Are there shipping records and where do I look. Not finding much on Atree. Is it only the papers and arrivals?
No central name index for all NZ and all years.
You either have to know the port of arrival and a rough date or know somehow the name of the ship. Even then many have no passenger lists or only a small fraction of the passengers on board are listed.
For these three only a list of those passengers who disembarked at Invergargill.
Wellington Greenock 09-Dec-1882 Port Chalmers 12-Mar-1883 92 D Cowan
378 immigrants
Nelson Greenock 02-Aug-1883 Port Chalmers 19-Oct-1883 78 Bannantyne
305 immigrants
Trevelyan Glasgow 23-Sep-1883 Port Chalmers 31-Dec-1883 93 Arthur F Roberts Brought
329 passengers
Passenger to Port Chalmers (Otago) -
HERE
One list
HERE
Another list -
HERE
Dave