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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Sunday 16 June 24 11:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi, thanks for this.  The onlly way I  would ever find anyone to do with the famine in N.Z. wold be in Obits.  Havent found any yet in all the years I have been doing genealogy.   If I do, I will certainly let you know.

Dot McCulloch

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Thursday 13 June 24 22:22 BST (UK)  »
Greetings,  I am a sort of caretaker of Makaraka Cemetery. Itg is a closed cemetery  - since 1916. In a way this cemetery has been abused,  too much for me to go into herel  There were 88 headstones buried in a trench and some 600 are still missing. It took us 13 years to get them up and to do  so we formed a Trust and managed to get those headstones out  of the ground and placed on respective graves.   We are doing stories of the people buried there and have  done two books so far and third almost ready  to go to print - all with relatives input.  We would like this sort of thing to add to our third book.    I do not have direct family here, just a distant cousin'a in-laws.   This has made my life very interesting. but am now 83 so this will by my  last effort.

Cheers, Dot McCulloch, Friends of Makaraka Cemetery Ttrust.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Tuesday 18 July 23 10:27 BST (UK)  »
HI, McCarthy burials at Makaraka Cemetery are as follows:


John, Old Section, Plot 89 t July 1881 45 years
Julia M.  Block A, Plot 35 5 November 1906 4 months old
Richard Block G, Plot 701 20 October 1920 58 years
John Henry, same plot  11 June 1946 aged 38 years
Marjorie Mary, same plot 16 June 1942 aged 87 years

That is all I have, and I dont have any of the others you had in your message.      Cheers Dot

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Monday 10 July 23 16:15 BST (UK)  »
I sent you m,my email address but will again:   (*)

As you have probably figured out - Gisborne is the most eastern city in Gisborne and is actually the first city in the world to see the new day with the international date line out there in the ocean.  That is why the yer 2000 celebrations started here.   Mt Hikurangi up the coast is reputed to be the first to get the sun.

I am not researching one person in the cemetery, but we have done two books on the lives of folk buried there, and book 3 is in the offing.

Every little bit helps as the Council budget for a closed cemetery covers lawns and occasional other things, and the funds we raise from selling the books are enabling us to do things like signage, a seat, some replacement trees and things like that.

Cheers   Dot McCulloch


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Saturday 08 July 23 22:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi, There are the following McCarthy folks buried at Makaraka Cemetery:
John, aged 45 in Old Section,Plot 89,died 6 July 1881
Julia M. aged 8 months, Block A, Plot 35, died 5 November 1909
Richard, aged 58 years, Block G, Plot 701, died 20 October 1920
John Henry, aged 38 years,  same plot as above, died 11 June 1946
Marjorie Mary, aged 87 years  same plot as above, died 16 January 1962

No O'Driscolls.

Cheers, Dot McCulloch.  Direct email (*)


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The Common Room / Re: Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne , N.Z.
« on: Friday 31 August 18 10:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi, We have done more extensive search about the Ling family.

He was born in England, and was one of 6 boys by the look of it.   She married to someone written up in Ancestry as Patts, but have doubts about the rightness of that.  Edward and Elizabeth obviously came to N.Z. as husband and wife, and settled in Gisborne as that. They got married in Wanganui -probably because no one would find out that they had not been married to each other before.  She stated on the marriage certificate that she had been married but had had no contact with her husband since 1873.  We found out that her first husband died in 1905, so she really committed bigamy.  They never had any children.   I have been in touch with a relative over there who has been trying to do the family tree, and stated that she could not find anything about him after the 1871 Census.  She wants to take responsibility for the headstone, but has been made redundant and is not old enough to get a pension, so is financially strapped.   Interesting, and probably others in the same boat.

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The Common Room / Re: Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne , N.Z.
« on: Friday 18 May 18 01:30 BST (UK)  »
His father's name was Edward, and mother Mary Ann nee Ward

I wondered if they had come out on their own - maybe one of his brothers.  Just a thought

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The Common Room / Re: Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne , N.Z.
« on: Thursday 17 May 18 22:40 BST (UK)  »
Sorry about typo. Have left arm in cast from armpit to knuckles. Do most with one hand and an occasional error slips in.

Dot

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The Common Room / Re: Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne , N.Z.
« on: Thursday 17 May 18 10:15 BST (UK)  »
I have the two death certificates and marriage lines,   Her death certificate is very sad as most boxes were marked and she died of senility.

His death certificate says he had prostate cancer, his fathers name wasd and mother Mary, nee Ward.  It says they were married at Faversham, Kent? ? ? at age 27 to Elizabeth Ann nee Kemp.

The marriage lines say she was a Kemp, but she had been married to someone called Petty and had not heard from him since October 1873.  They both lived in Gisborne but were married in Wanganui at the Registry Office.  Her mother's name was Mary Ann nee Hamon and the father George, address looks like Teynham, Co, Kent.  Looks a bit like they could not get married because she was already married, and when a certain time had elapsed, they did so, but why say he married at age 27 to her.  ????
K

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