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


KA Hi - 12-07-1948

KAHO Dahlia - 25-01-1945

KAIPARA Hori - 22-04-1950

KAKAWA Te Hau - 10-11-1941

KANE Daniel Robert - 05-07-1940

KAPOOR Baby - 20-06-1939

KARAKA Baby - 26-09-1942

KAUWHATA Baby - 02-05-1938

KEAN Samuel Tonman - 15-05-1951

KEDGLEY Leila Marjorie - 31-01-1941

KEEPA Henry - 17-06-1949
KEEPA Louise - 12-04-1950
KEEPA Stan - 20-12-1950

KEIR Wallace - 02-08-1936

KELLETT Laura - 22-08-1948

KELLY Ronald Christopher - 18-02-1949

KELSON Baby - 08-06-1940

KEMBLE Graham Ashley - 26-09-1941

KENNEDY Thomas Hope - 21-09-1943

KENNINGTON Rene Dawn - 08-06-1932

KENNON Frances - 16-09-1949

KENYON Madge Ethel - 16-01-1940

KER Norman - 27-04-1941

KEYS James - 15-07-1950

KIHOE John - 02-02-1949

KILMINSTER Beverly Jean - 28-03-1945
KILMINSTER Himemanu Myrtle - 14-03-1943
KILMINSTER Lawrence Kelvin - 03-03-1942

KING Garnet Wolsely - 22-09-1937
KING Jessie Lydia - 12-06-1933
KING John - 09-08-1947
KING Margaret Forbes - 26-11-1948

KINGI Edward - 10-07-1948
KINGI Teau Wahapango - 13-08-1943

KINNAIRD Baby - 15-09-1943
KINNAIRD Margaret Jane - 08-07-1947

KIRK Annie Jane - 17-12-1936
KIRK Baby - 29-04-1942
KIRK Joseph - 20-01-1935
KIRK Thomas - 14-02-1931

KISSLING Bessie - 17-11-1948
KISSLING Henry - 28-06-1949

KNAPP Nancy - 15-11-1943

KNOWLES Percival Edmund - 01-09-1948

KNOX Baby - 23-08-1931

LALOLI Louis William - 21-02-1948

LAMB Carlie Eva - 29-04-1950

LANCASTER Oswald - 22-11-1938

LANDER Baby - 13-04-1934
LANDER Baby - 29-04-1939
LANDER James Paterson - 07-12-1934

LANE Ernest Charles Edward - 24-09-1933
LANE John - 08-08-1941

LARSEN David John - 22-03-1933
LARSEN Heather Mary - 09-09-1949
LARSEN William Peter - 10-11-1952

LATHAM George Ashton - 02-11-1940
LATHAM Mabel Agnes - 21-06-1929

LATTIMER Orion Victor - 07-06-1944

LAUGESON Ruth - 28-03-1947

LAURENT George Robert - 26-08-1933
LAURENT Manu Inez - 05-06-1934

LAURIE John - 13-05-1936
LAURIE Ross Oxenham - 02-11-1944

LAW Baby - 20-05-1932
LAW Baby - 21-11-1950
LAW Edward - 10-08-1939
LAW Maria Sarah - 13-12-1936
LAW Victoria May - 12-09-1949

LAWN Michael - 22-02-1938
LAWN William - 01-11-1951

LAWRENCE Leila Eileen - 08-08-1952
LAWRENCE Leslie Frank - 18-07-1947

LAWSON Jack - 21-05-1936
LAWSON Mrs T - 06-08-1929
LAWSON Tanoa Mihaere - 09-05-1934

LEABOURN Margaret Rose - 28-10-1943

LEABOURNE Mary - 19-08-1953

LEATHWICK Baby - 10-09-1948

LECKER Donald Ross - 20-08-1953

LECKY Harold Frances - 24-02-1929

LEE Herbert - 09-06-1953

LEES Daniel Leslie - 02-06-1937
LEES Harriet - 08-12-1941
LEES Rex Darville - 25-10-1937
LEES Robert Ian - 23-04-1951

LEWIS William - 27-08-1941

LIND Agnes - 11-03-1952

LIPSCOMBE Baby - 13-04-1942

LITTLE Kathleen - 14-02-1944

LOCKE William Henry - 15-06-1948

LOGAN Robert - 07-07-1937

LONDON Twin Babies - 19-02-1949

LOOMES Robert Ward - 10-11-1940
LOOMIS Herbert Thomas - 25-09-1944

LORD Beverly Jean - 14-01-1938

LOVELL Margaret Dianna - 27-08-1945

LOW Frederick William - 19-07-1951

LUCAS Richard - 15-12-1941

LUKE Baby - 16-04-1941

LUKIS Pirrie Alistair - 10-06-1948

LUNAM William Henry Jackson - 22-10-1951

LUND Alfred William Osborn - 29-12-1940

LUXTON Ruby - 31-10-1943

LYON Gladys - 01-06-1936

LYONS William - 11-03-1934