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Monday, July 12, 2004
 
From: YVONNE.LOUGHNAN
Date: 07/11/04 22:28:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NZ] Hokitika, New Zealand


Judy,
No headstone or burial record on NZSG Cemetery Transcriptions, microfiche.
Hokitika as a town was only in its infancy in 1865, although there were
about 246 buildings along Revell Street, among them sixty-seven hotels!!!!
Ships bringing gold diggers were frequently wrecked, and passengers were
often brought ashore from the roadstead by whale boats, the first funeral
recorded is that on August 1865, when six of thirteen people drowned when
boat capsized crossing the bar.
Rev. G.S. Harper records in his diary a burial at the cemetery dated 10 Oct.
1865, but the first council burial listed is not until 17th Dec. 1866.
I have just been looking through West Coast Times on paperspast site, but
can find no mention of death.
 
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