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- NEWS RELEASE – ANZAC Day 2025 Open Day
  - 6 Apr 2025
  - Wrights Hill Fortress
  - FOR IMMEDIATE USE – April 2025 Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori is open for public inspection again on ANZAC day, FRIDAY, April 25th.
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- Annual Open Day sees tours of Alington House and Futuna Chapel
  - 23 Mar 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - Working together with the Wellington Branch of the NZIA and the owners, the Futuna Chapel Trust have organised six back-to-back tours of Alington House, a 1960’s heritage modernist building in Karori.
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- George Snaddon
  - 14 Mar 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - George Snaddon was born in 1860 in Sauchie, Clackmannan in Scotland. After the death of his father Paul in 1880 he and his siblings lived with his married brother’s family....
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- Francis Kere to present Futuna Lecture Series 2025
  - 5 Mar 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - It is with great pleasure and excitement that the Futuna Chapel Trust is able to announce that the Futuna Lecturer for the 2025 Futuna Lecture Series will be multi-award-winning architect, Francis Kéré.
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- Colours of Futuna Concert Series Returns
  - 5 Mar 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - With sold-out performances last year, the Colours of Futuna concert series 2025 is gearing up to be a spine-tingling experience again this year with an exceptional lineup of talented musicians from Wellington and Christchurch ready woo audiences. The series will run from 6 April – 22 June this year with 11 concerts from a diverse… Continue reading Colours of Futuna Concert Series Returns
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- Our next meeting – 4 March 2025
  - 26 Feb 2025
  - Karori Historical Society
  - Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 4 March 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome! Clare Gleeson – Alfred Buxton and His Gardens Alfred Buxton is the father of landscaping in New Zealand. From 1900 to the mid-1940s, his company designed over 350 private and […]
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- 2025 Italian Design Day ‘How to mend the fractures of humanity’
  - 25 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - Join us for an inspiring presentation by AKAU and FIRST LIGHT Studio as part of the renowned 2025 Italian Design Day, Friday 21 March at Futuna Chapel.
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- Phoebe Myrtle Love
  - 21 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Phoebe was born in 1870 on Mana Island, the daughter of Cornelius Fisher and his wife Elizabeth (nee Edwards). Her parents were married at Wellington in 1855 a year after...
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- Sarah Hagan
  - 21 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Sarah Hagan was born in 1873 in Wellington. Her mother Elizabeth Fisher née Edwards had been married to Cornelius Fisher, and had eight children with him, and they seperated around...
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- John Gammell
  - 21 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - John was a graduate of London University and achieved special distinction in classics and Hebrew. At New College he came under the influence of one or two professors who held...
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- Annual Report
  - 15 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - We are delighted to release our 2024 Annual Report.
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- Duncan Munro
  - 9 Feb 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - In early February, we were happy to help a couple visiting from Scotland who were searching for the plot of a great uncle, Duncan Munro. With a bit of team...
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- Florence Carroll
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Florence Marian Capper was born in 1847 in Brixton, London, England. Her parents were John Henry and Mary Ann Capper (nee Wilson). John Capper worked as a stockbroker, but he...
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- Wiremu Tamati & Hana Te Wera
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - He Whakamaharatanga Tenei Mo Tamati Wiremu Te Wera (1824-1903) Hana Te Awhitu Te Wera (1831-1923) Tamati and Hana were one of the last Māori living in Te Aro Pa. They...
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- John & Alice Merry
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - John was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1851. His parents were John and Harriett (nee Smith). He married Alice Powell, a native of Truro, England in 1880 in Wellington, New...
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- Thomas Holly
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Thomas Edward Holly / Holley Thomas was born in 1879 in Kensington, London. His father Henry was a hydraulic machinist who worked for Great Western Railway. Thomas was first employed...
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- John Yule
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - John died in 1899, aged 92, at the residence of Mrs Phelps in Webb Street. He had lodged with her for more than 25 years and received every kindness and...
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- Sydney Christmas
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Sydney Alderton Christmas was born in Timaru in 1879. His parents were John (Jack) Christmas and his wife Annie nee Woods. He was one of six Christmas children. In 1907...
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- Susannah Starr
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Susannah was born in 1857 in Enfield, Middlesex, England. She was the daughter of John James & Susannah Deadman (nee Waterman). John worked as a labourer and later a gunmaker,...
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- Emily Wise
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Emily was born in Wallingford, Berkshire, England in 1822. In 1850 she married Alfred Wise in Oxford. Alfred was a journeyman carpenter. They had five children, the younger three being...
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- John Tree
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - John Bolton Tree was born in Kent, England on 5th February 1876. His parents were James and Elizabeth Tree (nee Bolton). John and Elizabeth arrived in New Zealand on the...
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- Philip Angel
  - 11 Jan 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Philip Angel, a fireman aged 23, was found very unwell in Victoria Reserve off Pirie Street on 14th January 1914. On the morning of 14th January 1914, Miss McLean heard...
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- News release – waitangi day 2025
  - 6 Jan 2025
  - Wrights Hill Fortress
  - FOR IMMEDIATE USE – Jan/Feb 2025 WAITANGI DAY OPEN DAY-THURSDAY, 6th February 10AM – 4PM.
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- Encounter
  - 10 Dec 2024
  - Bats Theatre
  - Step into the past and explore the untold stories of Wellington through the eyes of early Chinese immigrants.Poignant, immersive, and deeply moving.
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- Helena Upchurch
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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- John & Sophy Rothe
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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- John Chaney
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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- Sarah Yeo (Tot) & Elizabeth Clifford
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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- Houghton Family
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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