Local history websites
- Wellington GenWeb
The main purpose of this Wellington site is to bring together the genealogical sources of the Wellington area to help with your family research. Also contains links to key other sites. - National Library of New Zealand
Although having a national focus, the National Library's website, catalogues and web directory include local sources. Photographic database Time-frames and the scans of 19th century newspapers in Papers Past are particularly useful for historical research. - Museum of Wellington City and Sea
Preserving, presenting and promoting Wellington's heritage, harbour, city & sea. - Helen's page of New Zealand history
Focusing mainly on Wellington and the lower North Island, this growing site contains early Wellington directories, passenger lists and a mine of other local history information. - Archives New Zealand
A wealth of information is housed in government records. - Wellington City Archives
Information about the activities and functions of Wellington City Council since its establishment (and therefore the development of Wellington city). - New Zealand History resource network
Essays, indexes, biographies, and links, all with a site search. - Te Papa
New Zealand's National Museum. - New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Sources such as New Zealand's Burning: the settler's world in the mid 1880s by Rollo Arnold, ch. 7 includes Wellington province. Also Chapter 14 discusses Port Nicholson 1885, Wellington as 'head' port of the 'Cook Strait lake', and Wellington as the main interprovincial node. - Early Electoral Rolls for Wellington
Early electoral information, mainly from the 1850s. - Wellington Almanack
Wellington Trade and Street Directories from 1864, 1865 and 1866. - Wellington City Council
Contains heritage walk information as well as the history of the region.
To contact the page coordinator:
Wellington Local History - Gabor Toth
