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


*SMITH Alfred Robert
- born 24 August 1916
- 7 January 1996 age 79
- buried RSAL-A-0041

* SMITH Florence Maud
- born 9 July 1911 in Auckland
- wife of Oberlin Thomas below
- 29 June 1990 age 78
- was living at Moana House Whangamata
- buried PUBL-B-0039

SMITH Henry James Brilled
- born 21 April 1921
- 14 November 1984 age 63
- was living at Lyndor Motor Camp, Port Rd, Whangamata
- buried RSAL-A-0048

SMITH James Gordon Ross
- born 20 September 1933
- former Bank Manager was living at Rang Ave, Whangamata
- 17 Ausust 2003 age 69
- ashes buried ASHW-PLOT-0030

* SMITH June Fay
- born 22 June 1930
- wife of William Douglas (below)
- was living in Bryant Rd, Te Rapa, Hamilton
- 26 March 2003 age 72
- buried PUBL-A-0032

* SMITH Lily
- born 23 March 1919
- 11 October 1997 age 78
- buried RSAL-A-0041

* SMITH Oberlin Thomas
- born 8 November 1905
- 20 April 1992 age 85
- husband of FLorence Maud above
- was living in Moana House, Whangamata
- buried PUBL-B-0039

* SMITH William Douglas
- born 10 June 1924
- husband of June Fay (above)
- was living at Lyndor Motor Camp, Port Rd, Whangamata
- 9 June 1987 age 1 day before 63
- buried PUBL-A-0032