Friends of Karori Cemetery / December 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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Helena Upchurch
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- Helena was the eldest daughter of John James Boyd and his wife Ann Elizabeth (nee Barker). John was a successful builder based in Newtown. In 1898 at the age of […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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John & Sophy Rothe
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- Johan Gottlob August Rothe (aka John Rothe) arrived in New Zealand from Germany in the early 1880s. He married Sophia Maria Christina Rose (aka Sophy) in 1882. The groom was […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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John Chaney
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- John Alfred Chaney married Nicoline (Lena) Petersen in 1887 in Wellington. He was 21 and she was 17. Lena arrived in New Zealand in 1873, aged 3. She came from […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sarah Yeo (Tot) & Elizabeth Clifford
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- Sarah was the first interment in this plot. She was the daughter of George Clifford and his wife Elizabeth (nee Clarke). She was born in 1875 in Waitara. In 1896 […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Houghton Family
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- There are two memorials placed against the Underwood mausoleum that originally marked Houghton family graves at Bolton Street Cemetery. The headstone attached to the wall is for John Houghton, born […]
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Matthew Wilkins
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- Matthew was born in Somerset, England in 1824. He arrived in Wellington on the S.S. Arab in 1841 with his parents and siblings. In 1864 he married the widowed Janet […]
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Arthur Ballinger
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- one of the best rifle shots New Zealand has ever produced Arthur Samuel Ballinger was born in 1860, in Melbourne, Australia. He was the son of Joseph Ballinger who would […]
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Hannah Otten
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- Hannah was born in 1808 in West Teignmouth, Devon, England. In 1848 she married Johann Otten in Whitechapel, London. This was her second marriage, her first husband was Mr Parkhouse. […]
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