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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

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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

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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 Cathedral’s

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Mary’s. After the battle of joined the Taranaki but was shot and period. Mahoetahi. The memorial stone was erected e

churchyard. This sacred

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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

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burial of six Waikato chiefs in farm at Woodleigh, so he never took his P

of New , Taranaki infants.

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the church grounds. In 1859 Govett was seat in the Parliament. His t

and /New Zealand’s heritage. On

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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 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

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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

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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

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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 . Son Henry the corner of Patterson and Frankley Roads N

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who have been involved or donated to this children and the New Plymouth Savings Bank and editor of Weston bought the in 1867 marks the site of his violent death. His wife T

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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

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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

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• Restoration of the cathedral lych gate gratitude of his 55 Ann Shaw (née Lye) Weston and his Patterson, became a prominent South a

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• 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. James’s e l p o e p 0 2 9 e m o s , 3 4 8 1 y b d n a , 1 4 8 1 n i d e v i r r • Wholesale careful restoration of damaged of the churchyard. a

memorial was remade parents, James and Jane Shaw and the …and his wife Harriet arrived on the Amelia p i h s t s r i f e h T . d n a l g n E n i l l a w n r o C d n a n o v e monuments and railings Two memorials on D

in white marble. remaining six children arrived later on the Thompson in 1841. He was an agent of the m o r f e l p o e p y b d e s i n o l o c s a w h t u o m y l P w e • The installation of a beautiful Garden of the lychgate wall N

New Zealand Company and later

Remembrance in 2013, for the burial of 45 Carrington Amelia Thompson. Father and son worked record the family

t n e m e l t t e S y l r a Commissioner of Crown Lands. A lover of E ashes as carpenters and boat builders from their names. horse­racing, he embezzled £20,000, then May you know God's peace as you explore …was a surveyor who first visited New base beside the Huatoki River. They built 19 Rev. Henry Brown took his own life by strychnine when found this historic churchyard. Zealand in 1835. In 1840 he was appointed the first surf boats which unloaded the early chief assistant surveyor to the New Zealand ships. …and wife Sophia with their ten children out. Ngā mihi nui Company and joined his brothers Frederic arrived in New Plymouth on the Eclipse in St Mary's Oak. Jamie Allen, first Dean of Taranaki and Octavius in New Plymouth. A fluent 1859. Because of Henry’s calling their Māori speaker, he was employed in The churchyard oak tree has grown from an CHURCHYARD HIGHLIGHTS house at Omata was not burnt down when negotiations with the Māori during the Land war broke out in 1860. Later Sophia and her acorn sent by Numbers refer to map overleaf Wars and also, in 1881 at the attack on younger children were evacuated to Nelson the Rev. Charles 33 William Bolland. where he acted as interpreter for while Henry and his two older sons Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. His 59 Robert and Mary Parris remained in New Plymouth. The boys joined Ibbotson from Appointed by Bishop Selwyn first marriage to Meri e Motu in 1844 was the the Volunteers and Francis Brown , aged Yorkshire to his …arrived on the Blenheim in 1842. Robert as the first vicar of St Mary’s, second entry in St Mary’s marriage register. 16,was killed at the battle of Mahoetahi. brother in New was trader, dealer, Provincial Council William and his wife Jane Henry was a friend and missionary to both Plymouth. It is 78 The Captain Henry King member and government land purchaser as arrived in New Plymouth in the Māori and settlers. He was known as believed to family plot. he struggled to support his family during the December 1843. His Pastor Brown, the ‘backblocks’ clergyman. have been planted in 1899. During the 1930s difficult early days of the settlement. After daughter, Mary Dora, died in Henry King, with his wife Mary Anne and the tree lost a massive lower limb in a violent the Land Wars his ability in Te Guide to the 1846 aged two months. son William arrived on the Amelia storm. In 2003 concerns were raised about reo Māori enabled him to work as William Bolland, aged 27, died of typhus Thompson in 1841. Henry had had a the danger the tree posed, and following Civil Commissioner and Resident Historic caught from a visiting St John’s Theological distinguished career in the Royal Navy and advice, the Vestry agreed to have it removed. Magistrate, always trying to help College student. In his three years’ work he became the Plymouth Company’s Chief This decision led to a storm of public protest, both Māori and settler through Churchyard saw St Mary’s built in stone, a chapel built at Commissioner and the town’s first and after further consultation, the present the hard times of the aftermath of Te Henui, and a Sunday School opened. He magistrate. Along with his brother­in­law, propping system was put in place. at war and land confiscation. He was active at also built a hostelry and hospital for the George Cutfield, they purchased 350 acres St Mary’s as churchwarden, choir member Taranaki Cathedral Māori. After his death Jane and their son and developed and farmed Brooklands and trustee. 64 Unknown Soldier's Wooden Ernest returned to England. Estate. Henry laid the foundation stone of St New Plymouth, NZ 40 The Foreman plot. Cross. 34 Henry Govett Mary’s on Lady Day, 18 March 1845. In Richard and Matilda Foreman, previously Even a conflict among a relatively small …was second vicar of St Mary’s and first 87 Māori Chiefs’Grave. $1 Sole née Gore, arrived on the Oriental with population such as the land wars saw the cousin to William Bolland. In contrast to his twelve children from their previous The Christian Māori chiefs Wetini Taiporutu, deaths of combatants whose identity was cousin his ministry lasted 50 years. Govett marriages. The headstone for their his son Hemi Taiporutu, Whararangi, unknown. Originally many memorials were cared for the English settlers and the Māori daughter­in­law, Matilda, who married their Hakopa, and two others were killed at the wooden ­ this fragment is one of two which people, regularly travelling between Waitara son Richard, dramatically shows the effects Battle of Mahoetahi. Their funeral was held remain. and Opunake. During the Land Wars he of the appalling conditions in the town in the at noon on 8 November 1860 and the