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


SALMON Zoe - 29-07-1943

SALVIDGE John - 11-02-1947

SANTON Thomas Long - 27-02-1941

SAUNDERS Richard Northey - 04-03-1949

SAVAGE Ethel Marjorie - 04-10-1937
SAVAGE Frederick James - 09-01-1947
SAVAGE Mirina Pokere - 03-09-1947
SAVAGE Susan - 22-11-1936
SAVAGE Thomas George - 01-07-1935
SAVAGE Tom - ?

SCANDLYN Barbara - 23-01-1930
SCANDLYN Richard - 24-03-1934

SCHICK Arthur Robert - 24-07-1943

SCHOLFIELD Randolph William - 17-11-1951

SCHOLLUM Baby - 29-12-1938

SCORRINGE Ernest - 21-05-1949

SCOTT Daryl Murray - 23-05-1947

SEABOYER Eleanor Marguerite - 02-10-1950

SEAL Sybil Nola - 13-08-1941

SEMMENS Matilda Ellen - 23-05-1953

SERJEANT Winifred Kathleen - 13-08-1945

SHANNON Charles - 30-01-1930
SHANNON Isobel - 16-02-1940
SHANNON Patricia Raewin - 07-07-1952

SHEATHER Robert Benjamin - 20-06-1946

SHEPHERD James Henry - 10-07-1937

SHORT Baby - 24-11-1938

SIDNEY W - 02-07-1949

SIMKINS George - 23-01-1930

SIMONS Esther - 12-06-1945

SIMPSON George Annard - 26-10-1948
SIMPSON Robert Leslie - 25-02-1946

SISAM Marlene Carina - 08-12-1939

SKELTON Frances Jane - 11-09-1933

SKOGLUND Alrick - 01-07-1941

SMALLEY Laura May - 08-03-1941

SMITH Alexander - 10-05-1953
SMITH Eliza - 03-12-1937
SMITH John - 03-08-1938
SMITH John David - 12-08-1929
SMITH Kathleen McGregor - 15-04-1947
SMITH Melva Cynthia - 04-12-1940
SMITH Mrs J - 03-02-1929
SMITH Muriel Ray - 23-12-1948
SMITH Sarah Ann - 10-06-1953
SMITH Walter John - 19-05-1947

SORENSON Anton Oliver - 13-08-1950
SORENSON Ruth Myrtle -17-02-1950

SOUTAR Baby Samuel - ?
SOUTAR Brenda - 07-02-1945

SOUTHEY Fanny Georgia - 06-02-1937

SPEIRS Ian Kenneth - 03-05-1942

SPENCE Allan Samuel - 30-10-1942
SPENCE Dudley William - 13-10-1942

SPENSLEY Alice Sarah - 27-12-1935

SPRATT Richard - 30-05-1932

SPRINGBOK Hector - 03-03-1947

SPRY William - 08-07-1939

STACE Louisa Frances - 22-11-1934

STEPHENS Robert Frederick - 13-09-1933

STEVENS Martha Ellen - 09-08-1930
STEVENS Mary - 07-09-1930

STEVENSON Baby - 04-05-1935

STEWART Agnes - 24-09-1941
STEWART Anahira - 11-08-1945
STEWART Andrew - 04-01-1940
STEWART Ardan Francis - 28-02-1938
STEWART Frederick - 24-03-1934
STEWART Mavis Anita - 04-08-1949
STEWART Norah - 09-03-1935
STEWART Reginald Robertson - 30-10-1950
STEWART Willoughby - 13-10-1938

STIFFERT Margaret Theresa - 28-04-1940

STOCKDALE Ernest - 15-12-1952

STONES Samuel - 05-02-1953

STOWELL Baby - 03-02-1929
STOWELL Baby - 19-02-1934
STOWELL Eric Lindsay - 27-11-1942

STUART Alexander -04-01-1944
STUART Judith - 20-05-1948

STUBBS Henry Edwin - 01-09-1948

STURDY Thomas - 31-10-1943

SULLIVAN Arthur - 08-08-1950
SULLIVAN Edward - 16-02-1937
SULLIVAN Trevor Robert - 12-08-1948
SULLIVAN William O - 23-10-1929

SUMNER Dora Erin - 09-10-1952
SUMNER Frances Livesey - 02-10-1952
SUMNER John William - 11-08-1941
SUMNER Wallace Charles Ivan - 26-02-1931

SUTHERLAND Fanny Copeland - 10-04-1953

SWAN Bessie Paterson - 28-03-1936
SWAN Charles - 20-09-1943

SYKES George Augustus - 17-07-1949

SYMONS Alfred James Morsehead - 06-01-1947
SYMONS Elizabeth - 06-06-1932

TANGOHAU Thomas Maaka - 31-05-1952

TARAU Mrs Jacob - 04-04-1949

TAREWA Rota - 02-08-1945
TAREWA Tiria Lopia - 09-10-1944

TARIA Filomene - 10-03-1943

TATE Edward Hannon - 24-05-1945

TAUROA Rekapa - 26-04-1952

TAWERA Miss - 03-09-1951
TAWERA Nira - 03-02-1948

TAWHIA Ngahuia - 29-10-1935

TAWHIO Te Keepa - 03-11-1948

TAYLOR Thomas Henry - 07-07-1942
TAYLOR William - 27-11-1939

TEAMO Wharekura - 27-05-1933

TEBBUTT Alfred George - 20-07-1948
TEBBUTT Lillian Francis - 11-10-1939

TEESDALE Baby - 08-01-1940

TERRY Alice May - 07-06-1952
TERRY Cecil Ralph - 22-08-1952

TETANUIHA Walker - ?

THACKRAY Wilfred Raymond Kaslor - 18-11-1952

THEOBALD Emma Susannah - 06-06-1945
THEOBALD Norman Herbert - 26-04-1949
THEOBALD Percival James - 29-07-1943
THEOBALD Selina May - 09-07-1948

THOM Colin - 11-11-1928
THOM David Meickle - 31-12-1937
THOM Margaret - 08-04-1934
THOM Robert Telfer - 07-04-1947

THOMAS Amy Elizabeth - 10-04-1951
THOMAS George William - 08-02-1944

THOMPSON Flenise Mary - 06-02-1950
THOMPSON Lina - 27-02-1950
THOMPSON William Frederick R - 25-12-1936

THOMSON Ian Mundell - 30-09-1943

THUORE Haturene - 02-10-1951

THURLOW Florence Evelyn - 07-08-1950

TIAKIWAI Te Pare - 15-03-1940

TICKNER Charles - 01-07-1948

TIENTZES Gerardus Bernardus - 07-06-1952

TIHI Morena - 14-12-1949

TIMBS Baby John - 08-09-1938
TIMBS Cyril Arthur - 04-05-1946

TIMMINS Baby - ?

TIMS Lynette Natalie - 26-02-1947

TINDALL Robert - 15-06-1950

TIPPETT Sydney Harold - 03-03-1948

TODD Georgina Copeland - 19-06-1947
TODD John - 22-03-1939
TODD William Alfred - 08-10-1947

TOOKE Maureen Joy - 28-12-1946

TOSLAND Fanny Lydia - 30-08-1942

TOWNSHEND James Arthur - 21-06-1948

TRERISE Harry Wills - 18-05-1951

TROTT Arthur Edward - 15-07-1952

TUNUI Baby James - 27-09-1939

TUPE Bill - 26-03-1950

TURNBULL Baby - 20-05-1951
TURNBULL James McKenzie - 29-09-1951

TURNER Grant Charles - 05-07-1951

TURPIN Anna - 03-08-1943
TURPIN Richard - 02-06-1948

TWIST Norman Ehia - 01-11-1947

TYSSEN Baby - 26-09-1949