Burials at BOLTON Street Cemetery, Wellington
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* any born still or unknown names are not listed here
* any date written 1 Jan 1840 usually indicates unknown date
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U names 1873 - 1950
there are 67 'Unknown' surnames on the database - they are not included here

• UNDERHAY James 27 Nov 1873 aged 38

• UNDERWOOD, Julia 20 Aug 1876 aged 13 months
• UNDERWOOD, Margaret Hannah (nee Dockery) 3 Sep 1910 aged 79
Evening Post, 3 Sep 1910 UNDERWOOD - At her residence, 81 Dock street, Margaret Hannah, relict of Captain Wm. Underwood, and mother-in-law of the late Geo. F. Harris. Her end was peace. *One of the first settlers in Wellington has just passed away in the person of Mrs Underwood, widow of the late Captain Underwood. She arrived in Wellington in May 1842 in the ship London with her parents, Mr and Mrs Samuel Dockery, and her birthplace was Leeds. The passengers were carried ashore at Pipitea Point and were met by a crowd of natives, whose antics filled the trembling women and children terror. As no houses were available, the intending settlers had to build shelters of ti-tree and fern, covered with blankets. During the native troubles she was left with the wives and families of other settlers in a destitute condition in Wellington, all the men folk having gone to the front. Friendly Maori gave shellfish and kumaras to those the settler-soldiers had left behind, and so kept them from absolute starvation. The late Mrs Underwood first married Mr Jas. Carleton (in 1850) of the 65th Regiment, but he was drowned when crossing over the Marlborough to settle there. She then married Captain Underwood (in 1855), and resided in various parts of New Zealand. Her survivors are her grandsons, Messrs George Frederick and Victor Harris, two grand-daughters, and one great-grand-daughter, Mrs G. F. Harris (her daughter Sarah Jane nee Carleton), died some years ago

• UPHAM, Arthur Edward 10 Nov 1891 aged 21
• UPHAM, Charles Taylor 31 Oct 1887 aged 21
.. Charles dies in peculiar circumstances
• UPHAM, Frank Rangatira Griffiths 31 Oct 1882 aged 7
• UPHAM, Rosetta (nee Wedgwood) 21 May 1922 aged 83
• UPHAM, Winifred Louisa Rose 19 Nov 1943 aged 76

• UPTON, Ada Louise 4 Feb 1880 aged 2
• UPTON, Agnes McKinnon (nee McIntyre) 5 May 1950 aged 76

• URE, James John 23 Jan 1888 aged ?

• URWIN, Alfred Adolphus Thomas Adolphus, aka 'Thomas Alfred' 8 Jan 1911 aged 70
. on the database under his aka Thomas Alfred (go to his link). Born Islington London 29 Nov 1839 to Thomas Urwin & Anne Marsh. He was in Hawera during the Maori War, moving to Wellington in 1860. He married Eliza Harriet Parsons (1844-1938) in Rockhampton, Queensland. They had 12 children (see at link)
NZ Times, 8 Jan 1911 URWIN - At his late residence, Glenlora' Pine street, Wellington, Thomas Adolphus Urwin, after a long and patient illness, passed peacefully away on Sunday, 8th instant; aged 71 years.
* Mr T. A. Urwin. A gap in the ranks of local veterans has been made by the death of Mr T. A. Urwin, vice-president of the New Zealand Veterans' Association. He joined the Navy as a boy in 1853. In 1854 he was on board H.M.S. Volage and was present at the taking of the Russian fortress of Bomarsund and the blockade of Kronstadt. In 1855, when the fleet operating in the Baltic returned to England, Queen Victoria received officers and crew at Buckingham Palace and of that occasion Mr Urwin had the most pleasant recollections. In 1856 he was ordered out to the Australian station in the frigate Iris. In 1857 this vessel took part in a punitive expedition to Tanna in the New Hebrides, when the captain and mate were murdered by the natives. The Iris was ordered to New Zealand in consequence of the menacing attitude of the Maori. Some skirmishing took place in the neighbourhood of New Plymouth and in 1860 on the practical conclusion of the trouble, Mr Urwin, with the rest of the Iris's company, was ordered Home. Subsequently he returned and settled in Wellington and remained here ever since. He built the Metropolitan Hotel and also put up the Theatre Royal Hotel, where the Club Hotel now stands and he was connected with the management of other hotels in the city.
The deceased left four sons and five daughters. One of the sons was drowned twenty-five years ago in Wellington Harbour. The late Mr Urwin will be buried in the Bolton-street cemetery tomorrow, where so many veterans lie and also the son of deceased who was drowned. The body will be borne to the grave on a gun carriage. Veterans will attend the service, which will be conducted by Revs D. C. Bates and A. M. Johnson.
Death of a War Veteran. Story of an eventful life, service in the Russian and Maori Wars .. Mr Thomas A. Urwin, vice-president of the New Zealand Veterans' Association, died at his residence, Pirie street, at an early hour yesterday morning, after a long illness. By his death there is removed from the ranks of the fast fading band of veterans one who saw some stirring times in the Baltic Sea during the Russian war, in Taranaki during the Maori troubles and in other parts of the world .. (go to link)
SEE ALSO: the HOTELS of Thomas URWIN
• URWIN, Alfred Adolphus 14 February 1885 aged 18
. 1st born of Alfred & Eliza, Alfred drowned off Oriental Bay
• URWIN, Eliza Harriet (nee Parsons) 7 May 1938 aged 84
. wife of Alfred Adolphus & mother of 12
• URWIN, Reginald William 29 Oct 1942 aged 21
. MEMORIAL ONLY - killed on air operations WWII in the Netherlands with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is buried Row D Grave 15, Flushing (Vlissingen) Northern Cemetery, Zeeland, Netherlands.

PHOTO
plot 5103, Bolton Street Cemetery
last resting place of:
Alfred Adolphus Urwin in 1911
* his son Alfred in 1885
* his wife Eliza in 1938
photographed 1960s by City Sexton, Percival James Edward Shotter, (1912-1989), prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway