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Tag: Catholic

James Grainge

By friends on November 26, 2022

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…

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Homewood

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

The big house on the hill, on Homewood Avenue, not far from Karori Cemetery was built in 1846, when the first owner Henry Samuel Chapman cleared the land to build…

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Three Vaults

By friends on May 18, 2020October 4, 2020

A Facebook post on 23 March 2020 showed a detail from the door of one of the “Three Vaults” in Karori Cemetery. There is a wayfinding place on the “main”…

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