Masterton Taita Taupiri Cemeteries New Zealand

By ngairedith March 1, 2008 46586 views 8 comments
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I have now added individual links to this list of New Zealand cemeteries as found on Find A Grave.
I have also added YouTube footage of the 2006 Funeral Procession up the Waikato River, of the Maori Queen, Dame Te Atairangikaahu, ONZ, DBE, OStJ (23 July 1931-15 Aug 2006), buried in an unmarked grave, as are her ancestors, as a sign of equality with their people (also see Taupiri Urupā)

  • a Urupā is a Maori Cemetery usually situated on a Marae


note By 2020 it was near impossible to keep up with adding new cemeteries and individual links to this list because of the sheer number of cemeteries being added in FAG for New Zealand. You can see how 'up-to-date' this list is by noting dates at end. Or go to the continuously up-dated alphabetical list at Find A Grave. The cemeteries there are in alphabetical order. I changed this list (April 2022) to group them into our regions from Northland to Stewart Island. This is the way I would find most helpful in my online, burial search.
* If you know of a cemetery I have missed please leave a message &/or link in the comments.

ALSO SEE 2 useful Virtual Cemeteries by Katherine
Born At Sea en route to New Zealand
Deaths At Sea during the voyage

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NORTHLAND
COUNCIL SEAT - WHANGAREI
Far North Cemetery Database for Broadwood, Fairburn, Herekino, Houhoro, Kaeo, Kaikohe, Kaitaia, Kawakawa, Kerikeri, Kohukohu, Mangonui, Mangungu, Okaihau, Oruaiti, Paihia, Paranui, Peria, Rawene, Russell, Takahue, Totara North, Umawera, Waiharara, Waipapakauri
Whangarei Cemetery Database for Hukerenui South, Kamo, Kaurihohore (Kauri), Kioreroa, Mangapai, Marua, Mauna, Maungakaramea, Ngunguru, Onerahi, Otonga, Parua, Waikiekie, Waipu, Whareora
Northland Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ private farmland cemetery

  • Epiwania, (or Piwania), Totara North road

~ on the site of a mission station where Bishop Pompallier preached his first Epiphany Service

~ see the family Jabez Foster & Sarah Ann Penney

~ sailors who died 11 March 1845 "˜Sacking of Kororareka'

~ Private farmland, Aroadia Rd., permission needed

~ aka Waiarohia or Rust Lane cemetery

~ private land "Waitangi" Whangaroa Harbour

~ aka Pamapuria Māori & St Stephens Church cemetery

~ has the Maori Poet Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008)

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AUCKLAND
COUNCIL SEAT - AUCKLAND
Auckland Cemetery Database for Hillsborough, Onetangi Waiheke Island, Otahuhu Public, Waikaraka & others
Auckland Burial Search for areas other than those mentioned, including Waikumete
Purewa Cemetery & Crematorium a 15 minute drive from Auckland's central business district
. Waikaraka burial list 1890-1906
* Ships to Auckland from 1835
Auckland Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ aka Haratounga Bay cemetery

~ entrance to Waikumete cemetery

~ aka Avondale, Orchard St, Rosebank Rd

~ Great Barrier Island

~ aka Cathedral Church of Gittos

~ next to St Brides Anglican burial ground

~ The island is between Motutapu & Waiheke Island

~ On the morning of 28 Nov 1979, Air New Zealand flight TE901 left Auckland for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. At 12.49 p.m. the aircraft crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 on board.

~ commemorating Colonel Marmaduke George Nixon (1813-1864) & other soldiers at the Battle at Rangiaowhia in 1864. On Anzac Day 1968, Nixon's remains were moved from Symonds Street Cemetery and re-interred to the base of the monument. In recent years, there have been controversial calls for the removal of the monument.

~ aka Bayswater, Devonport or Takapuna cemetery

~ Ngāti Whātua Urupā but no burials added as at 2022

~ aka Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

~ aka Avondale, Rosebank Rd or George Maxwell Memorial

~ difficult to find. It is behind the Pacific Island Presbyterian Church via a gate from the Ropata Avenue

~ aka Te Maketu cemetery

~ aka St Mary By the Sea

~ behind Waiau Pa Family Church

~ established 1866 for Whitford, Beachlands & Maraetai

~ no longer exists due to Auckland Airport expansion

~ aka Minnisdale Chapel cemetery

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WAIKATO
. note . Waikato is defined as from Coromandel Peninsula in the north to Lake Taupo & King Country in the south. Many boundaries and names were changed in the 2018 census. It is bordered by Auckland to the north, Bay of Plenty to the east and Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay to the south. Parts of Rotorua are in Waikato, parts in Bay of Plenty. I have the graves in Bay of Plenty
COUNCIL SEAT - HAMILTON
Waikato Districts Cemetery Database cemeteries of Alexandra Redoubt (Tuakau), Gordonton, Huntly (aka Kimihia cemetery), Jackson Street (Ngaruawahia), Maramarua, Mercer, Ngaruawahia, Okete (Raglan), Onewhero (Kaipo Flats Road), Orini (near Orini Hall), Pokeno, Pokeno Old Soldiers, Raglan, Rangiriri, Rangiriri Old, Taupiri (on Gordonton road), Te Mata (corner Tepapatapu & Kawhia roads), Tuakau, Waerenga, Waiterimu/Matahuru, Whatawhata
. . NORTH WAIKATO . .
~ Note Council are working on developing a Cemetery Database for Matamata, Piako, Te Aroha, Maukoro, Morrinsville, Waharoa (limited search)
. Old Morrinsville Cemetery List of names from 1898-2000
. Paeroa The 'Cemetery Residents' burial list 1897-1900
North Waikato Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ about Alexandra Redoubt 1863 built during the NZ wars

~ oldest cemetery, mix of old & new burials

~ newer cemetery, west side of the railway line

. . CENTRAL WAIKATO . .
Hamilton Cemetery Database for Hamilton East, Hamilton West, Hamilton Park

* SMITHs buried in Hamilton to 2011
Central Waikato Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ managed by the local iwi

~ aka Alexandra cemetery

. . SOUTH WAIKATO . .
Cambridge Cemetery Database for Hautapu, Kihikihi, Leamington, Ohaupo, Alexandria (Pirongia), Paterangi Puahue, Pukeatua, Pukerimu, Tamahere, Te Awamutu
South Waikato cemetery database for Tokoroa, Putaruru, Tirau
Otorohanga Cemetery Database for Kawhia, Otorohanga
Taupo Cemetery Database for Taupo, Turangi, Mangakino

Waitomo Cemetery Database for Te Kuiti (Old and New), Mokau, Piopio, Aria, Te Waitere
South Waikato Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ private Urupa, Aramiro

~ aka Taupo Urupā

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THAMES-COROMANDEL
SEAT - THAMES
Covers all the Coromandel Peninsula, extending south to its only land boundary, Hikutaia.
Hauraki Cemetery Database for Hauraki Plains (Ngatea), Miranda (Mangatawhiri), Pukerimu, Waihi
Thames Cemetery Database for Buffalo, Christ Church (Anglican), Colville, Mercury Bay, Omahu, Shortland, Tairua, Tararu, Totara Memorial Park, Whangamata
Localities: Coromandel, Hikau, Moanataiara (north Thames), Ngatea, Parawau (south Thames), Paeroa, Pauanui Beach, Tairua, Thames, Te Puru, Te Rerenga, Whangamata, Whitianga,

~ building began 2017, no names at 2020

~ aka Ferry Landing or Whitianga Public cemetery

~ formerly Grahamstown

~ aka Allan Block cemetery

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BAY of PLENTY
COUNCIL SEAT - WHAKATANE

  • Cemetery Database for Awakaponga, Hillcrest, Domain road, Grant Family, Murupara, Taneatua, Waimana

Kawerau Cemetery Database for Kawerau
Opotiki Cemetery Database for Old Military (Kellt street), Opotiki (Waitangi), Woodlands (Ranginui Urupa)
Rotorua Cemetery Database for Kauae, Mamaku, Ngakuru, Reporoa, Rotorua
Tauranga Cemetery Database
Rotorua Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ a Ngati Whakaue burial ground before 1924

Tauranga Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ no burials to date (2019)

~ reached by the ferry from Omokoroa to Opureora

Whakatane Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ historical reserve, formerly Tathoata cemetery reserve

. Its principal hapū is Te Ūpokorehe of Whakatōhea iwi. The wharenui is Te Poho o Tamaterangi and the wharekai is Ani-i-waho. The marae connects ancestrally to Mātaatua and Nukutere waka, the maunga Tirotirowhitu and the awa Kutarere.

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GISBORNE
COUNCIL SEAT - GISBORNE
. Māori: Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa 'Great standing place of Kiwa.' The settlement was originally known as Turanga and renamed Gisborne in 1870 in honour of NZ Colonial Secretary William Gisborne (1825-1898)
bit of trivia The East Cape - North of Gisborne, around the coast to Opotiki and inland to Te Urewera National Park, has the honour of witnessing the world's first sunrise every day. Technically, since 2011 when Samoa decided to move position on the international dateline, they became the first country in the world to welcome in the new day, but, due to the curvature of the earth, East Cape is still first to see the sunrise.
Gisborne Cemetery Database Cemetery database for Makaraka, Matahiia, Ormond, Motu, Patutahi, Ruatoria, Rakauroa, Taruheru, Te Araroa, Te Puia, Tolaga Bay, Tokomaru Bay
Tolaga Bay cemetery list
Gisborne Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ none added as at 2022

~ aka Maro Tarewa or Marotarewa Cemetery

~ aka Manutuke Papatu Te Arai Urupā

~ aka Puputa Hill or Waiomatatini Marae Urupā

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HAWKES BAY
COUNCIL SEAT - NAPIER

Napier Cemetery Database for Taupo, Turangi and Mangakino
Wairoa cemetery database for Frasertown, Morere, Nuhaka, Ruakaturi, Wairoa
Hawkes Bay Cemetery Database for Forest Gate, Kaikora North, Makaretu, Otane, Pendle Hill (Private), Porangahau, St Peter's Church, Takapau, Tikokino (Hampden), Waipawa, Waipukurau
Rangitikei Cemetery Database for Bulls (Clifton), Mangaweka, Marton (Mt View), Ratana, Taihape, Turakina
Ships to Napier from 1835
Hawkes Bay Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ Lewis Road, corner near the viaduct

~ Old Napier Cemetery List 1857-1870

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TARANAKI
COUNCIL SEAT - STRATFORD
New Plymouth Cemetery Database for Awanui, Huirangi, Inglewood, Lepperton, Okato, St Mary's Churchyard, Tarata, Tataraimaka, Te Henui, Tikorangi, Urenui, Waireka, Waitara
Stratford Cemetery Database for Kopuatama (Main Stratford Cemetery), Midhurst New, Midhurst Old, Pioneer, Tahora, Waipuku, Whangamomona
South Taranaki Cemetery Database for Eltham, Hawera, Kaponga, Manaia, Okaiawa, Opunake, Patea
* Ships to New Plymouth from 1835
Taranaki Cemeteries on Find A Grave

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MANAWATU
COUNCIL SEAT - PALMERSTON NORTH
Feilding Cemetery Database for Feilding, Halcombe, Kimbolton, Pohangina, Rangiwahia, Rongotea, Sandon, Waituna West

~ about Awahuri written about 1897

Manawatu-Tararua Cemetery Database for Alfredton, Dannevirke, Herbertville, Kaitawa, Kumeroa, Mangahao, Mangaoranga, Mangatainoka, Mangatera, Marchant street, Matamau, Newman, Norsewood, Old Gorge, Ormondville, Pinfold Road, Pongaroa, Woodville, Weber
. Cemetery 'Residents' of Norsewood cemetery burial list.
* . Norsewood . Cemetery Database (& Settlers' Genealogies Project)

* . Palmerston North . Cemetery Database Cemetery Database for Ashhurst, Kelvin Grove, Terrace End
. Palmerston North District .

. Dannevirke District .

~ aka Franklin Family Cemetery

~ bios on 51 names at Weber to 2009
. Eketahuna District .

. Pahiatua District .

. Rangitikei District .

. Woodville District .

~ 'Residents' of Old Gorge cemetery

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WHANGANUI
* Ships to Whanganui from 1835
* Whanganui Cemetery Database for Aramoho, Heads Road
* some old settlers of Whanganui
Whanganui cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ In 1970 Hiruhārama became the location of poet James K. Baxter's community, which closed soon after his death in 1972

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WAIRARAPA
Wairarapa "Glistening Waters,' is a rectangular shape, 130km long (Palliser Bay to Woodville) & 65km wide (Tararua Range east to the coast). The Ngāti Kahungunu tribe's boundary for the region is similar. Their tribal area begins at Pōrangahau and ends at Turakirae. Some of the boundaries changed in 1980s/90s (go to link).
* Wairarapa & Community Archives
* Wairarapa Past, Archivist Gareth Winter
* Wairarapa Recruits called up in Aug 1918
some of the main cemeteries: Ahi Pane Pane Urupā (Te Ore Ore) . Ahi Tainga Urupā . Akura Urupā . Archer Street . Castlepoint . Clareville . Featherston . Featherston Soldiers . Gladstone . Greytown . Hastwell . Hurunui o rangi . Martinborough . Martinborough Old . Masterton . Mauriceville West . Mauriceville North . Papawai . Pirinoa . Riverside . Te Ahitainga Urupā . Tinui . Tuhitarata (McMaster Family) . Waihenga
. Carterton District .
* Carterton . Cemetery Database for Clareville
* Clareville cemetery alphabetical name list to 2013

. Featherston District .
~ no online database ~ burials on Find A Grave

* All 182 Anzac Soldiers in alphabetical order
. Masterton District .
* Masterton . Cemetery Database

. South Wairarapa .
SEAT - Martinborough
. Cemetery 'Residents' of Greytown to 2019
* Martinborough Headstone Photos as at 2018
~ no online database ~ burials on Find A Grave

. aka Ngai Tukoko Urupā, church destroyed in 1942 earthquake

~ An alphabetical name list (to 2020)
* Martinborough Puruatanga Road

~ The McMaster family cemetery

. Tinui District .
* Notes On Tinui
Tinui, formerly Tenui, first place in NZ to have an ANZAC Day cross. On the morning of 25 April 1916, the local vicar, Reverend Basil Ashcroft, led an expedition to place a large metal cross on Tinui Taipo, the 1200ft high promontory behind the village. When the people of Tinui went to church that morning, to hold an Anzac service and later erected a cross on Mt Maunsell, they would have hardly known how significant their actions would become. It is credited by Heritage NZ as being the first ever Anzac monument in New Zealand.

~ Burial List by grave numbers

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HOROWHENUA
In the Manawatu-Whanganui district, slightly north of ÅŒtaki in the south to south of Himatangi in the north and from the coast to the summit of the Tararua Ranges.
COUNCIL SEAT - LEVIN
WARDS - Levin, Waiopehu, Miranui, Kere Kere
* Horowhenua Cemetery Database for Foxton, Koputaroa, Old Levin, Manakau, The Avenue & Shannon
Horowhenua cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ At the northern end of Foxton's Main Street lies one of the most historic places in the Manawatu district - the small piece of land known as Ihakara Gardens

~ 1 of 3 cemeteries in Koputaroa

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OTAKI-KAPITI
OTAKI is a town in the Kapiti Coast District of the North Island, situated half way between Wellington, 70km to the southwest and Palmerston North, 70km to the northeast. It marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region. It comes under the Wellington Region but separated here for easier cemetery finding.

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HUTT VALLEY

  • Commonly called 'The Hutt,' a large area of flat land, Hutt River valley in the Wellington region. The Hutt River flows along an active geologic fault and continues to become the main instrument responsible for the uplift of the Southern Alps. The river is briefly confined by a steep-sided gorge near Taita, before the land opens close to the outflow into Wellington Harbour. The lower valley contains the city of Lower Hutt. Adjacent is Upper Hutt and Petone is on the shoreline of Wellington Harbour.

Akatarawa Cemetery Database for Akatarawa
Hutt City Cemetery Database for Aglionby, Boulcott Farm, Christ Church Taita, Church Yard Hutt, Gear Meat Works, Homedale Methodist, Knox Presbyterian, Korokoro cemetery, Lower Hutt near Primative Methodist, Owhiti Urupa Seaview, Pencarrow Lighthouse Grave, Primative Methodist, Sinclair cemetery Wainuiomata, Somes/Matiu Island, St James Churchyard, Taita Old Section, Te Puni Urupa, Wainuiomata, Waiwhetu Marae, Walter Road Lowry Bay, Wesleyan cemetery Bridge Street, Woodlands Farm Wainuiomata
'Residents' of Christ Church Taita cemetery
Hutt Valley cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ aka Coast road churchyard

~ aka Blackbridge Cemetery in 1840. Due to lack of money to keep it in good condition all headstones, monuments and grave surrounds were removed in 1949. No human remains were removed. A single monument was erected to honour all interments.

~ . The cemetery was closed 1956. They vested part of the land for street purposes, authorised laying a drain through the cemetery, the removal and re-interment of human remains, removal of headstones, monuments and grave surrounds, leveling & planting the grounds and the erection of a common monument. The passage of time means fewer and fewer people know the piece of land at the foot of the Korokoro hill is a cemetery and is, therefore, sacred land.

~ Somes/Matiu Island largest of 3 islands in the Wellington Harbour, 3km south of Petone and the Hutt River and about 5km northwest of Makaro/Ward Island.

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WELLINGTON
COUNCIL SEAT - WELLINGTON
Wellington & districts Cemeteries
Aglionby . Akatarawa . Awa Tapu . Battle Hill . Bolton Street . Boulcott Farm . Bridge Street . Cape Palliser (ss Zuleika) . Christ Church Taita . Church Yard Hutt . East Eyreton . Gear Meat Works . Homedale Methodist . Johnsonville Methodist . Karori . Knox Presbyterian . Korokoro . Lower Hutt near Primative Makara . Methodist . Mount Street . Ohariu . Owhiti Urupā Seaview . Pauatahanui . Paraparaumu . Pencarrow Lighthouse Grave . Plimmerton . Porirua . Primative Methodist . Sinclair cemetery Wainuiomata . Somes/Matiu Island . St James Churchyard . St Josephs Churchyard . Taita lawn . Taita Old Section . Tawa . Te Puni Urupā . Waikanae . Wainuiomata . Waiwhetu Marae . Walter Road Lowry Bay . Wellington Provincial Memorial (soldiers buried at sea) . Wesleyan cemetery Bridge Street . Whenua Tapu . Woodlands Farm Wainuiomata
Wellington Cemetery Database for Bolton St, Karori, Makara
Porirua Cemetery Database for Pauatahanui, Porirua, Whenua Tapu
Tawa Flat known Cemetery List All records of burials have been lost

Wellington Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ 'Residents' of Bolton Street Burial List
~ Friends of Bolton Street

~ named after the former farm of the only burial (to 2020) Elsdon Best(1856-1931), farm worker, soldier, sawmiller, health inspector, ethnologist, writer. Elsdon spent his first 9 years in Tawa. His ashes are interred in the memorial which was dedicated in 1960.

~ 1st crematorium in NZ opened 1909

~ 'Residents' of Mount Street Alphabetical list

~ contains the Tomb of Bishop Philippe Joseph Viard (1809-1872), first Bishop of Wellington

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TASMAN
COUNCIL SEAT - RICHMOND
Tasman Cemetery Database for Bainham; Clifton; Collingwood; Collingwood (Old); Dovedale; East Takaka; Flett Road; Foxhill; Hamama (West Takaka); Kotinga; Mararewa Main Rd; Motueka Public; Murchison; Pioneer Park; Richmond; Riwaka; Rototai; Sandy Bay; Spring Grove; Stanley Brook; Waimea West, Waiwhero
Tasman Cemeteries on Find A Grave

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NELSON
COUNCIL SEAT - NELSON
Nelson Cemetery Database for Fairfield, Hallowell, Marsden Valley, Seaview Road, Wakapuaka
* Ships to Nelson from 1835
Nelson Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ Prisoner cemetery, no headstones

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MARLBOROUGH
COUNCIL SEAT - BLENHEIM
Marlborough cemetery Database for Blenheim, Fairhall, Havelock, Mahakipawa, Omaka, Picton, Seddon, Tuamarina, Ward
Marlborough Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ Altimarlock Sheep Station

~ On 17 Dec 1773 10 of the HMS Adventure's crew were killed by local Māori (and 2 Māori were killed) after a sailor insulted the locals

. small cemetery top of Port Underwood, includes Jacky Guard (1791-1857), an ex-convict born London, sent to Australia as a convict, later the first permanent European settlers to NZ, working as a whaler & trader. His son John Guard in 1821 was the first European child born in the South Island. In 1827 he established the first whaling station in South Island. His daughter in 1833, the first born female child. Descendants restored his gravesite in 2021.

~ small churchyard, back of Rapaura Community Church

~ Marlborough's most historic cemetery

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WEST COAST
COUNCIL SEAT - GREYMOUTH
Westport Cemetery Database for Addison Flat, Boatsman, Charleston, Inangahua, Karamea, Lyell, Mokihinui, Orowaiti, Reefton, Waimangaroa
Westland Cemetery Database for Hokitika, Kumara, Ross, Stafford
Grey Administered Cemeteries for Ahaura, Barrytown, Blackball, Cobden, Gladstone, Greenstone, Karoro, Mâori Gully, Ngahere, Notown, Stillwater
. Otira List of Soldiers
West Coast Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ opened 1866, closed 1909, demolished 1926, now abandoned

~ on private land, permission required to enter

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CANTERBURY
COUNCIL SEAT - CHRISTCHURCH
Ashburton cemetery database for Alford Forest, Ashburton, Barrhill, Chertsey, Coldstream, Cracroft, St Patrick's Church (Dorie), Highbanks, Hind, Methven, Mt Somers, Rakaia, Ruapuna, Waterton, Westerfield, Winderemere, Winslow
Christchurch cemetery database for Addington, Avonhead, Barbadoes St, Belfast, Bromley, Linwood, Memorial Park, Ruru, Sydenham, Waimairi, Woolston, Yaldhurst
Hurunui District cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ The big name families by sheer volume: Earls, Masons, Mannings, Honeybones, Brookers, Dalzells and Ginders

Kaikoura - No online cemetery database
Kaikoura District cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ smallest church in use in New Zealand

Timaru cemetery database for Arundel, Geraldine, Pleasant Point, Pareora, Timaru, Temuka
Waimakariri cemetery database for Birch Hill
. Ashburton District .

~ in use 1882-1906. Now no sign of the graves, but a plaque gives info on those buried

~ Mt Somers foothills of the Southern Alps

. Christchurch District .

~ aka cemetery of the Good Shepherd

~ aka Ataahua or Kaituna Valley

~ 3 distinct areas, separated by internal road

. MacKenzie District .
* MacKenzie cemetery database

~ new cemetery constructed 2003

. Selwyn District .

~ originally attached to All Saints Church, now demolished

. Timaru District .

~ across the road from Waimate Old Cemetery

. Waimakariri District .

~ aka Eyreton St Thomas' Anglican

~ aka Clarkville cemetery

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OTAGO
COUNCIL SEAT - DUNEDIN
Dunedin Cemetery Database for Andersons Bay, Allanton, Broad Bay, East Taieri, Green Island, Green Park, Hindon, Macandrew Bay, Northern, Otokia, Port Chalmers, Portobello, Purakaunui, Southern, Waikouaiti, Waitati (Blueskin), West Taieri
. Central Otago .

Queenstown Cemetery Database for Albert Town, Arrowtown, Cardrona, Frankton, Glenorchy, Kingston, Makarora, Queenstown, Skippers Point and Wanaka
Waitaki Cemetery Database in the Oamaru cemeteries; Old & Lawn cemetery; Duntroon; Georgetown; Hampden; Herbert (Otepopo); Kurow; Livingstone; Macraes; Maheno; Ngapara; Papakaio. Palmerston & Omarama being added.
* Ships to Port Chalmers from 1835
Dunedin District cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ note . there is a mass grave (unmarked) at Andersons Bay for (some of) the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum Patients, (an asylum by the sea). It contains only 132 bodies, but from completion of the main block in 1884 there must have been 100s more. On 8 Dec 1942, 37 women lost their lives in a deadly fire because they were trapped in a locked ward (2 escaped). There was no funeral service, stigma often meant families did not acknowledge they were there, a tree was planted with a plaque in memory of the 37 women.

~ note of interest buried at Hawksbury is George Hunt (1856-1936) & his wife Isabella Nelson Grieve 1864-1939) who had 16 children over 23 years from the age of 16.

~ 2km down from Puketeraki cemetery

~ take a closer look at Quarantine Island

~ St Barnabas on twice, need to be merged

. South Otago .

~ now on private land, permission required to enter

~ opened 1871, closed 1950s

Queenstown District cemeteries on Find A Grave

Waitaki District cemeteries on Find A Grave

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SOUTHLAND
COUNCIL SEAT - INVERCARGILL
Gore Cemetery Database for Charlton, Gore, Mataura, Otaraia, Pukerau, Waikaka
Bluff Alphabetical list of names to 2018
Invercargill Cemetery Database for Bluff, Eastern Cemetery, Green Point, Invercargill, Mason Road Urupa, St Johns (Durham St), Southland Crematorium
Southland Cemetery Database for Athol, Balfour, Braggs Bay, Calcium, Centre Hill, Clifden,Colac Bay, Dipton, Eastern Bush, Edendale, Forest Hill, Forest Hill (Cameron), Fortrose (New), Fortrose (Old), Garston, Halfmoon Bay, Hedgehope, Horseshoe Bay, Jamestown, Lumsden, Lynwood, Mokoreta, Nokomai (Southern), Oraka, Orepuki, Otautau (New), Otautau (Old), Quarry Hills, Riversdale, Riverton (New), Ruapuke Island, Ruapuke (Te Kiri Kiri), Ryal Bush, Stewart Island (Lee Bay), Stewart Island (Lonnekers), Stewart Island (Ringaringa), Stewart Island (Ulva Island), Tararua Acre, The Neck, Tokanui, Tuatapere, Waikaia, Waikaia Old Chinese, Waikawa, Wairio (Nightcaps), Wakapatu, Wallacetown (New), Wallacetown (Old), Winton (East), Winton (Old), Woodlands, Wreys Bush, Wyndham
Southland Cemeteries on Find A Grave

~ William Stirling/Pankhurst (1812-1851) managed the 1st Whaling Station in Bluff

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STEWART ISLAND
* Stewart Island, often NZ's forgotten Island, is roughly triangular and situated 30km south of the South Island, only 4,000km north of Antarctica.
Cemetery Search for the small number of people buried on Stewart Island
Stewart Island Cemeteries on Find A Grave

AUCKLAND ISLAND
Auckland Island, is 465km south of the South Island. It is part of the New Zealand subantarctic area.
Auckland Island Cemetery on Find A Grave

Port Ross is a natural harbour on Auckland Island, a subantarctic chain that forms part of the New Zealand Outlying Islands. Guarding the mouth of Port Ross are Rose Island, Enderby Island, Ewing Island and the tiny Ocean Island. The harbour is the most well-established congregation ground for southern right whales in New Zealand waters.
In 1842 members of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori arrived in Port Ross from the Chatham Islands with Moriori slaves in an attempt to establish a settlement. In the late 1840s, an agricultural and whaling community set up in Erebus Cove, on the harbour and named Hardwicke. Due to the inhospitable climate, the settlement was abandoned within three years. A cemetery remains, later used to bury victims of shipwrecks. Survivors of the 1866 wreck of the 'General Grant' set up a camp in the harbour where they lived for 18 months before rescue. Later, castaway depots were established in Port Ross to provide succour for any sailors wrecked or marooned on the islands. In 1887 it provided relief for the survivors of the 'Derry Castle'. It was also one of three sites occupied by the wartime Cape Expedition coastwatching stations established on New Zealand's subantarctic islands.

CAMPBELL ISLANDS
Campbell Island Motu Ihupuku, is an uninhabited subantarctic island of New Zealand and the main island of the Campbell Island group. It covers 112.68km2 and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island (or Folly Islands), Isle de Jeanette-Marie and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the southernmost extremity of New Zealand. The island is mountainous, rising to over 500 metres in the south. A long fiord, Perseverance Harbour, nearly bisects it, opening out to sea on the east coast.
The island is listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands and is an immediate part of NZ, not part of any region or district, but instead Area Outside Territorial Authority. It is the closest piece of land to the antipodal point of the UK and Ireland, meaning that the furthest away city is Limerick, Ireland. It was discovered in 1810 by Captain Frederick Hasselborough of the sealing brig Perseverance, which was owned by shipowner Robert Campbell's Sydney-based company Campbell & Co (the Island's name). Captain Hasselborough drowned 4 Nov 1810 in Perseverance Harbour on the south of the island, along with a young woman and a boy.
The island became a seal hunting base and the seal population was almost totally eradicated. The sealing era lasted 1810-1912. The whaling boom extended 1830s & 1840s. In 1874, the island was visited by a French scientific expedition intending to view the transit of Venus. Much of the island's topography is named after aspects of, or people connected with, the expedition. In 1840 Campbell Island was the last landfall before the Ross expedition explored the Antarctic.
Campbell Islands Cemeteries on Find A Grave


CHATHAM ISLANDS
The Chatham Islands are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 800km east of NZ's South Island and has been part of New Zealand since 1841. The archipelago consists of about ten Islands within an approximate 60km radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (Rangiauria). They include New Zealand's easternmost point, the Forty-Fours. Some of the islands, formerly cleared for farming, are now preserved as nature reserves to conserve some of the unique flora and fauna.
Chatham Islands Cemeteries on Find A Grave

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updated 20 April 2022 - 1,570 cemeteries
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updated 3 April 2021
updated 1 Sep 2019 - 2,024 cemeteries
updated 27 Feb 2014, 779 cemeteries
updated 30 Nov 2011, 438 cemeteries

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Christ Church Taita Cemetery built in 1853 without nails, is the oldest church in the Wellington region (also the oldest complete building) and one of the oldest in its original condition in NZ.

Related Surnames:
AUCKLAND BAYOFPLENTY CANTERBURY GISBORNE HAWKESBAY MANAWATU MARLBOROUGH NELSON NORTHLAND OTAGO SOUTHLAND TARANAKI TASMAN WAIKATO WANGANUI WELLINGTON WESTCOAST WHANGANUI

Comments (8)

ngairedith

journal updated ...

to enable easier searching, INDIVIDUAL cemetery links have now been added

tonkin

Great journal ngairedith.

This one is a must for my favorites.

Thank you.

ngairedith

over 30 new cemeteries added

flodjod

Papawai's Urupa is situated 3k east of Greytown at Papawai and the name of the Urupa is Rangiurunga.

I am the chair of the trust that looks after the Urupa, the urupa is named by Whatahoro Jury in the late 1800s in the Maori Land Court hearings, and it is now Gazetted as such in the Maori Land Court.

ngairedith

thanks for that

ngairedith

84 new cemeteries added to the above list

ngairedith

63 new cemeteries added

ngairedith

Big changes & updates