Karangarua Cemetery, Karangarua, West

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Location: Karangarua, Westland, West Coast, New Zealand

Claude Webb & Alfred Maw Memorial

Karangarua Cemetery, Karangarua, West Coast
Location
Karangarua Cemetery is located on private property and is about 40 metres east of State Highway 6, Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast 7886 New Zealand. Coordinates: -43.52872, 169.84662.

Karangarua
Karangarua is about 22 km by road south of Fox Glacier and about 5 km north of Jacob's River. Andrew Scott, who married a widower, Margaret (Purcell) McIntosh went to Karangarua in about 1884 and he was a pioneer farmer there. Margaret brought 5 children to the marriage and they had another 6 children together.

Karangarua Cemetery from SH.

Karangarua Cemetery
The Westland Disrict Council does not list the Karangarua Cemetery although it came under its jurisdiction in about 1960. The original road ran along the beach and rivers had no bridges, resulting in the death of many early miners and settlers by drowning. Two men were drowned in 1907 when they tried to cross the bar in a lauch at the Karangarua River mouth.

Burials
'Find A Grave' has 22 records of people buried at Karangarua Cemetery. Ten of these are for members of the Scott family on whose land the cemetery is located. The graves are within an enclosure surrounded by a fence with a white gate.

Drowned

Claude Gordon Webb, born in1881, employee at the Mahinuapua Sawmill, was drowned when a the launch in which he was travelling capsized as it tried to cross the Karangarua River bar 5 Apr 1907 (26). Alfred May born 1875 in Wales, was with Claude in the launch and was also drowned (age 32). Two years earlier Alfred had survived when he was aboard the barque 'Ada and Eva' when it was wrecked at Gillespies Beach. He was a powerful swimmer and helped save the lives of others on board.

Early Settlers

Andrew Oliver Scott, born in 1850 in Northumberland, England, emigrated to New Zealand and died 16 Oct 1911 (aged 60–61) at Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. His wife, Margaret (Purcell; McIntosh) Scott was born in August 1860 in Australia. Margaret was first married in 1877 to Robert Currie McIntosh ( died 1892 and buried at Gillespies Beach Miners Cemetery) and second, in 1893, to Andrew Oliver Scott. Margaret he 3 April 1927 (aged 66) in Hokitika, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. Margaret and Andrew are both buried in the Karangarua Cemetery, Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand

Alice &Andrew Scott & Family

Andrew Oliver Scott, son of Andrew Oliver and Margaret (Purcell, McIntosh) Scot, was born 16 December 1894 at Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. Andrew had three sisters and one brother. He married Alice Condon and they had seven children: Ivor, Mary, Kathleen, Gloria, Margaret, Lionel and Judith. He died 4 October 1946 (aged 51), Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. He left his wife, two daughters and two sons. ^[1] His wife, Alice Maud Mary (Condon) Scott was born in 1897 at Haast, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. She died 7 December 1967 (aged 69–70) Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand and was buried with her husband in the Karangarua Cemetery.

Ivor John Scott was born 22 Oct 1924 was the son of Alice Maude Mary (Condon) and Andrew Oliver Scott. ^[2] He married Viola June “Vi” (Harvey) Scott. Ivor died in 2006 (aged 81–82) and Viola died in Granger House, Greymouth 24 June 2023. They are both buried in the Karangarua Cemetery.

Walter Scott was born 15 January 1899 at Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast. He married Eva Kathleen "Sis" Donovan, daughter of James and Eva Frances Donovan who ran the store at Ōkarito. They had two sons and one daughter,Thelma Rose Marie Scott, born in 1932, who died 2 August 1945 (aged 13). Walter died 17 August 1977 (aged 78) at Karangarua, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. ^[3]

Links

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