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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 19th April
- Karori Anglican Churches
- The Alpha Course Alpha in Karori will be running on Wednesday evenings at 7-9pm in Te Korōria starting on 22 April. Please pray for 5 – who can you invite? […]
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 12th April
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- The Alpha Course Alpha in Karori will be running on Wednesday evenings at 7-9pm in Te Korōria starting on 22 April. Please pray for 5 – who can you invite? […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Holy Week
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- Daylight Savings this Sunday Please remember to turn your clocks back one hour this Saturday evening as daylight savings time ends at midnight going into Sunday the 5th. Holy Week […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 29th March
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- Holy Week Services 2026 Next week we enter Holy Week. We have services throughout the week starting with a Maundy Thursday service at 7pm, a Good Friday family service at […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 22nd March
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- The Alpha Course We are running Alpha again this year! The course will be on Wednesday evenings in Te Korōria during Term 2, starting with the Alpha Introductory Dinner on […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 15th March
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- The Alpha Course We are running Alpha again this year! The course will be on Wednesday evenings in Te Korōria during Term 2, starting with the Alpha Introductory Dinner on […]
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William Haydn Flood | Musician
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- As his middle name suggests, William came from an enthusiastic musical family. His father, Joseph was a musician in Honiton, Devon. William followed his father and brothers in this profession...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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George William MacNamara (Sam) Barford
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- George died in 1913 and was buried in the Church of England 2 section. On 22nd September 1916, the Town Clerk received a letter from his widow asking if the...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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‘Distressing Mistake’
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- ‘A distressing happening at Karori cemetery last Saturday when the bodies of two women who had died that week in the Wellington Hospital were discovered by the relatives to have...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Margaret French aka Mrs Death
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Margaret – Mrs Frued or Freude or Mrs French On 3rd December 1892, a woman arrived in Wellington at the Te Aro Hotel named Margaret. She had a note of...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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John Alvin LeBlanc 1918-1943
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- John was one of many US Soldiers that found themselves on shore in New Zealand during World War 2. Between June 1942 and mid 1944 there were between 15,000 –...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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‘Te Whaea o te Katoa’
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Janet Munro was born on 31 January 1883 in Glasgow, to Mary McLean, a housekeeper, and William Munro, an iron foundry warehouseman. She was educated in Glasgow and became a...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Captain Butt
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Richard Groombridge Butt was born on June 2, 1832, in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, to Marie (Mary) Cabot (Smith) and Richard Butt. He travelled to New Zealand, via Brisbane,...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Winifred Jean Duncan
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- While our Gum Gully volunteers were weeding the cemetery next to Ian Galloway Park, Russell made a remarkable discovery among the tradescantia: the headstone of Winifred Duncan. The headstone appears...
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 8th March
- Karori Anglican Churches
- The Alpha Course We are running Alpha again this year! The course will be on Wednesday evenings in Te Korōria during Term 2, starting with the Alpha Introductory Dinner on […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 1st March
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- Join a Lent Study If you haven’t done so already, now is a great time to sign up and join a House Church for the Lent Study. We have […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 22nd February
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- Join a Lent Study If you haven’t done so already, now is a great time to sign up and join a House Church for the Lent Study. We have […]
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Special General Meeting & Speaker – March 2026
- Karori Historical Society
- Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 March 2026 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7pm. Members and friends welcome. The meeting on 3 March will be in two parts: At 7pm, we are holding a Special General Meeting to approve changes to our constitution and the decision to reregister in order to meet […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 15th February
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- Join a Lent Study Ash Wednesday is on the 18th of February this year, it’s a great opportunity to sign up and join a House Church for the Lent […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 8th February
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- Mission Meeting In St Mary’s Church Join us on Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 PM for an exciting gathering of everyone interested in mission work right here in our parish! […]
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Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 1st February
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- Welcome Back! This Sunday the 1st of Feb, we are launching our 9am and 10:30am services for the year. Ian will be speaking to us about the year’s focus on […]
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First Newsletter 2026 – Week Ending 25th January
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Welcome Back! This Sunday (25th Jan) is our last Summer Service, at 10am. From the 1st of Feb, we are back in the swing of things with our 9am and […]
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Captain William Kelly | Master Mariner
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- As part of our gardening project, Russell tackled the Kelly plot and over several days persevering, removed the enormous flax that had dwarfed the beautiful headstone. The plot interested Russell...
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Karori Ghosts
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
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Working Bee Find
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Marion Martin
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- ‘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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Walter Joseph and Phoebe Elizabeth Lawrence
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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Sarah Jane Kirk | temperance leader, suffragist and human rights activist
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- 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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