The Royal New Zealand Fencibles were enrolled in England in 1846 - 47. The Corps consisted of discharged British soldiers and sailors,  who were of good character,  under 48 years of age (it was later lowered to 41), at  least 5ft 5 inches in height and with a minimum of 15 years service.  Each were enrolled to serve seven years and were offered free passage for  themselves and their families with pay ranging from 6 pence to 1 shilling and 3 pence a day, in addition to their pensions, an acre of ground and a cottage .

The Royal New Zealand Fencibles and their families who arrived in New Zealand between 1847 and 1852 aboard the vessels Ann,  Berhampore, Berwick Castle,  Clifton,  Inchinnan,  Minerva,  Oriental Queen, Ramillies,  Sir George Seymour and Sir Robert Sale.   These 10 ships bought immigrants who settled in the Auckland suburbs of Otahuhu, Onehunga,  Howick and Panmure.

The purpose of the New Zealand Fencibles List is to allow Royal New Zealand Fencible researchers  to keep in contact with one another, discuss research problems, provide help to others, keep informed of new information and archives available on the RNZ
Fencibles, provide a place where researchers can find others researching in the same areas and the same surnames, and provide a place to submit queries. 

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NEW ZEALAND FENCIBLE SOCIETY INC.
The object of this Society is to bring together people who share an interest in the Royal New Zealand Fencibles. To promote and encourage historical research into the Royal New Zealand Fencibles. To collect together and preserve any historical information about the Royal New Zealand Fencibles.

Fencible holdings at the Auckland Public Library

Onehunga Fencible Settlers - info and contacts

Early Fencible settlers to Onehunga

Howick Historic (Fencible) Village

NZ Genealogy Surname Navigator 
An excellent resource for quickly finding your Surname online.  This site can perform a global search or search within any particular county.  Simultaneous searches of sites like the following:  LDS Mormons (all databases), www.ancestry.com (all databases), Geneanet, Google genealogy, Google News Genealogy, Gendex Index Surnames, Rootsweb (all databases), Worldwide Email search, Author profile usenet (name/email). 

GEORGE AUCKRAM by Don Auckram