by the Westland Provincial Government

1875 Katikati Ulster Protestants from Northern Ireland led by George Vesey Stewart

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1875 Carisbrooke Castle

1875 Lady Jocelyn.