NZSG Branch - Nelson

Contact

Judith Fitchett
PO Box 1879
Nelson 7040

Email: nelson@genealogy.org.nz

Committee member: Judith Fitchett: 03 548 8819

Ancestors Attic - NZSG Nelson Branch

• Postal address: Nelson Branch, PO Box 1879, Nelson 7040
• Street address: Trafalgar Hall, 67 Trafalgar Street, Nelson (opposite Trailways Motor Inn)
  

Opening Hours of Ancestors Attic Library

• 67 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
• Monday: 1pm to 4pm (closed Monday public holidays)
• Thursday: 10am to 4pm
• Sunday: 2pm to 4pm 

Services

Assistance will be provided at Ancestors Attic Library to all with genealogy/family history research. Requests can also be made in writing to the branch email address above. 

More Information?

heritage.tasmanlibraries.govt.nz/ 

Resources

A name index of over half a million entries of Nelson Tasman names.

Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Index of Nelson Tasman Births 1842-2012
• Index of Nelson Tasman Deaths 1842-2011
• Index of Nelson Tasman Marriages 1842-1959
• Immigration to Nelson 1841-1890
• Index of Nelson Tasman Military Participants – Wairau Affray, Local Militia 1870s-1885, South Africa Wars, World War I
• Index of Nelson Tasman Orphanage Residents
• Index to New Zealand births deaths marriages 1842-1990
• Shipping Arrivals 1841-1870
  
• Nelson/Tasman church records of marriages, deaths and baptisms
• Nelson Photo News 1960-1974 and 1993-1994
• Nelson Jury Lists from1843
• Family announcements indexed from Nelson newspapers from 1842
• Old age pensions from Nelson Evening Mail and Colonist 1899

Cemetery

• Nelson Tasman Marlborough West Coast cemetery burial records and headstone transcriptions with some headstone photographs
• NZSG burial locator version 2 – CD
• NZ cemetery records and headstone transcriptions – fiche

Education

• Indexes to school admission registers Nelson, Tasman, Marlborough, West Coast
• College magazines Nelson and Tasman (Nelson College for Girls journals indexed 1900-1959)
• School centennial booklets

Census, Electoral Rolls, Directories

• 1845 and 1849 Nelson census, City and Waimea
• Various NZ electoral rolls from 1853
• Nelson telephone directories from 1952
• Nelson Marlborough Buller business, trade directories and almanacs

Maori

• New Zealand Maori electoral rolls 1919 - fiche
• New Zealand Maori deaths index 1913-1961 - fiche
• New Zealand Maori marriages index 1911-1952 - fiche

On all the Ancestors Attic computers are:

• NZSG Kiwi Collection v2 Database of nine million NZ sources
• 1856-1956 NZ Marriages
• NZ Five Significant Electoral Rolls 1881-1925
• WW1 Service Personnel & Reserves Index

Newsletters From April 2025

 

22/04/2025