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St Peters Anglican Church has been at the corner of Church Street and Ōnehunga Mall since 1848. A wooden church was replaced by a new church in 1930, shifting the old building back for a tower and chancel, designed by D B Patterson. The new church was consecrated in June 1931, but the foundation stone was laid a year before with Masonic ceremony, with corn scattered over the stone by Provincial...
The Catholic Cemetery has high historical significance to Tauranga as the resting place of a number of notable people, an historic archive for genealogical and historic research and a touchstone for descendants of Tauranga families. The cemetery is located at 45 Eighteenth Avenue, Tauranga South (corner of Fraser Street and Eighteenth Avenue). The first burial in the Tauranga Catholic Cemetery ...
An index to pages on cemeteries in Aotearoa | New Zealand. Cemeteries are fascinating places, not just for the genealogical information they carry, but for the layers of symbolism to be found in the headstones and memorials. Please add profiles to the cemetery to which they belong and not to this index page. New Zealand Cemeteries Index Addington Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury, Sout...
The Old Winton Cemetery is located at 2675 Dipton Winton Highway (SH6), Winton, South Island, New Zealand, 31 km from Invercargill. The cemetery is most well known for being host to Minnie Dean, one of the South's most notorious murderers. In 1895 she was convicted and hanged for the murder of a child (she was purported to have killed three).This cemetery is full but new burials are accepted at...
Also known as Hunterville Cemetery, Rangatira Cemetery is on Murimotu Road, Hunterville in the Rangitikei District.There are 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and one of the 1939-1945 war here.
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 ...
Manukau Memorial Gardens (formerly known as Papatoetoe Cemetery) is located on the corner of Roscommon Road (SH20B) and Puhinui Road (SH20), 361 Puhinui Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand.Papatoetoe Cemetery opened on 16 of October 1931, in farmland to the west of the township. This cemetery has been incorporated into the Manukau Memorial Gardens.Buried here are Manoel "Manny" Santos (11 O...
Taupiri is a small township of about 450 people on the eastern bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is overlooked by Taupiri mountain.Taupiri Cemetery is located on Gordonton Road in Taupiri, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand. Nearby is Taupiri mountain, the sacred burial ground for the Waikato tribes of the Māori people.
Five acres had been designated a public cemetery under 'The Cemeteries Act 1882', on section 12 on the Kaipaki Road. From 15 June 1901 the Pukerimu Cemetery (originally known as the Pukekura Cemetery) was administered by a voluntary Board of Trustees - John Fisher, James Anderson, Joseph Gane, William Scott and William Sturges. The first burial, recorded 28 October 1903, was Alice Vickers who h...
Burials for the St Stephens Cemetery in Parnell date from 1844 to 1982. Cemetery Search:
Whenua Tapu Cemetery is located on State Highway 1 between Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay.
Also known as Dudley Vercoe Cemetery, this cemetery is in current use and is located around 3.5km south-west of Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty area, North Island, New Zealand.The cemetery was consecrated on 9 May 1970. The earliest recorded burial is of Mr W A J Wright 1883-1958.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints cemetery has high historical significance in Tauranga as the resting place for a number of the church's early members. The cemetery is the smallest of the old Tauranga cemeteries and contains a range of grave memorials crafted between 1907 and 2002. These include slab and desk, short upright granite slabs, tablet stones, a single gothic shouldered...
Location Information This cemetery is located in Scotland Street, off the main highway, Pātea. Historical Information There are 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 2 of the 1939-1945 war here. World War I: Private James Carradus Private Samuel Floyd World War II: Private Stanley George Martin Lance Sergeant John Sequel Wilson
Tūākau Cemetery is located on Alexandra Redoubt Road in Tūākau. The cemetery was reaching capacity in 2015 and was expected to be full by the end of that year.
The name Tokoroa first appeared on the early maps of the 1860s
Pakaraka was the scene of an important early Mission. The cemetery is approximately 13 kilometres north-west of Kawakawa along the SH 1. Holy Trinity Church Graveyard, Pakaraka, Northland, New Zealand, contains the official war grave of 1 man who served in the New Zealand forces during the First World War. This is Private George Leef who died of influenza on 30 December 1918. It is also the b...
The Anglican church of Hiona St Stephen in Ōpōtiki is a rare example in New Zealand of a church that houses a martyr’s memorial. The church was originally dedicated as Hiona (Zion) in January 1864. In early 1865 a group of Pai Mārire (Hauhau) adherents entered the town and seized Hiona’s minister, the Rev. Carl Sylvius Völkner, and his fellow missionary, T.S. Grace. Völkner was accused of spyin...
St Ninian's Presbyterian Church in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, was built in 1859.The earliest burial in the St Ninian's Church Graveyard was in July 1873. The deceased was Rev. David Hamilton who died from exposure and drowning in the Waitakere Ranges on his way to Presbyterian services in Huia and Whatipu. The latest burial was in 1974.Some notable burials: * Jessie Eva Hort Huxham MacKen...
St John’s Church Graveyard at Tutu Totara is a few kilometres north of Marton in the North Island of New Zealand, and only a few hundred metres from State Highway One. Rangitikei Parish which includes St John's is a large rural parish situated south of Mt Ruapehu and west of the Rangitikei River.Built in 1924 to a F. de J. Clere design replacing a wooden building of 1884 also by Clere.Burial pl...
Location Information==Port Chalmers (Old) Cemetery, 3 Church Street, Port Chalmers. It is closed for new ash and burial plots. Ash interments and body burials can only be made in existing plots. Please note that New Port Chalmers Cemetery is also located on Church Street. Source: and Information==There are 3 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 3 of the 1939-1945 war here.World War I: ...
Pirongia is a township 13 km north-west of Te Awamutu. First named Alexandra, it was a military post during the Waikato war. In 1864 the 2nd Waikato militia built and occupied the Alexandra East and West redoubts, part of a chain of fortifications between Alexandra and Cambridge designed to block possible attack from Māori living south of the Pūniu River. The earthworks of an armed constabulary...