Friends of Karori Cemetery / August 2023
Our purpose is to advocate for and develop the heritage and ecological values of Karori Cemetery, and to assist with grave/plot restoration.
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Incledon
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- We have often admired this headstone for its unusual ‘drop shadow’ leadwork lettering, which seems quite modern for the era. It was a prime candidate to be cleaned. The plot […]
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Kroner – were they spies?
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- This is a postscript to our last story which prompted our reader Liz Moir to message us and ask the question. Were we missing something? Were they spies? To answer […]
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Walter Phelps Bibbing
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- Who is W.P.B? The Burial Register provides the answer: Walter Phelps Bibbing. His death in the newspaper says ‘Little is known of Bibbing. He came to Wellington by the Waikere […]
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Hildegard Kroner
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- This headstone for 8 year old Hildegard Kroner is the only evidence of three generations of the Kroner family in New Zealand. Her grandfather Heinrich Wilhelm Kroner [sometimes Kroener] came […]
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Dulcie Quig
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- The Mystery of George Shaw Dulcie Belle Quig was the first wife of Thomas Ellis Glover, a well-known Wellington cartoonist. Dulcie married Tom in 1916, at the age of 20. […]
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Claude Woodford
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- Claude Albert Curtis Woodford – served in WWI twice Claude was 8 years old when his father died in 1895 (see previous story). He went to Sydney Street school and […]
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Harry Clifton Gibbons
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- Harry Clifton Gibbons – seed merchant Harry was born in Lincoln, England and came to New Zealand in 1884, aged 23. For many years was in the seed business on […]
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Sarah McKinlay and Charles Ralph
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- Sarah McKinlay and her husband Charles Robert Ralph Charles was born in 1862 in Glasgow and Sarah in 1863. Charles’ parents were Charles Ralph and Ann Duncan. Who Sarah’s parents […]
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Walter Mansfield
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- Monumental Mason Makes Mischief (1917) This wasn’t Walter’s first time in court. Back in 1896, he was there for assault charges against the Sexton of Karori Cemetery, Ernest Nash. The […]
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Thomas Woodford
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- Sudden Death of Mr T C Woodford Thomas Curtis Woodford was born in 1848 in Paddington, London to a watchmaking father. The family emigrated to Canterbury when he was ‘quite […]
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