Whangarei Heads Pioneer Cemetery
Location: Whangarei Heads
Whangarei Heads Cemetery is located in Big Munro Bay. Many of the early pioneers to the area were buried here, from 1864-1956. The cemetery was vested in Council in August 1968. The cemeteries management plan includes an annual site inspection and work to kept the cemetery in its current state. Cemetery only accessible through private property and then from beach at low tide. Cemetery is closed but still under the control of the Whangerei District Council. Funerals used to approach by sea. The old pioneer cemetery, is now very overgrown, but some of the headstones still standing are in wonderful condition and some are very beautiful. Graves are mainly of Scottish Pioneers
A free-space page for capturing and recording interments at Whangarei Heads Pioneer Cemetery in Whangarei Heads, Northland.
About this Free-Space Page
This free space page for Whangarei Heads Pioneer Cemetery was created to document the life and times of our ancestors that are interred there. The New Zealand Cemeteries Team is part of the Global Cemeteries Project.
This page is a work in progress.
If you know of a person interred at this cemetery that should be linked to an existing WikiTree profile, or needs to have a profile created for them, please contact Darren Kellett for assistance, or one of the Cemeterists for The New Zealand Cemeteries Team.
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