The BLUFF, previously known as Campbelltown but referred to as "The Bluff", is the southernmost town in New Zealand. The area was one of the earliest in NZ where a European presence became established. The first ship known to have entered the harbour was the 'Perseverance' in 1813 in search of flax trading possibilities. The first European settlers arriving 1823/1824. Bluff is world known as the home of the iconic Bluff Oysters. Because of the cold, clear waters no other oyster on the planet come close to the taste ..

BLUFF burials
* excludes still born
* birth date may be calculated from age at death
* date could be that of death or burial
* names grouped together not necessarily related
* a lot more info available by reading the headstones at above link
NOTES Original list of names was taken from the above database. Most people have been individually researched, but not all, use as a guide only to your own research

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ABLEY, Frederick - 20 Jan 1905 aged 36
Otago Witness, 25 Jan 1905
The body of a man named Fred Abley, aged thirty-six, missing since Saturday week (7th Jan), came out to the colony as a fireman and greaser on the Tokomaru two months ago, was found alongside the wharf at Bluff on Thursday after the departure of the Theresa Ward for the island. He was last seen on the evening of the 7th inst; walking down the wharf with a parcel under his arm and it is supposed that he fell between the wharf and the cutter variance when trying to get on board. Apparently the body was churned up from the bottom by the Aotea, which took its departure on Wednesday and carried underneath the wharf to the other side by the action of the waves. Deceased leaves a wife and two children in County Essex, England

ADAM, Ann - 10 Aug 1893 aged 15
ADAM, Elizabeth - 28 April 1901 aged 16
ADAM, James - 3 July 1910 aged 61
ADAM, Jane Elizabeth - 10 March 1877 aged 6 weeks
* BDM has her as Adams

ALBERTSON, Russell William - 14 Aug 1946 aged 7 hours

ALDER, Arthur - 18 Oct 1874 aged 39

ALLAN, Harold Robert Lewis - 27 Jan 1967 aged 67
ALLAN, Isabel Margaret - 10 Aug 1965 aged 65 (nee McDonald)
* Harold & Isabel married in 1920

ANDERSON, Andrew - 19 Jan 1888 aged 30
ANDERSON, Charles - 7 Oct 1931 aged 73
ANDERSON, Elizabeth Agnes - 2 March 1913 aged 26
ANDERSON, Elizabeth Jane - 8 Sep 1929 aged 69
ANDERSON, Jean - 14 May 1941 aged 23

ARNETT, Jane Mere - 14 March 2004 aged 101
ARNETT, Richard - 25 April 1937 age not found

ASHWELL, Annie Maria - 21 Dec 1949 aged 75
ASHWELL, Charles Victor - 10 July aged 46
ASHWELL, Dorothy - 5 Feb 1925 aged 30 minutes
ASHWELL, Joseph Stewart - 21 Jan 1906 aged 8 months
ASHWELL, Louisa - 19 Sep 1901 aged 6 months
ASHWELL, Thomas - 3 June 1930 aged 67

ATKINSON, Alfred Ernest - 6 June 1920 aged 49

BAGRIE, Alexander Hay - 9 July 1901 aged 77

BAILEY, Alexander 'Alex' - 3 April 1938 aged 71
BAILEY, David - 4 Aug 1956 aged 20 minutes
* buried with his granddad Perce
BAILEY, Mary Jane Cartsburne - 22 Dec 1926 aged 52
* wife of Alex
BAILEY, Perce Frederick - 24 May 1955 aged 62
BAILEY, Thelma Elaine - 8 Nov 1934 aged 19 months

BAIN, George Robert - 9 Jan 1900 aged 2 days

BALL, George - 3 Feb 1941 age not found

BALLANTYNE, James - 10 Aug 1959 aged 61
BALLANTYNE, Janet Jamieson - 4 Oct aged 61
BALLANTYNE, Stella Maude - aged 72
BALLANTYNE, William - 28 Feb 1929 aged 63

BANNERMAN, Lois Burns - 20 June 1919 aged 3

BARBER, Margaret - 28 Oct 1967 aged 96
BARBER, William - 20 June 1944 aged 84

BARCLAY, Susan - 14 Jan 1958 aged 4 hours

BARKER, Elizabeth - 11 Aug 1912 aged 72
BARKER, Raymond Blair - 29 Oct 1920 aged 6
BARKER, William - 6 March 1939 aged 65
BARKER, William - 26 March 1907 aged 67

BARNES, Albert James - 6 April 1909 aged 3
BARNES, John James - 9 June 1932 aged 71
BARNES, Louisa - 28 April 1901 aged 6 months

BARNETT, Agnes Lilian - 29 Aug 1961 aged 71
BARNETT, Albert James - 10 May 1920 aged 3
BARNETT, Algernon John Steptoe - 30 Jan 1956 aged 73
BARNETT, Thomas Richard - aged 24 July 1910 4 hours

BARNSDALE, Eliza Jane - 28 Aug 1957 aged 85
BARNSDALE, Laura Adelaide - 25 March 1983 aged 80
BARNSDALE, William Thomas - 14 Jan 1939 aged 67

BARRON, Hannah Ward - 10 Nov 1898 aged 68

BARRY, Daniel - 30 Nov 1911 aged 74

BARTON, George James - 16 July 1946 aged 80
BARTON, James - 21 Jan 1942 age not recorded
BARTON, Laura - 19 Dec 1941 aged 69 (nee Symonds)
* married George James Barton in 1897

BAXTER, Allan James - 14 July 2010 aged 75

BEAL, Percy Owen - aged 16 months

BEATON, Ada Louisa - 30 July 1896 9 months
BEATON, Alexander - 14 Jan 1898 aged 47
BEATON, Annie Eliza - 8 Dec 1927 aged 67
BEATON, Charles Thomas - 22 Feb 1977 aged 89
BEATON, Jack Ernest - 26 July 1983 aged 68
BEATON, Jennie - 11 March 1954 aged 15 minutes
BEATON, Violet Olivia - 29 Sep 1967 aged 76
BEATON, William James - 19 June 1893 aged 20 months

BERTRAND, James Robert - 24 March 1910 aged 69
BERTRAND, Mary Elizabeth - 25 March 1917 aged 62
BERTRAND, Robert Edmund - 27 Feb 1894 aged 19
BERTRAND, William Wickham - 4 July 1877 aged 9 months

BIELAWSKI, Ann/Annie - 3 Oct 1911 aged 42

BIGWOOD, Beatrice Mary - 3 Nov 1968 aged 80
BIGWOOD, Beatrice May - 14 Nov 1915 aged 10 months
BIGWOOD, Christina Ann May - 17 Sep 1973 aged 82
BIGWOOD, Emily Anne - 9 July 1924 aged 79
BIGWOOD, Ernest George - 31 May 1964 aged 84
BIGWOOD, Ernest Harold - 21 Dec 1990 aged 83
BIGWOOD, Jabez - 30 June 1922 aged 77
BIGWOOD, Margaret Emily - 27 Aug 2001 aged 80
BIGWOOD, Reginald Douglas - 7 June 1941 aged 18
BIGWOOD, Rupert Oliver - 19 Nov 1958 aged 68

BIRCHALL, Walter - 29 May 1887 aged 30

BIRD, Miss Sarah - 1 Feb 1902 aged 77
* buried with 5 Waddel family

BLACK, George Morton - 1 Jan 1944 aged 74
BLACK, John Kyron - 4 Sep 1967 aged 58

BLACKLOCK, William - 20 Jan 1895 aged 69 (see photo)
* from Callander, Perthshire

BOBERG, Bessie - 2 May 1934 aged 74

BOLLONS, John Peter - 18 Sep 1929 aged 66

BOWEN, Daniel - 14 Sep 1900 aged 50

BOWERS, Jane Barr - 6 Nov 1906 aged 66
BOWERS, Stephen - 21 March 1903 aged 75

BRADSHAW, Charles - 2 Nov 1909 aged 68
BRADSHAW, Peter Demetrius - 9 Sep 1999 aged 62
BRADSHAW, Thomas - 26 March 1925 aged 50
BRADSHAW, Ellen - 1 Jan 1926 aged 83
* all buried together

BREAYLEY, Alexander Thomas - 28 Nov 1930 aged 53

BROOKES, Wallace Ambercrombie - 19 April 1931 aged 71

BROWN, Henry Hope - 5 Aug 1894 aged 50

BUCKINGHAM, Roa Joan Goodwin (nee Hewitt, formerly Norman)
- 11 Jan 2000 aged 75. Buried with Sydney Thomas Buckingham & Carrie Pretoria 'Tory' McGarry
BUCKINGHAM, Sydney Thomas - 5 April 1992 aged 68

BULLARS, Catherine - 12 Oct 1940 aged 84
BULLARS, John - 19 Feb 1939 aged 88

BURCOMBE, Thomas - 1 Oct 1937 age not found

BURKE, Hannah - 30 Jan 1896 aged 68
BURKE, James - 1 Sep 1906 aged 84
BURKE, Thomas - 7 April 1916 aged 86

BURNETT, Alice - 18 Sep 1961 aged 82

BURROWS, Bessie - 17 Sep 1906 aged 63
BURROW, Nicholas John - 27 July 1903 aged 73

BURT, Gordon David - 28 Nov 1942 aged 14 weeks

BURTENSHAW, Alfred - 19 June 1940 aged 14 weeks
BURTENSHAW, Christina Alice - 22 July 1975 aged 84 (nee Anderson)
* married William Henry in 1919
BURTENSHAW, Clutha - 27 Dec 1944 ..
* Clutha James Burtenshaw (1919-1985), Porter, NZR 27518 WWII, son of William & Christina, worked in Bluff on the railways. The burial here in 1944 is the stillborn son of his & Alma Florence. Clutha James' ashes were taken from Southland, interment unknown
BURTENSHAW, Louisa Winifred - 7 June 1967 aged 88
BURTENSHAW, Margaret Alexandra - 5 Jan 1903 aged 4 months
BURTENSHAW, Shirley - 15 Oct 1949 aged 23
BURTENSHAW, Thomas - 11 Dec 1906 aged 12 weeks
BURTENSHAW, William Henry - 29 Oct 1981 aged 82

BURTON, George - 27 March 1944 aged 70

BUTCHER, Frederick - 29 July 1914 aged 65
Mataura Ensign, 30 July 1914 THE BLUFF FIRE One of the biggest fires that has ever occurred at Bluff for over a decade commenced in the Club Hotel Buildins at midnight on Tuesday. By the fire at Bluff in the Club Hotel buildings in the early hours of Wednesday (29th) morning three lives were lost namely Peter MONSON (55), Fred BUTCHER (66) and John Thomas BROOK (22)
Brook, a Private in the Bluff territorials, was a fireman and lodged at the hotel. He was due at his work in the railway shed at six o'clock and as he did not turn up inquiries were made. Brook had only arrived from Lumsden the previous week to take up his duties at the Bluff. He was a single man, 22 years of age. On the night preceding the fire he arrived at the hotel from a hard day's work and his remark to one of the hotel staff was, "I am dead tired and I am going to have a good sleep." He went straight to his room and from that minute nothing was seen of him again. A careful search of the place failed to reveal any human remains under the bedroom he occupied (room 6) but it is possible that the unfortunate man had groped his way out into the corridor and had been overcome by the heavy smoke.
Monson was an American Swede and had been employed on the barque Irene as ship's carpenter. His charred body was found in a bent-up tangled wreckage of the bedstead (room 15), where he was evidently suffocated in his sleep.
Butcher, the third victim, commonly known as "Blucher", was a well-known identity, an old character of both Invercargill and Bluff, being an ex man-o'-warsman.
There were many heroic actions during the progress of the fire. Two of he maidservants were rescued in the nick of time, one being unconscious with her night clothes on fire. Another became stupefied and was unable to move when a man caught hold of her and carried her down the fire escape. The fire brigade rendered excellent service under trying circumstances

BUTLER, Agnes Blair - 31 Oct 1946 aged 60
BUTLER, Beatrice Victoria - 27 May 1980 aged 82
BUTLER, Charles Blaney - 20 Oct 1929 aged 16
BUTLER, William Patrick - 26 Aug 1972 aged 88

BUTTERFIELD, Alice Louisa - 11 Nov 1953 aged 73
BUTTERFIELD, Gladys Louisa - 25 Oct 1923 aged
BUTTERFIELD, Henry Baden Powell - 23 Aug 1900 aged 3 months
BUTTERFIELD, Henry Benjamin - 27 March 1953 aged 78
BUTTERFIELD, James Joseph - 12 Dec 1955 aged 88
BUTTERFIELD, Jane - 9 Feb 1907 aged 15 hours
BUTTERFIELD, Lilian Evelyn - 1 May 1911 aged 5
BUTTERFIELD, Robert James William - 12 Aug 1915 aged 12

CAIRD, Andrew Banks - 16 May 1940 aged 45

CAITHNESS, Elizabeth - 11 May 1961 aged 72

CALDER, Ann - 22 June 1914 aged 71
CALDER, Arthur - 2 Oct 1936 aged 62
CALDER, Catherine Ann - 8 April 1953 aged 11 months
CALDER, Doris R - 9 Aug 1917 aged 7 months
CALDER, Ernest Alexander - 24 Oct 1967 aged 82
CALDER, Ernest Lewis 'Nobby' 22 April 2001 aged 79
CALDER, Ethel Ravine - 26 Nov 1932 aged 38 (nee Roderique)
* married Ernest Alexander in Dunedin 1916
CALDER, George Allan - 12 Dec 1931 aged 55
CALDER, Hannah Bella - 27 Nov 1934 aged 49
CALDER, James - 1 May 1911 aged 69
CALDER, James - 21 July 1954 aged 73
CALDER, James Alexander - 21 Aug 1920 aged 4
CALDER, Lindsay - 18 Sep 1925 aged 13 months
CALDER, Margaret Straughan - 28 Aug 1920 aged 6 months
CALDER, Marjorie Ann - 10 June 1983 aged 52

CAMERON, Duncan Burns - 16 April 1894 aged 41
CAMERON, Edith Raeburn - 21 April 1955 aged 70
CAMERON, John Mitchell - 13 Dec 1918 aged 6 months
CAMERON, John - 23 May 1945 aged 74
CAMERON, Minnie - 12 Aug 1905 aged 2 days

CAMPBELL, Clara - 30 Jan 1916 aged 40
CAMPBELL, George Alexander McDonald - 8 Nov 1904 aged 5 months
CAMPBELL, Herbert Arthur John - 9 April 1922 aged 9
CAMPBELL, Herbert W - 22 Feb 1939 aged 62
CAMPBELL, Insell - 5 May 1917 aged 2 weeks
CAMPBELL, Mary - 22 March 1938 aged 80
CAMPBELL, Minnie Syliva - 24 Aug 1932 aged 46
CAMPBELL, Norah Ann - 18 Sep 1963 aged 81
CAMPBELL, Robert - 28 April 1913 aged 41
CAMPBELL, William - 18 Aug 1929 aged 59

CANTRICK, John - 11 Dec 1896 aged 50
CANTRICK, Madeline - 23 April 1976 aged 89
CANTRICK, Mary - 18 Feb 1902 aged 41
CANTRICK, Walter - 2 Feb 1903 aged 84

CHAPMAN, Elaine Isabella - 11 April 1910 aged 6

CHARLESTON, Alexander - 27 May 1937 aged 73
CHARLESTON, James - 12 Jan 1889 aged 70
CHARLESTON, James - 30 June 1942 aged 83
CHARLESTON, Margaret - 28 June 1905 aged 84
CHARLESTON, Mary - 4 June 1938 aged 65

CHESHIRE, William Colin - 27 Dec 1945 aged 42

CHEYNE, Alexander - 1 Oct 1945 aged 71
CHEYNE, Isabella Thomson - 16 Dec 1959 aged 77

CHISHOLM, Marie Margaret - 2 Oct 1944 aged 24 hours

CHRISTIE, Agnes - 16 Nov 1927 aged 71

CHURCHOUSE, Albert Edward - 31 Oct 1899 aged 27

CLARE, Anne Alexa - 26 April 1975 aged 94
CLARE, Emily - 16 Nov 1906 aged 70
CLARE, Joshua - 23 Feb 1897 aged 75
CLARE, Walter McNeil - 13 Oct 1963 aged 84

CLARK, Alexander - 23 Aug 1888 aged 69
CLARK, Catherine - 2 Jan 1906 aged 79
CLARK, James - 23 May 1883 aged 45
* James Clark was born Edward McGraw. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, he emigrated to Otago c1857-1862. Edward married Harriett Jubber in Dunedin in 1863. After the death of their son John in 1866 Harriet left Edward to go back home to her parents. While she was there she found out she was pregnant with Margaret and her parents sent her back to NZ. Around this time, for some reason, Edward McGraw changed his name to James Clark. He then started working for the Marine Department as a Lighthouse Keeper and all records from then onwards are under the name of James Clark. He was first appointed to the Lighthouse Service on 1 May 1867 as a Probational Assistant Lighthouse Keeper at Taiaroa Heads.
He later served at the Nuggets and then Dog Island until his death by a fall down Dog Island Lighthouse, 23 May 1883.

CLEAVE, George Brian - 14 June 1957 aged 71
CLEAVE, James Henry - 17 May 1960 aged 91
CLEAVE, Mary Louisa - 2 Nov 1966 aged 77

CLEAVER, Carl Frederick - 21 Jan 1904 aged 39

COBBETT, William H - 30 May 1894 aged 20
Western Star, 2 June 1894
On Wednesday about 1.30pm, a body was observed floating close to the wharf at the eastern end at the Bluff. Messrs F. Fordham, A. Beaton and Smith took a boat and brought it ashore, when it was found to be that of the young lad Cobbett, who was supposed to have deserted from the barque Lochnagar during her recent stay at port. He had acted as a cabin boy and was a smart young fellow, fairly well educated, steady and popular among his shipmates. As he had left letters for London in his berth, also clothes &x., his shipmates thought he had probably fallen overboard. Captain Gasson thought he had deserted and, after acquainting the police, wrote him off the articles as having deserted. The body was much decomposed and it seems that the skull was fractured across the crown from side to side, indicating that deceased when falling overboard must have struck something. The night was very dark when he was lost and it is supposed that he walked over the wharf when returning to the ship. He was rather shortsighted and this may have had a good deal to do with the accident which caused his death. It is understood he has a mother living in London and that he was her only son.

COBBITH, Ellen - 8 Oct 1886 aged 10 days
COBBITH, James - 16 April 1884 aged 4 months

COFFEY, Edward - 30 Jan 1880 aged 42

CONDREN, Carmen Louisa - 4 Jan 1961 aged 39

CONNELLY, Catherine Agnes - 9 July 1956 aged 87

CONNOR, Charles - 9 March 1904 aged 27

CONWAY, David/Davis - 31 Dec 1916 aged 76
CONWAY, John David - 6 Dec 1918 aged 30
CONWAY, Margaret May - 17 June 1935 aged74
CONWAY, Thomas Henry - 12 March 1915 aged 20

COOPER, Albert Owen - 13 Aug 1903 aged 2 months
COOPER, George Owen - 4 May 1916 aged 68
COOPER, Margaret Orminston - 18 Dec 1946 aged 85
COOPER, Sarah - 14 Nov 1938 aged 83
COOPER, Thomas - 15 July 1913 aged 66
COOPER, William Owen - 23 Oct 1897 aged 6

COOTE, Ivy Irene - 19 Nov 1954 aged 53

CORLETT, Robert - 8 April 1897 aged 56

COTTER, Slyvester Miles - 26 May 1908 aged 40

COUPAR, George Greig - 12 May 1915 aged 58
COUPAR, James Stuart Haereroa - 23 Jan 1934 aged 83
COUPAR, Mrs Nancy - 3 Sep 1937 aged 72
COUPAR, Stewart Anglem Bruce - 27 March 1944 aged 43

CUFF, Eileen - 21 Nov 1906 aged 1

CULLEN, James - 31 March 1945 aged 51

CULLING, Coral Patricia - 20 Dec 1940 aged 4
CULLING, Sidney George - 15 May 1954 aged 59
* married Laura Emily Haywood in 1932

CUNNINGHAM, Maud Anderson - aged 10 weeks
CUNNINGHAM, Ruth - aged 16 months

CURWOOD, Francis Henry - 14 Oct 1896 aged 3 weeks
CURWOOD, William - 23 Sep 1896 aged 12 hours

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PHOTO
William Blacklock (1825-1895)
Plot 145, Block 5, General
Sacred to the memory Of
William Blacklock
Native of Callander, Perth-shire Scotland
Who died 20 Jan 1895 Aged 69 years