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Waikanae Cemetery is located on the Kāpiti Coast near Wellington.
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...
Wharerangi Cemetery in Napier, Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand.Opened in 1948, Wharerangi Cemetery was Napier's first modern-style lawn cemetery. Its new-look features included plaques, low headstones and a memorial rose garden. In it was established Napier's first cemetery dedicated to Returned Services men and women. A Book of Remembrance is open to view daily in the open-sided shrine....
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...
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...
Papakura Cemetery is located at 298 Great South Rd, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand. Entrance to Cemetery is on Opaheke Road.
Hūkerenui is a small settlement on State Highway One, approx 30kms north of Whangarei. The Hūkerenui Cemetery is located near the Mid Northern Rugby Football clubrooms.
Ōropi Cemetery is located near the Ōropi Hall (city side) on the opposite side of the road. This is about 11km from the corner of the Oropi turn off and Highway 29. The earliest date recorded is for Olivia Emily Kensington who died on 30 September 1897, aged 76. A Roll of Honour commemorating men from the Ōropi district who fought in World War I and World War II can be found on the front of ...
The Hamilton West Cemetery was open for burials from 1869, with the last burial in 1927. However, it was not until 1975 that it was registered with the Ministry of Health as a closed cemetery and is now protected as a reserve under the District Plan and the Reserves Act 1977. Records indicate that there are 1,659 interments within the 8092 square metre area.The cemetery is located at Willoughby...
Mount Taupiri is a hill at the southern end of the Taupiri Range in the Waikato. The highest peak in the range, it rises to 288 metres above sea level and overlooks Taupiri township immediately to its south. Mount Taupiri is a sacred mountain and burial ground for the Waikato tribe of the Māori peopleThe present-day burial ground is directly above State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk...
Pāterangi Cemetery is located at the junction of Sing Road and Pāterangi Road, about 7 kilometres north west of Te Awamutu.
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 site of the large Alexandra East redoubt (often called the East Pirongia redoubt) in the Waikato occupies a flat grassed area on a slight rise overlooking the Waipa River, part of a new subdivision at Pirongia. During the New Zealand Wars the 2nd Waikato Regiment established the short-lived redoubt, built for 300 men, in June 1864. In addition to the officers’ and soldiers’ huts and tents w...
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.
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.
Burials for the St Stephens Cemetery in Parnell date from 1844 to 1982. Cemetery Search:
Four regiments of Waikato Militia military settlers were raised to help keep order in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty after the 1860s wars. Many men were recruited in Australia. Their service entitled them to land grants but much of the land surveyed was unsuitable for farming and was deserted or bought up by speculators. See: 1st Regiment of Waikato Militia were given their sections of land at T...
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...