Welcome to the New Zealand Cemeteries Website

This website is dedicated to recording burial places in New Zealand and those of our servicemen overseas. It includes all Cemeteries, Urupa, Family Gravesites, Lone Burials and Historic Burial Sites that I am aware of. It also includes photographs of many sites and links to other websites with burial records, articles on the cemeteries etc. Please let me know of any omissions and errors you come across.

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	The Cemetery Database & Map	The best place to start
	Index to the Cemetery Database	A list of all cemeteries with links to the map
	Regional Links to Cemeteries	Mainly City and District Council websites - an older site with many omissions
	KiwiWiki	Additional information that I have come across on some of the Cemeteries
	Books on Cemeteries	Interesting books, mostly privately published works of love.

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I would love to hear from you with additional information, suggestions for improvements and to let me know of any issues, such as broken links etc.
To contact me, click the eMail icon. I would like to thank the following people and organisations, and acknowledge these sources:

• The many people who have supplied information, histories and photos
• Dianne Wilson the compiler of the NZSG Burials Database CD with invaluable information and feedback.
• The Ministry of Health, the controlling authority for cemeteries in New Zealand. (MOH)
• New Zealand District and City Councils - online resources and direct contact. (DC)
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission for providing a complete list of the New Zealand Services Graves throughout the world. (CWGC)
• The Ministry for Culture and Heritage who administer the CWGC sites in New Zealand. (CWGC)
• The Methodist Archives. (MA)
• Historic Places Trust. (HPT)
• The The Whakapapa Club online database. (Whakapapa)
• New Zealand Statutes (Statutes)
• Jewish Cemeteries from New Zealand (Jewish) Cemeteries and International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project. I have only listed sites with a distinct Jewish sections, see the web pages for details of other Jewish burials.
• Mary Rooney, the Archivist at the Hokitika Museum.
• New Zealand survey maps via the TUMONZ mapping package (TUMONZ) and Google Earth.
• ... and many others!!!!

For ease of reference, I have cross referenced this list to the NZSG codes which index the NZSG Burial and Monumental Inscription Transcriptions, note that:

• Some transcriptions cover more than one cemetery, hence Index numbers are repeated
• Some cemeteries have more than one transcription, for simplicity I have only listed the first one.
• The NZSG burial and MI records are available from New Zealand Society of Genealogists

The main piece of legislation relating to the provision of cemeteries is the Burial and Cremation Act 1964. This Act states that the local authority shall, where sufficient provision is not otherwise made, establish and maintain a suitable cemetery for the burial of those dying within its district. It also gives direction on the management of cemeteries. Under this Act it is not lawful to bury any body in any land not being a cemetery or a denominational burial ground or a private burial ground. The Act excludes Maori burial grounds.

• The Ministry of Health is the controlling authority for cemeteries within New Zealand.
• The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has responsibility for those cemeteries which contain “true war graves” i.e. war graves of serving members of the forces who died within New Zealand during wartime; between 1840-1872 as regards the New Zealand Wars, and between 4 August 1914 and 31 August 1921 (WWI), and between 3 September 1939 and 31 December 1947 (WWII)
• Veterans Affairs New Zealand has responsibility for the services cemeteries around New Zealand which contain the graves of war veterans i.e. those who survived the world wars and who have died since.
• The Maori Land Courts appear to be responsible for private Maori burial sites.

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