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Waikumete Cemetery was established in 1886 and is the final resting place for over 70,000 people. It is New Zealand's largest cemetery, occupying a site of 108 hectares in Glen Eden, Auckland.The land at Waikumete was purchased incrementally by the Crown between 1876 and 1881 and reserved as a site for a public cemetery for Auckland.The new cemetery, known as ‘Waikomiti’, was set aside to repla...
Addington Cemetery opened in 1858 and closed in 1980. The cemetery was in effect the city’s first public cemetery and its plots were taken up over a relatively short period of time.The cemetery is located on Selwyn Street (between Disraeli Street and Fairfield Avenue).The cemetery was established by the Presbyterian Church of St Andrews in reaction to the ‘exclusiveness’ of the Anglican Barbado...
Linwood Cemetery, which was opened in 1884, was the first municipal cemetery of the Christchurch City Council, which at that time had its town belt bounded by the four avenues.In keeping with international trends of the time, the Cemetery was located on the outskirts of the city, bounded by Butterfield Avenue, Hay Street, Buckleys Road and McGregors Road. It was deliberately established where i...
Location Information==This cemetery is situated off Somme Parade, just east of Aramoho Park, Whanganui.==Historical Information==There are 15 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 21 of the 1939-1945 war here.World War I:* Private Everett Allan Chappell* Captain Allan Leslie Christie* Private Christopher William Connell* Sergeant Lawrence Raymond Connell* Private John Mitchell Cooper* P...
Location Information==This cemetery is in Gladstone Street, Hāwera.==Historical Information==There are 9 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 2 of the 1939-1945 war here.World War I:* Private David Alexander Carmichael * Trooper Harry Percival Coad - Profile * Captain James Type Dallinger * Private Patrick Joseph Gallagher * Sergeant John Henry Gardner - Profile
Hillsborough Cemetery is located at 250 Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand.The cemetery opened in 1916 and was managed pursuant to the Cemeteries Acts 1908 and 1922, which were superseded by the Burial and Cremation Act 1964. The cemetery closed in 1976. Around 17,000 people are buried there.
Te Henui Cemetery, also known as New Plymouth Cemetery, is the oldest public cemetery in New Plymouth, New Zealand. It was first used in 1861. The cemetery is the resting ground for the last eight victims of Titokowaru's War (1869) and contains the Commonwealth war graves of 12 men who served in the First World War, and 19 men who served in the Second World War.World War I:* Private Henry Benne...
Kelvin Grove Cemetery in Palmerston North has been in operation since 1927. Cemetery and cremation search
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...
Hamilton East Cemetery was developed in 1863 - 1866. Some of the first settlers of Hamilton are buried here.
The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand between 1845 and 1872. The wars were fought over a number of issues, the most prominent concerning Māori land being sold to the settler population.The Māori King Movement (also known as the Kingitanga Movement) began resisting the purchase of ...
The Dunedin Northern Cemetery is a major historic cemetery in the southern New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located close to Lovelock Avenue on a spur of Signal Hill close to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the suburb of Opoho, overlooking Dunedin North and Logan Park. The 8-hectare (20-acre) site was set aside in 1872, with the last plot being purchased in 1937. The cemetery forms part of Du...
In 1889, the Anglican Church established Purewa Cemetery through a gift of land. This cemetery is the final resting place for over 45,000 men, women and children, including many of Auckland's notable business and political leaders, clergy and V.C. holders. Many of Auckland's historical figures have passed through its doors. Sir Paul Holmes and Sir Edmund Hillary were both cremated there.There i...
Symonds Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery and park in central Auckland, New Zealand. It is in 5.8 hectares of deciduous forest on the western slope of Grafton Gully, by the corner of Symonds Street and Karangahape Road, and is crossed by the Grafton Bridge. The street (and by extension the cemetery) are named for William Cornwallis Symonds, a British Army officer prominent in the early col...
The Anglican Cemetery has high historic significance to Tauranga as the resting place of a number of notable people, and historic archive for genealogical and historic research, and a touchstone for descendants of Tauranga families. The original cemetery site, bounded by Hospital Street (now Seventeenth Avenue), Grace Road, Pitt Street (now Eighteenth Avenue) and Devonport Road, was on the sout...
Location Information==This cemetery is in Domain Avenue, Timaru. There are separate areas for services' interments.==Historical Information==There are 7 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 18 of the 1939-1945 war here. Read more about the cemetery, including a list of those those buried, here (CWGC)== Cemetery Search
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...
Katikati is a town located in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand’s North Island between Tauranga and Waihī. The Uretara Stream flows next to the town and into the northern end of Tauranga Harbour. The area was first settled by tangata whenua, and the following marae can be found nearby; • Te Rereatukahia marae located in Katikati. The principal hapū is Ngāi Tamawhariua of Ngāi Te Rangi i...
In New Zealand’s history drowning was known as 'The New Zealand Death' with river crossings especially hazardous. Pioneers often fatally misjudged the speed and depth of the rivers and streams they needed to cross. Later, bathing in our rivers, lakes and oceans became a national obsession and the lack of swimming skills meant many lost their lives.
The Presbyterian Cemetery has high historic significance to Tauranga as the resting place of a number of notable people, an historic archives for genealogical and historic research and a touchstone for descendants of Tauranga families. The cemetery is located at 61 Eighteenth Avenue, Tauranga South. The first burial in the Tauranga Presbyterian Cemetery was Daniel Wilkie (1846-1882) who died of...
Hamilton Park Cemetery is operated by the Hamilton City Council and has served the community since 1957, with the crematorium and chapel facilities operating since 1963.Hamilton Park Cemetery is located in the rural setting of Newstead, at 395 Morrinsville Road. This expansive facility has been developed in a park-like manner and as a result has a peaceful and majestic landscape of trees, shrub...
Ruru Lawn Cemetery opened in 1941 and although approaching capacity it is still open for casket and ash burials.Ballantyne’s Fire Memorial is part of the Ruru Lawn Cemetery. Ballantyne Memorial Rose Garden Ballantyne’s department store in Colombo Street was the scene of one of New Zealand's most disastrous fires late in the afternoon of 18 November 1947. A total of 41 people died and damage was...
Feilding Cemetery is located in Lethbridge Road, off Makino Road in Feilding, North Island, New Zealand.The official war graves of 2 men who served in the New Zealand forces during the First World War can be found here: Private George Herbert Ashworth and Private Leonard Whitworth Thompson.A tribute to Feilding Locals who served in the following list and on this youtube clip Nimmo Sandilands, A...
We will never know the name of everyone buried in this cemetery as official records have either been lost or were never kept. The information on this page is part of an ongoing project by historian Debbie McCauley and is from her website at this link: . This northern point of the Te Papa peninsula was once the site of Ngāti Tapu's busy Ōtamataha Pā. In 1828, a raid by Ngāti Maru from the Thame...
Church Missionary Society The Church Missionary Society (CMS) began in London in 1799, when a group of Anglicans decided that the Christian gospel should be preached around the world. At that time there were few Europeans living in New Zealand. Most were traders or escaped convicts. First missionaries In December 1814 the first missionaries arrived in the Bay of Islands, escorted by the c...