Address
- Kaikoura Historical Society
- 14 Ludstone Road
- Kaikoura 8280
Opening hours
- Monday to Friday: 10.00am to 4.30pm
- Weekends and Public holidays: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
- Closed: Good Friday and Christmas Day
Contacts
Services
- Family research. Staff can provide assistance depending on other commitments
Charges
- $3 admission (adult) $0.50c admission (child)
- Photocopying charges
- Research charges
Resources
- History of Kaikoura District and over 12,000 photographs
- Family and business files; Sherrard files, over 20,000 names indexed
- Year 2000 Early Settlers Register
- Minute books
Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Births 1862-1877; Catholic Parish burials 1865-2000; some marriage certificates; obituaries and death notices
Cemetery records
- Headstone transcriptions from Kaikoura Public Cemetery; burial records
Education
- Some Kaikoura school records
Electoral rolls, censuses, directories
- Kaikoura electoral roll names 1893
Newspapers
- Kaikoura Star on microfilm
Passenger Lists
- Wharfage books containing names of many Kaikoura early settlers
