Category: Nelson, New Zealand, Cemeteries

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The first burial in Nelson was on Haulashore Island. Thomas Cresswell was buried upon Aglionby Point on November 23rd, 1841. The Haven Cemetery came next, and then there were the Collingwood Street Cemetery, the Old Cemetery in Trafalgar Street, a Quaker Cemetery on the West side of Rutherford Street and then the Wakapuaka Cemetery. (NELSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, 1966)

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