John Steele's and Lynne Busby's Genealogy Pages

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Steele-Denson and Howell-Fincher

and

Kingsbury-Busby

families. Lynne and I live in Washington state outside of the Seattle area.

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Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include: Steele Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century • Mr. James Steele, Scottish settler from Aberdeen travelling from Glasgow aboard the ship "Storm Cloud" arriving in Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 27th April 1860 • Mr. Samuel Steele, (b. 1839), aged 22, Irish ploughman, from Londonderry travelling from London aboard the ship "Sebastopol" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 14th December 1861 • Mr. George S. Steele, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Gertrude" arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 9th February 1863 • George S. Steele, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Gertrude" in 1863 • David Steele, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Andrew Jackson" in 1865