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Final 2025 Newsletter – Week Ending 21 December
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- Christmas and New Year Services Our Christmas service invitations are available to distribute to friends and neighbours, please pick some up from the gathering area. Christmas Eve – Wednesday 24th […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 14 December
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Urgent Appeal You may be aware Mary and Martha’s (10:30am congregation) home had a significant fire on Thursday night, unfortunately they have lost their entire house contents, if you would […]
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Last meeting for 2025 – 16 December 2025
- Karori Historical Society
- Our last public meeting for 2025 will be held on Tuesday 16 December 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. South with Shackleton and Endurance, 1914-1917 Join us for a talk by Graeme Jupp who is sharing his deep knowledge of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917). His interest […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 7 December
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- Evensong Sunday 7th Come along to Evensong this Sunday at 6pm at St Mary’s Working Bee – 6th December – This Saturday! On Saturday the 6th of December there will […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 30 November
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- Contemplative Prayer Service Contemplative prayer – A ‘Listening to God Service’ that is open to all. This is an opportunity to pause in the middle of our busy lives, take […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 23 november
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Karori Kaitiaki Working Bee 2-4pm, Sunday 23 November 2025 – End of Landsdowne Terrace Time for another working bee! This time we’ll be at Landsdowne Track on Wrights Hill. This […]
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George Rignold Fossette
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Newsletter – Week Ending 16 november
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Feed my Lambs – Rongopai House This Christmas we will be once again supporting our friends in Kaitaia as they work with families in need in their local community. You […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 9 november
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- New Wine – Can you join us? Please let the office know when you register with New Wine so we can include you in the catering plans – There will […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 2 November
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- Karori Food Bank The Karori foodbank are in need of the following items: Soap Toothpaste Dishwashing liquid Washing liquid If you want to contribute please either put your donated items […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 26 October
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Trail Mixers – Saturday 25th – Invite your friends! We’ll be meeting at the Karori Park Pavillion at 8.45am for a 9am departure. Please be aware you will need to […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 19 October
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- Fish and Chips Night Fish and Chips night is back! Lock in Friday the 14th of November for a night of great conversations, an easy meal and fun for the […]
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Newsletter – Week Ending 12 October
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Dedication 12th October This Sunday at our 10:30 service there will be a dedication for Yadavan and Shalomi’s baby girl, Yashana. Please join us to celebrate this newest addition to […]
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Henry Beedle
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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George McNamara
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
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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
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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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
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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
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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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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