1918 INFLUENZA KARORI CEMETERY
  1918 Influenza Karori Cemetery Project
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More than 730 people died of influenza in Wellington in late 1918 and early 1919, and 660 of them were buried at Karori Cemetery.
There are three main areas at Karori Cemetery - Anglican, Catholic, and Public2 – where 444 of those who died from influenza were buried.  Their plots are being progressively cleaned and tidied by the Project team, and research about those who died is underway and their stories are being uploaded progressively.

A further 108 people who died of influenza were buried in pre-existing plots in the Catholic, Anglican and Public sections at Karori Cemetery, and 4 in the Jewish section. Some of these will receive attention from the Project team.
All their names (444 + 108 = 552) are listed on this page.

109 soldiers were interred during November and December 1918 in the newly formed Soldiers Section of Karori Cemetery. 106 of them died of influenza, most of them while resident at the Training Unit at Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt. Some men had served overseas and had been repatriated as no longer fit for active service, but had been redeployed to undertake various roles at Trentham. Most though had recently been balloted and were preparing to be sent to the Front. Their headstones and the general environs are well-maintained and orderly.
106 soldiers names are listed towards the end of this page.

71 people who died of influenza in Wellington were buried in other locations – the burial locations of 42 of these people are unknown; 7 were buried in the Bolton Street Cemetery; 19 staff and inmates of the Porirua Mental Asylum were buried in Porirua Cemetery; 3 in the churchyard at St. John’s church, Johnsonville; and 1 person from Wellington was buried at Taita Cemetery. 
Two people were cremated at Karori and their ashes removed.

If you want to print any of the stories from this website please follow the printing guidance here.
Click on names in blue to link to their story. Those with (p) after the name are photos only)
ALSOP, Alfred William
ANDERSON, Hannah
ANDERSON, Hubert
ANDERSON, William
ANDREWS, Samuel
APPLETON, Mary
ARCHER, Elizabeth
ARCHER, Jessie
ARMSTRONG, John
ARNOLD, Clara
ASKEW, George
ASTON, Martha
ATKINSON, James
AUSTIN, Baby
AUSTIN, Percival
AXELL, George
AYDON, George
BAILEY, Thomas
BAILEY, Florence
BAKER, William (Percy)
BALLANTYNE, Robert
BALLANTYNE, Robina
BANKS, Jessie
BARCLAY, John
BARLOW, Edmond
BARLOW, Harry
BARNES, Alice
BARRACLOUGH, William
BARRY, Joseph
BARRY, Mary
BARTLETT, Mary
BATTERSBY, Guinevere
BEAGLEY, Margaret
BECK, Henry
BEDELL, Dulcie
BEDMEAD, Edith

BELCHER, Horace
BELL, Charles (p)
BENNETT, John
BERRY, Harold (p)
BHAGA, Parbhic
BHAGA, Phedia
BOBIN, Claude (p)
BONASICH, Christopher
BONASICH, William
BOOKER, Betty
​BOOCK, Bertram
BOULDEN, Rhoda
BOWEN, Charles
BOWEN, Alice
BRADLEY, Pipiana
BRIGGS, Norman
BROMSCOMBE, Arthur
BROWN (BOWN), Mabel
BROWN, William
BROWN, Winifred
BUCKINGHAM, Florence
BUCKLEY, William (p)
BURCHER, Margery
BURGH, Frances?
BURLINGTON, Peter
BURNS, Eddie
BURNS, Frank
BUTTERTON, Stuart
CALLANAN, Timothy (p)
CALVERT, Isabella
CAMERON, John
CAMPBELL, Annie (p)
CAMPBELL, Frederick
CAMPBELL, George
CAMPBELL, Isabella

CARRIG, Nellie
CARRIG, Timothy
CARTER, James
CARTER, Joseph
CASEY, Ernest
CHAPMAN, William
CHISHOLM, Dorothy
CHRISTIE, Charles
CLACKER, Hector
CLARKE, Nia (Nellie) (p)
CLARK, Mary
CLARK, John
CLARKE, Amelia
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CLAYDEN, Annie
CLAYDEN, Sydney
CLEVELAND, Eva
COLEMAN, Victor
COLLINS, Albert

COLLINS, Nellie
CONNOLLY, Arthur

COOKE, Minnie
COOKE, Samuel (p)
COOKE, Arthur
COOMBER, John
COOPER, Druscilla (p)
CORLISS, John
COSTIN, Frank
COVENY, Frederick
COWIE, Rosina
COWLEY, Joyce

CRANEFIELD, William
CREED, Alfred

CRESS, Zillah
CROOK, Verne
CROOKS, Douglas
CROSBY, Peter
CULLUM, Ivy
CULLUM, Leonard

CUNLIFFE, Richard
CUNNINGHAM, Thomas
CUNNINGHAME, Ada (p)
CURRIE, John
CURRY, Charles
CURRY, John

DANIELS/DOWNEY, Thomas
DARROCH, William
DAVEY, Benjamin
DAVIES, Mary

DAWSON, Walter
DAY, George
DE CLIFFORD, Mildred
DE STEFANO, Guiseppe
DE VERE, Louis
DE VERE, Sheila
DEANEY, Mary
DEE, Gerald

DELHAM, William
DENNIS, Wilfred
DENTICE, Mary
DHULLA, Bhula
DIACK, Christopher
DIVER, Dennis
DIXON, Maud
DONNELLY, Mary
DOOLAN, Jessie
DOUGLAS, Lydia
DOWDALL, John
DREWETTE, John
DUMBLE, Frederick
DUNCAN, Henry
DUNCAN, Mary

DURNEY, Augustine
DURNING, Ernest
EADES, Florence
EAGER, Emily
ECCLES, James
EISFELDER, George
ELTON, Alex

ENGEL, Harry
ESCOTT, Ellen
EVANS, Stella
EVITT, Charles
FAKIR, Rangi
FARRELL, Amy
FARROW, Mary
FAY, Anthony
FAY, Kathleen
FEARN, George
FIEBIG, Emily
FISHER, William
FITZGERALD, Gertrude
FITZGERALD, Baby
FITZGERALD, Geraldine

FITZGERALD, Michael
FITZGIBBON, Michael
FITZSIMMONS, Harry
FLEMING, Amy
FLYGER, Osmond

FORRESTER, Muriel
FORRESTER, Vera
FOSTER, Joseph
FRASER, Alexander
FREDERICKSON, Richard
FREDRIC, Albert
FRIBERG, Gustav
FRYER, William
FURK, Rupert
FURNISS, Herbert
GALBRAITH, Samuel
GALLAGHER, Edward
GALVIN, Percival
GEARY, William
GIBBES, William
GIBSON, Sydney
GIBSON, Mary
GILCHRIST, John (p)
GILES, Jessie
GILES, Joseph

GODDARD, William
GOLDBLATT, Jessie

GOLLAN, Walter (p)
GORDON, Thomas

GORE, William (p)
GOTT, Robert
GOURIO, Malo
GRACE, Hilda
GRAHAM, Thomas
GRANT, William

GREENHALGH, William
GREENING, Christina
GRIFFITHS, John
GROUHAND, Victor
GUTHRIE, Thomas
HACKETT, Ada
HALL, Gilbert (p)

HANSON, E(liza?)
HARDIN, Olive
HARDING, Victor

HARPER, James
HARRIS, Ellen
HARRIS, Henry
​HARRIS, Walter
HARRISON, Pauline
HART, Bert
HASSELBERG, Dan
HAWKINS, Alfred
HAWKINS, Katherine
HAYES, Michael
HEALEY, Patrick
HEAP, Sadie
HENDERSON, Hubert
HENSON, Gerald
HEWITT, Myrtle
HILL, John
HILL, Ernest
HILLS, Charles
HINDLE, John
HINDMARSH, Alfred
HINSON, Charles
HOCKER, Arthur
HODSON, James
HOLLOWAY, Edwin
HOLLOWAY, Evelyn,

HOLMES, Mathew
HOL(T)Z, Minnie
HOOD, Mary

HOUGHTON, Robert
HOW, Nora
HOWELL, Arthur
HOYLE, Charlotte
HUESTON, William
HUGHES, Francis
HULEAND, Auguste
HUTTON, Lona
ISAACS, George
IVAR, Henry
ISHERWOOD, Eileen
JACKSON, George
JACKSON, Isabel
JACKSON, William
​JACOBSON, Frank
JAMES, Percy

JAMES, William
JENKINS, Marshall
JENNINGS, Elsie
JIGGENS, Arthur
JOHNS, Rosa
JORGENSON, Valdemar
JUDD, Stephen
KALLSTROM, Alma
KEANE, John
KEEGAN, Mary
KELLY, Elizabeth
KELLY, William

KELLY, Winifred
KENNEDY, Florence
KIDSON, Mary
KING, Frederick
KING, Henry
KING, Frederick
KING, Robert
KNILANDS, William
KRUGER, John
KUNG, Sing Cum
LANDOS, Auguste
LANGWORTHY, Albert
LARKIN, Frederick
LARKIN, John
LARNACK, Elizabeth
LARSEN, Anton
LARSEN, Ivy
LAWSON, George

LE COZE, Yves
LEWIS, John
LEWIS, Ronald

LIDDY, Elsie
LINDDALL, Jack
LINEKER, James
LINGARD, Florence
LINKLATER, John
LOFTUS, Mary
LOGAN, John
LOGAN, Jessie
LONGHURST, Frances
LOWICK, Ruby
LUCAS, Florence
LUCAS, Joseph

LUNN, Noel

​MACAULAY, Elizabeth
MACCA, M
MACHU, Rachel
MAGEE, Mary
MAKEN, Jack
MALCOLM, John
MARSHALL, Christina
MARTIN, Albert
MARTIN, Charles

MARTIN, Jemima
MARTIN, Joseph
MARTIN, Mabel
MASSEY, Charles
MASTERS, George
MASTROGEORGE, Antonio
MATTHEWS, Charles
MCCARTHY, Mary
MCDUFF, John
MCEWEN, Ethel
MCILLANEY, Cornelius
MCINERNAY, T
MCKENZIE, John
MCKINLAY, Cyril
MCLAINE, Aexander
MCLAUGHLIN, Charles

MCLEOD, Amelia
MCLEOD, Flora
MCLEOD, Isabella
MCLEOD, John
MCMILLIN, Dora

MCNAMARA, Michael
MCNAMARA, Catherine
MCNAMARA, Patrick


MCNEISH, James
MCNIVEN, Donald
MCPARLIN, Thomas
MCPARTLAND, Cicely
MCPHERSON, Joseph
MCVICAR, John
MCWHIRTER, George
MELVILLE, Annie
MILLER, William
MILLS, Eileen
MILNER, Mary
MILROY, James
MONCRIEFF, Rhoda
MOORE, Ellen
MORAN, Elizabeth
MORGAN, John
MORRIS, William
MORTON, Ellen
MOSS, William
MOUAT, William
MURCHIE, Leonore
MURPHY, Lawrence
MURTON, Frank
NANDON, George
NEAGLE, Thomas
NEWDICK, Herbert
NICHOLLS, John (Jack)
NORMAN, George
NOTT, Mary
NOTT, Frank
NOTTINGHAM, Alfred
NYE, George
OBEN, Henry
O'BRIEN, Charles
O'BRIEN, Julia
O'BRIEN,Mary
O'CONNELL, John
O'CONNOR, John
ODDY, George
OGILVIE, James
O'MALLEY, Daniel
O'MEARA, Margaret
(Sister Mary Natalie)
OFSOFSKI, Frank
O'REILLY, Phillip
ORR, Mary
OUGHTON, Hannah
PACKER, Edward
PAGE, John
PALMER, Ernest
PALMER, Sydney
PARTON, Rebekah
PATTERSON, David
PAUL, John
PEACH, Henry
PERRY, John
PERRY, Hamilton
PETERSEN, Jacqueline
PETERSON, Alice
PETHERICK, Sarah
PHILLIPS, Mary
PHILLIPS, Perry
PITCAITHLY, Vernon
PLAYER, George
POLLEN, Henry
POTIERI, Florence
POTTER, John
PRATER, Agnes
PRICE, Francis
PURDEY, George
PURDEY, James (p)
PYE, Phyllis
PYOTT, George
QUAINTANCE, Ernest
QUINLIVAN, George
QUINLIVAN, Laurence

QUINLIVAN, Josephine
QUIRK, Joseph
RAIT, Kate

RAMSBOTTOM-ISHERWOOD, Reginald
REDMOND, Terence
REDSTONE, Ernest
REES, Michael
REVELL, Cath
REYLING, Kathleen
REYNOLDS, James
RHODES, Maude
RHODES, Victor
RICHARDSON, Theobald
RITCHIE, Thomas
RITTNER,Clara
ROBERTS, Dorothy
ROBERTSON, Augustus
ROBERTSON, Donald
ROBERTSON, Elizabeth
ROBERTSON, Lavinia

ROBERTSON, Stewart
​
ROBINSON, Charlotte
ROBINSON, Luther

ROBINSON, Eva
RODGERS, Frederick
ROGERS, Edith
ROGERS, Charles
ROONEY, Thomas
ROSS, Verdon
ROWBERRY, Joseph
RUDDUCK, Jessie
RUDGE, Harry
RUDKIN, Anita (p)
RUSHTON, Charles
RUSSELL, Charles
SAGE, Joseph
SANDS, Frank
SAUNDERS, John
SAUNDERS, George (p)
SCHENKEL, Edward
SCOTT, Edith
SCOTT, Jean
SCOTT, Thomas
SEATON, Christina
SELBY, Frederick
SELLAR, Thomas
SELLARS, Margaret
SHAND, Erica
SHAW, Herbert
SHEEHAN, Margaret
SHERWIN, William
SHORE/SHAW, William
SHORT, Alfred
SHORTER, Emily
SILK, William
SIMMONS, Kathleen
SIMPSON, Jonathan
SINCLAIR, Helen
SINCLAIR, Ebenezer
SKERRY, Gretha

SMITH, Alfred
SMITH, Bertie
SMITH, Charles

SMITH, Elsie
SMITH, Louisa
SMITH, Ngarita
SMITH, Sydney
SMITH, William
SMITTON, Janet
SPENCER, Ernest
SPENCER, Enoch
SPROWELL, Mary
STACK, Susan
STACK, Baby
STANDEN, Leonard
STAVELEY, Frank
STEAD, Frank
STEWART, Mary
STEWART, Julia
STICK, Albert (p)
STONE, James
STRACHAN, Matilda
SYMMONDS, Thomas
TAMAIRI, Heke
TAYLOR, William
TE NGATA, Timmy
TE TAITE, P
THOMPSON, Walter
THOMPSON, Alexander
THORNDON, Henry
THOW, Holly

TIGHE-UMBERS, Crofton
TIMLIN, Julia
TONG, Agnes
TOUT, Emmie
TRAILL, James
TREGONNING, William
TREVITHICK, Elizabeth
TROWER, Jean
TURNBULL, Sydney
TUTTY, George
TWOHY, James

UMBERS, Crofton
VAN STAVEREN, Henry

WALKER, Albert (p)
WALLACE, Vida (p)
WALSH, Phillip
WALTON, Meredith
WARD, James
WARD, Sarah
WARD, George
WATERS, Frederick
WATTS, Elsie
WEAVER, William
WEAVER, Mabel

WEIR, Daniel (p)
WELBOURNE, Henry
WELLBROOK, William
WELLER, George
WERNER, Mary
WHEATLEY, Arthur
WHELAN, Annie
WHELAN, Olive
WHELDON, Nellie
WHITAKER, Margaret
WHITE, Albert
WILLIAMS, William
WILLIAMS, Harold
WILLIAMSON, John
WILSON, Eileen
WILSON, Phyllis
WILSON, Thomas
WILSON, John
WILSON, Harry
WILTSHIRE, Henry
WINSTANLEY, Oswald
WOLFE, William James
WOODWARD, Baby
WOODWARD, Helena
WOOLF, Gilbert
WRIGHT, Christopher
WRIGHT, Agnes (p)
YOUNG, Alfred
YOUNG, Sue
YOUNG, Tim
ZORN, Bert (p)
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SOLDIERS
(click on names in blue to link to their story)
​ANDERSON, Thomas
ARLOW, Albert
ATYEO, Frederick
AVERY, Alfred
BADDILEY, Augustus

BAKER, Ernest
BARBER, Ernest
BELL, James
BERWICK, William
BIRCH, Arthur
BLAMEY, George
BREWER, Alfred
BROWN, George
BROWN, James
BROWN, Thomas
BRUNTON, Ralph
BURGESS, Frederick
CARTER, Horace
CASHMAN, John
CHAPMAN, Sidney
CLARK, William
COBB, Arthur
COBELDICK, Francis
COCKLE, Edward
COLLINGS, William
CONNELL, John
CORCORAN, Hugh
CROWE, Ernest
DEVINE, Arthur
DOIG, Henry
ELLIS, Alfred
FARLAND, Norman
FITZPATRICK, Thomas
FLANAGAN, John
FLOOD, Cliff
FRASER, Alexander
FRIEND, John
GALVAN, Alfred
GARVIE, William
GOODWIN, Robert
HANSEN, Frederick
HARLEN, Thomas
HART, Jas
HAWKHEAD, William
HAY, George
HIGGINS, John
HOGAN, James
HOGAN, Michael
ILLINGWORTH, Richard
JACK, Alexander
JAMES, Edwin
JOINES, Thomas
JONES, William
LATIMER, Leslie
LAWSON, Thomas
LINFORD, Horace
LUCAS, Joseph
MACKELLAR, Duncan
MACMAHON, Russell
MADIGAN, Edward
MAHER, Jas
MARSHALL, Jas
MARSHALL, Joseph

MARTIN-SMITH,  Leslie
MAYNARD, Frederick
MCKENZIE, Arthur
MCKENZIE, Donald
MCMILLAN, Robert
MCTIGUE, Edward
MERRIN, Percy
MILLAR, Frederick
MORRIS, Herbert
MORRIS, James
MURPHY, William
NORTH, David
O'NEILL, John
PERRITON, William
PETERS, Charles
PRICE, John
PRINCE, Stanley  (Prime)
QUANE, Denis
RICKARD, George
RUSH, John
RUSHFORD, Henry
SALE, John
SAUNDERSON, George
SCRIVEN, Alfred
SHORT, James
SIMMONDS, George
SIMMONS, Hugh
SLIGHT, Herbert
SMITH, Arthur
SPENSLEY, Edgar
STEWART, George
STEWART, Robert
SULLIVAN, David (Daniel)
TROTT, Douglas
TURNER, William
WHELDON, Albert
WILLIAMS, Andrew
WILLIAMS, William
WILSON, James
WILSON, Samuel
WILSON, William
WINTER, Percival
WOODS, Reginald
WRIGHT, Cecil (Harry)
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