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    • George Snaddon
      • 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....

    • John Gammell
      • 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...

    • Phoebe Myrtle Love
      • 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...

    • Sarah Hagan
      • 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...

    • Duncan Munro
      • 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...

    • John & Alice Merry
      • 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...

    • Thomas Holly
      • 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...

    • Susannah Starr
      • 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,...

    • Sydney Christmas
      • 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...

    • Philip Angel
      • 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...

    • John Yule
      • 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...

    • Florence Carroll
      • 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...

    • John Tree
      • 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...

    • Emily Wise
      • 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...

    • Houghton Family
      • 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 […]

    • Matthew Wilkins
      • 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 […]

    • Arthur Ballinger
      • 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 […]

    • John & Sophy Rothe
      • 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 […]

    • Helena Upchurch
      • 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 […]

    • John Chaney
      • 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 […]

    • Hannah Otten
      • 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. […]

    • Mastrogeorge
      • Our dear brothers Antonio Mastrogeorge (Antonios Demitrious Mastrogeorgiou), known in NZ as Anotnio George Stelios Mastrogeorge (Stelios Mastrogeorgiou) known in NZ as Stanley George Antonio and Stelios were born in […]

    • Julia Scotson
      • 1870-1922 Looking at this headstone you may wonder what relationship Julia has to the others in this plot, and the answer, possibly, is a friendship. Julia Burrell came to New […]

    • Arthur Bothamley
      • Arthur Bothamley (1846-1938) – Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Arthur was born in 1846 in Surrey, and then educated at Blackheath Propriety School, a school famous for its influence […]

    • Elizabeth Dark
      • Elizabeth Dark (previously Hastings, born White) Elizabeth was the second wife of William John Dark. William’s first wife Hannah died in 1871 leaving him with a small daughter. William married […]

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