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New Lyell Cemetery, Lyell, Buller District, West Coast

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Location
The New Lyell Cemetery is close to the road at Upper Buller Gorge Road (State Highway 6), Lyell, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand. It is only about a kilometre away from the original Lyell Cemetery on a hillside. Coordinates: -41.79217, 172.03187.

Lyell Roadside Cemetery

Lyell Township
Gold was the sole reason for the existence of Lyell Township which grew in an irregular way along the base of the steep hillside. Located high up in the Lyell mountain range, Lyell town was ninety-nine miles from the city of Nelson, from Westport thirty-eight miles from Westport and twelve miles from Inangahua Junction. In early 1871 Lyell Township was very small with only two stores and bush taverns. Discoveries of quartz and a safe ferry-boat at the Lyell-Buller Junction attracted increasing numbers. By April there were about a dozen houses and more stores and hotels.

Late in 1872 a visitor reported that no-one in Lyell was in a hurry. The people in houses and tents were awakened at one morning at 5.0 am by the roar of a coming storm. The wind carrying trees and branches swept away every tent in seconds. A measure of the importance of Lyell which reflected the success of mines up the creek, was the telegraph link made with Reefton 14 March 1874. Late the same year Lyell became part of the Buller District instead of Inangahua District and 5 February 1875 the Lyell was handed to Warden Giles in Westport to even out the duties of the two remaining wardens in the Nelson South West goldfield.

New Lyell Cemetery
There are two Lyell Cemeteries. The original, Old Cemetery is a 10 minute walk up a well kept path through forest where between 30 and 40 people were buried from 1880 to 1900. The rugged terrain including rock and the hillside finally proved too much to dig, so the New Lyell Cemetery was established down on the flat a kilometre or so away. It is closed for interments.

Burials
'Find-A-Grave' has record for only 5 people buried in the New Lyell Cemetery. 'Billion Graves' names this cemetery the Lyell Roadside Cemetery and has only 3 records .

Cornelius Neville born in 1857, married Mary Ann Mason. He died 8 March 1907 (aged 51). His entire estate went to his widow. [1]
Ellen Williams.
Ellen Williams, born in about 1841, died 4 September 1893 age 52 years.

Croatia

Theodore Pupich was born in about 1855 in Rugusa, Austria, (now known as Dubrovnik, Grad Dubrovnik, Dubrovacko-Neretvanska, Croatia). His New Zealand Naturalisation was granted by the Acting Colonial Secretary at Government House, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, 16 Nov 1896. [2] Thodore married Emily Weatherly, born22 September1865 in Hayes, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England. [3]They had eight children. Theodore Pupich died at Lyell 30 Oct 1913 (aged 57–58). [4] He was buried in the New Lyell Cemetery.
His son Theodore Millan Pupich born 1 May 1891 in New Zealand died from pneumonia 2 August1912 (aged 21) and was also buried in the New Lyell Cemetery.
[5]

Irish

Catherine Byrne was born in 1839 in Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland and died 26 February 1908 (69).
[6]
Epitaph
Still for Mother dear we call.
When we lost her we lost all.

Children

Aveline Broderick was born in1893 and died in 1904 (aged 10–11), She was buried in the Lyell New Cemetery. A most distressing accident occurred at Lyell last week, by which a girl named Aveline Broderick, 12 years of age, lost her life. It appears that the girl had gone up a steep hill at the back of the house to gather wood. The modus operandi being to gather the wood in a small bag and then let it run down a wire. The wire, which was a piece of fencing material about four chains in length, was tightly affixed to the stout trunk of a tree, a short distance out from the foot of the hill. In some mysterious way, when starting the bag, the child became attached to it, and slid down the whole length of the wire, grade being very steep, she landed against the stump of the tree at the bottom, breaking her thigh, and was otherwise injured internally The little sufferer was taken with speed to the Reefton Hospital, but succumbed to her injuries.[7]
New Lyell Cemetery Old Grave

Links

  • Find-A-Grave [1]
  • Billion Graves [2]
  • Buller District Council [3]

Sources

  1. 1907 Newspaper: "Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
    Grey River Argus, 18 July 1907, Page 2
    Papers Past Article (accessed 13 March 2024)
  2. Memorial for Naturalisation no. 96/3295, Enrolled in the Office of the Colonial Secretary Reg. no. 33 p. 201, Theodore Pupich; National Archives of New Zealand, 10 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
  3. Marriage Certificate, 25 July 1887, no. 18, Theodore Pupich to Emily Weatherley; Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Level 3, Boulcott House, 47 Boulcott Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
  4. Death Register, 1913/8978, Theodor Pupich; The Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand): http://www.dia.govt.nz/.
  5. 1912 Newspaper: "Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
    Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13487, 6 August 1912, Page 2
    Papers Past Article (accessed 13 March 2024)
  6. NZBDM death registration number: 1908/1563 Byrne Catherine 69Y
  7. 1904 Newspaper: "Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand"
    Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4707, 6 September 1904, Page 2
    Papers Past Article (accessed 13 March 2024)




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