Tombs - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1864, 1874

From: Wakefield family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9512-19

Description: Last wills and testaments of Angela Wakefield and Charles Marcus Wakefield; lease of land from Octavius Hadfield, on behalf of Church of England for grave plots and a tomb for the Wakefield family Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-152981-F

Description: The Very Reverend James Baird, vice-president of the National Council of Churches, dedicating the memorial for victims of the Tangiwai disaster, Karori Cemetery, Wellington, 1957. Photographer unidentified. Published 29 March 1957 The Tangiwai railway disaster occurred on Christmas eve, 1953, during the first visit to New Zealand of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: [ca 16 Dec 1935]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-34

Description: Memorial to sea captains Henry Tucker and Edwin Stafford, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, after it was restored in 1935. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer circa 16 December 1935. Other - Published in the Evening Post circa 16 December 1935 The two captains had an agreement that the surviving one would erect a memorial to the first to die. Stafford erected this memorial over the grave of Tucker. (This, and further information regarding the memorial, is filed at C.AP.5.5 at 24 Aug 2005) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 15.6 cm

Date: ca 1933

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-7796-07

Description: Richard John Seddon memorial, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, photographed circa 1935 for the Evening Post. Photographer unidentified. The memorial was designed by Government Architect John Campbell. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.9 x 15.6 cm

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Duvergier, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-03

Description: Shows Te Puni's monument in the Maori cemetery in Petone. Two whare and some palisades can be seen beyond. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 90 x 131 mm.

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1165

Description: All images were taken at Karori Cemetery. Lisa van Hulst (aged 2 years) is seen in all of them, looking at the decorations and flowers on various graves. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1166

Description: All images were taken at Karori Cemetery. They include views of sculptured headstones, Chinese headstones, a workman driving a tractor and trailer, views of hills in the background, and houses in Karori (frame 3.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1167

Description: All images were taken at Karori Cemetery, looking up at a large number of graves on a slope, some with sculptural headstones. A man is adding to the inscription on a headstone (frames 2 to 4, and 6 to 8), and then covering it up with a large sheet of plastic when he leaves (frames frames 9 to 12.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1162

Description: All images were taken at Karori Cemetery, showing decorative headstones including angels and statuesque sculptures. Frame 10 shows the tomb of William John Stevens (Died April 1, 1904 with Isabella Martin (Died Nov. 1, 1930) daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Martin. Probably taken in 1975 (date from sequence of Ans Westra images with previous images showing Lisa van Hulst's second birthday; she was born in July 1973.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1163

Description: All images were taken at Karori Cemetery, showing decorative headstones including angels and statuesque sculptures. Frames 4 to 10 show a newer area of graves looking over to a bushy hill. Two images show Chinese gravestones (frames 4 and 12; with the names Joe Lim, and Joe Sue Kum in frame 12.) Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film