Pioneer Jews IN New Zealand 1831 1901

the original list was taken from the site NOT STRICTLY KOSHER

AARONS Rosetta, Mrs David Nathan

ABRAHAMS Constable - Paparoa, Northland

ADLER N M Dr - Chief Rabbi

ALBERT Michael - Hokitika

ANDERSON Joseph Fletcher - Dunedin

ARNOLDSON - Auckland

ASCHEM Mrs - Lyttelton

ASHER Albert - Auckland
ASHER Alice - Auckland
ASHER Annie - Tauranga
ASHER Asher - Auckland
ASHER Benjamin - Died 1848 Auckland
ASHER Caroline - Auckland
ASHER David - Auckland
ASHER David - Tauranga
ASHER Earnie - Tauranga
ASHER Hannah Mrs nee Keesing
ASHER Henry - Auckland
ASHER Jack - Rotorua
ASHER Katarina Mrs - Tauranga
ASHER Kate - Auckland
ASHER Kathryn - Tauranga
ASHER Mary - Tauranga
ASHER Rosetta - Auckland
ASHER Victoria Royce ? - Auckland
- possibly Victoria Raynor (1863-1942)

BALLIN - Auckland
BALLIN Bernie - Hokitika

BEAVER Henry Dr - Hokitika
BEAVER Martha Mrs - Hokitika

BEHREND - Hokitika

BENJAMIN Elias - Hokitika
BENJAMIN Ethel - Dunedin
BENJAMIN (THEOMIN) David - Dunedin

BENNETT John - Nelson

BERLINA - Timaru

BOLTON - Timaru

BORNSTIEN - Timaru

BOSCH Jacob - Greymouth

BROWN Reginald Philip - Auckland

BUCHOLZ Morris - Nelson

BURNS Barnet - Pakeha Maori

CARO - Rev Rabbi

CASELBERG Eli (1852-1942)
CASELBERG Ethel - Mrs Albert POTEKA
CASELBERG Myer (1841-1922) - Masterton

CASSIUS Albert Marcellus - Hokitika

COHEN Brothers - Hokitika
COHEN Joseph - Christchurch
COHEN Lewis/Louis - Wanganui
COHEN Mark - Dunedin
COHEN Martha Mrs - Wanganui
COHEN Maurice - Palmerston North
COHEN Nancy Mrs - Christchurch

COLEMAN Philip

DAVIS Abraham - Died 1853 Auckland
DAVIS Abraham - Dunedin
DAVIS Abraham - Nelson
DAVIS Alf - Died 1853 Auckland
DAVIS Charles - Auckland
DAVIS Elliot - Auckland
DAVIS Haym - Nelson
DAVIS Henry Master - Kaitaia
DAVIS Isaac - Violinist
DAVIS Lea Mrs - Auckland
DAVIS Louis - Died 1859 Auckland
DAVIS Mary Miss - Kaitaia
DAVIS Moss - Auckland

DE BEER Louis - Queenstown

DE COSTA Ethel Mrs nee BENJAMIN
DE COSTA Ralph (1840-1875) - Wellington

DE HIRSCH James - Thames

DOITCH Isaac - Auckland

EHERNFRIED Bernard - Auckland
EHERNFRIED Louis - Auckland
EHERNFRIED Margaret Mrs Mrs Louis EHERNFRIED

EICHENBAUM - Timaru

ELKIN Alfred - Auckland
ELKIN - Rev Rabbi

FERNANDEZ - Auckland
FERNANDEZ Solomon - Auckland
FERNANDEZ Sophie Mrs - Auckland

FINKELSTEIN Mrs Annie Eachel (1886-1868) - Wellington
FINKELSTEIN Joe - Wellington

FIROVSORITCH (PHILLIPS) Nathan - Auckland
FIROVSORITCH (PHILLIPS) Sheba (Jane) - Auckland

FRIEDLANDER Mrs Helene (nee GALL) (1848-1935) - Ashburton
FRIEDLANDER Hugo - Ashburton (1850-1928)
FRIEDLANDER Max (1851-1934) - Ashburton
FRIEDLANDER Rudolph (1848-1929) - Ashburton

GALL Helene Miss - Ashburton (see Friedlander above)

GIMBEL George Frederick (1838-1916) - Early Jewish settler in NZ

GOLDSCHMIDT Abraham
GOLDSCHMIDT Isaac Lyon - NZ Company

GOLDSTEIN Samuel Aaron - Rev Rabbi (1854-1935)

GOLDWATER - Early Jewish settler in NZ
GOLDWATER Nathan (1835-1924) - Auckland

GOTHELF (HALSTEAD)

HALLENSTEIN Bendix (1835-1905) - Queenstown
HALLENSTEIN Emily - Queenstown
- married Isidore de BEER in 1888
HALLENSTEIN Hannah - Queenstown
HALLENSTEIN Henrietta - Queenstown
- married James Francis HYAMS in 1890
HALLENSTEIN Mary Mrs - Queenstown
HALLENSTEIN Sarah - Queenstown

HARRIS Emily Miss - Nelson
HARRIS Lewis - Palmerston North
HARRIS Lionel Lewis - Wellington
HARRIS Maurice - Christchurch

HART Henry - Dunedin
HART Susan - Early Jewish settler in NZ
HART William - Early Jewish settler in NZ

HASLAM Sir Alfred Seale
- Freezing machine inventor

HEINEMANN M - Dunedin
- possibly Moses Montague (1878-1941)

HENRY Nathan - Auckland

HIEGLER ? Abraham - Died 1853 Auckland

HIRSCH G - Timaru

HOLT - Auckland

HOLTZ (WOOD)

HORT Abraham - Rabbi
HORT Jessie married Nathaniel LEVIN
HORT Margaret
- her father Abraham Hort was a leading member of the Wellington Jewish community but she became an ardent Christian.
- she married Francis Dillon BELL (1822-1898) in 1849, politician and Quaker. He served as New Zealand's third Minister of Finance (the first parliamentary finance minister), and later as its third Speaker of the House. The town of Bell Block near New Plymouth ? on land Bell bought from the Puketapu iwi in 1849 ? is named after him, as is Bell Street, Whanganui. Bell's son, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, became the first New Zealand born Prime Minister in 1925.

HUNT Albert - Canterbury
HUNT Henry - Greymouth

HYMAN Julius (1826-1911) - Dunedin

ISAAC Barnard (1825-1899) - Dunedin

ISAACS - Auckland
ISAACS - Okoroire Springs
ISAACS A L - Dunedin
ISAACS Alf - Auckland
ISAACS Alfred A - Christchurch
ISAACS Eve? Adelaide - Auckland
ISAACS Henry - Auckland
ISAACS P - Dunedin
ISAACS Simeon - Dunedin

JACOBS "Wizard" John Lewis Jewish entertainer
JACOBS Benjamin - Howick
JACOBS Godfrey (1830-1910) - Dunedin
JACOBS Godfrey - Hokitika
JACOBS Leah - Hokitika
JACOBS Louisa - Dunedin
JACOBS Louisa - Hokitika
JACOBS S - Dunedin
JACOBS Samuel (1849-1823) - Dunedin

JACOBSON John - Palmerston North

JOEL Alfred Woolf (1861-1901) - Dunedin
JOEL Catherine Mrs (1832-1916) - Dunedin
JOEL Maurice (1829-1907) - Dunedin
JOEL Sophie Miss (1843-1905) - Auckland
- married Solomon FERNANDEZ in 1883
JOEL Theodore Julius (1869-1874) - Dunedin

JONAS Emma Mrs (nee SYMONDSON 1852-1919)
JONAS Moss (1838-1907) - Timaru
JONAS Philip (1876-1904) - Timaru

JONES Henry - Christchurch

JOSEPH Hyam - Auckland
JOSEPH Israel - Auckland
JOSEPH Jacob (1819-1903) - Wellington

KEESING Abraham (?-1860) - Auckland
KEESING Barnet - Auckland
KEESING Caroline Mrs - Auckland
KEESING Clara Mrs (nee SALEK 1864-1943)
KEESING Etta - Auckland
KEESING Evelyn - died 1860 Auckland
KEESING Hannah - Auckland
KEESING Henry - Auckland
KEESING Henry Moss - Auckland
KEESING John - Auckland
KEESING Judah - Auckland
KEESING Judah (Jnr) - Wanganui
KEESING Judith - Auckland
KEESING Ralph - Auckland
KEESING Rosetta - Auckland
KEESING Rosetta Miss - Auckland
KEESING Thomas - Auckland
KEESING Thomas - San Francisco

KISSLING F - Auckland
KISSLING George Schwarz (1841-1920) - Auckland

LAZAR John (1803-1879) - Hokitika

LEVENTHAL J - Timaru

LEVI Alfred - Palmerston North

LEVIAN Joseph H - Nelson

LEVIEN Jacob (1835-1921) - Timaru

LEVIN Jessie Mrs (nee Hort)
LEVIN Nathaniel - Wellington
LEVIN Robert - Wellington
LEVIN William Hort (1845-1893) - Wellington

LEVY - Auckland
LEVY - Hokitika
LEVY Alexander - Hokitika
LEVY Benjamin - Wellington
LEVY Bernardt - Auckland
LEVY Dr - Dunedin/Timaru
LEVY Esther Mrs nee Solomon
LEVY Fanny - Hokitika
LEVY Henry Zalick - Hokitika
LEVY Joseph - Dunedin
LEVY Joseph - Hokitika
LEVY Lazarus - Hokitika
LEVY Lipman - Wellington
LEVY Moses - Hokitika
LEVY Philip (1831-1866) - one of the Maungatapu Murderers known as the Burgess Gang
LEVY Phoebe - Hokitika
LEVY Ralph - Hokitika
LEVY Rebecca - Hokitika
LEVY Sarah Mrs nee SINGER
LEVY Solomon Mrs - Palmerston North

LICHTENSTEIN Bernard (1854-1892) Rev Rabbi

LOUISSON Charles - Christchurch

LYONS - Hokitika

MANDL J - Hokitika

MARGALIOTH Moss -

MARKS Bernard Israel (?-1872) - Christchurch
MARKS Bessie Bride Mrs (1869-1937) - Christchurch
MARKS Hyman (1834-1895) - Christchurch
MARKS John - Haast
MARKS Juliet - Auckland
MARKS Nathaniel Ross, Westland
MARKS Robert Michael (1838-1926) - Dunedin

MAY Isaac - Nelson

MAYER, Herman - Hokitika

MEARS, Abraham - Auckland

MEIN, - Butcher, Christchurch

MENDELSOHN Louis (1842-1908) Dunedin

MENDELSON - Auckland
MENDELSON Julius (1814-18822) - Timaru
MENDELSON Matilda - Auckland
MENDELSON Wallingford - Timaru

METZ Lion (1824-1882) - Dunedin

MEYER Alfred Reginald (?-1872) - Auckland

MICHAELIS R - Invercargill

MOELLER Miss - Wellington

MONTAGUE Walter (?-1873) Auckland

MONTEFIORE John Barrow - Jewish trader
MONTEFIORE John Israel - Auckland

MORRIS Alexander Richard Jubilee - Hokitika
MORRIS Frederick Asher - Hokitika
MORRIS Joseph - Hokitika
MORRIS Joseph - Palmerston North
MORRIS Leba Mrs (nee SINGER 1863-1943)
MORRIS Maurice Henry - Hokitika
MORRIS Prudence - Hokitika
MORRIS Rachel - Hokitika
MORRIS Sadie - Hokitika
MORRIS Samuel Gibbons (1889-1966) - Hokitika
MORRIS Samuel Henry - Hokitika
MORRIS Solomon (1880-1938) - Hokitika

MOSES A - Dunedin

MOSS George - Buried Otakou
MOSS Joseph - Hokitika

MYER Maud Florence - Auckland

MYERS - Auckland
MYERS Arthur - Auckland
MYERS J E - Rabbi
MYERS Martha - Nelson
MYERS Michael - Nelson
MYERS S - Dunedin

NASHELSKI - Rev Rabbi
NASHELSKI Solomon (1822-1890) - Christchurch

NATHAN Arthur - Auckland
NATHAN David - Auckland
NATHAN E L (L E) - Hokitika
NATHAN Ezekial - Dunedin
NATHAN H E - Christchurch
NATHAN Henry - Dunedin
NATHAN Hyman - Dunedin
NATHAN Joseph - Wellington
NATHAN Julia (Gitel) - First burial, Jewish cemetery, Auckland
NATHAN Laurence - Auckland
NATHAN Lawrence David - Auckland
NATHAN Miriam - Died 1853 Auckland
NATHAN Mrs - Hokitika
NATHAN Robert Master - Kaitaia
NATHAN Rosetta Mrs (nee AARONS)
NATHAN Simone Mrs - Wife of David NATHAN (3rd)

PARKER Miriam Margalioth Mrs - Gisborne

PAYKEL - Auckland

PHILIPS John - Died 1853 Auckland
PHILIPS P A - Auckland
PHILIPS Thomas - Early Jewish settler in NZ

PHILLIPS Annie Mrs nee MYERS
PHILLIPS Henry - Wellington
PHILLIPS Margaret - Auckland
PHILLIPS Philip Aaron - Auckland
PHILLIPS (FIROVSOVITCH)

POLACK Abraham - Australia
POLACK, Joel Samuel - FIRST JEW to settle in NZ

POOLE Richard

POSSENENISKIE - Auckland

POTEKA Albert (Arapeta Tapui) - Mangaweka
POTEKA Ethel Mrs - Mangaweka

RIFFKIN Abraham
RIFFKIN Esther Mrs (nee SENDER 1882-1964)
RIFFKIN Raphael (1876-1944)
RIFFKIN Rhina

RITTENBERG Jacob (1859-1925) - Dunedin

ROSENTHAL Charles - Palmerston North

RUSSELL (originally LEVY) George - Arrived NZ 1839

SALEK - Timaru
SALEK Clara - Timaru

SALMON John Captain - Auckland

SALZMAN Samuel - Dunedin

SAMUELS K - Timaru

SAPIR Joseph Levy - Rabbi

SCHLESINGER Samuel Dr - Hokitika

SCHULHOF Sigmund/Sigsmund (1846-1884) - Reefton

SEIDEBERG Emily Dr - Dunedin

SELIG Pineas/Phineas (1856-1941) - Christchurch

SHRIMSKI Samuel Edward - Oamaru
- Licensed Auctioneer and Valuator in 1867 (at least)

SINGER Alexander (1827-1907) - Hokitika
SINGER Annie - Hokitika
SINGER Asher (1866-1891) - Hokitika
SINGER Joseph - Hokitika
SINGER Liba - Hokitika (see MOSSIS 1863-1843)
SINGER Rebecca Emma Mrs (1834-1910) - Hokitika
SINGER Sarah Martha Blanche (1873-1937) - Hokitika

SOLOMON - Hokitika
SOLOMON Abraham (1835-1900) - Dunedin
SOLOMON Abraham - Hokitika
SOLOMON Abraham - Palmerston North
SOLOMON Esther (Mrs Benjamin LEVY)
SOLOMON Florence - Auckland
SOLOMON Henry - Timaru
SOLOMON John - Hokitika
SOLOMON P S - Auckland
SOLOMON Phinies (-1869) - Hokitika
SOLOMON Rebecca Mrs - Palmerston North

SPIERS Solomon Maurice - Ross, Westland

SUSMAN - Hokitika

SYMONDSON Emma - Timaru

TE ATIRAU Katarina - Rotorua

TEUTENBERG Anton (1841-1933) - Jeweller, Auckland

THEOMIN Marie Mrs (1856-1926) - Dunedin
THEOMIN Dorothy Michaelas (1889-1966) - Dunedin
THEOMIN David Edward (Benjamin) (1852-1933) - Dunedin

TOBIAS Caroline Mrs (nee ASHER 1866-1924)
TOBIAS Thomas - Auckland

VAN ASCH Gerrit Dr (1880-1946) - Christchurch

VAN STAVEREN Herman (1849-1930) - Rev Rabbi

VOGEL, Julius (1835-1899) 8th Premier of New Zealand from 1873-1875 & 1876-1881
- born in London
- emigrated to Victoria, Australia
- journalist for the Otago Witness
- founded the Otago Daily TImes
- interred in Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Beaconsfield Rd, London

YATES Blanche - Northland
YATES Dr - Dunedin
YATES Elizabeth Rebecca (1843-1913) - Dunedin
YATES Emily - Northland
YATES Flora - Northland
YATES Fredrick Jessel (1835-1896) - Northland
YATES Gustavus Timothy (1873-1940) - Northland
YATES Josephine - Northland
YATES Julia - Northland
YATES Lance - Northland
YATES Ngawini (Annie) - Northland
YATES Samuel Master - Kaitaia
YATES Sarah Miss - Kaitaia
YATES Sarah Mrs - Auckland
YATES Sinclair - Northland
YATES (ELYAKIM GOETZ) Samuel - Northland

ZECHARIA Adolphus - Christchurch
ZECHARIA Isaac - Rabbi