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The first meeting of the Kimberley Cemetery Board took place on 10 April 1879. As the above newspaper snippet suggests, trustees were soon appointed to oversee the maintenance of the 40,000 m2 area. Today the cemetery is well kept and ordered, thanks to the allocated rows of plots.

The first interment was in 1879.

Plots are laid out in two blocks, it being decided early on to allocate Block A to the Church of England (Anglicans) and Block B to the Presbyterians. Today there is also a Block C which  remains an open grassed area.

Cemeteries close to Kimberley include Darfield Roman Catholic, Courtenay, Kirwee (St George’s Church), Kirwee Public Cemetery, West Melton, Waddington and Springfield.

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High-resolution photographs of the grave are available, plus one or two of the cemetery/church if applicable. This includes a full transcription, particularly for those stones that are hard to read or eroded.

Please consider a small donation, this will go towards church and cemetery repairs in the wake of the 7.1 Darfield and 6.3 Christchurch Earthquakes

Email me for gravestone images: moorfnz@gmail.com

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BEAMAN, Jonathan (d. 1933)

BEATTY, Sidney Wilfred (d. 26th October, 1959)

BOULTON, James (d. 10th November, 1923) Aged 3 weeks.

BOULTON, Richard Arthur (d. 19th July, 1958)

BUTLER, Clara Frances (d. 30th December, 1869)

BUTTLE, Henry John (d.15th February, 1952)

BUTTLE, Isabella Mary (d. 1st January, 1960)

BUTTLE, John Erwin (d. 10th October, 1990)

COLEMAN, G. D. B. (d. 2nd October, 1991)

COWAN, Hugh Kennedy (d. 6th May, 1894)

DEANS, David McIlraith Austen (d. 10th July, 2007)

DEANS, Nora (Norna) (d. 2nd September, 1973). Wife of Alexander (Alister) Deans buried at Passchendale, Belgium 2nd October 1917)

DONALD, Elizabeth J (d. 9th June, 1920)

EDE, Florence Daphnia (d. 1968)

EDE, Margaret (d. 20th September, 1922).

EDE, William (d. 1st July, 1945)

GUNN, John (d. 28th May, 1895)

GUNN, John (d. 7th January, 1919)

GUNN, William (d. 13th May, 1919)

HANNANT, Dennis (d. 6th December, 1944)

HANNANT, Joshua James (d. 9th January, 1909)

HART, Joseph (d. 1946)

HERBERT, Joseph (d. 1940)

HEWITT, Albert John (d. 10th August, 2009)

HEWITT, Leslie Butler (d. 3rd April, 1969)

INGLIS, Jean Evelyn (d. 31st January, 1990)

INGLIS, Oliver Lancelot (d. 27th July, 1937)

JOHNSTON, Thomas Underwood (d. 22nd August, 1951)

JOWERS, Jessie May (d. 7th December, 1950)

KNIGHT, Henry Arthur (d. 3rd October, 1935). A relative to author Jane Austen. Two memorials in cemetery to same person.

LLOYD, Ada Celia (d. 1935)

LYSAGHT, Andrew John (d. 31st October, 1983)

MacAULAY, Allan Lewis (d. 22 March, 1985)

MACKAY, Joseph (d. August 1925)

MANSON, James (d. 28th October, 1903)

MANSON, James (d. 3rd August, 1930).

MARKBY, Ian Eugene Inglis (d. 26th April, 2000)

MATHIAS, Charles Herbert (d. 1956)

MATHIAS, Herbert John (d. 13th September, 1885) “A True Colonist”

MATHIAS, Lucy (d. 23rd October, 1915)

McBEATH, Roderick (Junr) (d. 16th February, 1880). Killed accidentally at Kimberley. Age 14.

McCAUSLAND, Charles (d. 28th November, 1912)

McCAUSLAND, William (d. 25th April, 1886)

McCLELLAND, Francis (d. 24th July, 1915)

MOLLAND, Mary Susannah (d. 19th February, 1996)

OTTEN, Albert Alfred (d. 23rd April, 1927)

PATTERSON, Robin Sinclair (d. 4th January, 2004)

POLSON, George McLeod (d. 15th July, 1884). Age 41.

PRIEST, Claude Edward (d. 2nd April, 1934). Eldest son of T & J Priest. Age 24.

PRIEST, Norman (d. 1930)

RAE, Martha Jane (d. 6th September, 1912)

REED, Adelaide (d. 18th June, 1955)

REED, Barton Geoffrey (d. 15th June, 2005)

REED, Geoffrey Hubert (d. 21st April, 1972)

REED, Jonathon Barton (d. 20th January, 1979)

REED, Roland Karl (d. 8th April, 1983)

REED, Mary Ann Horrell (d. 26th March, 1902)

REED, William (d. 2nd October, 1914)

REVELEY, Bell (d. 28th June, 1902)

REVELEY, Bell (d. 13th June, 1927)

REVELEY, Groves (d. 7th May, 1945)

REVELEY, Hannah (d. 17th May, 1912)

REVELEY, Hannah (d. 1933)

REVELEY, Martha Susan (d. 22nd September, 1942)

REVELEY, Percy Earnest (d. 25th March, 1982)

REVELEY, Tom (d. 8th October, 1923)

SCHNELL, Judith Ann (d. 1st August, 2008). Nee Reed.

SIMPSON, Robert (d. 1935)

SMITH, Edward Skene (d. 19th May, 1989)

SPENCER, Robert Allen (d. 21st November, 1896)

STUART, Charles (d. 12th May, 1883) Gravestone toppled by earthquake on to its front.

STUART, Murray James (d. 29th November, 1996)

THOMPSON, Ada Rose (d. 1977)

UNDERWOOD, Thomas (d. 22nd August, 1951)

WOODHOUSE, Gladys Knight (d. 15th April, 1971) and husband John Westenra Woodhouse.

WOODHOUSE, John Harry Knight (d. 6th January, 1996)

WOODHOUSE, John Westenra (d. 24th September, 1971)