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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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