Fanny Wigmore

The valley of Hahei (a small settlement in Mercury Bay on the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula, 6 km Sth East of Whitianga) was purchased in the 1870s by Robert Wigmore, who was the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1876 to 1887. Robert Wigmore built the kauri homestead which is still standing today. The burial place of Robert Wigmore and his wife Fanny in Hahei is marked by a cairn in the Wigmore Historic Reserve, at the end of Hahei Beach Road by the beach.