Friends of Karori Cemetery / April 2024
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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Company Quartermaster Sergeant 37637 Albert Baker 5th Reinforcements
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- Albert Baker was born in Wellington on 2nd September 1873 to Edmund John Baker (an expressman from Somerset, England), and Frances Ann Styles (from Whanganui). The family lived in Austin […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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William Stanley Oliver
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- This tiny plot is tucked at the very end of Row K in Public2. It is for the four week old son of Stanley Oliver OBE and his wife Frances […]
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New Zealand Tunneller 37663 Sergeant Victor Thomas Low (Lo Keong)
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- Victor Lo Keong was born in Dunedin on 3rd July 1894 to Matilda Kum (Cum Hong) and Joseph Lo Keong. Matilda is recorded as the first female Chinese immigrant to […]
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Marco Fosella
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- Marco Fosella was born in Florence, Italy in 1846, the son of a distinguished engraver. He initially worked in ‘commercial pursuits’ in Paris but at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian […]
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Dally and Stirling
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- After some head scratching, we realised we have a case of an incorrectly placed memorial. The book-like memorial is for Rosina Stirling ‘sister of the above’. M W Dally ‘Mother’ […]
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Loss of the ‘Santina’
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- On 25 September 1933, seven fishing vessels left Island Bay at 4am that morning for their daily fishing. At 6am a southerly gale sprang up and all of the launches […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sanders Diamond Wedding
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- Diamond Wedding – Christmas Day 1934 A tea and social were held on Christmas Day 1934 to mark the diamond wedding anniversary of Mr & Mrs W H Sanders. The […]
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Menzies
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- This double width ‘hip tomb’ is for Duncan Robertson Menzies and his wife Dorothy. Duncan was a grandson of Isaac Featherston who after Featherston and Featherston Street are named. Dorothy […]
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Vilhelm Jensen and Hettie Bennett
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- Vilhelm Jensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark. In 1873 at the age of 12, he travelled by himself on the ship Halcione to New Zealand as part of an immigration […]
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Liez Family
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- Channel Islands > France > England > USA > England > New Zealand Thomas Liez (or Leiz) was born in St Peter Port, Guernsey in 1829. The family had been […]
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Josephine Antoinette MacDonald
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- ‘Having helped many to live, she passed to her rest on the 18th August, 1928 in her 98th year’. She was the daughter of cousins Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet, whose […]
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Chim Chum Gee
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- This headstone was uncovered by Howard, one of our volunteers at our Tuesday Working Bees. The headstone is for Chin Chum Gee who was found dead in bed on 14th […]
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