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Residents OLD GORGE cemetery, Woodville, Manawatu

Journal by ngairedith

WOODVILLE, once known as The Junction, is a small town in the southern North Island of New Zealand, 75km north of Masterton and 25km east of Palmerston North. Once a timber milling town in the 'Seventy Mile Bush' which extended along the eastern side of the Tararua and Ruahine Ranges. As farmland was settled and cleared, a number of small dairy factories were established to process the supply of milk for consumption as milk, cheese or other dairy products. As recently as the mid-1980s the dairy factory at the western end of Woodville, on State Highway 2 heading towards the Manawatu Gorge, operated a cheese processing line and a 'factory shop' selling dairy produce direct to the public. A thriving sheep and beef economy at one stage supported a number of local trucking firms and carriers, among them Gunn Transport and Hawkes Bay Farmers Transport, both of which were based at the now-derelict site at the corner of State Highway 2 & Vogel Street and the Wairarapa bypass. These business were only economic in the pre-deregulated transport industry that existed prior to the Rogernomics reforms of the Lange Labour Government elected in 1984. With the lifting of distance restrictions (vehicles over a certain weight were at one stage restricted to travelling only 150km from their geographic base) Woodville's role as a transport hub quickly fell away. In the 2006 census 1,398 people were resident in Woodville. In June 2023 the number was 1,680.


The following description of Woodville was written c1900
Woodville is situated 95 miles from Napier and 105 miles from Wellington on the main line of railway and is 3 miles distant from the Manawatu Gorge. It was formerly a part of the Seventy-mile Bush, but is now a prosperous dairying settlement, with thriving industries established. Woodville is also an important central railway junction as it connects the East and West Coast railroads. The country south of Woodville is flat for some miles, but on all other sides the hills rise close to the town.

An undertaker of Woodville early 1900s was
Ernest Roden Grinlinton

Dedication to the district's fallen soldiers on Woodville War Memorial
. WWI . 1914-1918 Ambrose, Amundsen, Arrow, Bean, Bondi, Braithwaite, Brearton, Burbush(2), Cairns, Cammock, Christiansen, Clulow, Coss, Crump, Curry, Davie, Dixon, Ebbett, Elwood, Gardner, Greaves, Greenaway, Hambling, Hares, Harris(2), Hatwell, Haughie, Herrick, Hiatt, Hoare, Hooper, Horne, Hughes, Jensen(3), Jones, Jund, Laitila, Lehndorf, Loader, Lowen, Lynch, McClymont, McKay, McMillan, Maisey, Maloney, Mann, Milne, Munro(2), Nutsey, O'Leary, Oliver, Palmer(2), Parker, Pattibow, Perfect(3), Power, Robinson(3), Rosenfeldt, Ramsden, Ruddick, Sinclair, Sowerby, Stevens, Swinburne, Sykes, Templeman, Traynor, Troup, Waite, Wigzell
. WWII . 1939-1945 Ansin, Birchall, Bolton, Bryson, Burlace, Cheyne, Court, Crozier(2), Cullen, Hickson(2), Herion, McKinlay, Orme, Patterson, Pickering, Redwood, Schaw, Skinner, Smith, Toogood, Voss, Warnock(2), Williams

Searchable Database of cemeteries in the district: Alfredton Rd, Eketahuna (not the memorial) . Alfredton Rd, Eketahuna Memorial . Herbertville . Kaitawa, Pahiatua . Kumeroa, Woodville . Lawn Eketahuna - Marchant St, Eketahuna . Lawn Woodville, Pinfold Rd Woodville . Mangaoranga, Eketahuna . Mangatianoka, Pahiatua . Mangatera, Dannevirke . Newman, Eketahuna . Norsewood . Old Gorge, Woodville . Ormondville . Pongaroa . RSA Woodville . Settlers, Dannevirke . Weber

SURNAMES buried OLD GORGE cemetery WOODVILLE (to edit date at end)
from April 1879 Hannah Sowry (Strother)
to July 2023 Kenneth Albert Harding

end total will include any double-ups
A'COURT to AYRTON (37)

BADGER to BUTLER (169)

CAIRNS to CURTIS (129)

DANIEL to DUNFORD (57)

EADES to EVERNDEN (27)

FALCONER to FURNISS (43)

GALBRAITH to GUILLUM-SCOTT (98)

HAIGH to HUTCHINSON (202)

IBBETSON to ISLES (8)

JACKSON to JUDD (39)

KAPPELY to KYLE (51)

LACEY to LYONS (61)

MABEY to MUSCATT (212)

NELSON to NORTHWAY (26)

OGBORNE - OXENHAM (51)

PALLANT to PURCHEL (100)

QUIGAN (1)

RABONE to RYLAND (85)

SANDLING to SYMONDS (126)

TANNER to TYERMAN (66)

UPSTON (4)

VEALE to VOSS (4)

WADE to WYMAN (101)


updated 18.9.2023 . total 1703
created 3.5.2007

Google Map Location of Old Gorge cemetery, nestled among beautiful old oak trees, at the bottom of the Ruahine Range. Photo kindly taken by Find A Grave contributor 47985253 Jus (Julia Foote) 31 Dec 2015

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