Mount Street Cemetery

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: 1992-1994

From: Pringle, Michael, 1962-: Papers, photographs, maps, and posters

Reference: MS-Papers-5268

Description: The collection includes newspaper and other articles, notes, administrative papers and correspondence relating to the Friends' activities. The records are not complete. The Friends of Mount Street Cemetery group formed in 1992 to prevent the sale and possible destruction of the cemetery and to take part in its conservation. Michael Pringle was a founding member Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: Between 1924 and 1944

By: Luke, Kenneth Ewart, 1890-1965; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-o-279

Description: Photographs of road construction, rubbish tip construction, earthquake damage restoration, relating to engineering projects in Wellington between 1924 and 1944; album created by city engineer Kenneth Ewart Luke. Photographs include scenes of construction of the Hutt Road, in 1924 and in 1926; the Liardet Street Tip before filling operation started in 1939, and during progress in 1943 (later becoming Macalister Park); the site of the Salamanca Road Tip (later becoming Kelburn Park), with views of Victoria University and the Mount Street Cemetery in 1944; interior and exterior views of the Hobson Street Air Raid Shelters, and the Kaiwarra (Kaiwharawhara) Air Raid Shelter; a visit by the Minister of Public Works and local dignitaries to the weir site for the Hutt Water Supply Development Scheme in 1944; scenes of the Karori Reservoir showing shortage of water in 1943; earthquake damage restoration at the Wellington Town hall and King's Chambers, 1943-1944 (after the 1941 earthquake); views of the outdoor Karori Swimming Pool (constructed in 1936) after the addition of a beginners' pool in 1945; and a photograph of a plan drawn up by S. Drake for a proposed development of Te Aro (in 1944). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown embossed cover, entitled `Photographs'; 25 x 30 cm

Date: 1841-1975, 1980

By: Passau, Gordon O, active 1980

Reference: MS-Papers-11082

Description: A record of the memorial inscriptions for Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, 1841-1974, with introductory notes. Inscriptions are listed in alphabetical order with a supplementary index for those names that appear out of order; also list of ships mentioned on memorials. A record of the memorial inscriptions of Mount Street Roman Catholic Cemetery, Wellington, 1851-1954, with introductory notes and two maps of the cemetery. Listed in alphabetical order with a separate index to names that appear out of order, and a list of ships mentioned on memorials. Mount Street Roman Catholic Cemetery was closed in 1891 although pre-purchase family plots were used after this date. Bolton Street Cemetery's earliest extant stone is dated 1841; the last interment took place in Jan 1967, although the latest date on a memorial is 1974 (as at 1980) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (170 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1840 - 1976

By: Moriarty, Julia Mary, 1914-2002

Reference: MapColl-832.4799ekcmp/Ke/1840-1854/Acc.16008

Description: Plan of Mount Street Catholic Cemetery, Wellington, identifying layout, sections, graves numbers and names of graves. Names on the graves are difficult to decipher, but include: nuns burial ground, McElroy, O'Connell, Prendeville, Tobin & McCaffery, Monaghan, Hugh Curry, Sheeman, Webb, Counahan, McLane, O'Neil, Ahern, Flinn, Sheppett, Sullivans Vault, H Moore, Stafford, Hartland, Capt ?Ratigan 65th Reg, Sergt Kearns 65th Reg, Callagher, J O'Gallaghan, Beatty, P Hellen, May, McDonald, Hyland, O'Connor, Murphy & Simon, Biddle, P Maner, Carty Pillet, Davis, Evans & Caughey, Carmont - Sullivan, Ryan & Deverty, J Smith, Haslan, E Prince, Bell, B O'Donnell, U Vorno, Sivers, D Quinlin, Sayers, Finugane, Ann Welsh, T Lane, Hogan, H R Kane, Carson, Redwood, Moffat, Dovan, O'Keefe, Wordsworth, Agnus Coffy, Wiakely, McCrumskey, Walsh, W Bolton, Madden, M Maher, Hankey, E Dee, Laughlin, Mullane, Sharp, Nidd, J Johnston, Brady, Shell, D Frost, J Frost, Nolan, W O'Beill, M A Hurney, Kennedy, O'Shea, Flahive, Father Petitigrain, O'Reilly, Sauzeau, Bourke, Swan, Whitaker, Dunne, Gallagher, Seagrave, Pollock, Gibbs, M Murphy, Duffy, Keegan, Baogan, London, Norris, Minogue, Corliss, McCarthy, Lynch, Gosling, McNimara, Jones, McNamara & Gamble, Ready, J Weight, E Dee, Madden. Plot numbers were added by Margaret Alington in 1976, before copying. See also second diazo photoprint copy, shelved at Acc.19978. Some names are difficult to decipher. For clarification, see map. Includes lengthy explanatory note by Fr M W Mulcahy, that was included on this map at the time of photocopying. This note says that J C Earp drew the map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 83 x 74 cm

Date: [ca 1978-2013]

From: McBride, Patricia, active 1974-2016: Papers and photographs relating to research into Henry Lawson and Joshua Morgan

Reference: PAColl-10528

Description: Comprises photographs related to Patricia McBride's research into Henry Lawson. PAColl-10528-01 to -04 are photographs of the chapel of St Paulinius at Brough Hall in Yorkshire, home of Henry Lawson's family, with a memorial window to Henry Lawson and a plaque inside the church. PAColl-10528-05 is a photograph of a plaque on Daniel Lawlor Cottage at MOTAT in Auckland. Inscribed on the back is "Is this the same Daniel Lawlor who wrote with news of Henry's death?" PAColl-10528-06 is a photograph of the plaque erected in 2013 on Duntroon Village Green by the Duntroon District Development Association to commemorate Henry's death. PAColl-10528-07 is a photograph of a portait of Henry as a child. PAColl-10528-08 is a photograph of a Barraud painting of Henry's grave in Mount Street Cemetery, Wellington. PAColl-10528-09 to -20 are photographs from a research trip by McBride to the site of Lawson's farm and his original grave site. Includes photographs of the hill on which Lawson was originally buried. PAColl-10528-21 to -22 are photographs of Henry's headstone in Mount Street cemetery. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 20 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler photographic prints of various sizes. Transfers: Negatives have been separated to facilitate storage. Negatives associated with PAColl-10528-09 to -20 are numbered 35mm-101809 to 35mm-101812 . Negatives associated with PAColl-10528-07 and -08 are numbered 35mm-101813..

Date: 1840 - 1975

By: Marist Fathers; Moriarty, Julia Mary, 1914-2002

Reference: MapColl-832.4799ekcmp/Ke/1840-1854/Acc.19978

Description: Plan of Mount Street Catholic Cemetery, Wellington, showing layout and names of graves. Names on the graves are difficult to decipher, but include: nuns burial ground, McElroy, O'Connell, Prendeville, Tobin & McCaffery, Monaghan, Hugh Curry, Sheeman, Webb, Counahan, McLane, O'Neil, Ahern, Flinn, Sheppett, Sullivans Vault, H Moore, Stafford, Hartland, Capt ?Ratigan 65th Reg, Sergt Kearns 65th Reg, Callagher, J O'Gallaghan, Beatty, P Hellen, May, McDonald, Hyland, O'Connor, Murphy & Simon, Biddle, P Maner, Carty Pillet, Davis, Evans & Caughey, Carmont - Sullivan, Ryan & Deverty, J Smith, Haslan, E Prince, Bell, B O'Donnell, U Vorno, Sivers, D Quinlin, Sayers, Finugane, Ann Welsh, T Lane, Hogan, H R Kane, Carson, Redwood, Moffat, Dovan, O'Keefe, Wordsworth, Agnus Coffy, Wiakely, McCrumskey, Walsh, W Bolton, Madden, M Maher, Hankey, E Dee, Laughlin, Mullane, Sharp, Nidd, J Johnston, Brady, Shell, D Frost, J Frost, Nolan, W O'Beill, M A Hurney, Kennedy, O'Shea, Flahive, Father Petitigrain, O'Reilly, Sauzeau, Bourke, Swan, Whitaker, Dunne, Gallagher, Seagrave, Pollock, Gibbs, M Murphy, Duffy, Keegan, Baogan, London, Norris, Minogue, Corliss, McCarthy, Lynch, Gosling, McNimara, Jones, McNamara & Gamble, Ready, J Weight, E Dee, Madden. Explanatory note written on map by Father M W Mulcahy (abridged): Map of Cemetery as at 1959, copy of copy of plan made by J C Earp in 1959. Location of original register is now (in 1975) unknown. See also similar copy, with grave numbers, Acc.16008. Some names are difficult to decipher. For clarification, see map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 84.7 x 71.5 cm

Date: 1840

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/[1840]/Acc.3003-4

Description: Cadastral map of Wellington, from Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, to Lavaud Street, Newtown, showing numbered residential sections, reserves, a proposed canal, and named streets. Includes two very hard to read tables, the first showing a summary of acreage. The second, larger reference table shows more detailed section ownership information, (colour coding not visible on this copy), including Native (Maori) reserves, Crown and public reserves, the town belt, Botanical Reserve, proposed canal and European claimants. Includes note written on map before copying: Produced before the Native Land Court, Wellington, this 2nd June 1904. Includes the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Jewish cemeteries. Pencil annotation on map: CG 1961B shows original Crown grant of town belt. Signed by a Judge of the Native Land Court, Wellington, and one other (indeciferable) Written on map: '10408'. Acc.3004 is linen backed. See also similar copy, MapColl-832.4799a/[1848?]/Acc.37420 Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Signed by Native Land Court Wellington Judge and one other (indecipherable) Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 44.3 x 60.7 and 45 x 60.8 cm.

Date: 1983 - 1984

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites Porter & Partners (Firm)

Reference: A-393-145/149

Description: Includes a plan of cemetery seating near the Rankine Brown building and the Student Union building, a seat node plan, cross section of seat unit, and a perspective drawing of figures using the seats. Original file numbering was: 004.01.01.044 Other Titles - Waiteata Quantity: 5 plan(s) bound together. 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies, 297 x 420 mm, bound together. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/[1848?]/Acc.37420

Description: Cadastral map of Wellington, from Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, to Lavaud Street, Newtown, showing numbered residential sections, reserves, a proposed canal, and named streets. Includes two very hard to read tables, the first showing a summary of acreage. The second, larger reference table shows more detailed section ownership information, (colour coding not visible on this copy), including Native (Maori) reserves, Crown and public reserves, the town belt, Botanical Reserve, proposed canal and European claimants. Includes the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Jewish cemeteries. Annotation on map before copying: No. 1 Copy of Plan of town of Wellington attached to Crown grant filed in Colonial Secretary's Office. A Dowell (?) Colonial secretary Annotation on map before copying: Date of CG 29th Jan 1848 (some text indecipherable) Signed by W Wakefield, Principal agent to the New Zealand Company (under title). Also signed by Fitzgerald and Lt Col C Loverty (? - difficult to decipher). Stamped with Crown Lands seal Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Signed by Fitzgerald and C Loverty (?) Lt Col to Deputy ? Master General (difficult to decipher) See also similar copy, MapColl-832.4799gbbd/[1840]/Acc.3003-4 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 85.6 x 58.3 cm.

Date: 1974-1976

Reference: qMS-0251-0254

Description: Transcriptions of memorials removed from graves in Bolton Street Cemetery, 1968-1969 and 1971 to make way for the Wellington motorway and now stored at Karori Cemetery. Also transcriptions of memorials still standing in the Jewish, Anglican and public sections of the cemetery and in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Mount Street Compiled by members of NZ Historic Places Trust, Wellington and others and collated by Mrs M H Alington. Arranged and indexed (in Biograhies index) by staff of Alexander Turnbull Library Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (37 cm; red linen boxes) Finding Aids: Indexed. Names have been added to the Biographies Index.

Date: [1900s]

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-316

Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1968

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075855-F

Description: Mount Street Cemetery, Wellington. Photograph taken 1968 by Charles Fearnley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 6 x 7 cm

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0044

Description: Students Arts Festival 1970, including poetry readings by university students; a social held at the university; and two views inside the VUW Memorial Theatre. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Frames 3-4 show a group of students wrapped in blankets and rugs at a poetry reading at night in the Mount Street Cemetery; frames 7-9 were taken at a students' social at the Victoria University of Wellington; and frames 11-12 at the Memorial Theatre. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 7 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0062

Description: Students' Arts Festival 1970, poetry readings by university students held in the Mount Street Cemetery at midnight. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. 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: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0063

Description: Students' Arts Festival 1970, poetry readings by university students held in the Mount Street Cemetery at midnight. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. 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: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0064

Description: Students' Arts Festival 1970, poetry readings by university students held in the Mount Street Cemetery at midnight; and, fire in the roof of an unidentified church in the Vivian Street area. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Frames 1-7 students at a poetry reading in the Mount Street Cemetery as part of the Students' Arts Festival. Frames 9-12 show firemen attending a fire in the roof of a church in the Vivian Street area. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 11 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1973

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0781

Description: Shows scenes of children and adults at the Victoria University creche, Wellington, in 1973, and playing among the graves in the old Mount Street cemetery, Kelburn, in the university grounds. 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: 1968

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075787-F

Description: Mount Street Cemetery. Photograph taken 1968 by Charles Fearnley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 6 x 7 cm