Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905

[Ranolki]

This may be a bit outside any info I can pick up here but usually there is someone with insight to help me out!
I'm looking for a family of mother and three children who left the UK between the end of March 1905 and then had enough time to register the youngest child at school in Christchurch, New Zealand on 3rd July 1905. I'm not quite sure how they did it but I know they travelled under false names (escaping the husband...)  My aim is to go through the passenger lists for each relevant ship looking for a mother with children of more or less the right ages, as I have no idea what name they used. It seems not to be the false name they used once they arrived.
Can anyone point me to somewhere I could discover which ships would have sailed in that period?  If ages are recorded on the passenger lists they would have been 37, 17, 15 and 10 at the time but I'm not sure until I start looking how much detail will be recorded.
Thanks for any pointers!

[mckha489]

Have you looked in the newspapers for arrivals?

Eg

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19050619.2.83.4?end_date=03-07-1905&items_per_page=10&page=3&query=Shipping&snippet=true&start_date=15-06-1905

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19050515.2.18?end_date=03-07-1905&items_per_page=10&page=3&query=Shipping&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&start_date=15-05-1905

[Ranolki]

Thanks for that, I didn't even know those existed! I'll have a look - I really appreciate those. That second link looks ideal, lists the longer distance ships and where they started out too, ie Liverpool etc.

 

[minniehaha]

Family Search?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/collections/1609792/waypoints

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1609792

Minniehaha.

[kiwihalfpint]

Family Search?


https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1609792

Minniehaha.

Thanks for that Minnie, I forgot about that siite, and found myself on there again, a bit weird to see info about your wee self The birth year is wrong, though they did say if was approximate though

Cheers
KHP

Ranolki

Just be aware not every passenger list recorded ages/names  Some have just surnames and initials.

 

[Ranolki]

Thanks for that.

I'm assuming the ship docked in Christchurch as that's where they lived, but I don't see records for 1905.  If they didn't land there I suppose I need to work out which ports were large enough to have received the bigger ships coming from the UK too...  Bit of digging needed!

[minniehaha]

An example: Akaroa 1905.....


https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/collections/1609792/waypoints

Added: Also look under Lyttelton for 1905, where there are many ships listed for that year. 😊

Minniehaha.

[Lucy2]

Hi Ranolki

You may of course wish to keep name details of this family. private (and your right to do so, is respected). 

Some of us here though have access to numerous other resources and may be able to assist in your quest, without the need for you to trawl through myriad passenger lists.

     ~  Lu

[Ranolki]

Oh, I understand how it works now. Thanks for that. I'll see what I can find.