Sources - Home Away From 'Home'

• Home Away From 'Home'
• Summary
• Where Did They Come From?
• The English
• The Scots
• The Irish
• Where To?
• Who Were The Immigrants?
• Conclusions
• Sources
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Further source

Books

Donald Harman Akenson, Half the World from Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860–1950, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990

Rollo Arnold, The Farthest Promised Land: English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1981

Susan Butterworth, Chips off the auld rock: Shetlanders in New Zealand , Shetland Society of Wellington, Wellington, 1997

Ed. Lyndon Fraser, A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2000

Lyndon Fraser, To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1997

Charlotte Macdonald, A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-century New Zealand, Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990

G.L. Pearce, The Scots of New Zealand, Collins, Auckland, 1976

Links

Genealogical links section on this site

Related features on this site:

• Long Journey for Sevenpence: Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom 1947–1975.

The Irish in New Zealand: Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand .

The voyage of the Birman: site by Peter Sim charting the voyage of the Birman a barque (sailing vessel) that left England in 1841 and arrived in New Zealand in 1842.

Auckland Passenger Arrivals 1840-1883 - database on the Auckland City Libraries website