Linden Cemetery
The following extracts are from the late Arthur H. Carman's book
Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road 1840 - 1982
An invaluable book for anyone doing reseach in the Tawa or
Porirua area.
The gift of Edward Gibbon Wakefield of the Portion of section 52, Porirua Road, to
the Church of England in December 1861, was followed by the erection of a church on the
site in 1866. The first burial of which I have traces evidence is that of two-week old
Eunice Fitzherbert of Grasslees Farm in April 1867, her mother dying two weeks later and
being buried at the "Tawa Flat Cemetery" on Saturday 11 may 1867, W. Mitchell
being the undertaker. All records of burials have been lost, but when I made a close
inspection of decipherable tombstones on 20 February 1938, the following were all I could
account for:
Name | Date of Death or burial | Age | Comments |
Allen Catherine Pricilla May | 15th December 1883 | Aged 11months | |
Bartlett Joseph | 25th June 1877 | Aged 34 | |
Benson Mary | 12 January 1892 | Aged 67 | |
Bowles Mary Ann | 13th June 1894 | Aged 73 | |
Brown Andrew | 8th September 1882 | ||
Brown Mary | 4th Sept 1883 | ||
Brown James | 23rd June 1888 | ||
Brown Janet | Wife of James | ||
Camm Mary | 24th February 1883 | Aged 71 | Previously Woodman |
Davis George | 15th September 1890 | Aged 48 | |
Earp William | 19th November 1888 | ||
Earp Elizabeth | 1st February 1892 | Aged 77 | |
Hooper Henry Francis | 26th July 1891 | Aged 38 | |
Hooper Elinor Susan | 10th April 1938 | Wife of above | |
Hyde Edwin | 7th July 1898 | ||
Hyde Eliza | 1878 or 1879 | ||
Marchant G. | 8th March 1895 | ||
Morgan John | 15th October 1886 | Aged 53 | |
Morgan Catherine | 11th September 1917 | His wife aged 74 | This is the last burial in this cemetery |
Morgan Annie | 10th April 1890 | Aged 18 | |
Mungavin Ellen | 8th July 1884 | Aged 26 | |
Newman Ernest w. | 23rd May 1887 | Aged 16 | |
Newman Annie | 10th April 1904 | Aged 31 | |
Newman Ellen | 16th March 1907 | Aged 64 | |
Newman William | 5th November 1916 | Aged 68 | |
Richards Elizabeth | 15th May 1896 | Sister of G. Marchant | |
Richards Daniel | 7th September 1887 | Aged 68 | |
Richards Ann | 13th February 1884 | Wife of above aged 59 | |
Roberts Amelia | September 1883 | Wife of Philip Roberts aged 46 | |
Roberts Philip | 15th January 1901 | Aged 66 | |
Spicer Richard | 4th July 1874 | Aged 21 | |
Steele Thomas | 24th September 1898 | ||
Steele Emily | 30th November 1930 | ||
Stevens Charles | 1st March 1871 | Aged 59 | |
Stevens Lydia | 13 April 1874 | Aged 69 wife of Charles | |
Stevens Elizabeth | 18th July 1891 | Aged 39 | |
Stevens George William Edward | 23 April 1892 | Aged 11 | |
Thomas Eliza | 10th March 1874 | Mother of Amelia Roberts aged 70 | |
Vella Mary | 22nd December 1889 | Wife of Mariano Vella aged 21 | |
Wall Henry Irvine | 16th January 1894 | Aged 14 | |
Wells Harry Walker | 3rd February 1890 | Aged 33 | Headmaster of Tawa Flat School |
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