New Caledonia Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

 * 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
 * 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of New Caledonia
 * 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for New Caledonia
 * 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.

French Overseas Subjects

 * 1823-1908 French Overseas New Caledonia Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1823-1908, index and images.
 * 1894-1907 French Overseas Wallis and Futuna Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1894 to 1907, index and images. The Wallis and Futuna Islands, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, under French protectorate from 1842 to 1961 were attached to New Caledonia in 1910.

British Overseas Subjects

 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, New Caledonia, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages New Caledonia,, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in New Caledonia
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in New Caledonia, see New Caledonia Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

New Caledonia Emigration and Immigration
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country. Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Emigration From New Caledonia
at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development