Morrinsville Old Cemetery Free Space page

Location: Morrinsville, Waikato, New Zealand
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries New_Zealand

Contents 1 Morrinsville Historic Cemetery 2 Cemetery "to do" list 3 Progress tracking 4 TABLE OF INTERMENTS

Morrinsville Historic Cemetery

This is a Free-Space page to record the memorials and interments at Morrinsville Old Cemetery, which is signposted by the Council as Morrinsville Historic Cemetery. Morrinsville is 33km north east of Hamilton in the Waikato.

The cemetery is located at 412 Thames Street, Morrinsville, Matamata-Piako District, Waikato, New Zealand, and is surrounded on two sides by housing. A new road has been constructed beside the cemetery for access to new housing that is being built in 2018 and 2019. This cemetery is closed for interments except for already purchased plots. Access is only by foot, as the road front gate is chained unless prior arrangement is made.

Morrinsville serves as 1 of the main town centres of New Zealand's dairy farming areas. The region around the town is sometimes described as among the most intensively farmed areas in the world, from where it gets its town slogan 'cream of the country'. The town is named after Samuel and Thomas Morrin, early settlers who purchased the land as an estate and founded the town to house the estate's workers.

The Morrinsville Museum has done an excellent job of ensuring headstones have been photographed and interments are documented on their website at Morrinsville Museum page on Old Cemetery Thames St. Image copies are available from the museum at a charge, and can be emailed. Note that not all burials have a headstone or a photo. In addition, the Matamata-Piako District Council has headstone photos and details on their online searchable database. Many entries show cause of death. In addition a list of memorials can be found on the Find-a-Grave database. See the page for Morrinsville Old Cemetery on Find-a-Grave.

Cemetery "to do" list

Assistance is needed for: -

1. photographing headstones and memorials
2. tagging photos of headstones and memorials with the cemetery space name
3. transcribing memorials
4. creating profiles for those interred or memorialised at Morrinsville Cemetery (some listed in the table and not yet created) and linking them to the wider tree
5. categorising existing profiles of those interred at Morrinsville Cemetery to ensure they appear under the cemetery category
6. adding profiles and information to the sortable table of interments
7. checking the table for missing information and/or errors
8. re-checking the table periodically for new or amended information

Progress tracking

Currently in the table there are:

• 10 entries in the table; 9 profiles linked; 4 transcriptions; 3 photos linked. Note that FindaGrave currently has 745 entries, so there is some catching up to do!Irwin-2099 03:01, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

TABLE OF INTERMENTS

Below is a sortable table of interments and memorials for Morrinsville Old Cemetery. ILMO in the transcriptions is an abbreviation of "In Loving Memory Of". Not all interments or headstones have images or transcriptions possible.

Sortable table of Memorials and Interments

SURNAME	GIVEN NAMES	BIRTH DATE	DEATH DATE	AGE	PLOT	TRANSCRIPTION	PHOTO LINK
ABERCROMBIE	Walter Goodwin	1867	1943 Oct 22	76	Headstone Section, Block V, Plot 20	To be transcribed	To be uploaded
ABERCROMBIE	Elizabeth Jane	1870	1934 Jan 29	64	Headstone Section, Block V, Plot 20	To be transcribed	To be uploaded
JACKSON	Frederick William	1881	1931 Jul 04	50	Headstone Section, Block C, Plot 21	ILMO Frederick WIlliam beloved husband of Mary Jackson died 4 July 1931 aged 50 years. 'Until the day break and the shadows flee away'	Jackson FW
MANNION	Nora Ellen	1893 Nov 20	1943 May 18	49	Headstone Section, Block C, Plot 22	To be transcribed	Mannion B & NE
MANNION	Timothy Edward	1853	1927 Mar 16	74	Headstone Section, Block B, Plot 22	Pray for the soul of TImothy beloved husband of Bridget Mannion died 16 March 1927 aged 74 years. RIP	To be uploaded
MANNION	James Fergal	1903	1923 Feb 07	20	Headstone Section, Block B, Plot 15	Pray for the soul of James Fergal Mannion, beloved son of T and B Mannionaged 20 years. RIP	To be uploaded
MANNION	Bridget Agnes	xx	1921 Feb 08	26	Headstone Section, Block B, Plot 17	No Headstone	No image
MANNION	John Michael	1893 Apr 16	1893 Oct 10	6 mths	Headstone Section, Block A, Plot 6	No Headstone	No image
MANNION	Bridget	1863 Jan 13	1944 Jan 30	81	Headstone Section, Block C, Plot 22	To be transcribed	Mannion B & NE
MANNION	William	xx	1924 Jun 29	74	Headstone Section, Block B, Plot 18	ILMO William Mannion died 29 June 1924 aged 74 years. RIP	To be uploaded