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


CAIN Elizabeth Ann - 06-09-1946

CAIRNS Barbara Jeanette - 28-09-1940
CAIRNS Norman Crozier - 31-03-1948

CAISLEY Catherine - 01-05-1947

CALDWELL William Charles - 03-11-1934

CAMPBELL Alexander - 29-01-1948
CAMPBELL Charles Frederick - 05-07-1938
CAMPBELL Hector Joseph - 17-01-1950
CAMPBELL Mary - 17-09-1933
CAMPBELL Richard - 06-10-1929
CAMPBELL Samuel Sidney - 1931

CANNING Lilian Reeve - 14-08-1952
CANNING Robert Winlo Donald - 01-06-1929

CAPPER William Thomas - 10-11-1944

CAREY George - 4-08-1949
CAREY Vera Minnie - 30-07-1947

CARMICHAEL William Henry - 23-06-1941

CARPENTER Baby ?

CARR Joseph - 25-12-1933
CARR Maria - 06-06-1936

CARTER Donnabelle - 16-10-1950
CARTER Sylvia Teresa - 29-07-1952

CASSIDY Annie - 09-07-1929

CASSIN Baby - 23-09-1943

CAULFIELD Clifford Stanley - 01-07-1946

CAVANAGH Jean Christina - 27-07-1941
CAVANAGH William Thomas - 24-05-1946

CAVERHILL Rodney Couper - 19-01-1939

CHADWICK Ann - 20-08-1930
CHADWICK Geraldine - 03-12-1937

CHAFFER Marie Clementian - 06-03-1946

CHAMBERLAIN Charles Nelson - 06-03-1951

CHAMBERS Alan Ward - 27-01-1943
CHAMBERS Baby - 21-05-1949
CHAMBERS Oswald - 01-04-1948

CHAPMAN Baby - 21-12-1949

CHARLETON John Robson - 17-04-1942

CHRISTENSEN Christen Hansen -31-08-1949

CHRISTIE Roger Gavin - 21-12-1937

CHUBBIN-MOORE Geoffrey Brian - 26-03-1953

CLADAN Michael - 01-01-1939

CLANCEY Baby - 19-02-1938

CLAPHAM Maude Emily - 11-08-1952

CLARK Charles Thorpe - 27-06-1943
CLARK Hamilton Joffre- 19-09-1940
CLARK Ian Douglas - 10-05-1934
CLARK Ivan Albert Charles - 04-09-1945
CLARK Margaret - 10-10-1945
CLARK Roy Henry James - 27-12-1940

CLARKE Harry - 20-09-1951
CLARKE Moana - 22-08-1951

CLARKEN Alice - 19-05-1940

CLAVIS Amy Jane - 13-09-1951

CLEAVER Les Allen - 02-06-1936

CLEGG John Bailey - 15-06-1951

CLELAND Robert Henry - 15-01-1949

CLEMENTS Albert Philip - 16-01-1933

CLOUGHER Constance Mary - 05-01-1949

COBURN Florence - 19-10-1944

COCKBURN Baby - 26-11-1940

COE Patrick - 28-03-1951

COFFIN Harriet Evelyn - 19-02-1951

COLE Rita - 09-08-1937

COLEBROOK George - 11-07-1932
COLEBROOK Mary - 16-03-1940

COLLARD John Henry Davis - 04-12-1951

COLLINS George William - 07-10-1949

COMISKEY Emma Arnott Grainger - 09-02-1952

CONN Charles Edwin - 13-05-1949
CONN George Thomas - 14-01-1946

CONNELL Grace Ethel - 30-03-1938

COOK Jessie - 17-02-1951

COOKE Frederick Victor - 25-03-1939

COOPER Arthur Ernest - 22-11-1937

COOPER-SMITH Elizabeth - 06-02-1931

COPPELL John Henry - 25-05-1953

CORBETT Amelia Emma Effie - 15-06-1945
CORBETT William Allen - 26-11-1939

CORCORAN Ellen - 02-06-1934

CORNEY Roger John - 14-10-1949

CORNTHWAITE Edith Thelma - 14-01-1931

CORRIE Joseph Hope - 25-05-1942

COSTELLO Daniel Gill - 25-10-1942

COULL Cedric Barry - 14-04-1941

COUTTS Edith Mary - 14-06-1953
COUTTS James - 23-04-1940

COWAN Baby - 09-10-1941
COWAN Percival - 02-06-1944
COWAN Violet Mary - 19-08-1949

COX Norman James - 15-05-1950
COX Sarah Ann - 29-05-1948
COX William Lomas - 28-06-1945

CRABER Ernest William - 19-07-1941

CRADDOCK Tom - 14-08-1947

CRADWICK Baby - 23-12-1939

CRAPP Sidney John - 23-07-1943

CRAWFORD Barry Ivan - 22-05-1940

CREEKE George Tini - 09-02-1945
CREEKE Joseph Apanui - 28-12-1948
CREEKE Pauline - 09-07-1950
CREEKE Toni - 13-09-1942
CREEKE William Frederick George - 03-11-1945

CREMER Robert William - 07-07-1941

CRIBB Tessa Ruth - 26-07-1943

CRITCHLEY Joseph - 13-01-1951

CROON Alice Helen - 16-02-1946

CROXTON Walter John - 25-08-1948

CROZIER Donald Kingsley - 17-11-1945

CRUSE Tasman Stanley - 20-12-1947

CUMMINGS Timothy James - 01-11-1944
CUMMINGS Winifred - 13-10-1952

CURRAH Ernest Albert - 24-12-1947

CURRIE Abigail - 16-05-1949

CURTIS Baby - 03-01-1947

CUTLER Frederick Bertram - 25-12-1938

DALLAS Baby - 11-11-1944

DARLEY Francis Mary- 25-02-1951

DAVIES Edward Horace - 11-02-1938
DAVIES Gordon Middlecott - 07-04-1933
DAVIES Joseph - 22-05-1940
DAVIES Lena - 24-01-1952
DAVIES Thomas - 09-09-1943

DAWSON Duncan Campbell - 09-08-1930
DAWSON Miriam Isabella - 18-02-1945
DAWSON Norman Wilmot - 18-11-1950

DELAHUNTY Baby - 04-08-1932
DELAHUNTY Grant Ernest - 17-08-1951

DENHAM David - 18-03-1948

DENT Henry Charles George - 26-08-1936

DENTON Henry Robert - 26-02-1946

DERECOURT Gertrude Caroline - 05-10-1945

DEVINE Kathleen Margaret - 27-12-1949

DICKIE Margaret Jane - 03-08-1943

DINES Kathleen - 17-10-1936

DITTMER Margaret Rose - 06-02-1948

DOCKRAY John George - 20-05-1943

DODD Francis Arthur - 26-06-1933

DODUNSKI Robert Anton - 03-07-1950

DOHERTY Annie Melbourne - 03-02-1929

DONALD Frances - 21-10-1940

DONALDSON Allan Lamb - 01-06-1942
DONALDSON Margaret Ann - 28-08-1950

DONCASTER Arthur Herbert - 12-06-1933

DONEY Ethel Mary - 24-09-1942

DONNELLY Peter - 06-02-1932

DONNER Jules Dunlop - 19-10-1949

DONOVAN Janice Mary - 07-04-1952

DOOLAN Baby - ?
DOOLAN Margaret - 04-06-1942

DORAN Edward Frank - 24-12-1939
DORAN Edward James - 03-09-1946
DORAN Gail Marion - 03-07-1949
DORAN Kay - 09-08-1948

DOWDS William - 07-03-1948

DOWLING Thomas Patrick - 21-12-1947

DOWNARD Justina - 04-05-1947

DREDGE James - 27-07-1950

DRONSFIELD George - 06-06-1947

DUCKER Gertrude Mary - 09-05-1939

DUDSON John Phillip - 02-06-1948

DUFF Stanley Brook - 03-11-1947

DUNDERDALE Thomas Bower - 11-12-1938

DUNNE John - 19-09-1943

DUNPHY Mary - 27-12-1939
DUNPHY Patrick - 29-08-1935

DURNEY Bertrand Joseph - 24-07-1951

DURRANCE Frederick Charles - 05-01-1953

DYSART Elizabeth Jane - 29-09-1946