Community Groups and Karori
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Parsons Family
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- This plot is the resting place of five members of the Parsons family and a memorial for a sixth. William Frederick Parsons was born in Greenwich, England in 1834. He...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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John Alexander Allan
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- We came across this record in the WCC Archives which is an application to erect a headstone at Karori Cemetery. The document is dated 28th February 1895. The applicant was...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thomas and Alice Donovan
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- As no New Zealand records can be found, it is presumed that Thomas and Alice married and had their children prior to emigrating. The couple lived at 45 Clyde Quay...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Edith Huntley M.D.
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Edith was born at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England in 1852. Her father was the joint owner of a Brewery. At a young age, Edith was set on becoming a doctor....
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Henry & Bridget Loughlin
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- This plot has always been a curious one, as I don’t believe we have another at Karori Cemetery that has a headstone at both ends. If you’ve seen one on...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Asserlind Family
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Johan Axel Asserlind (sometimes recorded as Assarlind) was born in 1839 in Goteborg, Sweden. His parents were Anders Gustaf and Carolina Wilhelmina (nee Gustafsson). He married Charlotte Andersdotter in 1870...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Richard Mostyn-Hoops
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- It was reported on 26th July 1894 that Richard Mostyn Hoops had been arrested in Melbourne on a charge of wife desertion. Prior to his arrest, Richard had been working...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Arthur Lagden Haylock
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Arthur Lagden Haylock was born in Akaroa in March 1860. His parents Charles Lagden and Sarah Haylock had arrived in Akaroa almost exactly 10 years earlier in the Monarch –...
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Phillis Symons
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- On 26th June 1931, Phillis Symons was murdered by George Coats and her body placed by him in the fill from the construction of the Mt Victoria tunnel. Phillis was...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Charles Hulke
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- A Schoolmaster Found Dead Charles Hulke, Headmaster of Newtown School, was found dead in his bed on 1st November 1898. The appearance of the body pointed to his having had...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Stace Plot
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Lucy Cornford married Albert Stace at St Mark’s Church on 4th June 1887. She was the youngest daughter of William and Fanny Cornford of Makara, and he the fourth son...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Lily May Simmonds
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Her headstone records that it was erected by her mother and brothers with the inscription: ‘If he asked us well we know We would cry oh spare this blow Yes...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Claude Augustus Mieville
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Nineteen-year-old Claude arrived in Wellington from London in on the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co’s S.S. Doric on 1st May 1893. Claude was the tenth of twelve siblings. He was...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thomas & Maria Bird
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Thomas and Maria bird arrived in New Zealand about 1875. Thomas was born in 1823 in Yalding, Kent, England. He married Maria Humphrey at Plaxtol, Kent in 1846. Thomas worked...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Male Unknown
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- We share stories about the people known to be buried at Karori Cemetery. The burial register also contains 18 entries for ‘Male Unknown’. These men have died in Wellington and...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Lewis and Eliza Hook
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- When Eliza died in 1907 aged 67, she was described as one of the oldest residents of Wellington. She arrived on the ship Lord William Bentwick in 1841 aged 6...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Amy Kensington
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Killed by a fire engine On 18th December 1906, Amy Kensington (aged 55), the wife of Charles Kensington, was heading home to Thorndon with her two daughters Louisa (aged 32)...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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
- Karori Historical Society
- 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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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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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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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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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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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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