Karori / December 2025
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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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Working Bee Find
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- 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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Jacob William Heberley (Hākopa Hēperi) | Carver
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- 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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Sarah Jane Kirk | temperance leader, suffragist and human rights activist
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- 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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Thomas Ward | Engineer & Surveyor 1849-1934
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- 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
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- 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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Karori Ghosts
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- ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
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Marion Martin
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- ‘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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William Henry Willway | The Children’s Friend
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- William was born in 1823 in Bristol, England. His father was a silk dyer, but by age 15, William was working as a clerk. On Christmas Day 1849, he married...
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Services Section | Photo Find
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- WCC Archives sought our help to identify the location and occasion of this photo: It is interesting to note that there were so many women in the photo, which made...
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Thomas Kirk | botanist
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- Thomas grew up in a household where botany was a common interest. His father George was a nurseryman and his mother Sarah (born West) was both a nurserywoman and a...
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Henry Mitchell | Founder of Mitchelltown
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- Henry arrived in Wellington as an 8-year-old child and died in 1913, aged 80. He came out from England with his parents, brothers and sisters on the ‘Gertrude’ in 1841....
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Compton Family
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- Mary Martha Whiting was born in 1854 in Tasmania and came to New Zealand with her family at a young age. She was the third child of thirteen siblings. Her...
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Final 2025 Newsletter – Week Ending 21 December
- Karori Anglican Churches
- 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
- Karori Anglican Churches
- 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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