Resources & Links

A collection of various photographs, paintings, and documents, including landscapes, portraits, historical scenes, and handwritten notes.

Online Nelson Resources

Nelson Historical Society Journals (up to 2012)

Nelson Historical Society Journals up to 2012

Nelson Provincial Museum Collections Online

https://collection.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/explore

More than 150,000 items including photography 1860s-present, maps, architectural plans, books and publications, archives and general social history items.

Early Settlers Memorial

Early Settlers Memorial Searchable Spreadsheet

A searchable spreadsheet database of settlers who arrived by sea in the years 1840 to 1850 to settle in the Nelson Region, based on original New Zealand Company Passengers to Nelson manifests and shipping lists published in The Nelson Examiner newspaper 1841-1850.

WWI Service Nelson Database

WWI Service Nelson Searchable Spreadsheet

A searchable spreadsheet of more than 7,000 men and women from the region who served during World War I or were registered as Reservists.

WWII Service Nelson Database

A searchable spreadsheet containing the names of those who served from the region during World War II is still a work in progress. To check if a name is on the list, you can email Peter Millward.

Nelson Photo News

Nelson Photo News

Full text archive of this monthly magazine published between 1960 and 1972.

The Prow

http://www.theprow.org.nz/

A website featuring historical and cultural stories from Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough.

Top of the South Maps

topofthesouthmaps.co.nz/app

Rustlings in the Wind

http://rustlingsinthewind.blogspot.com/

Historical research and stories by Ngatimoti blogger Anne McFadgen.

Top of the South Island, New Zealand History Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/929091180584437

A popular Facebook group featuring old photos of years gone by of Nelson, Stoke, Richmond, Motueka, Golden Bay and surrounding areas.

Te Tau Ihu o te Waka - A history of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough

(Catalogue entry only for Nelson Public Libraries)

https://ent.kotui.org.nz/client/en_AU/nelson/search/results?qu=mitchell+waka+nelson&te=

Mitchell H. & J. (2004-2014) Te tau ihu o te Waka = A history of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers in association with the Wakatū Incorporation.

v. 1. Te tangata me te whenua = The people and the land

v. 2. Te Ara Hou = The new society

v. 3. Ngā tūpuna = The ancestors.

v. 4. Ngā whānau rangatira o Ngāti Tama me Te Ātiawa = The chiefly families of Ngāti Tama and Te Ātiawa.

Front page of the Nelson Evening Mail newspaper, dated June 26, 1866, with headlines about the Resident Magistrate's Court.

Online National Resources

Online Cenotaph

https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph

A searchable database for biographical and service details for more than 235,000 New Zealand servicemen and women who have served this country on active service from the 19th century until today.

Papers Past

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

An online collection of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals, containing issues from 83 separate New Zealand newspapers dating from 1839 to 1945 and including numerous titles from the Top of the South Island.

DigitalNZ

https://digitalnz.org/explore

Ā-Tihi o Aotearoa DigitalNZ was established by the National Library of New Zealand in 2008. DigitalNZ has grown to include more than 30 million items from over 200 content partners.

Passenger Arrival Lists 1839-1974

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1609792

Images and index of the ship passenger lists from Archives New Zealand. There are various types of lists including both outbound and inbound passengers at the various port of New Zealand.

Archives New Zealand

https://archives.govt.nz/

More than 7 million archives created and used by the NZ Govt from around 1840 to the recent past.

National Library

https://natlib.govt.nz/

The collection and sharing of documentary taonga in words, sounds and pictures

Alexander Turnbull Library

https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/alexander-turnbull-library-collections

A division of the National Library holding national documentary heritage collections, including photographs.

NZ History

https://www.nzhistory.govt.nz