Kae, there may be records of this land in the Maori Land Court Minute books. I don't know where you live, but Massey University at Palmerston North has a set of them - you'd need to go in to the library if you're not a student, but you'd be able to use them within the library. Jeanette > The Wellington office of Archives NZ has records from Lands & Survey > Wellington & LINZ, largely in the LINZ Register Room. There is a Research > Guide 10, "Land Wellington", though (unlike the first 8 guides) it is not > online on the Archives website. The Guide has a map of the Taranaki and > Wellington Land Districts on the back, covering the Wellington, Wairarapa, > Manawatu, Wanganui & Taranaki areas; however the guide just mentions > Wellington Land District records, so Taranaki Land District records may > not > be at Wellington. I have not done any searches myself > > For searching the Deeds Registration Systen, one of the following is > needed: > Certificate of Title record that refers to a Deeds Index entry, Legal > Description or Section Number (Appelation) of the land, or the name of a > historical registered owner. Some records (original deposited deeds) may > still be held by LINZ, and Archives has a duplicate set of some records > held > by LINZ (Section 116 certificates, from 1952). The Deeds System was > gradually replaced from 1870 by the Land Transfer System (compulsory from > 1924), though some land is still in the Deeds System. Archives has access > to > Quickmap for digitised plans. Quickmap can be used to go from the later > "Lot > x DP y" description to the original legal description. > > Yours, John Wilson > >>I have been following these discussions of old LINZ records avidly. Thanks >>to all those who have contributed. I am interested in Otaki records from >>the 1880s and 1890s. My great grandfather Robert Staveley was a solicitor >>there from late 1880s onwards and worked in the Maori Land Court, mostly >>representing Maoris. This was how he was able to obtain land in Otaki, >>directly from the Maori Land Courts. He had extensive holdings, mostly >>town >>plots and beachfront at Otaki. He still had most of it when he died in >>1931. As you can imagine there were no streets in those days, just a few >>cart tracks through the sand hills. But I have been told that in order to >>see my great grandfather's deeds I must know the street address AND house >>number. These I don't have. So I was wondering if anyone can tell me if >>it's possible for me to search a property deed as early as the 1880s when >>I >>only know the name of the owner: Staveley. Also does anyone know what has >>become of Otaki deeds, are they at Archives NZ in Wellington too? Thanks >>everyone. Kae Lewis >> > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >