References and Sources

please note I have an extensive collection of early reference books and am willing to look these up and to provide information in these references to other researchers.

Exploration:

• Beyond Capricorn"  by Peter TRICKETT.
• "Chance Discovery of Australia and New Zealand By Portuguese and Spanish Navigators Between 1521 and 1528".
          Herve, Roger (translated By John DUNMORE)
• "The Spanish Discovery of NZ in 1576" by Ross WISEMAN
• "Pre-Tasman Explorers" by Ross WISEMAN, Discovery press, Auckland 1998.
• Endeavour by Peter Aughton published 1999, Windrush Press, Gloucestershire, England.
• “The Voyage of the Endeavour” by Alan Frost published 1998, Allen and Unwin, NSW, Australia

Sealing and Whaling:

• ‘The Old Whaling Days’ by Robert McNab published 1913, Golden Press

Missionaries:

• The Legacy of Guilt  A life of Thomas Kendall  by Judith Binney    (check for other references in this and see the map of BOI etc)

• The English Church in NZ    H T Purchas
• The Church in New Zealand.  Memoirs of the Early Days   JJ Wilson.
• Centennial Atlas  National Library.
• Prophets in the Wilderness. The Wesleyan Mission to New Zealand 1819 –27. J M R Owens, AUP:OUP
• The Life of Rev Samuel Marsden, ed Rev J B MARSDEN, The Religious Tract Society, London, 1858.

Immigration and settlement:

• "The Coming of the Pakeha to Auckland Province"   John Horsman 1971.
• "The Immigrants"  Tony SIMPSON  
• “The First Family, Captain Thomas and Hannah HANSEN and their children”, Ron MARTIN, (1989).
• The HANSEN family web site:  http://www.thefirstfamily.co.nz/family-charts/ 
• "Port in the North" Marie M KING (History of Russell)  
• "A Society of Gentlemen", Richard WOLFE, Penguin 2007

Industry

• Timber:  "King Kauri" by Gordon ELL.

Shipping

• "Our Stuff " web site with many passenger lists  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/

• Shipping and passenger Lists on the web  http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-nz1.htm 

• Log of Logs by  Ian Nicholson  
• Shipping to New Zealand 1839 – 1889 by William Comber
• New Zealand Shipwrecks by  C W N Ingram.

• Traill’s Index to persons in New Zealand Shipwrecks by William E Traill.  

• ‘They Came By Sea’. ROSS.  National Library. (copy in Maritime Museum, Auckland?)

• ‘The Old Whaling Days’ by Robert McNab published 1913, Golden Press (extensive lists of Whalers, ship’s names, captain’s names, dates etc)

• White Wings Henry BRETT  electronic version see website:   http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre02Whit-t1-front-d1.html

Visitors

• Narrative of Voyage to New Zealand.  John L NICHOLAS  

General:

•   Peter's Genealogical Resources  This website has many links to other useful websites related to Genealogy, shipping etc     http://www.igrin.co.nz/petersim/links.html 

•   Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Internal Affairs.  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb   

• The Penguin History of New Zealand, Michael KING, Penguin, 2003.

• Bretts Historical Series "Early History of New Zealand from earliest times to 1840" (1890) by R.A.A Sherrin & JH Wallace, edited by TW Leys (Sherrin to 1840, Wallace 1840-45). H. Brett, Printer and Publisher, Auckland MDCCCXC
• “Two Hundred Years of New Zealand History 1769 1969” A W Reed pub 1979.  
• Early New Zealand History by A G FLUDE on line at    http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonyf/ 

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