Thomas was born in the Waikato on Christmas Eve 1895, the first of two children for Ester and William Winter. By 1915, he was working as a Post Office Clerk…
Claude and Charlotte Ahearn
Journalist and newspaper editor John Claude Francis Ahearn and his wife, Charlotte Clara Ahearn (née Sievers), are buried at Karori Cemetery. Claude was born in Victoria, Australia, in 1847 and…
Horace Bennett Appleyard
1896-1929 Born in Rodley, West Yorkshire on the first of October 1896, Horace immigrated to New Zealand with his mother when he was 3 years old. His father had gone…
Maclean and Morton Family
Buried in the plot are members of the Maclean and Morton family. Elizabeth Frances Maclean was working as a young typist for Levin & Co when she purchased the plot…
Jack Nicholls
On Christmas morning, 1953, my then 19-year-old father breezed into his Great Aunty Ida’s house in Palmerston North and wished her a cherry Merry Christmas. She told him not to…
Alfred George Unwin (LAC RNZAF 433383)
Alfred George Unwin was born on 24 September 1924 in Bow, East London, the first child of ship’s cook Alfred William Charles Unwin and showroom assistant Rosina Alice Smith. …
James Stewart Mackenzie
Imperial Service Order, Fellow Royal Geographic Society Our Great Grandfather James Stewart Mackenzie was born on March 10th 1849 in Edinburgh to David Stewart and Rebecca (nee Noble) Mackenzie. James…
Thomas Inch
Thomas Reid Inch was born in New Plymouth on 6 August 1868 to Thomas and Mary Inch. He was the fourth of eleven children and the family’s first son. Around…
Harry Rollinson
The Evening Post of Monday, February 10th 1936 reported that the body of a man had been located in Wellington Harbour at 6:30 am in the vicinity of Clyde Quay…
Robert James Aiken
Robert (Bertie) James Aiken was born on 11 May 1890 in Aberdeen. A slight figure with a fair complexion and blue eyes, he was the eighth of 12 children born…