from the SMITH burial database of New Zealand


click links to read about the COROMANDEL a town and harbour on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, which is on the east coast of the North Island.
It is 75km east of the city of Auckland, although the road between them, which winds around the Firth of Thames and Hauraki Gulf coasts, is 190km long.


COROMANDEL, (written in about 1900) known formerly as Kapanga, has a population of between 400 and 500, and is a quartz-mining township on the Firth of Thames, forty-two miles eastward from Auckland, with which it has daily communication by steamer It is the county town, and has a post, telegraph, money order, and other Government offices ... (great read with many old photos & bios on some of the settlers)



The Thames-Coromandel District Council is responsible for the management of thirteen cemeteries within the Thames-Coromandel District. Of the thirteen cemeteries, seven are currently open for burials, while six other cemeteries are
no longer operational


COMMUNITY CEMETERIES

Each community within the District is serviced by at least one operational cemetery.

Coromandel/Colville

? Buffalo Cemetery (Coromandel)
? Colville Cemetery

Mercury Bay

? Mercury Bay Cemetery - Ferry Landing

Tairua/Pauanui

? Tairua and Serviceman's Cemetery

Thames

? Totara Memorial Park (Thames)
? Omahu Cemetery (Thames Valley)

Whangamata

? Whangamata Cemetery

CEMETERIES NOT IN USE

The following are disused cemeteries within the district that the Council hold historic records for:

? Shortland Cemetery
? Tararu Cemetery
? Tapu Cemetery (Thames Coast)
? Tairua Historical Cemetery
? Allan Block Cemetery (Whangamata)
? Kuaotunu



the SMITH in BUFFALO cemetery
... dates could be that of death OR burial ...
* denotes additional information to cemetery database


* SMITH, Amelia May
- 15 December 1936 age 73
- buried PUBL-PLOT-BLANK

SMITH, Clara Eileen
- born 8 February 1923 in Coromandel
- lived Queen St, Thames & Autumn Lodge, Manukau Auckland
- 11 December 1999 age 76 in Manukau City
- buried PUBL-3-0386

SMITH, Edward William Ralph
- born in Napier
- 1 November 1996 age 70
- buried PUBL-3-0260

SMITH, Edwin Robert
- 5 May 1920 age 1 day
- PUBL-2-0135

SMITH Ester Amy
- 2 January 1898 age 3 months
- buriedPUBL-3-0272

SMITH, Frederick David
- 17 July 1996 age 90
- buried PUBL-3-0082

SMITH, Hellen Jean
- born 21 March 1923 in Thames
- 3 July 2005 age 82
- Storekeeper, lived Allman Drive, Coromandel
- buried RSA-PLOT-0074

SMITH, Henry
- 15 August 1908 age 83
- lived Kennedy Bay Rd, Coromandel
- buried RSA PLOT 0074

SMITH, James
- 12 August 1974 age 76
- buried RSA-PLOT-0017

SMITH, James
- 2 September 1901 age 71
- buried PUBL-1-0387

SMITH, John
- 12 April 2000 age 12
- buried PUBL-3-1030A

SMITH, John
- 28 October 1905age 68
- buried PUBL-2-0213

SMITH, John
- 14 November 1912 age 84
- buried PUBL-1-0120

SMITH, John Warwick
- 30 August 1928 age 1
- buried PUBL-1-0459

SMITH, Martha
- born in Ireland
- 9 June 1897 age 66
- buried PUBL-1-0139

SMITH, William Charles
- 10 November 1902 age 66
- buried PUBL-3-0057

SMITH, William
- 15 April 1940 age 83
- buried PUBL-1-BLANK

SMITH, William Featherston
- 17 December 1931 age 66
- buried PUBL-1-0017