All ships carrying passengers in or out of any British port were required by law to lodge a passenger list with the relevant port authorities. Find out about the British Newspaper Archive. You are here: Home > Digital Collection > Emigration to Canterbury, A place for you to create, save and share community stories. 1840-1878 : Passenger Lists to New Plymouth (Taranaki), New Zealand - (Our Stuff!) The genesis of the series was the rediscovery by Christchurch man Peter Day of four group photographs taken in 1900 of surviving passengers of the Charlotte Jane, Randolph, Sir George Seymour and Cressy. Randolph, Cressy, Sir George Seymour, and Charlotte Jane together carried an estimated 790 passengers. 30 leaves. The first jetty with the immigration barracks is to the right More information about finding passenger lists can be found in the Family History guide. Emigration to Canterbury: shipping lists. Blank ledger pages were not filmed. The names and places of origin of single men and women also appear. Duncan, T. S Duncan, Mrs (one infant Miss) Earle, G.W. The information in the lists may not be accurate. Art the "firslfc four .ships'' that br