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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Thomas Woodford
Sudden Death of Mr T C Woodford Thomas Curtis Woodford was born in 1848 in Paddington, London to a watchmaking father. The family emigrated to Canterbury when he was ‘quite…
Edwin & Sarah Silk
Edwin was born in 1837, the son of coachbuilder Robert and his wife Sarah. The family lived in Longacre, London. Edwin arrived in New Zealand in the 1850s and at…
Travelling Midwife
The recently cleaned headstone on the plot of Sarah Ann CRIPPS gleams in the shade of tree lined avenues in the first Public section of Karori Cemetery. The simple inscription…