WHAKATANE is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region, in the North Island of New Zealand. Maori pa (Maori fortified village) sites in the area date back to the first Polynesian settlements, estimated to have been around 1200 AD. According to Maori tradition Toi-te-huatahi, later known as Toi-kai-rakau, landed at Whakatane about 1150 AD in search of his grandson Whatonga. Failing to find Whatonga, he settled in the locality and built a pa on the highest point of the headland now called Whakatane Heads, overlooking the present town.
Some 200 years later the Mataatua waka landed at Whakatane


the following list was taken from
Whakatane Burial Records

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ADAMS to BYRNE .. CAIN to DYSART

EAGLE to GUSH .. HAARE to JONES

KA to LYONS .. MAAKA to MYER

NAHAU to OXENHAM .. PAIGE to QUINN

RAE to RUSSELL .. SALMON to TYSSEN .. UPTON to YOUNG


ADAMS Les John - 03-09-1936

ADCOCK Louise May - 18-02-1944

ADDISON Edward Swinghurst - 04-04-1951
ADDISON Elizabeth - 21-12-1946
ADDISON William Henry - 25-09-1951

AGER George - 10-08-1952

AGNEW Roger Colin - 23-04-1948

ALEXANDER Reginald Horatio A - 21-05-1938

ALLEN Bruce - 27-02-1953
ALLEN David - 07-12-1947
ALLEN Lilian Isabell - 02-06-1948
ALLEN Victor Charles - 18-02-1944
ALLEN Wallace Graham - 30-04-1931

ALLISON Hilda - 12-03-1930
ALLISON William - 09-05-1949

ANDERSON David - 05-02-1951
ANDERSON Ethel Eileen - 07-04-1946
ANDERSON Laurence John - 03-03-1947
ANDERSON Lilian Dorice - 12-09-1942
ANDERSON Marie - 13-09-1936
ANDERSON Mary - 03-10-1940
ANDERSON Mrs - 15-02-1944
ANDERSON Orini Rosa - 06-06-1948
ANDERSON Peter - 12-04-1944
ANDERSON Walter William - 15-05-1953
ANDERSON William Henry - 26-02-1952

ANGEL Samuel George - 06-08-1949

ANSELL George Alfred - 09-10-1940
ANSELL William James - 17-10-1951

APIATA Molly - 30-10-1929

APPLEBY Alice Rubina Muriel - 12-02-1946

APPLETON Jesse Joseph - 26-04-1938

ARMSTRONG Ernest - 27-08-1949
ARMSTRONG Herbert Lionel - 20-12-1947

ARNEL Ernest Reginald - 12-11-1952
ARNEL Sarah Annie - 06-02-1938

ARRES John - 07-08-1939

ASHMAN Minnie Freeman - 26-01-1951

ASHWORTH Anne Christina - 13-08-1946

ASSINK Peter Cornelius - 03-12-1951
ASSINK Pollianna - 04-12-1951

ATA Wairemana - 21-06-1951

ATKINSON Alfred William - 16-01-1940
ATKINSON Hilda Dora - 11-06-1941
ATKINSON Kenneth Paul - 29-10-1949

ATTWOOD John William - 08-06-1937

AULT Ernest William - 10-01-1951

AUSTEN Kenneth Edward - 11-01-1950

BAGULEY Baby - 26-06-1936

BAICH Hubert Frances - 22-01-1953

BAIN John - 14-02-1931

BAIRD Christine Glenys - 30-09-1948

BAKER Mrs - 24-01-1950
BAKER William Robert - 20-05-1929

BALL Allan Frederick - 17-12-1931
BALL George Dorset - 06-12-1930
BALL Harriet Adelaide - 31-03-1930
BALL James Dorset - 13-06-1936
BALL William Charles - 29-03-1939

BALLAND Patricia Ann - ?

BARLEY John - 05-05-1942

BARTLETT Baby - 27-11-1951

BARTLEY Arthur Edward - 15-10-1940
BARTLEY Fay - 20-01-1941

BATEMAN Rosalind - 25-05-1951

BAXTER Evan Sutherland - 28-04-1943
BAXTER William James - 01-01-1947

BEAUCHANAN Janet ? - 12-08-1936

BELL Baby - 23-07-1931
BELL Charles - 20-10-1944
BELL Edwin Joseph - 06-04-1949

BENNET Estella Eugenie - 28-01-1931

BENSON Brian William - 05-04-1934

BENTLEY John - 13-11-1936

BENTON Albert - 18-12-1934

BETTELHEIM Raymond Walter - 02-01-1943

BEUCHAMP Ieo Iawa Hoani - 01-01-1936

BEVAN George Frederick - 28-11-1949

BIDDLE Baby - 01-10-1943
BIDDLE Benjamin - 10-03-1933
BIDDLE Edward - 30-12-1946
BIDDLE Maud Lucy - 26-08-1951
BIDDLE Robert - 13-11-1945

BIGWOOD Mary Anne Marlborough - 05-04-1945

BIRD William - 24-07-1939

BISHOP I - 29-05-1941

BLACK Annie - 20-08-1928
BLACK Malcolm - 09-03-1942
BLACK Mary - 06-09-1931

BLANK Albert - 28-01-1937

BLUETT Baby - 07-07-1931
BLUETT Kiri - 16-11-1938
BLUETT Mirura - 11-10-1929

BOASE William Clarke - 26-01-1930

BODRICK Ernest - 06-02-1946

BONIFACE John William - 08-05-1931

BONNER Arthur - 25-03-1950

BOON Josephiah Wedgewood - 15-09-1942
BOON Sydney Wedgwood - 17-09-1936

BOOTH Rita Emily - 19-02-1953

BOOTHMAN James - 07-04-1951

BORCK Cavel - 16-05-1948

BOWICK David - 27-06-1931

BOYNTON Baby Julian - 24-11-1940
BOYNTON Charles Laurence - 22-08-1941
BOYNTON Laurence William - 19-08-1939

BRABANT Bernadine Mary Margaret - 08-09-1948
BRABANT Diana Ruth - 06-05-1947
BRABANT George Alexander - 12-10-1946
BRABANT Hilda Maude - 03-08-1943

BRADY Benjamin Allen Foster - 02-08-1948
BRADY Caroline Alice - 08-12-1949

BREKKE Ludolph - 15-12-1952

BRIDGER Ada Ethel - 14-02-1948
BRIDGER Arthur Edgar - 11-07-1945
BRIDGER Percy - 15-07-1949
BRIDGER Winifred Ethel - 31-10-1934

BRITTEN Francis Allen - 19-03-1941
BRITTEN James Hunter - 08-08-1934

BRIZZLE William Paul - 09-11-1942

BROADMORE Ernest - 02-09-1950
BROADMORE Robert Urban - 11-05-1944

BRODRICK Mrs - 15-03-1940

BROOKE Elizabeth Ann - 19-01-1943
BROOKE Robert Alan - 15-04-1943

BROSNAHAN Leslie Norman - 19-08-1942

BROWN Charles Joseph - 17-01-1938
BROWN Frank Earl - 24-01-1936
BROWN John - 02-07-1941
BROWN May - 17-10-1935
BROWN Rosetta - 16-10-1950
BROWN Sarah Jean - 23-08-1934
BROWN William Graham - 23-11-1946

BROWNE Margaret Isabella - 31-07-1953
BROWNE William Barry - 24-07-1941

BRUNTON Ethel - 01-09-1940

BRYENTON Annie - 03-06-1952

BRYERS Maria - 10-06-1953

BUDHIA Chham - 21-05-1930

BULL Gladys Grace - 06-05-1953
BULL Henry Arthur - 15-09-1948

BULLIVANT Percy Christopher - 06-01-1929

BULLOT Edward Eugene Leonard - 15-06-1952

BUNN John - 02-09-1942

BUNYAN Gillian Dawn - 13-07-1933

BURGESS Annie - 06-03-1934

BURNS Miss - 22-06-1929

BURT Annie Maria - 01-07-1934
BURT Frederick James - 24-05-1947
BURT Harry William - 17-11-1945
BURT Margaret - 09-05-1938
BURT Sidney Holmes - 13-06-1947

BUSH James Charles - 09-01-1937
BUSH Walter John - 06-04-1942

BUTLER Baby - 15-05-1934
BUTLER Colin Francis - 10-01-1940
BUTLER Evelyn Mary - 13-03-1949
BUTLER Neil Rundle - 30-01-1944

BUTTERWORTH ? - 14-08-1936

BUTTWEL Rosina Harriet - 05-03-1940

BYRNE Jessie McCusher - 11-07-1946