Welcome

Welcome to my New Zealand Genealogy website. This website is to share genealogy information and to encourage other family members to share their family information. Register for a user account to view additional information (living people details, photos, source documents).

This project started in December 2001 when I began collecting information on my family and my wife’s family (Chris Korte and Katherine Wallace), both in New Zealand. In 2019 information for Australian families related to my son-in-law and grandchildren was added. The site has information collected by many others – I acknowledge their efforts.

The website allows family members to join and contribute their information directly, and obtain information about living family members.

I hope you find useful information on this website and I encourage you to register for a user account if you are related. Please let me know if you find errors so they can be corrected.

NOTICE: Contribute your stories to The Berkahn Family History book, now in preparation.

N.Z. Families

Below are links to ancestors who emigrated to New Zealand, the main branches of the N.Z. family tree on this website.

• Franz Frederick Heinrich BERKAHN (1832-1916) and family from Denmark
• John DUXFIELD (1818-1890) and family from England
• Charles Lagden HAYLOCK and family (1806-1860) from England
• John HEAVEY (1832-1907) and family from Ireland
• David JONES (1858-1902) from Wales
• Johan Heinrich Friedrich Christoph KORTE (1848-1905) from Prussia
• Thomas McLERNON (McLAREN) (1862-1958) from Northern Ireland
• Thomas REDPATH (1829-1889) and family from Scotland
• Ernest Edwin RUSHBROOKE (1859-1940) and family from England
• William SPURDLE (1805-1871) and family from England
• Henry TRUEMAN (1816-1896) and family from England
• Alexander WALKER (1838-1909) and family from Scotland
• John Alexander McKane WALLACE (1819-1895) and family from Northern Ireland