Story: Irish
By the turn of the century a majority of Irish immigrants to New Zealand were coming from the counties around Belfast, in the north-eastern province of Ulster.
Source: Sample of death registers, ‘Peopling’ project, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington
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