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Where the ancestors on the Lintott and McEwen and Gilbert trees were born, married, lived and were buried: Europe (Britain, Ireland and Poland), the ships that brought them out, New Zealand, and their military service. Tap a pin or a place to see who was there. Built from both tree pages; updated 3 Nov 2026.
Every ship known to have brought ancestors on the Lintott and McEwen–Gilbert trees to New Zealand, in the order they sailed. Did they all go the same way? Mostly. The emigrant ships ran south past Madeira, round the Cape of Good Hope and east across the Southern Ocean; of those whose track was written down, only the Monarch put in anywhere, at the Cape Verde Islands. Two went differently: the troopship Java called at Tenerife, Hobart and Sydney, and the whaler Ajax, with William Gilbert aboard, went the other way round the world, by Cape Horn and Tahiti. Tap a ship to pick out its route.
Not found yet: the ship that brought Jan (John) Klukowski and Franciszka Tykowska from West Prussia (Papers Past and FamilySearch were searched), and how the Lintotts came out, which isn’t on the tree page. Days at sea are taken from the arrival reports where they give them. Each ship has its own colour on this map; the small dot beside the family is that family line’s colour on the other maps.
Every ancestor on the Lintott and McEwen–Gilbert trees known to have served: William Wright, who fought in Spain's Carlist War with the British Auxiliary Legion and then spent twelve years with the East India Company at Addiscombe; George Scrimshaw of the 65th Regiment, who came out with it in 1846; the Kaiapoi volunteers; and the two great-grandfathers called up in the 1942 ballot. Each man has his own colour: a solid line is a move recorded for him, a dashed line follows his unit. Tap a card to pick him out.
Each pin is coloured by the family line it belongs to; a pin shared by more than one line is split. The number on a place card is how many entries fall there. Grades are copied from the tree pages: Verified, Strong match and Probable. A person appears at every place tied to them, so the same name can show up several times. The two couples at the foot of the trees, William Reuben Lintott and Alice Hazel Wright, and Leslie McEwen and Sylvia Gilbert, are marked Verified.
Pins mark the village, town or parish church, not a house. County Meath has no town in the record, so its pin sits in the middle of the county. The Europe map shows Britain, Ireland and Poland together; Ireland was part of the United Kingdom when these ancestors lived there. New York, where William Gilbert worked before he came out, is on the Coming to New Zealand map. The Polish places were in the Prussian province of West Prussia when the Klukowskis and Tykowskis lived there; the map uses today's Polish names with the German names in brackets. William Wright's service in Spain with the British Auxiliary Legion is on the Military service map, with every ancestor's regiment and where it went.
Full records and sources for every person are on the Lintott Family Tree and the McEwen and Gilbert Family Tree.