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year |
name |
Occupation |
ship |
Other
Europeans |
comment |
| 1521 | Cristoval de MENDOCA | explorer | ship's crew | Portugese Explorer, possible first visitor and European discoveror of NZ | |
| 1567 | Juan FERNANDEZ | explorer | ship's crew | Possible visit to NZ by Spanish Explorer | |
|
1642 |
Abel TASMAN |
explorer |
Zeehaen and Heemskerk |
Total crew 110 |
Four Dutch sailors killed by Maori.
(Murderer’s Bay now Golden Bay) |
|
1769 |
James COOK |
explorer |
Endeavour |
Total
crew 94 |
1st
visit |
|
1769 |
Jean Francois-Marie de SURVILLE |
explorer |
St Jean-Baptiste |
|
French explorer |
|
1772 |
Marion du FRESNE |
explorer |
Mascarin |
Crozet (officer on Mascarin) |
French expedition, 2 ships, Du FRESNE
massacred along with 26 crew, Te Hue Bay, Bay of Islands. |
| 1772 | M du CLESMEUR | explorer | Marquis
de Castries |
||
|
1773 |
James COOK |
explorer |
Resolution |
90 seamen (17 had been on the Endeavour voyage) |
2nd visit
|
|
1773 |
Tobias FURNEAUX |
explorer |
Adventurer |
|
Part of James COOK expedition. 10 crew killed
by Maori Queen Charlotte Sound |
|
1777 |
James COOK |
explorer |
Resolution |
|
3rd
visit . |
|
1777 |
Charles CLERKE |
explorer |
Discovery |
Edward RIOU James KING |
Part of James COOK expedition |
|
1791 |
Eber BUNKER |
whaler |
William and Ann |
|
whaler. visited Doubtless Bay, Northland, NZ |
|
1791 |
George VANCOUVER |
explorer |
Discovery Chatham |
|
2 vessels, English expedition. Stopped Dusky Sound. |
|
1792 |
|
Sealer / whaler |
Brittania |
MALEN mate, William LEITH 2nd mate |
Dusky sound. |
| 1792 | Captain William HOUSE | Francis | accompanied Brittania but got blown south. | ||
|
1793 |
Alejandro MALASPINA |
explorer |
Descubierta Atrevida |
|
2 vessels, Spanish exploration of Pacific |
|
1793 |
Joseph-Antoine Bruni d’ENTRECASTEAUX |
explorer |
Recherche |
|
2
vessels, stopped at North Cape but never landed. |
|
1793 |
Captain HANSON |
|
HMS
Daedalus |
|
Sent
from Norfolk Island to bring back Maori to demonstrate flax processing. |
| 1793 | Governor KING | visitor | Brittannia | Rev BAIN, Thomas JAMISON, W N CHAPMAN 2 NCOs and 12 soldiers. | returned the two Maori kdnapped 6 months earlier |
| 1794 | Captain DELL | trader | Fancy | to get spars from Thames | |
| 1795 | Capt William BAMPTON | Endeavour | Robert MURRAY 4th officer. BOWELL chief officer WAINE, WEATHERALL 2nd officer, passengers: ARMS, BOWELL, Thomas BEADLE, CASEY (deserted soldier) | ||
| 1795 | Fancy | DENNISON 1st officer, FREE 2nd officer | accompanied Endeavour | ||
|
1796 |
|
|
Mermaid |
|
Sights
Kaikoura Mountains. |
| 1797 | Captain G TODD | US sealer | Mercury | rescued remaining 35 people shipwrecked (Endeavour) Dusky Sound | |
|
1798 |
Thomas (or Henry?) TAYLOR |
|
Hunter |
3 others |
4
crew deserted ship in Thames River while getting timber. |
| abt 1799 | Johanna H FITZNER | birth | born in NZ (see 1881 census UK) | ||
| abt 1800 | unknown | settled Bay of Islands | unknown | 1st Pakeha Maori, probably jumped ship. A halfcaste child seen by Savage 1805. | |
| 1801 | William DELL | timber trading | Plumier | Thomas Fyshe PALMER | Thames for timber |
|
1804 |
James CAVANAGH |
|
|
|
A
convict who escaped from his ship near Cavalli Islands. |
|
1805 |
Captain SKELTON |
whaler |
Ferrett |
|
Spent two months in Bay of
Islands.(September/October) |
| 1805 | whaler |
Adonis |
bought cattle to Bay of Islands | ||
| 1805 | Captain STEWART | whaler |
Venus |
||
|
1805 |
|
whaler |
Argo |
|
Young Maori Ruatara (son of a chief) left NZ
working as crew. |
|
1806 |
Benjamin KELLY |
1st Mate |
Venus |
John LANCASHIRE |
Group of 11, some convicts, hijacked ship in
Port Dalrymple, Australia and sailed to
Bay of Islands, NZ. |
|
1806 |
George BRUCE |
sailor |
Lady Nelson |
|
left ship BOI |
| 1807 | Gregory WARNER | missionary | Elizabeth | spent 12 days in the Bay of Islands. | |
|
1807 |
WILKINSON |
Ship’s captain |
Star |
|
First European visit to Whangaroa Harbour |
| 1808 | GLYNN | Parramatta | attacked by Maori and sank Bay of Islands | ||
|
1809 |
Captain THOMPSON |
Ship’s captain |
Boyd |
70 plus Europeans. |
Massacre of Boyd’s crew and passengers,
Whangaroa Harbour. 4 survivors. |
|
1809 |
Captain CHASE |
|
Pegasus |
|
First Europeans to enter Lyttleton Harbour. |
|
1810 |
Captain PARKER |
Ship’s captain |
New Zealander |
Captains and more than 200 crew from 6 ships
(mostly Whalers). |
Mistaken attack on Te Pahi in Bay of Islands
by 6 ships as revenge for Boyd. |
|
1810 |
James CADDELL |
16 year old boy with sealers |
Sydney Cove |
Other sealers |
Group attacked by Maori on Stewart Island.
James survived and married Tokitoki and lived with the tribe.. |
| 1810 | David LOWERISTON | Active | Alexander BOOK, Robert ROBISON, James ANDERSON, John WAID, William JONES, Frances PERERA, John CARVER, William JACKSON, Bartholomew VINCENT | sealing gang left On Open Bay Island, Fiordland. Stranded for almost 4 years. | |
| 1810 | William LEITH | visitor | Experiment | Exploring potential for establishing trading posts. | |
|
1810? |
Richard CAIRNS |
? |
? |
|
From Founders Society membership list. Mr N M
SARGISSON. |
| 1812 | John BESENT | King George | deserted vessel and lived with Maori in the Bay of Islands for a year. | ||
|
1814 |
Thomas KENDALL |
|
Active |
|
1st visit to make preliminary study
of options for a mission |
|
1814 |
William HALL |
|
Active |
|
1st visit to make preliminary study
of options for a mission |
|
1814 |
Samuel MARSDEN |
Missionary |
Active |
|
1st visit 1814 to set up 1st CMS Mission Rangihoua (Oihi)
Bay, Bay of Islands |
|
1814 |
Captain Thomas HANSEN |
Ship’s captain |
Active |
Wife: Hannah nee COATES |
Hannah and son Thomas stayed with
Missionaries. |
|
|
Thomas HANSEN jnr |
Settler |
Active |
|
Aged 29. Settled in NZ |
|
1814 |
Thomas KENDALL |
Missionary School teacher |
Active |
Jane (wife) and children. Richard STOCKWELL (servant) |
Arrived to set up 1st CMS mission |
|
1814 |
John KING |
Missionary and Flax dresser and ropemaker |
Active |
Hannah nee HANSEN (wife) Phillip Hansen KING (son) |
To
work in 1st CMS Mission |
|
1814 |
William HALL |
Missionary Joiner and Ship builder |
Active |
Dinah (wife) |
1st CMS Mission. |
|
1814 |
John Liddiard NICHOLAS |
visitor |
Active |
|
Arrived 22 December 1814 and left on the Active
February 1815. |
|
1814 |
Walter HALL |
convict |
Active |
|
Worked in Mission |
|
1814 |
Henry alias Patrick SHAFFERY |
convict |
Active |
|
Worked in Mission |
|
1815 |
Thomas Holloway KING |
|
|
20 feb 1815 |
First European birth in NZ. |
|
1815 |
Joseph ROGERS |
Visitor? |
Active |
Plus wife |
|
|
1815 |
John SHERGOLD |
Visitor? |
Active |
|
|
|
1815 |
Sarah McKENZIE |
Visitor? |
Active |
|
|
|
1816 |
Elizabeth HANSEN nee TOLLIS |
settler |
Active |
Thomas HANSEN |
Married Thomas in Sydney 1815 and returned
with him to settle in NZ |
| 1817 | John RUTHERFORD | Pakeha maori | Agnes | also 5 others including John SMITH and JEFFERSON | captured by Maori, RUTHERFORD escaped jan 1826 |
|
1817 |
Charles GORDON |
missionary |
|
Wife Maria LEES |
To work as agriculturist in the mission. |
|
1817 |
William CARLISLE |
missionary |
|
Wife Mary Ann GORDON |
|
|
1819 |
Samuel MARSDEN |
|
Active |
|
2nd visit to NZ |
|
1819 |
John Gare BUTLER |
missionary |
? |
|
2nd CMS Mission Kerikeri, Bay of
Isalnds |
|
1819 |
James KEMP |
missionaries |
General Gates |
Wife Charlotte. |
2nd CMS Mission, Kerikeri, Bay of
Islands |
|
1819 |
Samuel LEIGH |
missionary |
Active |
|
Arrived 5 may for visit and left 17 june.
Wesleyen Missionary. |
|
1820 |
Samuel MARSDEN |
|
HMS Dromedary |
James SHEPHERD, Dr FAIRFOWL surgeon. Sgt BROWN ( daughter buried at Oihi) |
3rd visit to NZ Ship has 5 months
in Whangaroa getting timber |
| 1820 | BELLINGHAUSEN | explorer | leader of Russian ships Vostok and Mirnyy visiting NZ | ||
|
1820 |
Gilbert MAIR |
trader |
|
|
Possibly arrived 1824 (DNZB) |
|
1822 |
Captain James HERD |
Ships Captain |
Rosanna? |
|
Returned 1827 |
|
1822 |
Samuel LEIGH |
missionary |
Active |
Wife Catherine |
Wesleyen, first mission at Kaeo, Whangaroa
harbour. |
|
1822 |
Walter LAWRY |
missionary |
St Michael |
Wife |
Visited BOI enroute to Tonga. |
|
1823 |
Nathaniel TURNER, John HOBBS, William WHITE and James STACK |
missionaries |
St Michael |
|
Joined LEIGH Took over responsibility for Wesleyen Mission
at Kaeo |
|
1823 |
Henry WILLIAMS |
missionary |
Brampton |
Wife Marianna , Henry jnr plus at least 2
other children. Mrs Ann TURNER (nee SERGEANT) and 6month old daughter and
servant girl Betsy. William and Sarah FAIRBURN and family Samuel MARSDEN.4th
visit. |
3rd CMS Mission Pahia |
|
1823 |
William COLENSO |
printer |
Blackbird |
|
First printing press to NZ |
| 1823 | John DAY | Captain | Wellington | 1st European ship in Wellington Harbour? (or possibly 2nd after Mendoca 1521?) | |
|
1824 |
Louis DUPERREY |
explorer |
Coquille |
Rene LESSON, naturalist. |
French Corvette. Also Jules D’URVILLE (2ndin
command)
|
|
1824 |
George CLARK |
missionary |
Coquille |
With
wife Martha and baby son George arrived from Port Jackson |
|
|
1824 |
DOBBs? |
Visitor? |
Endeavour |
Captain Randolph DACRE. |
From Sydney 7 sep 1824 |
|
1824 |
Rev D TYERMAN, Mr George BENNET, Rev L G
THREKELD |
visitors |
Endeavour |
|
From London and Sydney. London Missionary
Society deputation. |
|
1824 |
John KELLY |
Whaler / settler |
Samuel |
|
Married Hine-Tuhawaiki and settled Ruapuke
Island. |
|
1824 |
James STEWART |
|
Samuel |
|
Left NZ 1824 to Sydney. Also on ship to Sydney
‘native woman and child’ |
| 1824 | John PARKER | Samuel | |||
| 1824 | John FARRELL | carpenter on whaler | settled NZ abt 1828, Hawkes Bay. | ||
|
1826 |
William WILLIAMS |
Teacher
and Missionary |
Brampton |
Wife Jane and daughter Mary |
Brother to Henry |
| 1826 | CUNNINGHAM | Govt Botanist | based in Sydney? | ||
|
1826 |
Jules D’URVILLE |
explorer |
Astrolabe |
|
2nd visit. |
|
1826 |
Captain James HERD |
|
Rosanna Lambton |
see
list. 4 of the group, Scots, GILLIE, NESBIT,
NIMMO and McLEAN set up a saw mill in the Bay of Islands. |
an unsuccessful expedition to settle in
NZ “The NZ Company” |
|
1827 |
Captain YOUNG |
trader |
|
|
Bay of Islands |
|
1827 |
Mr and Mrs BUTLER |
traders |
|
|
Bay of Islands |
|
1827 |
John MARTIN |
pilot |
|
|
Bay of Islands |
|
1827 |
Augustus EARLE |
visitor |
|
|
Spent 9 months in NZ |
|
1827 |
John GUARD |
Whaler/ settler |
|
Wife Betty. |
Worked in shore whaling stations in
Marlborough Sounds/ Port Underwood. |
|
1828 |
Thomas POYNTON and wife |
Trader/merchant |
|
|
Hokianga., Mangamuku Inlet, |
|
1829 |
Captain WALKER |
Escaped convict |
|
17 crew |
Arrived Port Underwood |
| 1829 | Phillip TAPSELL | trader | Arrived Tauranga to trade flax | ||
| 1829 | James and Daniel FARROW | traders | Arrived Tauranga to trade flax. | ||
|
1829/30 |
Captains YOUNG and KENT |
|
|
|
To find site at Hokianga for Wesleyen Mission. |
|
1830 |
Cyrille LAPLACE |
explorer |
La Favorite |
12 yr old English boy passenger from Australia to England |
French Explorer |
|
1831 |
Captain William YOUNG |
|
|
Wife Elizabeth and her brothers Charles and
Edward DAVIS. |
To establish Mission at Hokianga. |
| 1831 | Leydes | 3 Wesleyan missionary couples | enroute to Tonga 1 month in BOI / Hokianga | ||
|
1832 |
James Reddy CLENDON |
Trader |
Fortitude |
Wife Martha
and children John and Eliza. Samuel STEPHENSON |
1st US Consul, 1839 |
|
1833 |
James BUSBY |
“Official British Resident” |
HMS
Imogen |
|
Wife. Plus Catherine RICHLEY, nurse followed
following year. |
|
1833 |
Mr WHITLEY |
missionary |
New Zealander |
|
To Wesleyan Mission at Mangugnu, Hokianga. |
|
1835 |
Charles DARWIN |
visitor |
|
|
On round the world voyage |
| 1835 | Richard MATTHEWS | missionary | Beagle | ||
|
1835 |
Mr WALLIS |
missionary |
Brazil Packet |
Mrs WALLIS |
To Wesleyan Mission at Raglan. |
|
1837 |
Samuel FORD |
Medical surgeon |
|
Martha |
To CMS mission, Pahia. 1st resident
Medical Surgeon in NZ. |
|
1837 |
Captain HOBSON |
|
H M S Rattlesnake |
|
Governor of NSW sent HOBSON to investigate
situation in NZ |
|
1838 |
Bishop Jean Baptiste Francois POMPALLIER |
missionary |
Raiatea |
Rev Father SERVANT Plus two others |
Established Catholic Mission, Hokianga |
|
1838 |
Captain William HOBSON |
British Consul |
|
|
Replaced James BUSBY |
|
1839 |
Rev Cort SCHNACKENBURG |
missionary |
|
|
To Raglan Mission |
|
1840 |
Jules D’URVILLE |
explorer |
Astrolabe |
|
3rd visit |
|
1840 |
Charles WILKES |
explorer |
Flying Fish |
Number of crew jumped ship and new crew also taken on in Bay of islands. |
US Exploring Expedition |
| 1841 | J C ROSS | explorer | HMS Erebus HMS Terror | 2 ships each with 67 offciers and crew including Captain Francis CROZIER | Antartica exploration |