Killed by a fire engine On 18th December 1906, Amy Kensington (aged 55), the wife of Charles Kensington, was heading home to Thorndon with her two daughters Louisa (aged 32)…

On 26th June 1931, Phillis Symons was murdered by George Coats and her body placed by him in the fill from the construction of the Mt Victoria tunnel. Phillis was…

We share stories about the people known to be buried at Karori Cemetery. The burial register also contains 18 entries for ‘Male Unknown’. These men have died in Wellington and…

Lucy Cornford married Albert Stace at St Mark’s Church on 4th June 1887. She was the youngest daughter of William and Fanny Cornford of Makara, and he the fourth son…

When Eliza died in 1907 aged 67, she was described as one of the oldest residents of Wellington. She arrived on the ship Lord William Bentwick in 1841 aged 6…

Nineteen-year-old Claude arrived in Wellington from London in on the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co’s S.S. Doric on 1st May 1893. Claude was the tenth of twelve siblings. He was…

Thomas and Maria bird arrived in New Zealand about 1875. Thomas was born in 1823 in Yalding, Kent, England. He married Maria Humphrey at Plaxtol, Kent in 1846. Thomas worked…

Her headstone records that it was erected by her mother and brothers with the inscription: ‘If he asked us well we know We would cry oh spare this blow Yes…

A Schoolmaster Found Dead Charles Hulke, Headmaster of Newtown School, was found dead in his bed on 1st November 1898. The appearance of the body pointed to his having had…

Arthur Lagden Haylock was born in Akaroa in March 1860. His parents Charles Lagden and Sarah Haylock had arrived in Akaroa almost exactly 10 years earlier in the Monarch –…