Research

The Museum’s research archives are open by appointment between 10 am and 4 pm Monday to Friday*

Enquiries are welcome. Find out more about the research and/or image request here. 

*It may be possible to make resources available at weekends and public holidays. Please contact us to discuss this.

 

Research is at the heart of the Cambridge Museum and Historical Society’s activities. The Cambridge Museum holds extensive documentary and photographic archives relating to Cambridge from the 1860s onward. Our archives contain family histories and genealogies of the early European families in the Cambridge area. The Cambridge Museum also maintains an informative reference library for the local district.

 

How to find out more about the Cambridge Collections?

Choose from one of the following four options:

 

1. Visit: Book an appointment

The Museum’s archives are open by appointment between 10 am and 4 pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.

Research assistance by staff is free for the first half hour. A fee of $25.00 per half hour will be charged thereafter. Copying, post and handling charges will be charged separately

Contact us to book your appointment

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2. Search the Cambridge Museum website

In Cambridge People, you will find stories and indexes on First Families, Cambridge Rate Payers, Cambridge Armed Constabulary, 3^rd Waikato Militia, Cambridge Pioneer Women and much more

In Cambridge Town you will find information about A-List and B-List Historic Buildings, Schools, Districts, The Origin of Road Names, and Cemeteries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3. Research Guides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4. Submit a research or image request form

Not found what you’re looking on our website’ We can help. Find out more about the research and image request process here.

 

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5. Publications

Cambridge Museum research is published within a wide variety of specialist areas in the form of books, articles, and creative works.

Staff also contribute to and edit the Historical Society’s newsletter (latest editions here):

 

Recent publications:

Waipa: Home of Champions: Celebrating 150 Years – Index available here

 

Waikato Advocate Newspaper Index – Click here for index

 

The Waikato River Gunboats – New Zealand’s First Navy by Grant Middlemiss (2014)
The story of gunboats used during the British invasion of the Waikato. Eight purpose built river gunboats deployed during the British invasion of the Waikato in 1863, when a force of 12,000 British and Colonial troops invaded the Waikato region. To reach the pastoral land of the Waikato interior a reliable transport route was required to move the men and their supplies. The Waikato River provided that route. The armoured iron gunboats were deployed as a naval force and transport service to move the troops and supplies past the Māori fortifications along the river.

View the Index and Bibliography here