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The first burial in Kirwee Public Cemetery was in 1879.

At that time the cemetery was laid out in four sections – Episcopalian, Catholic and two other denominations.

Today just three denominations are mapped – Anglican, Non-Conformist and Presbyterian.

Since its opening, the cemetery has shrunk in size. Some of the land was sectioned off for grazing c. 1896 because so few burials took that place no funds were being received.

Malvern County Council took over the maintenance of Kirwee Public Cemetery in 1921 and it is now under the control of Selwyn District Council.

Even today the cemetery, the entrance of which is found off Hoskyns Road in Kirwee (a gravel track), houses few stones.

There is, of course, one other cemetery serving Kirwee in the grounds of St George’s Church.

Other nearby cemeteries include St Matthew’s at Courtenay, Kimberley (nr Darfield), Waddington, and St Peter’s / Kowhai Bush Cemetery in Springfield.

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

Please consider a small donation to keep the site and the work going

Email me for gravestone images: moorfnz@gmail.com

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ADDINGTON, Jane (d. 19th March, 1899)

BEDFORD, George Raymond (d. 1971)

BELL, Hazel Jean (d. 3rd June, 2000)

DAY, John Edwin (d. 1964)

DILLON, John Garvin (d. 6th November, 1967)

DONALD, Betty Dawn (d. 18th April, 2008). Nee Williams.

DUNLOP, Emily (d. 17th June, 1911)

DUTHIE, Herbert (d. 1944)

DYSART, Florence May (d. 22nd July, 2003)

DYSART, James (d. 27th April, 1934)

DYSART, James Gordon (d. 26th January, 1992)

DYSART, Mary (d. 26th April, 1915)

FEAST, Daphne Yvonne (d. 16th March, 1999)

FINLAY, Charles (d. 1941)

FINLAY, David (d. 25th June, 1948)

FINLAY, James (d. 6th June, 2007)

GIBSON, Ramsay Rogers (d. 2007)

GILMOUR, David James (d. 26th March, 2002)

GILMOUR, George Fillans (d. 17th March, 1998)

GILMOUR, Jean Netherton (d. 20th September, 1981)

GILMOUR, Mary Jane (d. 1950)

HARWOOD, Archie Manson (d. 2nd December, 1963)

HARWOOD, Christina (d. 5th September, 1972)

HARWOOD, Eva (d. 26th September, 1975)

HARWOOD, F W (d. 13th April, 1940)

HARWOOD, Janet Rebecca (d. 26th June, 1998)

HARWOOD, John James (d. 6th July, 1968)

HARWOOD, William Henry (d. 1937)

HARWOOD, Winnie (d. 1st January, 1900)

JOHNSON, Catherine (d. 25th June, 1895)

LAWREY, Lilian (d. 8th August, 1929)

LEEMING, Percy Thomas (d. 1967)

MACARTNEY, Tui Dennis (d. 20th June, 1989)

MANSON, Janet (d. 1937)

McKIE, Lucy Jane (d. 1940)

McKIE, William (d. 7th July, 1923)

McCLELLAND, Little Willie (d. 20th March, 1904)

McMEEKAN, Leslie Robert (d. 18th March, 1920). Leslie drowned in the Kirwee School Baths, Christchurch, aged 14. Miss Sloan, the teacher, who tried to rescue him was from Southbridge. He was a grandson of Mrs Rapley, senior, of Leeston.

McNAE, Elizabeth Ann (d. 22nd May, 1933)

MOLLOY, Barry Thomas (d. 1th August, 1955). Age 2.5 years.

PATERSON, Alexander (d. 17th January, 1895). Formerly of Greenock, Scotland.

PENNEY, Constance Annie (d. 1950)

REDMOND, Robert Charles (d. 22nd January, 2002)

REDMOND, William George (d. 24th August, 1959)

ROBERTSON, A. Courtenay (d. 10th October, 1909). Age 3 years and 5 months.

ROBERTSON, Annie (d. 5th August, 1951)

ROWLANDS, Donald (d. 24th July, 2006)

ROWLANDS, Ellen (d. 7th June, 1952)

SHEAT, Norman Roy (no dates)

SHINN, Ivan Joseph (d. 26th September, 1993)

SHINN, Murray David (d. 15th January, 1974)

SIMPSON, Martha Ann (d. 13th June, 1923)

STOTT, Rita Margaret (d. 2001)

SUMMERVILLE, William (d. 1910)

SUMMERVILLE, William (d. 1981)

THOMSON, Annie Eliza (d. 6th January, 1960)

TURNER, Alice Bridget (d. 19th August, 1972)

WATSON, Eliza Ann (d. 2nd May, 1923)

WATSON, Ruth (10th November, 1899)

WEIR, Harry George (d. 15th September, 1927)

WESTAWAY, Dorothy May (d. 1989)

WESTAWAY, Edna Mary (d. 2004)

WESTAWAY, Frank (d. 1937)

WILLIAMS, Elizabeth May (d. 7th August, 1942)

WILLIAMS, Reginald Clarence (d. 24th September, 1959)

WILSON, Jane (d. 22nd December, 1938)

WILSON, John Meredith (d. 15th June, 1983)

WILSON, Robert (d. 6th August, 1933)

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

Please consider a small donation to keep the site and the work going

Email me for gravestone images: moorfnz@gmail.com

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