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This double width ‘hip tomb’ is for Duncan Robertson Menzies and his wife Dorothy. Duncan was a grandson of Isaac Featherston who after Featherston and Featherston Street are named. Dorothy […]

Marco Fosella was born in Florence, Italy in 1846, the son of a distinguished engraver. He initially worked in ‘commercial pursuits’ in Paris but at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian […]

After some head scratching, we realised we have a case of an incorrectly placed memorial. The book-like memorial is for Rosina Stirling ‘sister of the above’. M W Dally ‘Mother’ […]

This headstone was uncovered by Howard, one of our volunteers at our Tuesday Working Bees. The headstone is for Chin Chum Gee who was found dead in bed on 14th […]

Vilhelm Jensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark. In 1873 at the age of 12, he travelled by himself on the ship Halcione to New Zealand as part of an immigration […]

On 25 September 1933, seven fishing vessels left Island Bay at 4am that morning for their daily fishing. At 6am a southerly gale sprang up and all of the launches […]

Diamond Wedding – Christmas Day 1934 A tea and social were held on Christmas Day 1934 to mark the diamond wedding anniversary of Mr & Mrs W H Sanders. The […]

Channel Islands > France > England > USA > England > New Zealand Thomas Liez (or Leiz) was born in St Peter Port, Guernsey in 1829. The family had been […]

‘Having helped many to live, she passed to her rest on the 18th August, 1928 in her 98th year’. She was the daughter of cousins Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet, whose […]

On the evening of 28th May 1917, a tramcar motorman was driving his tram towards Lambton Station when a man stepped off the footpath in front of him. He sounded […]