Historic Churchyard

. s e v a r g f o n o i t a r o t s e r e h t h t i w d e t s i s s a y l t n e c e MESSAGE FROM THE 1st DEAN was chaplain to the British 1860 their son, William Cutfield King, winter of 1860. The entire household, service was read in Te reo Māori by r e v a h m o h w f o y n a m , s e i l i m a f r e l t t e s t n a c i f i n g i troops, holding special (pictured with his wife Eliza) was elected to including Matilda, was struck down with Archdeacon Govett. 45 other Māori, killed in s e h t f o r e b m u n a s t h g i l h g i h e d i u g s i h Nau mai, welcome, haere T services for them in St represent the Grey and Bell electorate. He three of her children dying in a six week the battle, were buried in a mass grave at mai to Taranaki Cathedral’s . y a d o t e s u n i l l i t s s i d n a d e h s i l b a t s Mary’s. After the battle of joined the Taranaki Militia but was shot and period. Mahoetahi. The memorial stone was erected e churchyard. This sacred n e h t s a w y r e t e m e c c i l b u p i u n e H e T e h T . d e s o l Mahoetahi he officiated at the killed while checking on cattle left on his in 1930 c space is an important part 75 The Hamerton and Devenish e b o t d r a y h c r u h c e h t d e r e d r o l i c n u o C l a i c n i v o r burial of six Waikato chiefs in farm at Woodleigh, so he never took his P of New Plymouth, Taranaki infants. e h t 1 6 8 1 n i t a h t d a b o s s a w n o i t a u t i s e h T . e m i the church grounds. In 1859 Govett was seat in the New Zealand Parliament. His t and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s heritage. On t a h t t a d e i d , n e r d l i h c y l r a l u c i t r a p , e l p o e p y n a appointed Archdeacon of Taranaki in the wife Eliza raised their two daughters and m the monuments of our ancestors lies a These cousins were victims of the squalid w o h w o h s d r a y h c r u h c e h t n i s e n o t s d a e h e h diocese of Auckland by the first General went on to be one of New Zealand's most T sometimes uncomfortable, but very real, and overcrowded conditions in the town. Synod and this gave him further famous feminists. Their mothers chose not to be evacuated to . e s a e s i indication of our local history. d responsibilities. He and his wife Mary were Nelson. Food was short and epidemics were f o k a e r b t u o n a o t d e l n o o s n o i t a t i n a s r o o p d n 27 Richard Brown a A visitor recently asked, “Why do all the generous benefactors of St Mary's. rampant in a cold wet winter. There were 83 d o o f e t a u q e d a n i e h t d n a d e d w o r c r e v o e m a c e graves look so new?”. The answer is that we …arrived in New Plymouth in April 1841. A civilian deaths in the first year of the war. b y l k c i u q n w o t e h T . h t u o m y l P w e N o t n i e v o 35 George and Mary Robinson m believe in honouring those who have gone fiery Irishman and early merchant he almost William Devenish arrived on the William d n a s m r a f r i e h t e v a e l o t d a h s r e l t t e s , y t e f a 32 George Patterson s before us, and expressing our respect …arrived in 1841 on the Oriental. George caused the destruction of the town when he Bryan in 1841 and brought a small flock of n w o r i e h t r o F . s e u s s i d n a l r e v o t u o e k o r through the good stewardship of their built the original St Mary’s church and also struck a Māori, Witana Rangiora, with his Southdown sheep with him. …a civil engineer, established an early saw b r a w n e h w 0 6 8 1 n i e m o c o t s a w e s r o w , d o o f f memorials. To this end, a small group started the Colonial Hospital, now The Gables. In the whip, knocking him out. A haka by Witana’s mill and joined the Militia. In 1864, while o e g a t r o h s d n a r u o b r a h a f o k c a l e h t h t i w , t l u c i f f i 28 John and Mary Weston d work in 2011. Grateful acknowledgement is early days he was New Plymouth’s only supporters followed, and a threat to burn the roaming beyond the town he and his horse e r e w t n e m e l t t e s e h t f o s r a e y y l r a e e h t e l i h made to John Pickering, whose meticulous architect and was responsible for many of town if he died was avoided when the victim …and their family arrived in 1850 on the were shot and tomahawked. A plaque on W . d n a l a e Z w e research and hard graft has inspired all those the town’s first buildings. They had no recovered. By 1860 he was a trustee of the Mariner and farmed at Omata. Son Henry the corner of Patterson and Frankley Roads N n i h c r u h c e n o t s t s e d l o e h t l a r d e h t a C i k a n a r a who have been involved or donated to this children and the New Plymouth Savings Bank and editor of Weston bought the Taranaki Herald in 1867 marks the site of his violent death. His wife T g n i k a m , 6 4 8 1 r e b m e t p e S 9 2 n o d l e h s a cause. Our work to ensure that this is a parishioners erected the Taranaki Herald. Later he was made and owned it until his death in 1922. In Susannah died the same year leaving her w e c i v r e s t s r i f e h T . s ' y r a M t S d e m a n d n a e n o t beautiful and wellkept place has included : the memorial in captain of the Native Contingent. 1919 Henry six children orphaned. One of his sons, JJ s n i t l i u b s a w t I . h c r u h c e h t r o f e t i s e h t e s o h c d n • Restoration of the cathedral lych gate gratitude of his 55 Ann Shaw (née Lye) Weston and his Patterson, became a prominent South a 2 4 8 1 n i h t u o m y l P w e N d e t i s i v , d n a l a e Z w e N f • Establishment of a policy for ongoing contribution and fine nephews built the Taranaki farmer and is credited with starting o e l o h w e h t s a w e s e c o i d e s o h w , n y w l e S p o h s i maintenance wood carving in the …met James Shaw on the William Bryan as lych gate and the the sharemilking system. B church. In 1950 His they travelled to New Plymouth and they . n e r d l i h c m e h t f o f l a h t s o m l a , d e d n a l d a • The installation of floodlighting in 2013 eastern stone wall 68 William Halse h original wooden were married soon after arrival.

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