WHAKATANE is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region, in the North Island of New Zealand. Maori pa (Maori fortified village) sites in the area date back to the first Polynesian settlements, estimated to have been around 1200 AD. According to Maori tradition Toi-te-huatahi, later known as Toi-kai-rakau, landed at Whakatane about 1150 AD in search of his grandson Whatonga. Failing to find Whatonga, he settled in the locality and built a pa on the highest point of the headland now called Whakatane Heads, overlooking the present town.
Some 200 years later the Mataatua waka landed at Whakatane


the following list was taken from
Whakatane Burial Records

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ADAMS to BYRNE .. CAIN to DYSART

EAGLE to GUSH .. HAARE to JONS

KA to LYONS .. MAAKA to MYER

NAHAU to OXENHAM .. PAIGE to QUINN

RAE to RUSSELL .. SALMON to TYSSEN .. UPTON to YOUNG


PAIGE Margaret Henrietta - 05-09-1935

PALMER Doris - 30-08-1941
PALMER James - 13-09-1951

PARK John - 05-05-1947

PARKER Andrew - 15-01-1940
PARKER Mary Alice Bertha - 03-08-1945

PARKIN Grace - 12-10-1941

PARKINSON Albert Edward - 03-10-1938
PARKINSON Gavin James - 30-10-1950
PARKINSON Thomas Henry - 07-07-1935
PARKINSON Walter John - 13-03-1949
PARKINSON William Edward - 28-09-1947

PARRELL Mary Ann - 28-07-1942

PARRY Edgar - 03-05-1944
PARRY Harold - 19-08-1934

PARSONS Eileen Jean - 12-09-1941
PARSONS William David - 30-07-1939

PARTON Alfred Hollingswood - 14-10-1937

PARTRIDGE Baby - 27-03-1940

PATIKURA K - 09-09-1929

PATTIE David - 16-02-1939
PATTIE Edith - 20-06-1939

PAUWHARI Paki - 07-12-1949

PEACOCK George Chicester - 26-05-1939

PEARSE Alpha Ethel Davis - 25-08-1953

PEARSON Ida Muriel - 05-04-1946
PEARSON John - 31-10-1945

PEEBLES Alexander - 11-04-1934
PEEBLES Alexander John - 19-08-1930
PEEBLES Annie Bridget - 15-10-1934
PEEBLES John - 14-07-1934
PEEBLES Rose - 20-09-1945

PEGLEY Jane - 24-07-1940

PEITA Rangikotua - 16-10-1950

PENLINGTON Henry Frank - 15-03-1939

PEPPERELL John Edward - 23-12-1944

PERCY Jessie May - 13-03-1935

PERENARA Baby - 16-01-1950

PERKINS Baby Garry - ?
PERKINS Cedric Albert - 05-10-1949

PETTERSON Isak Olaf - 07-02-1941

PHILLIPS Christine - 30-09-1935
PHILLIPS Garfield Arthur - 10-06-1943

PIRERE Kereopa - 27-06-1944

PIRIE John - 01-08-1948

PIRIMONA Ada Mary - 13-01-1950

PIRINI Hurae Poori - 05-02-1946

PIRRITT William Russell - 11-04-1930

PLAMUS Baby - 09-06-1947

PLATT Ann Lambie - 10-11-1949
PLATT Westlake George - 19-11-1942

POLLARD William - 05-01-1930

POPE Baby - 10-07-1949

POPPWELL Lucy - 01-12-1932

PORERE Kereopa - 12-12-1936

PORTER John - 07-01-1949
POTTER Amelia - 23-12-1932

POWDRELL Arthur Edwin - 21-12-1947

POWELL George - 18-03-1937

POWER Frank McCarthy - 21-08-1945
POWER Thelma Louise - 04-09-1934

PRICE Baby - 16-04-1939
PRICE Baby - 06-10-1950
PRICE Trevor Stuart - 15-12-1938

PRIDEAUX Humphrey Arnold - 14-02-1932

PRITCHETT Francis Elizabeth - 07-04-1941

PROUSE Baby - 04-11-1945

PRYOR Baby - 20-05-1947

PYNE James - 29-10-1949
PYNE Keith James - 10-02-1936
PYNE Mary Elizabeth - 20-11-1948
PYNE Mrs E - ?

QUALE Elizabeth - 15-09-1951

QUINN Edward Thomas - 04-08-1952
QUINN Eric Edward Neal - 05-09-1943