Midnight Tragedy In Wellington Harbour The harbour collision of the steamer ‘Cobar’ and the launch ‘Mavis’ on 8th February 1924 resulted in the deaths of Mary Burden MacArthur and Daphne…
Category: Accident
de Rose Family
It’s hard to not notice the de Rose plot as sadly the headstone has tumbled from its perch and lies in the path. Frederick Richard de Rose was born in…
William Corfield
electrocuted at Miramar William, aged 24, was driving a lorry belonging to his employer John Keir along Evans Bay Road on 3rd November 1906. He was carting timber from Miramar…
James Phillips
The catastrophe at Miramar At about 3:30pm on 6 June 1910, a mass of earth without the slightest warning came down upon two men who were working in the drive…
Alan & Elizabeth Loxton
The couple had only been married a few months before they were accidentally drowned in Wellington Harbour in 1899. Alan Parsons Loxton was born in NSW in 1866. He trained…
James Grainge
ATTEMPTED MURDER A Young Man Shoots at His Stepfather. In the Catholic section lies the Grainge plot. This is the story of James Grainge, an employee of a cooperative grocery…
Harry Croft
1898 was a sad year for the family of George Turner Croft and his wife Catherine Stokes. Catherine was the daughter of Richard Stokes and his wife Catherine Tigh(e). She…
John Priest
accident prone? John’s arrival in New Zealand was not the most auspicious start. He and his wife Catherine Sinclair, both emigrants from The Shetland Islands were passengers on the immigrant…
IN LOVING MEMORY OF LITTLE GEORGIE
This is the sad story of five year old George Ivory. George was the son of Stephen Ivory and Mary Ann Norah Callan who had married in 1905. She was…
SS Penguin
On the evening of 12 February 1909, the SS Penguin left Picton for Wellington in fine weather.Conditions quickly deteriorated as the Penguin reached Cook Strait. After changing course again to…