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Henry Rudolph

By friends on January 11, 2025January 12, 2025

Henry’s full name was Joseph August Heinrich Rudolph and he was born in Berlin in 1875. In 1899 he married Emma Dilger in Mile End, London. Emma was born in…

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Houghton Family

By friends on December 9, 2024

There are two memorials placed against the Underwood mausoleum that originally marked Houghton family graves at Bolton Street Cemetery. The headstone attached to the wall is for John Houghton, born…

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Matthew Wilkins

By friends on December 9, 2024

Matthew was born in Somerset, England in 1824. He arrived in Wellington on the S.S. Arab in 1841 with his parents and siblings. In 1864 he married the widowed Janet…

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Arthur Ballinger

By friends on December 9, 2024

one of the best rifle shots New Zealand has ever produced Arthur Samuel Ballinger was born in 1860, in Melbourne, Australia. He was the son of Joseph Ballinger who would…

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John & Sophy Rothe

By friends on December 9, 2024

Johan Gottlob August Rothe (aka John Rothe) arrived in New Zealand from Germany in the early 1880s. He married Sophia Maria Christina Rose (aka Sophy) in 1882. The groom was…

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Helena Upchurch

By friends on December 9, 2024

Helena was the eldest daughter of John James Boyd and his wife Ann Elizabeth (nee Barker). John was a successful builder based in Newtown. In 1898 at the age of…

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John Chaney

By friends on December 9, 2024

John Alfred Chaney married Nicoline (Lena) Petersen in 1887 in Wellington. He was 21 and she was 17. Lena arrived in New Zealand in 1873, aged 3. She came from…

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Sarah Yeo (Tot) & Elizabeth Clifford

By friends on December 9, 2024

Sarah was the first interment in this plot. She was the daughter of George Clifford and his wife Elizabeth (nee Clarke). She was born in 1875 in Waitara. In 1896…

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Hannah Otten

By friends on December 9, 2024

Hannah was born in 1808 in West Teignmouth, Devon, England. In 1848 she married Johann Otten in Whitechapel, London. This was her second marriage, her first husband was Mr Parkhouse….

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Mastrogeorge

By friends on September 11, 2024

Our dear brothers Antonio Mastrogeorge (Antonios Demitrious Mastrogeorgiou), known in NZ as Anotnio George Stelios Mastrogeorge (Stelios Mastrogeorgiou) known in NZ as Stanley George Antonio and Stelios were born in…

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