Wellington Birth Records

Newspapers the Records are Extracted From:

· Evening Post

· New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser

· New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator

· New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian

· Wellington Independent

The years the records cover: 1840 - 1900

These entries include:

Surname

Fathers name or initials (some entries also contain the occupation of the father)

Whether the child was a son or daughter (or twins or still born)

Date of birth (day, month, year)

Place of Birth

Newspaper the entry was extracted from.

Some of the entries may be entered in the lists more than once, this is due to the parties making more than on entry or putting notices in multiple newspapers, all duplicate entries have been included as some entries may contain more information when listed in newspapers that are not local to the parents address.

The newspaper entries do not contain the first names of the infant, but by going to the New Zealand Government Birth Death and Marriage, Historical Website https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/ and entering the information into their search engine, it will give you the first names of the child. With the information you receive from this search and the information given from the newspaper entries you have if not all, nearly all of the information given on a birth certificate printout.

Surname Bowden

Parents First Name A.

Childs Name daughter

Date of Birth 9th December, 1899

Place of Birth At residence of Mrs Parker, Sussex Square

Newspaper Wellington Evening Post

If the entry has only a Street address, as above, this usually means it was a local birth, and as the Wellington Evening Post was a Wellington based newspaper, Sussex Square is (was) in Wellington.

Example of a Search Done on the New Zealand Governments Historical Records Website. (the red text is the information that you enter)

Family Name - Bowden

Given Names

Mothers Given Name

Search From Date - 08/12/1899

Search to Date - 10/12/1899

Registration Number 1900/4453

Family Name Bowden

Given Name(s) Thelma Isabel

Mother's GivenName(s) Sarah Ellen

Father's GivenName(s) Andrew

Still Birth

You Now have the following information

As there are a lot of early birth entries on this Cd these entries are sometimes the only way you can get the correct birth dates, as the search below will show.

By just doing a search for the first two births recorded for 1867 in this index, at the Historical Births, Deaths and Marriages Website.

ABRAHAM -Rev. Thomas, daughter, 12th May, 1867 There were only two female births recorded for the name ABRAHAM in 1867, these are GRACE EVELYN and SUSAN there is no record of their parents and when you go further to purchase their certificates they are both listed as being born on, 10/01/1867

ACLAND - Hon. J.B, son, 21st September, 1867. There was just one birth record for the name ACLAND in 1867, this is HENRY DYKE ACLAND, there are no parents listed, and when you go further to purchase the certificate the birth date is listed as 01/01/1867 also.

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