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Henry and Eliza Murcott
Henry and Eliza Murcott nee Harman: Seaview Cemetery Block 2 Plot 31 & 32Henry Murcott, was born in November 1888 to Lucy Murcott at Aniseed Valley, Nelson. He was the youngest of Lucy's four...
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Charles and Alice Stead
Charles and Alice Stead nee Honour: Seaview Cemetery Block 6 Plot 113, 114.Charles was born in about 1856 and died in 1946, aged 90.The headstone of Charles and Alice Stead. Seaview CemeteryThe Stead...
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Seaview Cemetery
1916 to present daySince the opening of Marsden Valley Cemetery in 1956, Seaview Cemetery has been used principally by those with close relatives already buried here. If you walk up the centre of the...
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Edmond and Eleanor Chisnall
Edmond and Eleanor Chisnall nee Flett: Seaview Cemetery Block 23, Plot 455 & 456Edmund Chisnall was born in 1865 to Adeline and Thomas Henry Chisnall. Edmund's brothers were Thomas Buxton, born...
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Pethybridge Memorial Rose Garden Motueka
On 26th November 1964, a memorial plaque and rose gardens were dedicated to Charles Edward Pethybridge, by G W Johnston Chairman of the Tobacco company W.D & H.O Wills (NZ) Ltd.. Charles had just...
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Settlement in Stoke
Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Maori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills to the sea. Covered with flax and raupo...
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John and Ann Doidge nee Branton
Seaview Cemetery Block 24, Plot 475 John and Ann (née Branton) Doidge, pioneer immigrants from Launceston in Cornwall, England, arrived in Nelson on board the Inchinnan in 1856 with five children:...
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Salisbury Footbridge 1887-2010
Bridges come and bridges go, especially in Bainham, where the Aorere River in a raging flood can leave a trail of destruction. The upright wooden straining posts of the 1902 suspension bridge, the...
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Nelson and Tasman Floods
On Tuesday 13 December, 2011, as people began to plan for summer, it began to rain and didn't stop until Thursday 15 December. The torrential rain was caused by a trough stalled between a low in the...
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Waimea River Stopbank
Stopping a wipe outBefore the building of the stop bank by the Nelson Catchment Board between 1957-63, floods were a major problem at the mouth of the Waimea River. The first stopbank was wiped out and...
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Richard Ching and Elizabeth nee Pearce
Seaview Cemetery Block 24, Plot 480Richards’s first wife Jane was buried at Fairfield Cemetery in 1855.Headstone of Richard Ching. Seaview CemeteryRichard Ching1 was born on 11 July 1811 in England to...
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W.E. Wilkes Ltd
Builders in Richmond for 90 Years William Edward Wilkes. Mayor of Richmond Borough 1917-1923.The firm of W.E. Wilkes is synonymous with house building in Richmond but it all began in a much smaller way...
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Enoch and Ann Jellyman and nephew Enoch Jellyman
Seaview Cemetery. Block 24, plot 477.Enoch and Ann Jellyman1 arrived in Nelson on the Bolton in 1842. They settled in Poormans, now Marsden, Valley, as tenants.2The Jellyman headstone at Seaview...
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Henry and Eliza Murcott
Henry and Eliza Murcott nee Harman: Seaview Cemetery Block 2 Plot 31 & 32Henry Murcott, was born in November 1888 to Lucy Murcott at Aniseed Valley, Nelson. He was the youngest of Lucy's four...
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Walter and Elizabeth Blommaart
Walter Joseph and Elizabeth Ella Blommaart nee ThomasSeaview Cemetery, Block 30, Plot 594Walter Blommaart was the child of Joseph and Clara, nee Ashby, who married in 1878.1 Walter was bornin about...
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Charles and Rose Campbell
Seaview Cemetery Block 10, Plot 199 & 200Charles Cameron Campbell was born 9 April 1893 at Blue Spur, Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, Central Otago. He married Rose Agnes Fisher and died 24 December...
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Seaview Cemetery
1916 to present daySince the opening of Marsden Valley Cemetery in 1956, Seaview Cemetery has been used principally by those with close relatives already buried here. If you walk up the centre of the...
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John Harris and Emma Ching
John Harris and Emma Ching, nee Jellyman later Simmonds - Seaview Cemetery: Block 24, Plot 479Headstone of John Harris and Emma Ching Seaview CemeteryThe following information is taken from: Coaley to...
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Charles and Alice Stead
Charles and Alice Stead nee Honour: Seaview Cemetery Block 6 Plot 113, 114.Charles was born in about 1856 and died in 1946, aged 90.The headstone of Charles and Alice Stead. Seaview CemeteryThe Stead...
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Thomas and Susan Robinson nee Stephenson
Seaview Cemetery Block 10, Plot 184Robinson Bros in Main Road Stoke was originally an export orchard set up in 1910 by Thomas Robinson.Thomas was born in Clough, Northern Ireland in 1845 and sailed to...
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