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Keeper of the Botanic Gardens. George was born in Haddington, Scotland in 1849 to William (an agricultural labourer) and his wife Isabella Forrest. He commenced his career in the ’70s […]

On St Patrick’s in 1921, a sports day was held at Newtown Park to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. The event was organised by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society who […]

‘Mr Oriental Bay’ Currently for sale on Oriental Parade is number 246, a three storey block of flats. It was built by Gilbert Steel Hill in 1929. Gilbert grew up […]

‘Weary of Life, a sad case of suicide’ Amy was born in 1868 in New Zealand, the third of 12 children of William and Elizabeth Astle. In 1892 Amy married […]

Thomas Gale ‘one of the best known of our men of business’ The draped urn on the top of this plot symbolises the veil between life and death. Thomas is […]

Amelia (known as Milly) was the second daughter of Robert and Rose Adams. Rose’s parents were Edmund and Mary Ann Perrin who arrived in Wellington on the ‘Martha Ridgway’ in […]

This rather grand plot is for several generations of the O’Brien family. It is constructed with brick piers each surmounted with an iron fleur-de-lis cross. The concrete balusters in the […]

He lived the last ten years if his life in Wellington, and died in 1907 aged 83. Henry was born in Kinross, Scotland in 1824. He married Margaret Watterson in […]

Nita Blanche Cundy – Accidentally Killed Nita and her friends had gone to Paekakariki by train from Wellington on a Friday in April 1926. When they were unable to find […]

Known to his family as Harry, he embarked on the RMS Turakina at London in January 1906 aged 21. He travelled as a saloon passenger and his occupation was a […]