Golder family genealogy

Hello folks and a very warm welcome to our family history. We hope that you will find something here that will inform, interest and entertain you. We are interested our family genes and the early history of Wellington, New Zealand.

William Golder (1749 - 1785) grew up in Strathaven, Lanark, Scotland and one of his grandsons, William Golder (1810 - 1876), arrived in Wellington, New Zealand on the The Bengal Merchant in February 1840. He was aged 29, and was accompanied by his wife Mary and three children. William spent his time as a settler in the Hutt Valley and was the Schoolmaster at Belmont & Korokoro Schools. He is credited with being the author of the first volume of poetry printed and published in New Zealand, and the first amateur printer who was not a missionary. William was also Lower Hutt's first teacher and Poet.

William Golder 1810-1876

Our genealogy has been researched using information gathered from family records held at the Golder Cottage Museum ( family home built in 1876 ), 707 Ferguson Drive, Upper Hutt, other family members and the WWW Internet.

Scotlands People website

LDS "IGI" website

GenesReunited website

There are 7 generations listed on this site and we have excluded information about any living family members to protect their privacy. There are more generations on our personal file that now contains in excess of 6,500 names.

There are in excess of 150 photos of individuals, letters and where the Golders lived etc. Clicking on each photo thumbnail will display a larger version of the photo for you.

We would appreciate notification / corrections of any dates of births, marriages, deaths and / or notes to enable an accurate record to be held. Should you have any photos or information that can be added to the family tree please contact us by clicking on the contact menu item for details.

Interest in our family history has been growing and we have now made many contacts in Scotland, England, Canada, USA, Australia and of course New Zealand.