Inangahua Cemetery, Inangahua, West Coast

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Location: Inangahua Junction, West Coast, New Zealand

Inangahua Cemetery

Location
Inangahua Cemetery, Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast 7895 New Zealand. Coordinates: -41.86080, 171.93464. And 3061 Reefton Highway State Highway 69.

Inangahua Junction Cemetery.

Inangahua Junction
The name 'Inangahua' is derived from īnanga (a native fish - whitebait), for which the Īnangahua River was noted. Inangahua Junction is at the confluence of the Inangahua River and Buller Rivers, 30 kilometres north of Reefton and 45 kilometres east of Westport. The Inangauhua township is 2 km east of the Junction. In January1866, gold prospecting parties in the Grey Valley moved up the Mawheraiti River and over the saddle into the Inangahua River. At the same time prospectors approached Inangahua by way of the Buller River. When Commissioner Kynnersley made his first insepction of the area in June 1866 he found a thousand men at work along Inangahua tributaries. ^[1]Christian Minderman built a bush tavern as a resting place on the river journey between Westport and Lyell, at the junction of the Buller and Inangahua rivers. The pub was named 'Christie's Boarding House' and the area was called Christies for many years before it was changed to Inangahua Junction. When road-building began the hotel was relocated to the junction of the Westport, Reefton and Nelson roads and was named Morgan's Hotel by the new owners. The two-storey wooden building, owned and operated by the Alborn family, was destroyed by fire on 25 September 1900.

After the gold rush years of the mid-19th century, the population of Inangahua dropped until there were only about 300 inhabitants at the time of the 1968 earthquake. Inangahua's main industries include forestry, coal, farming and sawmilling. There is a small primary school, shops, fire station and earthquake museum.
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Inangahua Cemetery
This cemetery is closed for burials. The deaths or many of those buried in this cemetery were the result of accidents.

Burials
'Billion Graves' has 14 Memorials and 'Find A Grave' has 29 records for people buried in this cemetery:

the earliest having been buried in 1894 Hannah Huet Bates Lloyd born in1850 and died 7 May 1894 (aged 45) ^[3] Her husband ^[4] was Henry David Lloyd born in 1843 and died 16 July1923 (aged 79–80) and is buried in Thames, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, New Zealand.

and the most recent, in 1934, CPL Ernest Edward Parker Veteran, was born 1 May 1895 in Hobart City, Tasmania, Australia. He died 31 August 1934 (aged 39) Westport, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand. His wife Florence Muriel Southon Parker, born in 1906 had died before him 11 June 1929 (aged 25). She and their infant son, Reginald Thomas, were two of the three killed at Blackwater in the Buller Gorge when a landslip struck the lorry on which they were riding. Ernest was driving the lorry and he and another son were both injured.

Parker Family Grave

Early Settlers

Hugh Taylor was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1844. He emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand in1862 and went to the West Coast gold fields in 1865, first in Hokitika and settled in Inangahua Junction in 1868, the first settler in the Inangahua Valley where he stayed until his death 27 December 1914 (aged 69–70). ^[5]His wife, Annie Harvie (McClymont) Taylor was born in 1859 in Scotland and married Hugh in New Zealand. ^[6]The were farmers at Inangahua Junction and had five daughters and two sons. Annie died 4 May 1923 (aged 64)^[7] in the Westport Hospital, Westport, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand. They are both buried in the Inangahua Cemetery.

Sarah (Courtney) Duret was born in 1849. She was the wife of the Berlins Accommodation House manager. Her accidental death at age 46 years, occurred 25 December 1895, ^[8] when the couple were riding in a dray on the way back home to Inangahua from Berlins. The horse backed over a bank, throwing her out and a barrel of beer rolled on top of her. At about the same place her first husband, Mr Courtney, had drowned a few months earlier.

Infants and Children

Lillias Margaret Drummond was born 18 July 1911 at Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand. Lilias was the daughter of Thomas Drummond and Mary Agnes (Taylor) Drummond and the grandaughter of Annie and Hugh Taylor. She had two younger brothers - Hugh and Thomas. She died 24 August 1924 (aged 13) at Inangahua Junction and was buried in the Inangahua Junction Cemetery, Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand. ^[9]

Grave for Lillian Drummond Age 13 years.

Reginald Thomas Parker, born in 1928, died 11 Jun 1929 (aged 0–1) when a landslip hit the lorry, driven by his father, in which he, his brother and mother were riding. Reginald and his mother were killed and his father and brother were injured.

Fatal Fire

Edward Mutton, an employee at Alborn's Hotel, Inangahua Junction, perished when the hotel was destroyed by fire, 24 September 1900. He was 21 years old and the son of Daniel Mutton of Okika near Westport.^[10]

Links

• District Council
• Find A Grave
• Billion Graves

Sources

1. ↑ Ross, Philip May, "The West Coast Gold Rushes", Pegasus, 1967, pp 206-207.
2. ↑ Wikipedia
3. ↑ NZ BDM - Deaths 1894/3099 Lloyd, Hannah aged 45Y
4. ↑ NZ BDM - Marriages 1870/6588 Hannah Huet Bates m. Henry David Lloyd
5. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #251936420 (accessed 9 April 2024)
   Memorial page for Hugh Taylor (1844-27 Dec 1914), citing Inangahua Junction Cemetery, Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand; Maintained by handymaam (contributor 49319993).
6. ↑ NZBDM Marriages: 1885/3101 Annie Harvie McClymont - Hugh Taylor (2/11/1885)
7. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #252058057 (accessed 9 April 2024)
   Memorial page for Annie Harvie McClymont Taylor (1859-14 May 1923), citing Inangahua Junction Cemetery, Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand; Maintained by handymaam (contributor 49319993).
8. ↑ NZBDM Deaths: 1896/3434 Duret Sarah 46Y
9. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #91988210 (accessed 9 April 2024)
   Memorial page for Lillias Margaret Drummond (18 Jul 1911-24 Aug 1924), citing Inangahua Junction Cemetery, Inangahua Junction, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand; Maintained by Frontiersman (contributor 47311842).
10. ↑ 1900 Newspaper: "Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
    Inangahua Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1841, 26 September 1900, Page 2
    Papers Past Article (accessed 10 April 2024)