Pukerimu Genealogical Records
Pukerimu Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered by the government, including name, year of birth and parents' names. The index can be used to order death records, which contain further details.
Registers of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials containing over 160,000 entries from over 30 countries. These largely relate to British subjects.
An index to births of British citizens born overseas that were registered with the British Consul or High Commissioner. Provides a reference that can be used to order a birth certificate.
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Pukerimu Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered by the government, including names of the bride and groom and year of marriage. The index can be used to order death records, which contain further details.
Registers of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials containing over 160,000 entries from over 30 countries. These largely relate to British subjects.
An index to marriages of British citizens overseas that were registered with the British Consul or High Commissioner Provides a reference that can be used to order a marriage certificate.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Pukerimu Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered by the government, including name, date of birth and age. The index can be used to order death records, which contain further details.
Registers of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials containing over 160,000 entries from over 30 countries. These largely relate to British subjects.
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
This database contains seven volumes listing civilians in the British Commonwealth and Empire who died during World War II.
A name index linked to original indices of British citizens who died overseas. Records record the area in which the deceased died and their age.
Newspapers Covering Pukerimu
Searchable editions of the official newspaper of the New Zealand government. It contains details of government proceedings, estate, bankruptcies, the military and much more.
A journal intended to help Australasians of Scottish parentage to better understand the history, literature and songs of the land of their forefathers.
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
Pukerimu Wills & Probate Records
An index to 100,000s of documents recording the last wishes of New Zealanders and the distribution of their estate after their decease. Records often contain much genealogical information.
A index to testators whose will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. They principally cover those who lived in the lower two thirds of Britain, but contain wills for residents of Scotland, Ireland, British India and other countries. A copy of each will may be purchased for digital download.
Details of deceased New Zealanders whose administered estate contained possessions in England.
An index to over 60,000 wills of people who died with money in public funds. Useful when researching counties where wills have been destroyed. Also contains wills for citizens of British colonies.
Pukerimu Immigration & Travel Records
An index to and images of lists recording the arrival and departure of over 7 million passengers.
A register of over 13,000 settlers in New Zealand. It includes settler's name, date of birth, date of death, the ship they arrived on and where they lived.
An index to around 140,000 records detailing grants of British and later New Zealand citizenship. The index lists name, age or date of birth, place of birth, residence, former nationality, date of naturalisation and a reference which can be used to order copies of naturalisation records.
Extracts from passenger lists, detailing the emigration and transportation of people from Cornwall, primarily to the New World and British colonies.
Abstracts of details found in passenger lists, passport records, correspondence and seaman records, which may list name, age, gender, birthplace, occupation, residence, destination, emigration date and more. Most passengers were traveling to North America.
Pukerimu Military Records
An index and images of notices of men called up for Service with the Territorial Force, were extracted from the New Zealand Gazette. They list more than 310,000 names, addresses, and occupations of men who were called to service during WWII.
A list of over 1.3 million British and Commonwealth servicemen who were injured during World War One.
An index listing the rank and regiment of over 245,000 British Army soldiers serving in June 1861. Compiled from paylists, this essential work can help locate further records for military men whose regiment is not otherwise known.
An index to and images of records detailing around 125,000 men who served in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Records may contain name, dates of service, army number, rank, unit, marital status, place of enlistment, occupation, names of relatives, residence and more.
Transcripts of announcements found in the official publication of the New Zealand government regarding appointments, changes in position and resignation in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces.
Pukerimu Court & Legal Records
An index to and images of registers that list the name, address, voting qualification and property description of those registered to vote. Contains around 21 million entries.
Searchable editions of the official newspaper of the New Zealand government. It contains details of government proceedings, estate, bankruptcies, the military and much more.
A list of over 45,000 people who served as jurors, compiled from newspaper reports. Lists include name, residence and occupation.
An index to 35,000 indigenous New Zealanders registered to vote, including name, tribe, sub-tribe, address and gender.
A dictionary of law terminology from earliest times.
Pukerimu Land & Property Records
A database of around 70,000 entities that held freehold title to land in New Zealand. Entries may list name, title, occupation, address, borough and county of land, value of land, acreage of land and year.
Pukerimu Directories & Gazetteers
A transcription of an early 20th century work detailing the government, localities and notable persons of New Zealand.
Five searchable books listing towns followed by lists of tradespeople, professional, businesses and private residents.
Many searchable editions of books that give brief details on settlements, listing their residents and businesses.
An index to and images of books listing around 8 million names, with addresses and occupations. They also contain information on localities, government, amenities etc.
A directory of people living in and businesses operating in New Zealand.
Pukerimu Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Over 1.6 million transcriptions of headstones from cemeteries in New Zealand, typically including details such as name, birth date, death date, and the cemetery name and plot location. But they may also provide family relationships with name and other details about a spouse, cause of death, military dates, an epitaph, or even a description of the headstone.
Pukerimu Obituaries
A constantly-updated collection of abstract obituaries, inducing names of relatives. It contains over 300,000 entries.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Pukerimu Histories & Books
A transcription of an early 20th century work detailing the government, localities and notable persons of New Zealand.
A detailed work covering the history of the nation's provinces and settlements; supplemented with photographs and biographies of notable Kiwis.
A history of the country from its discovery, through colonisation to life under British rule.
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Pukerimu School & Education Records
An index to and images of registers of pupils at several New Zealand schools.
Pukerimu Occupation & Business Records
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Five books, listing the names and particulars of medical practitioners in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. It also lists statistical, legal and other information relating to the medical profession.
An index to and images of records of those holding teaching qualifications, teaching licenses, civil service exam results and other educational records.
An index to and images of registers listing over 110,000 name, qualifications, and residences listed for physicians, surgeons, nurses, midwives, and other medical practitioners.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Pukerimu
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Genealogies of land-owning families in the British colonies, including biographies.
Genealogies of land-owning families in the British colonies, including biographies.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Pukerimu Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Genealogies of land-owning families in the British colonies, including biographies.
Genealogies of land-owning families in the British colonies, including biographies.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Pukerimu Church Records
A detailed history of a religious denomination in New Zealand, with notes on its British roots.
A directory listing Anglican parishes and other divisions of the Church or England hierarchy and their various religious officers. The directory covers the UK and Anglican churches throughout the world.
This database contains lists all of the ministers who had the right to perform marriages in New Zealand under the heading of their churches’ denominations.
A book listing names of ministers in the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church since its inception. It also indicates the principal offices which each minister has held from the Conferences, biographies and obituaries.
Biographical Directories Covering Pukerimu
A detailed work covering the history of the nation's provinces and settlements; supplemented with photographs and biographies of notable Kiwis.
Pukerimu Maps
Detailed and interactive topographical maps covering the New Zealand islands.
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Pukerimu Reference Works
A dictionary of law terminology from earliest times.
A dictionary of largely defunct medical terms.
Historical Description
Pukerimu is a noted farming district, whence a great many fat bullocks are sent every year to supply the Auckland market. The splendid turnip fields on which the cattle are fattened are much admired by visitors. The New Zealand Dairy Association has a creamery at Pukerimu. The district, which is 100 miles from Auckland, lies between Pukekura and Ohaupo, and adjoins Monavale, which has but recently been subdivided for closer settlement. Pukerimu has a triweekly mail service.
The Pukerimu Public School is a wooden building with one class room and a porch. There is accommodation for fifty scholars, there are eighteen on the roll, and the average attendance is about fifteen. The schoolhouse has six rooms.
Miss Jessie F. P. Davis, who holds an E2 certificate, is the mistress in charge of the Pukerimu public school. She was born in Wellington, educated at private and public schools, and appointed to her present position in 1897.
The Pukerimu Creamery (New Zealand Dairy Association, proprietors) was established in 1892, and removed in 1900 to its present position on a portion of Mr. Greenslade's property. It is built of wood and iron, and contains a four horse-power stationary steam engine and two large Alexandra separators, each capable of treating 350 gallons per hour. In the year 1900–1901 there were eighteen suppliers, who sent in about 1150 gallons of milk per day.
Mr. Richard Josiah Graham, Manager of the Pukerimu Creamery, was born in 1876 at Monganui. He was educated at Chaupo, and became assistant at Ngaruawahia Dairy Factory in October, 1899. From February to May, 1900, he was in charge at Kihikihi, and became manager at Pukerimu on the 1st of August, 1900.
Mr. R. J. Graham.
Mr. J. Anderson.Atkinson, William, Farmer, Pukerimu. Mr. Atkinson's farm consists of some 169 acres of first-class land and is worked for dairying purposes, with about twenty-five acres in crops, etc. He is a native of Yorkshire, where he was born in 1830, and brought up to farm life; went to Australia in 1857 and spent four years on the Bendigo diggings, then crossing to Otago, he was at the Shotover diggings for a considerable time. Mr. Atkinson went Home early in 1870, and having married there returned to New Zealand, and purchased fifty acres of land, on which the homestead now stands. Since that date he has added to his farm gradually, and now has a most comfortable and picturesque homestead. He has three sons and one daughter.
Freeman, Richard, Farmer, Pukerimu. Mr. Freeman was born near Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1839, and is a carpenter and wheelwright by trade. He was employed for about twenty years in the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Works where there is a staff of 2500 men. He entered as a workman, but was soon promoted to the position of foreman, and after fifteen years became manager, but resigned the position in two years on account of ill health. Mr. Freeman came to Auckland by the s.s. “Tongariro,” on her first trip, in 1883. He took a position in connection with the Auckland Tramway Company as foreman of rolling stock and engineer, and held it until he retired in 1894. Mr. Freeman was married, in 1864, to a daughter of the late Mr. T. Baylis, of Leeds. Mrs. Freeman died in 1873, leaving three sons, and Mr. Freeman contracted a second marriage in 1875 with a daughter of Mr. W. Ellaby, of Elton, Huntingdonshire, and sister of the Rev. J. Ellaby, Free Methodist minister of Hindley Green, Lancashire.
Mr. R. Freeman.“Glengariff” (Mr. H. J. Greenslade, J.P.), Pukerimu. This fine property consists of 713 acres, and was purchased by Mr. Greenslade in April, 1900, from Mr. Lake, ex-M.H.R. for Waikato. Mr. greenslade has gone in extensively for dairy farming, and over 120 cows are milked on the estate. The Pukerimu Creamery, belonging to the New Zealand Dairy Association, has been erected at one corner of the estate. Mr. Greenslade's personal career is described in connection with the Thames, where he was mayor, and was long known as a journalist.
“Glengariff,” Mr. H. J. Greenslande's Residence.“Glenside,”, (Archibald Wallace, proprietor), Pukerimu. This property, which is a little over 200 acres in extent, is now farmed by Mr. William Wallace, son of the owner. It is situated in the centre of the Pukerimu district, and admitted to be one of the most fertile properties in the Waikato. Mr. Archibald Wallace now resides at Cambridge, and is referred to in connection with that town, and Mr. William Wallace is noticed in another article as senior lieutenant of No. 3 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifles.
Heather, Arthur Burgoyne, formerly of “Te Kainga,” Pukerimu, near Cambridge. Mr. Heather is a son of Mr. Arthur Heather, the well-known Auckland merchant, and was born in that city in 1869. He received his education at Christ's College, Canterbury, and after returning to Auckland, entered into business as an ironmonger. Mr. Heather was for some considerable time in his father's warehouse, but turning his attention to farming, he purchased a property of 340 acres in 1891, and devoted all his time to its improvement. He afterwards sold his land, and visited South Africa.
Jones, Alexander Owen, Farmer, “Te Kainga,” Pukerimu. Mr. Jones was born in Remuera, in 1855, and was educated in Auckland and at Papatoitoi. He was brought up to a country life, and was for thirteen months manager of the Newstead Dairy Factory. For a number of years he worked for Messrs F. Andrews and Son at Papatoitoi, and afterwards settled at Ararimu South, where he was engaged in bush-farming for ten years. During part of that time he was secretary of the local school committee and clerk and collector of the road board. In 1889 he removed to the Waikato and had a farm in Pukerimu, but he subsequently sold it and purchased his present property. Mr Jones has served as a member of the Ohaupo school committee since 1892. He was married, in 1877, to a daughter of Mr. D. Brisbane, of Ararimu. This lady died in 1887, leaving four daughters and one son. Mr. Jones contracted a second marriage in 1893 with a daughter of Mr. H. Hughes, of Pukerimu, and three sons have been born of this union.
Mr. William Sturgess is an old Waikato settler, and was born in Bedfordshire, in England, in 1841, and brought up to a country life. He arrived in Auckland by the ship “Egmont” in 1860, and during the Maori disturbances he served with the military in the Waikato, and took part in several engagements. Mr. Sturgess has a farm of 450 acres at Pukerimu.