Wallis and Futuna Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * 1894-1907 - French Overseas Wallis and Futuna Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1894-1907, index and images.

Offices to Contact
Births Certificates: Available by mail from the First Instance Court at the place of birth. Death Certificates: Death certificates can be requested from the First Instance Court in Mata-Utu. Marriages and Divorces: Available at Court of the First Instance in the town in which the marriage took place. Divorces: Available at Court of the First Instance in the town in which the divorce was granted. Usually marriages and divorces are noted on the birth certificate.

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The Alexander Turnbull Library has the following, though the records are not on the Internet: Wallis and Futuna — Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catholic Mission, Wallis island - Genealogies of Wallisian and Futunian families, compiled by Father Joseph Henquel — Consists of genealogies of all Wallisian families (from A-F) compiled from oral tradition, baptismal and matrimonial registers dating from 1824, and from regular parish censuses. There are also some Futunian genealogies (not alphabetical).

National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon Wellington 6011, New Zealand

Historical Background
Pacific Islands Family History

The Dutch discovered the Futuna island group in 1616. The British discovered Wallis in 1767. The French declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842, but didn't take official control until between 1886 and 1888.