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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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- Working Bee Find
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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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- Jacob William Heberley (Hākopa Hēperi) | Carver
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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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- Sarah Jane Kirk | temperance leader, suffragist and human rights activist
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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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- Thomas Ward | Engineer & Surveyor 1849-1934
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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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- Karori Ghosts
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - ‘Cemetery Reported to be Haunted’ We found this article from July 1939.
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- Marion Martin
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - 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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- William Henry Willway | The Children’s Friend
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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
  - 23 Dec 2025
  - Friends of Karori Cemetery
  - 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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- 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
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - 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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