Te Awamutu Cemetery is located at 1167 Te Rahu Road, Te Awamutu, New Zealand.
Park Island Cemetery, in Napier, Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand, was purchased in 1910 and the first burials were recorded in 1917.At the time the cemetery opened, its location was well beyond the town boundary. Access was by a road formed across the tidal Ahuriri Lagoon and surrounding marshes to Taradale. The cemetery provided burial plots until just after the Second World War.Many vi...
Motuopae Island in Tauranga Moana is a former pā site and has been an urupā for several generations of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, a hapū of Ngāti Ranginui iwi who whakapapa to the Tākitimu ancestral waka. The hapū are based at Huria Marae in Judea. The earliest recorded burial in the urupā was in 1912. Motuopae Island and the access to it are private land, permission is required from the iwi before visit...
Location Information==This cemetery is situated at the 'Y' junction, formed by Hull Road, Colombo Road and George Street, Waiuku.==Historical Information==There are 3 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 3 of the 1939-1945 war here. Read more about the cemetery, including a list of those those buried, here (CWGC) Find A Grave: Waiuku Cemetery
Pātūtahi is a small settlement 15 kilometres west of Gisborne, in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located in the valley of the Waipaoa River.
Earthworks have begun in the paddock adjacent to Mangaroa Cemetery (part of the cemetery’s 8.1-hectare site by the Hawke’s Bay prison), putting down concrete beams for headstones and new burial plots. The cemetery extension will create the potential for an extra 5,206 plots, which is estimated to meet the district’s need for the next 40 years. Mangaroa Cemetery hosts Hawke’s Bay’s only natural ...
Bluff is New Zealand's earliest permanently settled European town. It was established in 1824 but it only had a proper cemetery from 1860. Prior to this, settlers were buried in the sand dunes near where Bluff Town Hall is now located. Source: Bluff | Motupōhue, previously known as Campbelltown and often referred to as "The Bluff", is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the souther...
Whenua Tapu Cemetery is located on State Highway 1 between Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay.
Akaroa’s town cemetery is divided into three parts, for Anglicans, Catholics and “Dissenters” (although there was never an established church in New Zealand so the term is not strictly correct). In a poem called “The Long Harbour”, Mary Ursula Bethell wrote of a “sequestered hillside ossuary” and of a place “where manukas/sighing, windswept and sea-answering pine groves/garrison the burial gro...
Address: 47 Puruatanga Rd, Martinborough (65 kilometres east of Wellington and 35 kilometres south-west of Masterton.) Martinborough Cemetery, Wairarapa District, contains the official war grave of 1 man who served in the New Zealand forces during the First World War. This is Private John George Muller Smith who died from influenza at Featherston training camp on 17 November 1918.
Paraparaumu Beach Cemetery is set on 1.2 hectares of urban land. Source: Kāpiti Coast District Council Location: Kāpiti Road, Paraparaumu. Records available from 1917.
Te Aroha Cemetery contains the official war graves of 10 men who served in the New Zealand forces during the First World War and who died before 1 September 1921. The cemetery is situated opposite the racecourse, in Stanley Road South, about 2 kilometres south of Te Aroha towards Matamata.
Roxburgh, named by the early settlers after the town of Roxburgh in Scotland, was originally a gold mining settlement established in the 1860s at the time of the Otago gold rush. The cemetery is thought to have been established around the same time, although records prior to 1890 were lost in a fire. The cemetery is divided into two parts, the old and new. The old section is dominated by its ...
Ōamaru Old Cemetery THE ŌAMARU CEMETERY , which has frontages to Greta and Test Streets, and to the town boundary, was opened about the year 1860. It is a triangular plot of ground, containing twelve acres, and is well kept, being planted with ornamental trees and flower borders. There are two entrances—one on the north, and the other on the east; and the caretaker's residence is in Test Street...
Ōpunake is a small town on the southwest coast of Taranaki in New Zealand's North Island. It is located 45 kilometres southwest of New Plymouth. Ōpunake Cemetery is located in Wilson Road, off the main highway SH 45. Notable Burials: Cyril Albert Mullon who received a headstone in 2015, 100 years after his death at age 7. See:
Waimate is a town in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is situated just inland from the eastern coast of the South Island. In October 1871, the Canterbury Provincial council set up a board of members to establish the Waimate cemetery. The board members were: Michael Studholme, Leonard Price, John Manchester, James Bruce and John O'Keefe. The old Waimate cemetery covers an area of 2.33 hectares. The...
Comprising of 5.32 hectares, Waihi Cemetery is situated in the rural area 5kms east of Waihi township, amongst farmland and orchards. Established prior to 1898 as the public cemetery for Waihi and the surrounding rural area, and the small coastal township of Waihi Beach. The Waihi Cemetery administration was vested in the Waihi Borough Council in 1902. Between 1902 and 1913 the records for the ...
Located on Porangahau Road in Waipukurau 4282. Waipukurau Cemetery, which was situated on what was called Cemetery Road and is now on the corner of Porangahau Road and Lake View Road, was constructed in the late 1880’s, with the first recorded burial dated 1887. At this time, the public cemetery was situated out in the country, however over the years with the expansion of the town it has now b...
Onehunga Catholic Church Cemetery: first burials 1848.
93-97 McKinney Road, Warkworth, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand
Rotorua Cemetery was used for burials in the 1800s. Some of the victims of the 1886 Tarawera eruption are buried here, as well as some early transfers from an even older burial ground on the eastern side of Sala Street.
Waikanae Cemetery is located on the Kāpiti Coast near Wellington.
Location: Fraser Road, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand.
The Tauranga Methodist and Children’s Cemetery has high historical significance to Tauranga as the resting place of a number of notable people, an historic archive for genealogical and historical research and a touchstone for descendants of Tauranga families. The cemetery is located at 520 Devonport Road, Tauranga South, on the corner of Devonport Road and Seventeenth Avenue. The first burial w...
Norsewood Cemetery, in Norsewood, Tararua, Southern Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, is thought to be the largest Scandinavian cemetery in Australasia. The graves of many of the Scandinavian immigrants — predominantly Norwegians — who were brought to the Norsewood district under the 1870s “assisted immigration” programmes can be found in the Norsewood Cemetery. Many of the graves in the Norsewood Cemet...