This headstone for 8 year old Hildegard Kroner is the only evidence of three generations of the Kroner family in New Zealand. Her grandfather Heinrich Wilhelm Kroner [sometimes Kroener] came…
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Eleanor White
‘they also serve who only stand and wait’ Who organised this sweet headstone for a widow? Eleanor White was the eldest child of William and Harriet Jones and born in…
Dr David Nairn
(information supplied in part by one of his descendants) David was born in 1863 in Dundee, Scotland to William Nairn and his wife Elizabeth Mathewson. William was a merchant linen…
Adolphus Le Sueur
This is the plot of Adolphus and Emily Le Sueur. The Le Sueur name is old French for shoemaker. Adolphus Albert Le Sueur was born in 1847 in St Helier,…
Peter Frank Jacobsen
Peter Frank Jacobsen was primarily a highly respected architect but also gained note as an accomplished chess champion. Peter Jacobsen, and his younger brother Theodore, were born in Nelson. Their…
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…
James Boucher Winton
James Boucher Winton – erected by his friends and comrades James was born in 1864 in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland. He was the youngest child of John Winton and his wife…
John Thew
John was born in 1824 and Mary was born in 1828. They were both from Northumberland. Their first son was born in 1859. In 1871 they were living in Durham…
Victoria Howe
The first name on this headstone is Victoria Howe, who died in 1896 aged 47, after a long and painful illness. Victoria was born (according to family record) on a…
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…