Auckland Jewish Community Centre
108-116 Grey's Ave.
Auckland, New Zealand
Phone : 732 908

Wellington Hebrew Congregation
80 Webb St.
Wellington, New Zealand
For information call : 845 081 or 850 429

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Main Office:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
2 Marlow Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 7DX
United Kingdom
Tel: (01628) 634221
Fax: (01628) 771208
Telex: 847526 Comgra G
E-mail: casualty.enq@cwgc.org

• Old Public Cemetery {10901}: Information provided to Claire Bruell by Mrs. Jean Cleave from Mid-Canterbury Gen. Society, 3 Smitheram St., Ashburton.

• Hereford St.: No longer exists. Used by Canturbury Hebrew Congregation. Contact Dr. Gerald L. Morris (90B Proctor Street, Christchurch 5. phone and fax: 03.352-4764) for information about 34 burials in Hereford Street. All were re-interred in Linwood Cemetery in one grave under a single headstone in 1943. Active 1870 to 1885.
• Linwood Cemetery: {xxxxx} Situated in a suburb of Christchurch, the site is still active and contains about 250 graves. The original cemetery was in Hereford St. and dates from 1870. Graves were moved in 1943 and re-interred in a single grave with one headstone. The Jewish section is part of a larger cemetery, which is now full and inactive. The Jewish area is set apart and is consecrated ground. [This needs clarification: Unfortunately, the dates of death were sent on a hand-written map with the year given as 'xx.' A 19xx year was assumed, except for those of 1999-entered as 1899. If you find a name from the wrong century, assume the 1800s not 1900s.] Synagogue: Orthodox community, situated at 406 Durham St., has about 120 members. Contact: Dr. Gerald Morris (90B Proctor Street, Christchurch 5. phone and fax: 03.352-4764)

• Southern Cemetery: Main South Road, Dunedin. Located at the southern end of the city on a rise overlooking the south end of the "Oval" playing fields and bounded by the roads, Main South Road and Eglinton Road and the southern end of the "Town Belt". This cemetery is now closed [1998]. The next burial will be in a new cemetery on Brighton Road, 10 miles south of Dunedin. {xxxxx} The 600 names from Dunedin were submitted to IAJGS before 2000 for one or both cemeteries.
       Southern Cemetery has a total of 23,000 burials. The Jewish portion of the non-denominational cemetery has approximately 179 burials. (164 burials are recorded in the burial register that does not record the location of each burial. The Jewish Community holds a book entitled Register of Burials Dunedin, Jewish Congregation that presently is in the care of Mr. E. Friedlander, 5 Burwood Ave, Maori Hill, Dunedin. The first two entries in the burial register are dated May l864, then followed by entries beginning in April, l863. Information is brief, giving the name of deceased, burial date, age (not always), sex, and parents names (not always). This applies to the years 1863 to 1893. Some entries have an additional line written in Hebrew that are difficult to read. A gap then exists to one death each in 1942, 1945 and 1946. After that, the book probably is complete. From 1946 onwards, no parents names are given. That column instead gives the place of burial. Thus, the burial register becomes that of the Jewish Congregation, rather than that of the Jewish Portion Southern Cemetery. Burials since 1946 take place at Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, Invercargill, Christchurch and cremations. Hugh Gourley Funeral Directors, 407 Hillside Rd., South Dunedin have records of burials 1893-1943 in Dunedin, Invercargill, Christchurch as well as cremations.
        The cemetery's main entrance is on the Main South Road. A rather narrow roadway leads to the caretaker's cottage and car park. On the Main South Road, just slightly uphill from the main entrance, tall wrought iron gates form the entrance to the Jewish portion of the cemetery. The visitor would find it convenient to park on the Main South Road and use this foot access. (The Dunedin City Council, Parks and Recreation Dept, Civic Centre Building, George Street Dunedin.) There is an occupied caretaker's cottage within the grounds of Southern cemetery. The caretaker, who has a copy of this transcript, could assist a visitor to locate a particular gravesite. However, the Dunedin City Council has no official burial records for the Jewish ground. These are in the hands of the Jewish Congregation.
        This transcription was completed November 1982. A transcription made in 1934, a copy of which can be seen at The Early Settlers Association Museum, 220 Cumberland St Dunedin. Some headstone records, which were visible and transcribed in 1934, have either deteriorated or are missing now. I am also aware of a transcription undertaken in 1979 by a Mr. and Mrs. Davis John and Beverley on behalf of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Victoria Branch, c/o 3 Alma Road, Camberwell Victoria 3124, Australia. Though I think the researcher will find this present transcript a substantially complete record of what is now available, I mention the other known transcripts that may prove helpful.
        Headstone Dates: The earliest date on a headstone is that of Adliner Symons, 8 Mar 1864, Entry Number 26. However, the earliest date in the burial register is that of Louis Woolf, 6 Mar 1863. The Southern Cemetery was opened in 1857. The first burial in the main portion of the cemetery was in March 1858. Though the cemetery has been "closed" in the sense that it has been many years since the last plot was sold, burials still take place today in unfilled family plots. Dunedin Jewish Congregation is a Liberal Community part of the Anzupt with about 50 members. To the researcher interested in deaths between 1893 and 1946, the following may be of interest. Hugh Gourley, Funeral Director Dunedin, was engaged to arrange many of these burials. His records survive, but are brief and do not record in which cemetery a burial took place. (Hugh Gourley Ltd, Funeral Director, 407 Hillside Road, South Dunedin) (or Gillions and Sons Ltd, Funeral Directors of the same address) Both funeral homes hold these early records and have indexed them for easy reference. They are sympathetic toward genealogists and given a name and date (approximate) of a death, may be able to confirm same, which leads the researcher more confidently to a death registration enquiry and death certificate.
        Source for Dunedin: E.M. Friedlander; 5 Burnwood Ave. Dunedin (letter to Claire G. Bruell) Most of the Jewish early settlers in NZ are in the Southern Cemetery Dunedin, many via the Andersons Bay Crematorium. Source: Pamela Broadbent, Wellington, New Zealand: broadbent@clear.net.nz

• Wakapuaka Cemetery: {10903} A few graves date back to the mid-1800's. No organised Jewish community is present now. The graves are situated at the edge of the very old Nelson Cemetery (municipal cemetery) on the Wakapuwaka Road.

• Municipal Cemetery: A few mid-1800's graves are on the way to the skyride, on the left side of the road but set apart from the rest of the markers of the old cemetery by a clump of trees situated at the edge of the town cemetery. Contact: Dr. Gerald Morris (90B Proctor Street, Christchurch 5. phone and fax: 03.352-4764). Queenstown cemetery is located on Brecon St. next to the gondola terminal. The Lakes District Council, address Private Bag 50072, Queenstown, administers the municipal cemetery. However, the Jewish congregation once owned it. Bendix Hallenstein was mayor of Queenstown and acquired the site. The nearest synagogue is and always was in Dunedin. There are only 2 graves in the Jewish section. Source: Pamela Broadbent, Wellington, New Zealand; e-mail: broadbent@clear.net.nz

• Karangahape Road Cemetery: part of Auckland Municipal Cemetery {10292}: Symonds St. Auckland Hebrew Congregation. Contact is Graham Resnick. (Auckland Hebrew Congregation, P.O. Box 68224, Auckland. Resnick Ph. (09) 520 0801.) The cemetery was used: 1841-1938. In 1938, the Jewish section was given to Beth Israel (Auckland Hebrew) Congregation that still maintains it.
• Waikumete Cemetery: {10350} Great North Rd., Glen Eden. Congregations: Auckland Hebrew Congregation and Beth Shalom. Contact: Graham Resnick, Auckland Hebrew Congregation, P.O. Box 68224, Auckland. Resnick Ph. (09) 502 2801. Contact: Don Copland, Beth Shalom, 180 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland. Phone: (09) 444 1173. Cemetery was used 1921-present. Auckland Hebrew Congregation has its own section. Beth Shalom has had its own section since approx. 1960. Waitakere City Council, Auckland administers cemetery. Many Jewish graves exist in other cemeteries in the Greater Auckland area and North Island generally, which are not recorded.

• Mangatera Cemetery:

• Hawkes Bay Cemetery: Also called Park Island Cemetery , the site is located between Napier and Taradale (East Coast)
• Bluff Hill Cemetery:

• Kelvin Grove Cemetery: {10900}
• Terrace End: {10913}

• Bolton St. Cemetery: {10536} Bolton St. Memorial Park, Wellington. Wellington Hebrew Congregation, 80 Webb St, Wellington. Parks & Recreation Dept., Wellington City Council, P.O. Box 2199, Wellington administers the site. Few graves remain as part of the cemetery was taken for a motorway. Records of headstones are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. The site used from 1845-1901 had colonial/early settlers' graves. Last year a sign was erected naming that small area "The Abraham Hort Lawn". The first grave is that of a youth, Benjamin Levy, who died on 3 February 1845. There are still some graves of the 1890s and one dated from 1901 even though Karori Cemetery opened in 1891. Source: Michael Clements, (President, NZ Jewish Archives at 31 Vivian Street Wellington) and Claire Bruell
• Karori Cemetery: Karori, Wellington. Synagogues: Temple Sinai, P.O. Box 27-301, phone: (04) 385 0720; Fax (04) 385 0572. Wellington Hebrew Congregation, 80 Webb St. Tel: (04) 384-3136. The site was used by Temple Sinai beginning in 1960 [?] and is administered by Wellington City Council, P.O. Box 2199, Wellington even though the site was active from 1895-1969. Opened in 1891 and the Wellington Hebrew Congregation's first Jewish graves were 1895.
• Makara Cemetery: Used by Wellington Hebrew Congregation since 1969. 80 Webb St, Phone (04) 384 3136. Temple Sinai, P.O. Box 27-301, Phone (04) 385 0720, Fax (04) 385 0572 used the site since 1985. Administered by Wellington City Council, Wellington; P.O. Box 21 99, Wellington.
• Wanganui: {10808} All Jewish graves are condensed under a single marker, which contains the names of those buried there. In the late 1960's, before there was a single marker, the headstones in the Jewish part were all broken and piled up. (Whether vandalism or just neglect is unknown). The woman involved then has the transcriptions of what was on the headstones (at least the English inscriptions. No one read Yiddish so they did not try to copy it.) There might be some more information available. The woman is keeper of all cemetery transcriptions for New Zealand. The list has been published by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists on microfiche. Aaron Oppenheimer; Laaron@motu.com .

• Ngapeke Cemetery: