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- Captain William Kelly | Master Mariner
  - 26 Dec 2025
  - 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 Ghosts
  - 23 Dec 2025
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  - ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
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- Marion Martin
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Jacob William Heberley (Hākopa Hēperi) | Carver
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Thomas Ward | Engineer & Surveyor 1849-1934
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Working Bee Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Sarah Jane Kirk | temperance leader, suffragist and human rights activist
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Walter Joseph and Phoebe Elizabeth Lawrence
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Compton Family
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- William Henry Willway | The Children’s Friend
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Thomas Kirk | botanist
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Services Section | Photo Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Henry Mitchell | Founder of Mitchelltown
  - 23 Dec 2025
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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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- Last meeting for 2025 – 16 December 2025
  - 8 Dec 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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- Swimming against the tide
  - 4 Dec 2025
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  - press release – December 4, 2025. Victoria University of Wellington is out of step with global practice in demolishing the Gordon Wilson Flats and McLean Flats on the Terrace The Architectural Centre notes with great sadness the planned demise of the Gordon Wilson Flats, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important post-war buildings, along with […]
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- George Rignold Fossette
  - 18 Nov 2025
  - 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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- Archibald Fea
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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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- Henry Beedle
  - 3 Oct 2025
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  - 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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- George McNamara
  - 3 Oct 2025
  - 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
  - 3 Oct 2025
  - 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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- Mary Bell
  - 2 Oct 2025
  - 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
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 2 Oct 2025
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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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- Ernest Theodore Greville
  - 2 Oct 2025
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  - 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
  - 2 Oct 2025
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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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