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NZ Marriages (Bride)        🔍 ASH

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Early NZ HistoryJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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NZ Intention to Marry Index (1882-1899)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Hawke's Bay Knowledge Bank Who's WhoJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Freedom's Call 2nd NZEF Roll of Honour (Northlanders)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Te Papa Collections - PeopleJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Tributes Online (obituaries)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Otago Nominal Index
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Whanganui Council Property RollsPreston, James Grant        🔍 ASH
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Alexander Turnbull LibraryPreston, James Grant        🔍 ASH
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Auckland Museum Online CenotaphJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Shadows of TimeJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ Presbyterian MarriagesJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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WWII Military Draft ListsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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NZ Servicemen buried in Kranji (Singapore)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Freedom's Call POWs (Northlanders)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Freedom's Call Medals (Northlanders)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Freedom's Call - Other Forces (Northlanders)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Gate Pa & Te Ranga, 1864James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Porirua War StoriesJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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WW1 returned soldiers land holdingsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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NZ Police (killed in line of duty)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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NZ Police (deaths in line of duty)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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NZ Medical Practitioners (1840-1930)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Cotter Museum Doctors' FilesJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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1867-1870 Medical RegistrationsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Education Dept Staff RegisterJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Methodist Ministers (1822-1940)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Anglican Clergy (pre-1952)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Dunedin Railways Staff Register (1872-1926)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Dunedin Railways Staff Register (1903-1928)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Vaccination Appointments 1872-1885James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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1918 Flu Pandemic VictimsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Old Colonists' Association Register, 1919-1934James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Burgess Roll for the City of Auckland, 1887-1888James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Early Settlers Roll, Auckland ProvinceJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Hutt City Early ResidentsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Hutt City ObituariesJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Taita Hall Donors (Lower Hutt)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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West Coast Accidental DeathsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Paparoa & Blackball coalminer deathsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Christchurch 1918 influenza victimsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Sumner School for Deaf ChildrenJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Porirua Cemetery (unmarked graves)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Whenua Tapu (unmarked graves)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Transcriptions NZJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Archives NZJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ Births
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history siteJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Intention to Marry ProjectJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ Genealogy Research Made EasyJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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The Treasury (Coromandel-Hauraki)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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New Zealand Gazette IndexJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Source: 1840-2017 New Zealand Gazette (and related periodicals) indexed from various public sources, including VUW, NZLII, gazette.govt.nz, WCC Libraries and Papers Past. Usage/copyright varies: Public domain / Crown copyright / fair use / CC-BY 3.0 NZ

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... .. 62 62 1/4/22 17 2 .. 50 Preston, J. G. .. Message-boy, Auckland ..... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Staff Register (Message-Boys and Message-Girls) 1922 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
.... . 57 57 1/4/23 16 4 .. 53 Preston, J. G. . . Message-boy, Auckland .... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Staff List 1923 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
...ch 70 70 83 3/3/25 17 4 ... Preston, J. G. Junior Mechanician, Aucklan... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Classification List - Male Officers 1924 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
... .. 62 62 1/4/22 17 2 .. 50 Preston, J. G. .. Message-boy, Auckland ..... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Staff Register (Message-Boys and Message-Girls) 1922 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
.... . 57 57 1/4/23 16 4 .. 53 Preston, J. G. . . Message-boy, Auckland .... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Staff List 1923 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
...ch 70 70 83 3/3/25 17 4 ... Preston, J. G. Junior Mechanician, Aucklan... 🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Classification List - Male Officers 1924 NZ Gazette PDF VUW PDF NZLII
NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

Source: Kiwi Collection copyright The New Zealand Society of Genealogists / with the kind permission of the NZSG

Name Date Record Type
PRESTON, James Grant 🔍 15 May 1993 NZ Herald Deaths
PRESTON, James Grant 🔍 17 May 1993 NZ Herald Deaths
Tinui HistoryJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ War GravesJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ Marriages (Groom)
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Soldiers of Empire - Muster RollsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Soldiers of Empire - Medal RollsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Masterton Anglican HistoryJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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WWI Military DefaultersJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Nominal rolls: Second New Zealand Expeditionary ForceJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Nurse Registrations, 1902-1931James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Masterton Library Wairarapa ArchiveJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Caversham Project Trades Database (1894-1939)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Biographies of the Pioneer Land SurveyorsJames Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Caversham Project Electoral Rolls (1893-1938)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH

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Whakatere Heritage Collections (Ashburton)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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BillionGraves (NZ cemeteries)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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NZ Deaths
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RegistrationFamily NameGiven Name(s)Born (approx.)Age at Death (approx.)
1993/39708Preston James Grant 17 April 1933  🔍NZ60 yearsOrder Product
1993/39708 Preston James Grant 17 April 1933  🔍NZ 60 years
Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)James Grant Preston        🔍 ASH
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