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Friends of Karori Cemetery

Our purpose is to advocate for and develop the heritage and ecological values of Karori Cemetery, and to assist with grave/plot restoration.

Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)

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- Karori Ghosts
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
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- Marion Martin
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - ‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
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- Jacob William Heberley (Hākopa Hēperi) | Carver
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
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- Thomas Ward | Engineer & Surveyor 1849-1934
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...
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- Working Bee Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - This beautiful object was found by one of our volunteers at our October 2025 Working Bee in Gum Gully. Our volunteer very carefully cleaned the floral tribute as well.
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- Sarah Jane Kirk | temperance leader, suffragist and human rights activist
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Sarah Jane Mattocks was born in 1829 in Warwickshire, England. She worked as a silk marker before marrying Thomas Kirk, a bookkeeper on Christmas Day, 1850. In 1862, the Kirk...
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- Walter Joseph and Phoebe Elizabeth Lawrence
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Walter Joseph Lawrence was born in Camberwell, London in 1878[i] and Phoebe Elizabeth Thornton[ii] in St Saviour, London in 1881. The couple married in London in 1906[iii] before immigrating to...
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- Compton Family
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Mary Martha Whiting was born in 1854 in Tasmania and came to New Zealand with her family at a young age. She was the third child of thirteen siblings. Her...
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- William Henry Willway | The Children’s Friend
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - 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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- Thomas Kirk | botanist
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Thomas grew up in a household where botany was a common interest. His father George was a nurseryman and his mother Sarah (born West) was both a nurserywoman and a...
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- Services Section | Photo Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - WCC Archives sought our help to identify the location and occasion of this photo: It is interesting to note that there were so many women in the photo, which made...
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- Henry Mitchell | Founder of Mitchelltown
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - Henry arrived in Wellington as an 8-year-old child and died in 1913, aged 80. He came out from England with his parents, brothers and sisters on the ‘Gertrude’ in 1841....
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- George Rignold Fossette
  - 18 Nov 2025
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  - Kaitoke Drowning Tragedy George, aged 23 years of age and a carpenter, was on a camping party of twelve friends at Kaitoke over Christmas 1905. They had pitched their tents...
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- Henry Beedle
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - This plaque was uncovered by our Pōneke High Schools working bee group in July. Henry was born in Eltringham, Northamptonshire, England in 1879. He married Mary Bennett in 1904 and...
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- George McNamara
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - As part of our gardening trial project, we stashed a few daffodil bulbs at the foot of the McNamara plot. You could easily miss the diminutive headstone on this plot,...
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- Thomas George Poutawera / Tamati Hore Poutawera
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - Tamati, known as Thomas, was born in the Bay of Islands in 1861. He was a chief of Ngāpuhi and a cousin of Hone Heke (M.H.R). Thomas attended Te Aute...
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- Archibald Fea
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - Archibald Fea was born in Yorkshire, England on 15 June 1880. He was born to James Cape Fea and Jane Elizabeth Carter. James Fea at the time of Archibald’s birth...
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- Ford plot
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - Mr & Mrs Ford William Florington Ford was born in 1823 in Durham, England. He was a schoolmaster. He taught initially in Salford and then later in Manchester. He married...
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- Young plot
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - As part of our gardening project, we weeded and mulched around the roses in this plot. They are a lovely fluttery, open, pink flower. None of us can recall a...
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- John McMenamen
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - The night of Friday 12th February 1909 bore witness to New Zealand’s worst 19th century maritime disaster. The inter-island ferry SS Penguin struck, what was surmised to have been, Thom’s...
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- Ellison Plot
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - Thomas and Ethel Ellison were married at St Peter’s church in Wellington in 1899. Thomas, also known as Tom or Tamati Erihana (Ngāi Tahu and Te Āti Awa) was the...
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- Ethel May Daldorf
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - Ethel was born in 1886 in Auckland. Her parents were John and Elizabeth Graydon (born Jones). Ethel was the couple’s eldest daughter, and 1 of 11 siblings. John supported the...
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- Mary Bell
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Mary Rowlands (Bell)By Glenn Rowlands, great, great grandson Mary is Buried in plot *Ch Eng/x/137 and was buried on the 27th April 1906. Mary Bell was born on the 17th...
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- Green Plot
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Thomas Green We first pick up Thomas Green’s story in 1877, when he was working as a draper’s assistant at Messrs Sutter and Co. in Timaru. He then worked for...
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- Herman Rudolph Louis Hirter
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Herman was born in 1872 in Ross, Westland. His father Rudolph Hirter who was born in Berne, Switzerland in 1827 and married Bertha Gutheil in Ross in 1866. She was...
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- Herbert Lyne
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - ‘On 24th May 1903, at the Wellington Hospital, Herbert Lune, aged 50. Regretted by all who knew him.’ Herbert was born in Newport, Wales in 1853. He married Mary Jane...
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- Ernest Theodore Greville
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Ernest was born In Hokitika in 1869. 1892, Ernest was promoted from clerk to Government Audit Inspector. This role required him to travel around the country and meet many people....
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- Charles Adolphus Deacon
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Both of Charles’ parents (Edgar and Sophia) were teachers in Kingston, Jamaica and were married there in 1840. His father shortly afterwards became a clergyman. The Rev Deacon was promoted...
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- Dimond Plot
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - While gardening in this plot in July, we found one of its missing railing posts and what appears to be the gate post to the plot. Unless there are better...
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- Sarah Sophia Joshua
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - Sarah Poor, known as Sophie, was born in 1852 in Portsea, Hampshire, England. Her parents were Samuel Henry and Sophia Poor (born Hibberd). The family lived with Samuel’s mother, Sarah...
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