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George Alfred Ginn
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- George Alfred Ginn 1874-1926 George was born 17 September, 1874 Queenstown Cork, Ireland, parents George William Ginn and Margaret Ginn (nee Hunt). He had 6 siblings, Anniss, Florence, Mary Adelaide,...
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William Isaac
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- William was a baker and he and members of his family are buried at Karori Cemetery. William was born on 20 June 1845 in Weston, Bath, Somerset, England. The son...
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Thomas Stimpson Winter
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- Thomas was born in the Waikato on Christmas Eve 1895, the first of two children for Ester and William Winter. By 1915, he was working as a Post Office Clerk...
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Claude and Charlotte Ahearn
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- Journalist and newspaper editor John Claude Francis Ahearn and his wife, Charlotte Clara Ahearn (née Sievers), are buried at Karori Cemetery. Claude was born in Victoria, Australia, in 1847 and...
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Horace Bennett Appleyard
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- 1896-1929 Born in Rodley, West Yorkshire on the first of October 1896, Horace immigrated to New Zealand with his mother when he was 3 years old. His father had gone...
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Maclean and Morton Family
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- Buried in the plot are members of the Maclean and Morton family. Elizabeth Frances Maclean was working as a young typist for Levin & Co when she purchased the plot...
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Jack Nicholls
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- On Christmas morning, 1953, my then 19-year-old father breezed into his Great Aunty Ida’s house in Palmerston North and wished her a cherry Merry Christmas. She told him not to...
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Alfred George Unwin (LAC RNZAF 433383)
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- Alfred George Unwin was born on 24 September 1924 in Bow, East London, the first child of ship’s cook Alfred William Charles Unwin and showroom assistant Rosina Alice Smith. ...
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James Stewart Mackenzie
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- Imperial Service Order, Fellow Royal Geographic Society Our Great Grandfather James Stewart Mackenzie was born on March 10th 1849 in Edinburgh to David Stewart and Rebecca (nee Noble) Mackenzie. James...
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Thomas Inch
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- Thomas Reid Inch was born in New Plymouth on 6 August 1868 to Thomas and Mary Inch. He was the fourth of eleven children and the family’s first son. Around...
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Harry Rollinson
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- The Evening Post of Monday, February 10th 1936 reported that the body of a man had been located in Wellington Harbour at 6:30 am in the vicinity of Clyde Quay...
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Robert James Aiken
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- Robert (Bertie) James Aiken was born on 11 May 1890 in Aberdeen. A slight figure with a fair complexion and blue eyes, he was the eighth of 12 children born...
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Samuel & Susannah Morrell
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- Samuel Morrell (1850 – 23 May 1919) married Susannah Tankard (1849 – 26 April 1935) in Leeds, England in 1878. Their first child, Walter, was born on 6 June 1879,...
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Mary Bridget Aiken
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- Mary Bridget Aiken (also known as Moya or Minnie) was born in Napier in 1893, the first of six children born to James Francis O’Donnell and Margaret Josephine (McNamara), who...
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Christopher George Challis (1873-1934)
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- Christopher George Challis was born in London, England, on August 18, 1873, to William Challis (1833 -1885) and Jane Ann Jeffrey (1841-1924). He was the youngest of four boys. His...
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George Athea
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- Accidentally Killed Deep in Public2 section is this fine headstone to 28 year old George Henry Athea who “met with a fatal accident whilst in the execution of his duty”....
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Joseph Kitching and William Brodrick
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- Joseph John Kitching died February 18th 1912 aged 52 also William Henry Brodrick died 8th July 1913 aged 54 This lovely headstone enjoying the sunshine and Ian Galloway cricketing, belongs...
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John Hearfield
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- The slightly unusual shape of this headstone caught our eye. The shape is known as Ogee (a double curve) and was used in Gothic and Gothic Revival architecture (so popular...
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Mary Smylie
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- Mary Jane was born in 1861, Dublin, to James and Charlotte Campbell. Mary married (Dr) Archibald Smylie in Dublin in 1883. Archibald was born in 1842 in Antrim. Their first...
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Gee Ching Dong (Herbert Gee-Dong) and Wong Yuk Lan (Lily Gee-Dong)
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- Gee Ching Dong (who became known as Herbert) was born in 1891 in the village of Gee-wong-tong in the Guangzhou Province, China. Several members of his family emigrated to New...
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Ivy Fenwick Anna Ginn (nee Poppelwell)
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- 1882-1971 Ivy was born 10 October 1882, in Dunedin, parents Elizabeth Henry and William Poppelwell (V). She was the only girl among four brothers George, Henry, Colin and Cecil. Her...
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Edwin Royden Wells
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 1887-1950 Edwin was born in Wilson’s Street, Lyttelton on May 20th 1887. He was the first son and third child of Alban and Agnes Wells. Edwin chose a career in...
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Catherine Elsie Lynette Wells (nee Mackenzie)
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- 1891-1970 Catherine (known to us as Nan) was born on September 4th 1891 to James and Annie Elizabeth Mackenzie of Wellington. Her full name was Catherine Elsie Lynette but she...
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Rosina Alice (Rose) Unwin
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- Rose was born in 1901 in Notting Hill, London, one of six children of ostler Edwin Smith and his wife Martha. Her father died in 1908 and Rose and her...
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Alfred William Charles (Alf) Unwin
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- Alf Unwin was born in 1901 in Kilburn, London, the son of Alfred James Unwin, publican of The George in Glyn Road, Hackney, and barmaid Florence Mary Ann Spooner. He...
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Sarah Jane Moran
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Sarah Harris was the daughter of Luke Harris and Charlotte Newman (see Charlotte Harris profile in this cemetery). Born around 1838 in East Chinnock, Somerset, Sarah and the family obtained...
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Charlotte Harris
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Charlotte Harris (nee Newman) Charlotte was born and married Luke Harris in East Chinnock, Somerset. In the 1841 census they are listed as living there with Luke’s parents, Luke and...
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Sylvia Tesoriero
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- My Zia Sylvia, she was my mum’s elder sister. She was 4 years old when she passed in 1944, and my Mum was born the year after. My Nonno ran...
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William Higgins
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- William “Bill” Higgins was born Jan 2 1894 in Mangatainoka, the town in which his mother Bertha’s family eventually settled after fleeing persecution in Prussia (now Poland) in 1875. Bertha...
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Sophia Ashley
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Sophia Ashley was born Sophia Roberts in 1824 in Ideford, Devon, England to William Roberts, Shoemaker and his wife Elizabeth Bottrell. She was baptised on 2 September 1824 in the...
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