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 MERCURY BAY cemetery
... dates could be that of death OR burial ...
* denotes additional information to cemetery database



SMITH Charles Langford Rielly
- 5 April 1993 age 47
- buried PUBL-J-0041

SMITH Christopher Kenneth
- lived Moewa Park Rd, Whitianga
- 20 July 1998 age 49
- buried PUBL-Q-0003

* SMITH Enid
- born 6 December 1911
- 21 December 1979 age 68
- buried PUBL-J-0042 8

* SMITH Florence May
- born 27 December 1900
- 10 February 1982 age 81
- buried PUBL-L-0005

SMITH Isobel Ellen
- 14 Janueay 1993 age unknown
- ashes buried GOM-N-0016

SMITH Jack Desmond
- born 16 November 1938
- a Produce Supervisor, living Captain Cook Drive, Cooks Beach
- 15 September 2000 age 61
- buried PUBL-R-0004

* SMITH James Leo
- born 8 September 1920
- 12 July 1991 age 70
- buried RSAL-PLOT-0001

SMITH Mary Octavia
- born 7 August 1922 in Ashburton
- School Teacher, Buffalo Beach Rd, Whitianga
- 8 February 2000 age 77
- buried PUBL-J-0048

* SMITH Majorie Winifred
- born 22 June 1925
- 8 November 1985 age 60
- buried PUBL-L-0042

SMITH Noel Richard
- born 1 May 1925
- 21 October 2000 age 75
- lived Simpson Place, Whitianga
- ashes buried GOM-N-0016

SMITH Robin Ringwood
- born 2 June 1911 in NZ
- a Farner in Buffalo Beacg Rd, Whitianga
- 29 November 2003 age 92
- buried PUBL-J-0049

* SMITH Roland Arthur Ringwood
- 23 September 1967 aged 76
- buried PUBL-A-0001