Local History

Local History Online

Local History Online is a combined collection of local history indexes of Rodney, North Shore and Waitakere Libraries.

The Newspaper indexes cover selected articles in the community newspapers of Rodney, North Shore and Waitakere.

The Image indexes cover digital image collections of North Shore and Waitakere Libraries.

The indexes can be used to research a local event, historical building, or notable local person etc. Indexes are continually being updated.

Rodney Libraries index to the Rodney Times is still in its infancy. Indexing is occurring retrospectively and content will increase over time. The aim is to eventually provide access to the content of all issues of the Rodney Times.

You do not need to be a member of Rodney Libraries to access Local History Online. Click here to search

Local History

The staff of Rodney Libraries is always willing to help with local history queries. For more information about early settlement in your area however, Rodney's museums and historical societies provide a wealth of information.

Albertland & District Museum - records and illustrates the settlement and development of the Albertland district, including its Maori history and its social, industrial, economic, commercial and family history.

Couldrey House - Wenderholm Regional Park - provides information on the history of Couldrey House and its surroundings.

Helensville Pioneer Museum - The Helensville & District Historical Society preserves and promotes South Kaipara's history.

Puhoi Bohemian Museum - The Puhoi Historical Society records the early history of Puhoi, a settlement created by Bohemian (now Czech Republic) immigrants to New Zealand from the 1860's.

Silverdale Pioneer Village - The Pioneer Village provides a time trail from the mid 1800s to the 1930s with a chapel, four houses, a post office, a museum and administration building, and gardens of the period.

Warkworth & District Museum - The Museum Archives holds information on people, places, shipping and ship building, sporting events, businesses, and churches relating to Warkworth and the outlying districts.

Other useful databases

Cemetery Search is available to locate the burial records of people buried in Rodney District Council administered cemeteries.

Cenotaph is a biographical database of New Zealanders who have died in the 19th century, from the New Zealand Wars and South Africa, through the First and Second World Wars to Korea, Malaya and Vietnam.

Matipihi provides access to a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand's archives, galleries, libraries and museums of places, events and people of Aotearoa New Zealand.