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2025 AGM and speaker David Watt – 3 June 2025
- Karori Historical Society
- Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Business Supper will be served after the meeting. If you are keen to help run the Society and plan future activities and events, so are willing to join our Committee, please contact Adrian […]
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George Snaddon
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- George Snaddon was born in 1860 in Sauchie, Clackmannan in Scotland. After the death of his father Paul in 1880 he and his siblings lived with his married brother’s family....
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Our next meeting – 4 March 2025
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- Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 4 March 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome! Clare Gleeson – Alfred Buxton and His Gardens Alfred Buxton is the father of landscaping in New Zealand. From 1900 to the mid-1940s, his company designed over 350 private and […]
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John Gammell
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John was a graduate of London University and achieved special distinction in classics and Hebrew. At New College he came under the influence of one or two professors who held...
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Phoebe Myrtle Love
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Phoebe was born in 1870 on Mana Island, the daughter of Cornelius Fisher and his wife Elizabeth (nee Edwards). Her parents were married at Wellington in 1855 a year after...
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Sarah Hagan
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Sarah Hagan was born in 1873 in Wellington. Her mother Elizabeth Fisher née Edwards had been married to Cornelius Fisher, and had eight children with him, and they seperated around...
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Duncan Munro
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- In early February, we were happy to help a couple visiting from Scotland who were searching for the plot of a great uncle, Duncan Munro. With a bit of team...
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Emily Wise
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Emily was born in Wallingford, Berkshire, England in 1822. In 1850 she married Alfred Wise in Oxford. Alfred was a journeyman carpenter. They had five children, the younger three being...
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Thomas Holly
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Thomas Edward Holly / Holley Thomas was born in 1879 in Kensington, London. His father Henry was a hydraulic machinist who worked for Great Western Railway. Thomas was first employed...
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Susannah Starr
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Susannah was born in 1857 in Enfield, Middlesex, England. She was the daughter of John James & Susannah Deadman (nee Waterman). John worked as a labourer and later a gunmaker,...
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John Yule
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John died in 1899, aged 92, at the residence of Mrs Phelps in Webb Street. He had lodged with her for more than 25 years and received every kindness and...
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Sydney Christmas
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Sydney Alderton Christmas was born in Timaru in 1879. His parents were John (Jack) Christmas and his wife Annie nee Woods. He was one of six Christmas children. In 1907...
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Wiremu Tamati & Hana Te Wera
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- He Whakamaharatanga Tenei Mo Tamati Wiremu Te Wera (1824-1903) Hana Te Awhitu Te Wera (1831-1923) Tamati and Hana were one of the last Māori living in Te Aro Pa. They...
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John & Alice Merry
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1851. His parents were John and Harriett (nee Smith). He married Alice Powell, a native of Truro, England in 1880 in Wellington, New...
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John Tree
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John Bolton Tree was born in Kent, England on 5th February 1876. His parents were James and Elizabeth Tree (nee Bolton). John and Elizabeth arrived in New Zealand on the...
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Philip Angel
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Philip Angel, a fireman aged 23, was found very unwell in Victoria Reserve off Pirie Street on 14th January 1914. On the morning of 14th January 1914, Miss McLean heard...
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Florence Carroll
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Florence Marian Capper was born in 1847 in Brixton, London, England. Her parents were John Henry and Mary Ann Capper (nee Wilson). John Capper worked as a stockbroker, but he...
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Houghton Family
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- There are two memorials placed against the Underwood mausoleum that originally marked Houghton family graves at Bolton Street Cemetery. The headstone attached to the wall is for John Houghton, born […]
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Matthew Wilkins
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Matthew was born in Somerset, England in 1824. He arrived in Wellington on the S.S. Arab in 1841 with his parents and siblings. In 1864 he married the widowed Janet […]
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Hannah Otten
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Hannah was born in 1808 in West Teignmouth, Devon, England. In 1848 she married Johann Otten in Whitechapel, London. This was her second marriage, her first husband was Mr Parkhouse. […]
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Helena Upchurch
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Helena was the eldest daughter of John James Boyd and his wife Ann Elizabeth (nee Barker). John was a successful builder based in Newtown. In 1898 at the age of […]
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John & Sophy Rothe
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Johan Gottlob August Rothe (aka John Rothe) arrived in New Zealand from Germany in the early 1880s. He married Sophia Maria Christina Rose (aka Sophy) in 1882. The groom was […]
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John Chaney
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John Alfred Chaney married Nicoline (Lena) Petersen in 1887 in Wellington. He was 21 and she was 17. Lena arrived in New Zealand in 1873, aged 3. She came from […]
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Sarah Yeo (Tot) & Elizabeth Clifford
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Sarah was the first interment in this plot. She was the daughter of George Clifford and his wife Elizabeth (nee Clarke). She was born in 1875 in Waitara. In 1896 […]
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Arthur Ballinger
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- one of the best rifle shots New Zealand has ever produced Arthur Samuel Ballinger was born in 1860, in Melbourne, Australia. He was the son of Joseph Ballinger who would […]
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Our next meeting – 10 December 2024
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- Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 10 December 2024 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30pm. Members and friends welcome. “There’s gold in them thar hills: the archaeology of Wellington’s gold rush and the Albion Battery” Michael Grace and Mary O’Keeffe will tell the fascinating story of Wellington’s 19th century gold rush […]
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Call for Collective Response to Racial and Islamophobic Incidents in New Zealand
- Islamic Circle of Aotearoa
- Dear Brothers and Sisters, New Zealand Assalamu Alaikum, I am writing to bring to your attention a deeply disturbing incident…
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Maria Mielsch
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- ‘Mrs Mielsch who was murderously assaulted by her husband has slightly improved in condition’. Maria Rosina Eleanor Sophia, was born in 1855 and arrived in New Zealand in March 1872 […]
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William Seward Hutchinson
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- of Manaia, Tarakani William was admitted to the Mt View Asylum on 19th November 1895, from New Plymouth. He was suffering from melancholia and his body condition was very weak. […]
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Patrick & Hannah Kearney
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Patrick died in 1890, and according to the Karori Cemetery Burial Register was buried in this plot in December 1909 … Patrick was born in Kerry, Ireland in 1841. He […]
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