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- Futuna Lecture Series tickets now on sale!
  - 6 Jul 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - Futuna Chapel Trust is thrilled to announce that tickets are now on sale for the much anticipated Futuna Lecture Series 2025 featuring Pritzker Prize winner and Praemium Imperiale architect Francis Kéré.
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- Parsons Family
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - This plot is the resting place of five members of the Parsons family and a memorial for a sixth. William Frederick Parsons was born in Greenwich, England in 1834. He...
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- John Alexander Allan
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - We came across this record in the WCC Archives which is an application to erect a headstone at Karori Cemetery. The document is dated 28th February 1895. The applicant was...
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- Thomas and Alice Donovan
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - As no New Zealand records can be found, it is presumed that Thomas and Alice married and had their children prior to emigrating. The couple lived at 45 Clyde Quay...
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- Edith Huntley M.D.
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Edith was born at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England in 1852. Her father was the joint owner of a Brewery. At a young age, Edith was set on becoming a doctor....
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- Henry & Bridget Loughlin
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - This plot has always been a curious one, as I don’t believe we have another at Karori Cemetery that has a headstone at both ends. If you’ve seen one on...
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- Asserlind Family
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Johan Axel Asserlind (sometimes recorded as Assarlind) was born in 1839 in Goteborg, Sweden. His parents were Anders Gustaf and Carolina Wilhelmina (nee Gustafsson). He married Charlotte Andersdotter in 1870...
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- Richard Mostyn-Hoops
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - It was reported on 26th July 1894 that Richard Mostyn Hoops had been arrested in Melbourne on a charge of wife desertion. Prior to his arrest, Richard had been working...
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- Arthur Lagden Haylock
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Arthur Lagden Haylock was born in Akaroa in March 1860. His parents Charles Lagden and Sarah Haylock had arrived in Akaroa almost exactly 10 years earlier in the Monarch –...
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- Phillis Symons
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - On 26th June 1931, Phillis Symons was murdered by George Coats and her body placed by him in the fill from the construction of the Mt Victoria tunnel. Phillis was...
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- Charles Hulke
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - A Schoolmaster Found Dead Charles Hulke, Headmaster of Newtown School, was found dead in his bed on 1st November 1898. The appearance of the body pointed to his having had...
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- Stace Plot
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Lucy Cornford married Albert Stace at St Mark’s Church on 4th June 1887. She was the youngest daughter of William and Fanny Cornford of Makara, and he the fourth son...
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- Lily May Simmonds
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Her headstone records that it was erected by her mother and brothers with the inscription: ‘If he asked us well we know We would cry oh spare this blow Yes...
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- Claude Augustus Mieville
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Nineteen-year-old Claude arrived in Wellington from London in on the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co’s S.S. Doric on 1st May 1893. Claude was the tenth of twelve siblings. He was...
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- Thomas & Maria Bird
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Thomas and Maria bird arrived in New Zealand about 1875. Thomas was born in 1823 in Yalding, Kent, England. He married Maria Humphrey at Plaxtol, Kent in 1846. Thomas worked...
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- Male Unknown
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - We share stories about the people known to be buried at Karori Cemetery. The burial register also contains 18 entries for ‘Male Unknown’. These men have died in Wellington and...
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- Lewis and Eliza Hook
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - When Eliza died in 1907 aged 67, she was described as one of the oldest residents of Wellington. She arrived on the ship Lord William Bentwick in 1841 aged 6...
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- Amy Kensington
  - 27 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - Killed by a fire engine On 18th December 1906, Amy Kensington (aged 55), the wife of Charles Kensington, was heading home to Thorndon with her two daughters Louisa (aged 32)...
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- Gordon Goneburger?
  - 17 Jun 2025
  - Eye of the Fish
  - It is deeply sad and rather ironic that the day that the submissions for the Gordon Wilson Housing Scholarship close wth NZIA, the Minister of...
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- Replacing the Chapel roof
  - 6 Jun 2025
  - Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
  - Futuna’s big news is that the Chapel roof is currently under repair and maintenance. This work is being undertaken by the Futuna Chapel Trust and involves repairing the Chapel roof and the coloured acrylic windows. The project is anticipated to take 9 months, but we are STILL OPEN. This work will resolve two issues: it… Continue reading Replacing the Chapel roof
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- 2025 AGM and speaker David Watt – 3 June 2025
  - 24 May 2025
  - Karori Historical Society
  - Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Business Supper will be served after the meeting. If you are keen to help run the Society and plan future activities and events, so are willing to join our Committee, please contact Adrian […]
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- Albemarle rises again
  - 20 May 2025
  - Eye of the Fish
  - It has been a long time coming, and at times I doubted that it would ever happen, but the scaffolding is down at last and...
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- Kings Birthday 2025 – Open Day
  - 19 May 2025
  - Wrights Hill Fortress
  - Wellington’s historic Wrights Hill Fortress in Karori will be open for public inspection again on Waitangi Day, TUESDAY, February 6th. The World War Two coastal battery first opened to the public in 1989 and will be accessible between 10am and 4pm. The post Kings Birthday 2025 – Open Day appeared first on Wrights Hill Fortress.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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