In Loving Memory

Saturday, 21 May 2022

27433 Private Daniel David Brown, 3/10/1878-15/6/1919.

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Daniel Brown was a miner living in Palmerston when he volunteered for the Boer War in 1901. His service there is difficult to pin down on ac...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

Lieutenant Roger Kerkham, 1869-14/12/1902.

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FATAL BATHING ACCIDENT A particularly sad accident, which resulted in the death of Lieutenant Roger  Kerkham,  of the Dunedin City Rifles, o...

Captain Robert Tubman, 1871-11/4/1902.

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On board the Moura, on the trip down the harbor,  Lieutenant Tubman  was the recipient of a splendid pair of extremely light field glasses, ...
Friday, 13 May 2022

Alice Kelman (nee Reid), 1876-23/5/1906.

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The Rector’s report stated that the school (Riverton District High School) was opened on Monday last with an attendance of 257 and yesterd...

Mary Ann Sinclair, 1896-14/1/1910.

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Mary Ann Sinclair,  13 years of age, who lived with her parents in St. David street, Dunedin, complained of a headache about 3 o’clock on Fr...
Thursday, 12 May 2022

John Harbour, 1870-19/2/1904.

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CASUALTIES A youth named  John Harbour,  aged about 16 years, and residing in Upper Woodhaugh Valley, had one of his hands caught in some of...

Thomas (1879-3/8/1911) and Agnes (1883-3/8/1911) Colehan.

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SAD TRAGEDY. MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.  RESULT OF GUN-SHOTS.  (By Telegraph: — Press Association.) Dunedin, August 4. A very sad tragedy occu...
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Otago Taphophile
A taphophile is a "lover of cemeteries." Of course, there are many other aspects to my life but the stories to be found connected to epitaphs in local (and not so local) cemeteries have interested me for a while, and are now the basis of my business, which can be found at: https://darkestdunedin.co.nz/ The epitaph which inspired me to find the stories lies on the ground of Dunedin's Southern Cemetery and includes in its inscription the words "brutally murdered." I haven't covered this one as I write but it's one hell of a story. UPDATE Having reached 1500 stories, I will try and make this blog a little more searchable. I also note that many photos I've used from the Hocken collection are showing s completely different to the ones I uploaded. I assume this is due somehow to the recent additions to their collection.
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