Story: History of immigration

Settlement at Jackson Bay

About 400 people, many of them Germans, Poles and Italians, were recruited to establish a settlement at Jackson Bay (formerly known as Jackson’s Bay) in South Westland. This 1884 map from the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives shows where the settlement was established.

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Reference: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (New Zealand), 1884, C–1, p. 76.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – The immigrants of the great migration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/2122/settlement-at-jackson-bay (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.

Comments

Gillian Clothier
30 November 2021

I would like any records of my ancestors who were some of the early settlers of Jackson Bay. My great grandfather was Charles Robinson, married Johanna Eggeling. I believe that they ran the hotel there in the 1870s.