The buller district council administers four cemeteries in westport, mokihinui, reefton and karamea. Online burial search the dunedin municipal cemetery, nestled between keene road and jerry lake, is the final resting place of many pioneer family members of dunedin. Cemeteries in central otago are either administered by council or by a trust. There are many unmarked graves in our cemeteries, so there are a lot of gaps and with the records dating back such a long way, its easy to get things wrong.
Our online cemetery database includes headstone photos and inscriptions for most of our cemeteries. For covid19 information and news, go to the unite against covid19 website. Use the search options to the left hand side of the screen to find detailed information including full name, date. The archives cover a significant period of new zealand history in the area administered by the dunedin city council and its predecessors. Search for cemetery records by name, or use advanced search for more detailed searching. We encourage the public to use this database to try and find the information they require, if the information can not be found please contact customer service january 2019 please note.
The northern cemetery was opened in 1872 to service the dunedin area, and today approximately 17,700 people are buried here. Agenda of council 30 may 2017 dunedin city council. The napier city council have their cemetery records online in a searchable database. Dunedin residents will once again be able to enjoy the citys sporting and cultural facilities with a few key changes to keep people safe as a staggered reopening of public venues gets underway from tomorrow. Entering more characters will give a quicker response to your query. Gore district council cemetery information otaraia, charlton park, gore, mataura, pukerau, waikaka. Dunedin residents will once again be able to enjoy the citys sporting and cultural facilities with a few key changes to keep people safe as a staggered reopening of. Dunedin southern cemetery dunedin, new zealand cemetery. This information is being made available as a permanent record on the council website, providing a valuable database and a resource for. You have access to more than 56,600 records for the four invercargill and bluff cemeteries and the southland crematorium. The cemetery remembers many of dunedins and new zealands early settlers and founding residents, such as entrepreneur william larnach, charles speight and poet, legislator and journalist thomas bracken.
The dunedin city council has an excellent cemeteries database. While the database was a work in progress, mr bailey would be happy to hear from anyone who could add to the records. Details, dunedin public library, dunedin, new zealand. Cemeteries and directories, dunedin public library. Thank you to bert and pauline miller for assistance with records and research for the site. This cemetery is located off sh 87, taieri, 2 kilometres past outram, coming from mosgiel.
Dunedin city council archives and the public domain. For the current status of council services and closures. The southern cemetery in dunedin, as the name implies, is at the southern end of the city. This database is for those who want to find information on anyone buried at any dunedin city cemetery.
The funeral director can guide you through all aspects of the program. Arts grants biodiversity funding city service and city project grants community funding and grants electricity fund events funding home. Tauranga city council s online cemeteries database provides information regarding burial locations all six cemeteries operated by tauranga city council. Photos of headstones in all cemeteries except northern have been photographed and included up to 2015, and have been added to the website, as a project carried out by the historic cemeteries conservation trust of nz. The dunedin new zealand masters games trust was a council controlled organisation cco, but had historically been exempted from the standard reporting requirements of a cco. The council cemeteries are located at timaru, temuka, geraldine, pleasant point, arundel and pareora west. Other central otago cemetery information will be progressively added over time. Councils historical cemetery records have been compiled by transferring information from district registersbooks into a single database.
Pinellas county sheriff dunedin office law enforcement services 737 louden avenue dunedin fl 34698. Dunedin city emergency management plan otago civil defence. Research your new zealand genealogy for free by searching and viewing new zealand cemetery records. Linwood cemetery, the fifth oldest surviving cemetery in christchurch, opened in 1884 it was the first christchurch municipal cemetery operated by the christchurch city council. Links to this and other otago and southland council cemetery databases can be found below. Headstone photography project with dunedin city council. Please note the following section of content is possibly being delivered from an external source iframe in html terms, and may present unusual experiences for screen readers. Linwood cemetery, bromley, christchurch, canterbury, new. Joy established the dunedin times to serve dunedin, as well as its surrounding farms and villages. Heres the cemetery location maps pdf documents,you can also go to an interactive aerial map. Tauranga city councils online cemeteries database provides information regarding burial locations all six cemeteries operated by tauranga city council. While every effort is made to ensure records are accurate. Information being collated includes aerial photos of burial sites, cemetery records, photos of headstones and data sourced from funeral directors and monumental services. However, the trust board voluntarily submitted a statement of intent and service level agreement, a pregames report and post games report to council biennially.
Dunedin union cemetery, created by abrown, clearview, simcoe, ontario, canada take billiongraves with you wherever you go. Dunedin city council consumers electricity fund criteria. The dunedin city council archives hold a wide variety of records related to local government in the dunedin city council area in new zealand. Bolton street cemetery is closed for burial and is managed as a public garden. Please refer here for the latest info on council services during the covid19 pandemic. We try to ensure the accuracy of these records, but mistakes may have occurred in the gathering of the information or in the conversion of the data into this format. This cemeteries search is provided by waipa district council to assist people searching for the location of the plots of friends and relatives in waipas cemeteries. Linwood cemetery, bromley, christchurch, canterbury, new zealand. Andersons bay cemetery, created by hudson4866, dunedin, otago, new zealand take billiongraves with you wherever you go. About this plan dcc strategic context design innovation and building local capability draft waste assessment for the dunedin city district 2018 education empowerment and collaboration funding the plan.
The southern cemetery in the new zealand city of dunedin was the first major cemetery to be opened in the city. Greater dunedin burial information is also available via the dunedin city council website. Online burial search the dunedin municipal cemetery, nestled between keene road and jerry lake, is the final resting place of many pioneer family members. Mackenzie district councils property and cemetery database search pages. The cemeteries and crematorium are operated by the parks division. Wellington city council operates two cemeteries, at karori and makara. You are welcome to visit any of the timaru district cemeteries during daylight hours. Herbertotepopo cemetery, waitaki, otago originally known as otepopo cemetery, it is located on mount charles, above herbert township. City of dunedin directory of dunedin city records and information. Grave discover software cemetery software for cemetery.
The table below allows you to find rating information about properties on the dunedin city council rating information database. Neither of these cemeteries are still used for new burials the last burials at the southern cemetery were in 1985. To find information about a specific rate account, enter the house number and suffix. May 30, 2017 d endorses the boards submission to the draft dunedin city council 201718 annual plan. Alfred charles hanlon kc 1 august 1866 6 february 1944 was a new zealand lawyer, who, according to the dictionary of new zealand biography, was one of the most outstanding criminal advocates in new zealands history. There are 17 commonwealth burials of the 19141918 war and 3 of the 19391945 war here. Cemeteries and directories, dunedin public library, dunedin. Records show it is the burial site of yuet sher loong, who died in 1903, aged 56. Free access to new zealand cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions. Currently there is a delay in the search process on the database. Addington cemetery, avonhead park cemetery, barbadoes street. A blank house number will return rate accounts with no house. The dunedin city council is an accredited building consent authority bca.
These public toilets will remain open and will be cleaned four times a day. Dunedin and most otago cemetery transcripts are available in book form from our genealogy room. Napier city council is making good progress on an extensive project aimed at auditing and simplifying public access to all records for the city s six cemeteries. A bca is responsible for performing certain building control functions under the building act, such as processing and issuing building consents, inspecting and certifying that completed building work is compliant and issuing notices to fix and compliance schedules. Gisborne district councils online cemetery database can be searched by a text search or map tool. Enter the surname, date or keywords you would like to search on. Addington cemetery, avonhead park cemetery, barbadoes street, belfast cemetery, bromley cemetery, linwood cemetery, memorial park cemetery, ruru lawn cemetery, sydenham cemetery, waimairi cemetery, woolston cemetery.
The archives include the records of a large number of local authorities ranging from the early town boards and. This large exercise is drawing together all the information lodged with or available to the council. The cemetery remembers many of dunedin s and new zealands early settlers and founding residents, such as entrepreneur william larnach, charles speight and poet, legislator and journalist thomas bracken. This area lies at the southern end of princes street, one of the citys main streets, close to the suburbs of kensington, maryhill, and the glen part of caversham. Cemeteries are primarily administered by city or district councils. Use this search to find a burial or cremation record. Find a burial or cremation record auckland council.
A project to restore chinese graves in dunedins southern cemetery is. Our cemetery software has great database management features to allow you to manage burials, occupants, plot owners, deeds, grave types, grave locations, headstone images, and more. Central hawkes bay district council have their cemetery records online in a searchable database. You can search the nelson city council cemeteries database to find where your family and friends are buried. For the current status of council services and closures learn more covid19 information. Invercargill cemetery search the councils cemetery database contains more than 50,000 entries for the four invercargill and bluff cemeteries and the southland crematorium. The northern cemetery, at the other end of the city s main urban area, was opened in 1872. We hold archives and records created by dunedin city council and its predecessors approximately 3000lm from 1855 up until the. When he died in 2011, the volunteers turned to computer software to. It is one of the oldest in the city and is in a very attractive location. The database contains records of 24,500 burials and 24,898 cremations from the four hastings district cemeteries hastings, havelock north, mangaroa and puketapu. Andersons bay cemetery, dunedin, otago, new zealand.
Dunedin city clerk official records and legal files 750 milwaukee avenue dunedin fl 34697 phone. Covid19 information for information about covid19, visit covid19. We have also been vested with cemeteries at woodbury and mesopotamia with local input into both of these sites. Many of the early pioneers to the area were buried here, from 18641956. Try our online map for taruheru, makaraka, ruatoria, tokomaru bay, te puia springs, tolaga bay, ormond and patutahi cemeteries. Cemetery record search central otago district council. Risk management within the dunedin city council is guided by the principles of the australian new zealand. Bus hub, great king street, railway station, anzac square. For all cemetery enquiries, including enquiries about cemetery records, please contact one of the staff below. Southern general cemetery dunedin, otago province, new zealand.
Contribute, create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Aug 19, 2009 auckland city libraries cemetery records. The civil defence emergency management training program includes sessions on. Cemetery database central hawkes bay district council. Grave discover software has the ability to digitize all your cemetery records into an easy to use and organized inventory. There is a crematorium and two chapels at karori cemetery, and an urupa at makara cemetery. Christchurch city council cemeteries database this database includes interments from the following cemeteries. Welcome to the hastings district council s online cemetery search. Our cemetery software has great database management features to allow you to manage burials, occupants, plot owners, deeds, grave types. This database is for those who want to find information on anyone buried at a waikato district council managed cemetery. One of the many things you can find through here is where cemetery records are online, including our own. Whangarei heads cemetery is located in big munro bay. Search text database to find cemetery records external link. My community cemeteries search for someone in a tasman cemetery enter as much information as you have, and click search.
Pages in category cemeteries in dunedin the following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. The cemeteries management plan includes an annual site inspection and work to kept the cemetery in its current state. Search for someone in a tasman cemetery tasman district council. A burial location database is available in the genealogy room. The southern cemetery in the new zealand city of dunedin was the first major. We encourage the public to use this database to try and find the information they require, if the information can not be found please get in contact with the cemetery clerk.
Could you give us a little intro to dunedin city councils archives and heritage collections. In keeping with international trends of the time, the cemetery was located on the outskirts of the city, bounded by butterfield ave, hay st, buckley rd and mcgregors rd. Search for someone in a tasman cemetery tasman district. Welcome to the hastings district councils online cemetery. Hillsborough onetangi, waiheke island otahuhu public waikaraka central hawkes bay district council public cemetery enquiry christchurch city council cemeteries database. Many councils have created online databases allowing you to search for your ancestors burial records and photographs of headstones. Dunedin city council genealogy and grave location enquiries. He was born in dunedin, new zealand, where he lived and died, though he. There are a total of 22 cemeteries including one burial ground in the district. South island cemetery databases christchurch city libraries. Explore dunedin city council archivess 1,701 photos on flickr.
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