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 JONES

KA to LYONS .. MAAKA to MYER

NAHAU to OXENHAM .. PAIGE to QUINN

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


HAARE Wi Hunia - 24-07-1943

HAINES Baby - 09-04-1930

HALL Ebenezer - 25-04-1931

HALLETT Geoffrey Mace - 10-12-1948

HAMILL George - 12-10-1944

HAMILTON Margaret - 23-07-1931
HAMILTON Maud Annie - 03-04-1931

HAMMOND Percy Albert - 05-09-1947

HAMPTON Christopher - 18-08-1941

HANELY James - 10-02-1930

HANNAH Rangi - 06-06-1936

HANRIGHT Baby - 29-08-1947

HANSEN Edward Charles - 21-07-1953
HANSEN Kristine Neilsen - 15-03-1945
HANSEN Peter Marius - 01-10-1936

HAPE Richard - 16-05-1949
HAPE Sidney - 16-05-1949

HARAKI Herbert Ray - 27-11-1945

HARLAND Janette Loraine -13-08-1947

HARRA L Le - 09-09-1931

HARRAWAY Henry - 24-07-1937

HARRIS Baby -?
HARRIS Pauline Linsay Baby - 09-11-1952
HARRIS Roy Edward - 13-02-1952

HARRISON Fred - 29-09-1938
HARRISON June Teesdale - 12-08-1934

HART Audrey Ethel Nation - 13-09-1942

HARTLEY Marion - 28-04-1938

HARTY Bridget - 20-03-1947
HARTY Thomas - 04-01-1930

HARVEY Joseph - 30-05-1941

HASSALL Albert Edward - 29-03-1931

HASTIE Myrtle Zoe - 22-01-1952

HATCHER Harold Ernest - 12-05-1948

HAUA Charlotte - 23-05-1952

HAULTAIN Arthur Francis - 07-03-1951

HAWTHORNE Baby - 16-11-1946
HAWTHORNE Baby - 09-09-1949
HAWTHORNE Linda Ngahuia - 20-10-1952
HAWTHORNE Louisa May - 10-11-1950
HAWTHORNE Olive - 24-09-1949

HAYNES Margery Monteith - 30-11-1939

HAYWARD Alice May - 20-07-1943
HAYWARD Baby - 25-07-1941
HAYWARD Clifford Alex - 10-09-1930
HAYWARD Joseph - 02-06-1932
HAYWARD Mabel Isobel - 29-08-1946

HAZZARD Sidney Alexander - 15-12-1933

HEAD Ivy Gwendoline - 27-07-1940

HEALEY James Joseph - 19-02-1943
HEALEY Muriel Ailsa - 19-01-1937

HEALY J G M W - 20-05-1930

HEDGE Eileen Matthew - 15-11-1931

HEDGES Annie - 04-04-1946

HENDERSON Baby - 26-11-1941
HENDERSON Doris Madelaine - 07-02-1934

HENRY Annie Francis - 16-02-1934
HENRY John Alfred Thomas - 22-11-1953
HENRY Louie - 06-08-1938

HENSHAW Brian - 22-07-1934

HETARAKA Merito - 11-11-1946

HEWITT Fanny - 04-06-1943

HICKEY Baby - 30-01-1951
HICKEY Mary Patricia - 28-06-1937
HICKEY Rua - 24-08-1938

HICKS Garry George - 23-02-1941
HICKS John - 27-01-1952

HIGGINS David - 18-05-1929

HIGHAM Baby - 09-12-1940

HILL Christina Alison - 14-02-1950
HILL George - 01-12-1944
HILL George Ernest - 26-12-1950
HILL Grace Elizabeth - 31-10-1943
HILL John - 13-06-1941
HILL Michael Alfred - 26-12-1950

HILLS Louisa Maude - 22-12-1945

HIMONE Taylor - 13-04-1938

HIRANGI Kotu Mi - 09-06-1946

HITCHENS Alexander Michael Joseph - 16-09-1940
HITCHENS Rose - 19-02-1947

HITCHINGS Rose Anne - 03-09-1939

HOANI Kaki - 09-06-1945

HOBMAN Twin Babies - 02-11-1949

HOBSON George - 08-08-1939

HODSON Frederick Stanley - 17-02-1950

HOGAN Baby - 26-09-1944
HOGAN Mona Sarah - 05-08-1942

HOGG Elizabeth Ingles Shields - 21-08-1945
HOGG James - 21-03-1932

HOHAPATA Renata - 20-10-1946
HOHAPETA Ngamanu - 13-04-1951
HOHAPETA Snr - 13-12-1936
HOHAPETA Wiremu - 14-06-1931

HOHIAHA Mataika - 04-12-1932

HOLDEN Dawn Noeline - 28-03-1951

HOLLAND John William - 19-07-1948

HOLLARD Kate Alene - 29-08-1946

HOLLIS Charles James - 16-06-1950

HOLLOWAY Annie Euphemia - 25-07-1952
HOLLOWAY William Herbert - 01-12-1929

HOLMES Frederick - 25-10-1936

HOLST William - 26-07-1947

HOLT Joseph - 07-10-1933

HONEYCOMBE Mary Ann - 01-04-1946

HOOPER Charlotte - 24-06-1951
HOOPER James Richardson - 23-11-1932
HOOPER Robert Henry - 28-10-1944

HOPKINS Patricia Olga - 31-05-1947

HORI R - 05-11-1940

HORN W C - 21-09-1936

HOROPAPA Baby - 16-07-1938

HOROPAPERA Mereraihe - ?

HORROCKS Henry Alexander - 08-04-1942

HOTENE Hira - 28-08-1934
HOTENE Wiremu - 21-07-1945

HOUSTON James - 30-07-1950

HOWARTH Baby - 19-12-1946

HOWAT Baby - 21-04-1950

HOWELL Ronald - 09-12-1939
HOWELL Ruby Warner - ?
HOWELL Thomas - 09-09-1947
HOWELL William - 27-02-1945

HUGHES Bertie William - 08-07-1951
HUGHES George Nelson - 04-11-1951
HUGHES James Henry Boynton - 11-05-1944
HUGHES Mary Ann - 16-11-1949
HUGHES Waitangi Whitu - 20-11-1948

HULL Ivy Rose - 31-05-1933

HUME Alexander Brown Donald - 26-11-1943
HUME Baby - 09-09-1939
HUME Catherine - 12-09-1939
HUME John - 11-09-1941
HUME Robert - 18-01-1939

HUNT Emily - 15-03-1942
HUNT Judith Emily - 05-10-1947
HUNT Mary - 14-08-1951

HUNTER Baby - 22-09-1947

HURINUI Kania - 05-09-1932

HURNDELL Thomas Henry -10-06-1937

HUSTON Sophia Francis Alice - 24-03-1947

HUTA Makurai - 11-03-1948

HUTCHINGS Eva Kiri - 04-01-1949

HUTTON Marcus Bloomfield - 08-08-1943
HUTTON William Augustus - 12-03-1950

HYLAND Arthur - 10-08-1953
HYLAND Ethel Rose Ann - 23-07-1937
HYLAND Ethel Victoria - 22-04-1945

IFWERSON Roy - 29-08-1940

IHAIA Mita - 09-08-1946

INGRAM Charles Percy - 06-12-1945
INGRAM Charles Watts - 03-06-1950

IRVING Carol Louise - 20-09-1939
IRVING Hugh Peter - 13-06-1938
IRVING Marie - 16-08-1942

ISBISTER Sarah - 30-01-1938

JACKSON Baby - 16-05-1943
JACKSON Edward - 01-01-1947
JACKSON George - 20-01-1945
JACKSON Lily - 15-09-1945
JACKSON Richard Fearon - 07-09-1945
JACKSON Ross Valentine - 08-04-1942

JAMES Agnes Dorothy - 24-09-1945
JAMES Bertha Winifred - 17-08-1952
JAMES Edgar - 16-11-1939
JAMES Samuel - 16-06-1930

JAMIESON James - 23-01-1950
JAMIESON Lucy - 26-01-1932
JAMIESON Rose - 11-01-1934

JARAM Charles Luxman Narsay - 11-11-1929
JARAM Naroton - 25-09-1935

JARRETT Ernest William - 25-09-1933

JEFFRIES Sidney - 18-05-1938

JENNINGS George - 05-03-1950
JENNINGS John Mark -30-09-1952

JENSEN Alma Lillian Nellie - 24-08-1949
JENSEN Andrew Christian - 21-06-1942

JOHN Heinreich Rudolph Humboldt - 13-07-1949

JOHNSON Ivy Naomi - 16-02-1934

JOHNSTON Baby - 04-09-1943
JOHNSTON Pat - 14-07-1933
JOHNSTON William Dent - 12-04-1948
JOHNSTON William George - 31-03-1947

JOLIFFE Brian Ernest John - 13-08-1944

JONES Harold Leonard - 04-01-1950
JONES Melba Muriel - 14-08-1944
JONES Richard Harold - 14-07-1952
JONES Ronald Desmond - 17-09-1946