By the numbers
1 cemetery
4.32km
6,210 steps
At first I was not sure what I was going to do today once I
woke up, but being in Whangarei has been the relaxing part of the trip so far
and you never know the day could have been pretty easy. I learnt that I would
be visiting the cemetery at Maunu as several family members happen to be there.
Once I sorted myself out and was ready to leave, Claude
drove out to the Maunu cemetery in Whangarei as the plan was to check on my
great grandparents grave. Here was my other grandparents I wanted to have a
look at since I knew the grandmother had passed on earlier this year and I
wanted to see if she had been placed with her husband down within the ashes
plot, I had been there last around 2008, which says how long I was down that
part of the cemetery. Claude and I found the Lissington plot pretty quickly as
we were going to lean the growth off. I used a paint scraper, while not the
official tool to use but this wasn’t something like a historic grave. The moss
did move pretty well and later on we were suggested the use of bleach to get
the grime out where the name cavities were. After placing fresh flowers, we
sought the advice from several workers as we wanted to talk to the operators
about an issue to do with burials. I was fascinated as these guys were
headstone / stone masonry type people and they were lifting a headstone onto
the back of their truck maybe to include more words. They actually helped to
arrange with the caretaker or an appointment since he wasn’t in the area in an
hour or so.
After chatting to the workers, we were looking for several
other headstones that I was generous enough to turn my data on for the Whangarei
Cemetery search. We were in the correct area, but had to look at nearly every
headstone for the Alexander grave. I couldn’t see it, but Claude did find it.
We hunted down several other people in the family. It was then the day was
starting to heat up a little bit and I was feeling hot. I wanted to find Jim
Watson’s ash berm as I had wanted to know if Marjorie had been placed with him.
Since it had been around 2008 that I had last been there, I couldn’t quite
remember exactly where he was and it was annoying. Turns out Berm D was a
little further down than what we had thought and it was Claude who found him. I
would have likely missed him as I was pretty sure the last time I had seen it
the stone had been bright and cheery. It wasn’t this time around and no
additions to the ash berm. It was by this time that we could visit the
cartakers office and soon found we could use existing graves for ash
internments and would be cheaper. You could after playing tetris place around
24 lots of ashes onto the one plot. I found this to be interesting.
I wanted to do two things after leaving the cemetery other
than having lunch. I wanted to visit Kmart where I would buy two new pairs of
shorts as the pair I have with me has several holes in them and need replacing
and I got a shirt for good measure. Sure an extra pair of clothes, but this
will sort me out while I travel on the rest of my trip. I found the lady at the
checkout to be pleasant and that the Christmas rush had already started. I thought
it strange that there were no CDs or DVD in the Kmart store in NZ. The last thing I wanted was to visit Reyburn
House as they had a book on the Hokianga that I wanted, but I also wanted to
see if they had any other books on the local area. Last time I bought a book on
the Hokianga it had been the last one in print at the time. Funny how I can
seem to find hard to find books, but those I dont lend to anyone at all. They
may travel with me, but I will post them sometime soon. Once we got back home,
Donna turned up to show us some one home movies that had been recorded onto
digital as they were old ones that could have been from at least the 1960s if
not earlier so that was a pretty good job to do so. Another type of family
history preserving by saving old video recordings to save for future
generations. All I seem to be doing is looking up old newspaper articles, but I
think I find plenty of other things regardless.
Link
Whangarei cemetery search
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