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


* SMITH Florence Elsie
- born in Thames
- daughter of Albert Ernest SMITH & Rose Amelia HEATT
- 10 January 1908 age 8 days
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0485

SMITH Harriet
- 30 March 1935 age 77
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0504

SMITH Henrietta Charlotte
- born in England
- 9 May 1893 age 52
- buried publ-plot-0202

SMITH James
- born in Ireland
- 14 June 1901 age 61
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0418

SMITH John Poynton Hague
- born in Thames
- son of Sidney Hague SMITH & Mabel Poynton NOLAN
- 15 June 1895 age 1
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0201

SMITH John
- born in Ireland
- 16 March 1908 age 78
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0279

SMITH John William
- born in Thames
- 7 November 1948 age 72
- buried PUBL-PLOT-279A

SMITH Margaret
- 7 May 1963 age 75
- buried PUBL-PLOT-279A

SMITH Minnie
- born in Auckland
- daughter of John & Jane SMITH
- 29 May 1886 age 4
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0001

SMITH Nanney
- born in England
- 6 December 1906 age 78
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0672

SMITH Robert
- born in Scotland
- 29 September 1904 age 62
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0504

SMITH Sarah
- born in Ireland
- 27 September 1920 age 82
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0279

SMITH Selwyn
- born in Thames
- 7 February 1900 age unknown
- buried PUBL-PLOT-0201