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


RAE Mary Elizabeth - 11-04-1948
RAE Thomas - 18-04-1935
RAE William Weston - 19-10-1949

RAHUI Rebecca - 22-11-1950

RAHUIHI Himione Hoani - 07-01-1933

RAKURAKU Tana - 05-04-1933

RAMSON Eliza Reeve - 16-02-1929
RAMSON Florence - 10-03-1947
RAMSON Maynard - 18-12-1933

RANAPIA ? - 04-01-1952

RANBY Donald John - 09-06-1933
RANBY Ellen Bridget - 28-10-1940
RANBY Nelly Phyllis - 19-07-1941

RAND Henry George - 17-03-1941

RANGIHIKA Koro - 23-01-1952

RANGITUKEHU Maata - 29-06-1929

RANIPA Mrs - 01-10-1929

RANKIN Brian Leonard - 09-12-1952

RATAHI Awa - 25-03-1946
RATAHI Panapa - 09-07-1946

RAURETI Te Aoerere - 18-09-1952

RAWSON Cecilia Butters - 08-12-1948
RAWSON Thomas Richard Thomber - 24-11-1943

RAWSTON Baby - 16-02-1946

RAYNOR Frank - 05-10-1942

REARDON John - 01-03-1940

REICHARDT Bruce - 02-10-1952

REID Thomas - 04-10-1944
REID Walter - 03-06-1939

RENDALL John Leonard - 03-04-1951
RENDALL Jon Keith - 02-01-1952

REUBEN Baby - 30-12-1942

REVELL Baby - 11-04-1949
REVELL Catherine Elizabeth - 27-08-1938
REVELL John - 22-07-1939
REVELL Marion Elizabeth - 06-06-1935

REYNOLDS Frances James - 30-06-1941

RHODES Clifford John - 20-09-1936

RICE Heywood Rika Anthony - 20-09-1938

RICHARDSON Alan Frank - 04-03-1940
RICHARDSON William Lusby - 02-11-1950

RICKETTS R S - 12-07-1947

RIDDELL Ethel Emily - 25-09-1944
RIDDELL Helen Margaret - 07-08-1939

RIGHTON Margaret Ann - 05-06-1946
RIGHTON Sarah Annie - 18-06-1931

RIINI John - 26-11-1945
RIINI John Te Waritini - 10-01-1949

RIKIRIKI Nika - 28-03-1951

RILEY Robert - 07-07-1933

RIMMER Baby - 28-06-1930
RIMMER Coralie - ?
RIMMER William Adam - 21-05-1945

RITCHIE William Baxter - 03-08-1950

RIVETT Jack Dempster - 11-01-1951

RIWI Marupo - 24-07-1929
RIWI Ruru - 08-11-1932

ROBERT John Fountain - 14-08-1945

ROBERTSON David Burnett - 18-01-1940
ROBERTSON Elizabeth Erskine - 16-05-1939
ROBERTSON Graham Leslie - 29-02-1948
ROBERTSON Isabella Catherine - 13-10-1937

ROBINSON Frank Oswald - 16-06-1950
ROBINSON Ivan Richard - 26-01-1929

RODGERS Joseph - 12-08-1936
RODGERS T - 31-12-1929
RODGERS Thomas - 08-07-1949

ROEBUCK Frank Ernest - 19-06-1935

ROGERS Baby - 16-12-1932
ROGERS Rangi - 06-04-1949

RONDON Eugene - 02-12-1946

RORI Puri - 12-11-1945

ROSS Baby - 29-06-1940

ROSSITER Lorraine - 06-07-1946

ROTA Kerera - 31-03-1943

ROUSE Baby - 24-05-1948

ROWSON George - 05-07-1950

RUA ? - 15-02-1937

RUDDICK Agnes Isobel - 22-02-1941
RUDDICK Robert - 22-08-1951

RUEGG Baby - 05-12-1934

RUNCIMAN Sydney Benjamin Hawkens - 19-08-1953

RUSSELL Mary Ann - 05-01-1938
RUSSELL Sybil Maud - 04-05-1948