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George Athea
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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)
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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)
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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)
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Percy John Wilkinson
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Percy John Wilkinson was born 16 February 1873[i] in Adelaide, Australia. His father, Charles Wilkinson, had emigrated from England in 1850[ii] and after an unsuccessful stint at the Victorian goldfields,...
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Herbert Baillie
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- With the re-opening of the city library in March 2026, we thought we would share a little about one of our early city librarians: Herbert Baillie. Herbert was born in...
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Henry Harness
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Grave Digger On 24th July 1918, the gravediggers at Karori Cemetery wrote a letter to the Mayor (John-Pearce Luke) requesting the following: The following men signed the letter: H. (Henry)...
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‘My Renegade Brother’
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- The bizarre story of the Bezar plot. ‘I shall be pleased to have your explanation as to why your Council permitted an unauthorised person – my renegade brother – to...
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Bridget Wilkinson
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Bridget Wilkinson nee Colgan was born approximately 1864[i] into a large Catholic family in County Offaly, Ireland. Two sisters had already emigrated to New Zealand in 1879[ii], marrying Irish farmers...
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‘Distressing Mistake’
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- ‘A distressing happening at Karori cemetery last Saturday when the bodies of two women who had died that week in the Wellington Hospital were discovered by the relatives to have...
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William Haydn Flood | Musician
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- As his middle name suggests, William came from an enthusiastic musical family. His father, Joseph was a musician in Honiton, Devon. William followed his father and brothers in this profession...
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George William MacNamara (Sam) Barford
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- George died in 1913 and was buried in the Church of England 2 section. On 22nd September 1916, the Town Clerk received a letter from his widow asking if the...
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Margaret French aka Mrs Death
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Margaret – Mrs Frued or Freude or Mrs French On 3rd December 1892, a woman arrived in Wellington at the Te Aro Hotel named Margaret. She had a note of...
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Captain Butt
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Richard Groombridge Butt was born on June 2, 1832, in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, to Marie (Mary) Cabot (Smith) and Richard Butt. He travelled to New Zealand, via Brisbane,...
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John Alvin LeBlanc 1918-1943
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John was one of many US Soldiers that found themselves on shore in New Zealand during World War 2. Between June 1942 and mid 1944 there were between 15,000 –...
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‘Te Whaea o te Katoa’
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Janet Munro was born on 31 January 1883 in Glasgow, to Mary McLean, a housekeeper, and William Munro, an iron foundry warehouseman. She was educated in Glasgow and became a...
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Winifred Jean Duncan
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- While our Gum Gully volunteers were weeding the cemetery next to Ian Galloway Park, Russell made a remarkable discovery among the tradescantia: the headstone of Winifred Duncan. The headstone appears...
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Captain William Kelly | Master Mariner
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- As part of our gardening project, Russell tackled the Kelly plot and over several days persevering, removed the enormous flax that had dwarfed the beautiful headstone. The plot interested Russell...
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William Henry Willway | The Children’s Friend
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- William was born in 1823 in Bristol, England. His father was a silk dyer, but by age 15, William was working as a clerk. On Christmas Day 1849, he married...
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