BLUFF burials
* excludes still born
* birth date may be calculated from age at death
* date could be that of death or burial
* names grouped together not necessarily related
NOTES Original list of names was taken from the above database. Many of the entries have incorrect names and/or dates (sometimes out by months or years). There are names on headstones that are not on the database. Most people here have been individually researched, but not all, so use as a guide only to your own research

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SALMONSON, Frank Samuel - 12 Dec 1900 aged 4 days

SANDILANDS, Charles George - 18 July 1927 aged 15
SANDILANDS, Charles - 19 Jan 1908 not found
* possibly infant son of Charles James Sandilands & Susan Jane Nitey
* buried with Dixon
SANDILANDS, John William Leslie - 29 May 1906 aged 6 months
SANDILANDS, Susan Jane - 21 May 1964 aged 86

SANDS, Charlotte Mary - 16 Dec 1971 aged 65
SANDS, Melvin George - 5 Dec 1951 aged 43
SANDS, Margaret McDonald - 7 March 1956 aged 23

SARGEANT, Marguertia Alice Daisy - 27 May 1971 aged 75
SARGEANT, Reuben - 16 Dec 1956 aged 68

SCHOLFIELD, Betty - 20 Feb 1926 aged 4 hours
SCHOLFIELD, Peggy - 20 Feb 1926 aged 6 hours
SCHOLFIELD, Clara - 10 Oct 1950 aged 67
SCHOLFIELD, William Dilke - 14 Aug 1950 aged 78
* Master Mariner, husband of Clara

SCOTT, Andrew - 27 July 1906 aged 70
SCOTT, Annie - 2 June 1911 aged 5 hours
SCOTT, David - 3 Aug 1909 aged 80
SCOTT, Elizabeth - 25 April 1902 aged 69
SCOTT, George Andrew - 23 May 1897
SCOTT, Isabella - 13 March 1913 aged 42

SCULLAY, Helen Margaret - 4 Nov 1902 aged 14 months
SCULLAY, Mavis Jeanette - 15 June 1904 aged 3 months

SEABOURNE, Winifred Renelda - 27 Feb 1984 aged aged 73
* buried with Metzger family

SHANNON, James Joseph - 3 April 1953 aged 45
SHANNON, James Michael - 14 Sep 1925 aged 41
* accidentally drowned
Otago Daily Times, 18 Sep 1925
The body of James Shannon, the seaman who was reported missing from Bluff on Monday evening, was found to-day. It was seen floating under the water near the spot on the wharf where the steamer Loyalty was sunk when an effort was made to locate the missing man by means of an explosion of gelignite. It is stated that the shot was fired by Harbour Board officers under the direction of the police who considered that the explosion would bring the body to the surface. An inquest was held in the Bluff Courthouse. A verdict was returned that the deceased, James Shannon, met his death by drowning while endeavouring to get aboard his boat, the Britannia, in Bluff Harbour on the night of September 14. The following rider was added:- "The jury wished to bring under the notice of the proper authorities the necessity for a light on the wharf where the mishap occurred; also that previous fatalities have occurred about this part and that no non-commissioned boat be allowed to take up a berth alongside the wharf"
SHANNON, Katherine May - 11 March 1946 aged 65
SHANNON, Ronald James Arthur - aged 71
SHANNON, Stanley Raymond - aged 74
SHANNON, Vera Irene - aged 74
SHANNON, Walter - 10 Nov 1909 aged 14 days

SHAW, Annie Vivienne Grace - 20 Nov aged 88
SHAW, Benjamin - 16 May 1924 .. person not found
SHAW, James - 7 Oct 1961 aged 62

SHEAD, William - 16 Aug 1905 not found

SHEPARD, Louisa Lavina - 21 Sep 1940 aged 27
SHEPARD, Phyllis - 2 Oct 1956 aged 88
SHEPARD, Roi Hinerange - 5 Sep 1932 age not found
SHEPARD, Roy Hawea - 17 March 1961 aged 55
SHEPARD, Roy Thomas - 2 Feb 1938 aged 9 months
HEADSTONE
In loving memory of
Arihi Newton Died 4th Oct 1928 Aged 77 years, Pumau Ki Te Atua Amine Koai Ia, also her grandson Charles Tewaewae TeAu Died 16th Aug 1923 Aged 7 months, and her granddaughter, Alice Hui TeAu Died 17th Mar 1925 Aged 9 months
SHEPARD, Thomas - 14 Oct 1938 aged 78
SHEPARD, Jane - 24 April 1876 aged 69

SHEPHERD, Thomas Haereroa - 24 Jan 1903 aged 6 months
SHEPHERD, William R - 14 Feb 1919 person not found
* buried with Henry Wesley (1880-1921)
SHEPHERD, William Thomas - 6 June 1906 aged 86

SHERLOCK, Caroline Magdaline - 24 Oct 1973 aged 93
SHERLOCK, Frederick Newman - 29 Aug 1954 aged 74

SHIRLEY, Jean Isobel - 26 June 2004 aged 89

SILVESTER, Ada Elizabeth - 20 Jan 1968 aged 83 (nee Mason)
* married James Albert Silvester in 1915
SILVESTER, Alfred - 23 Nov 1930 aged 81
SILVESTER, Alfred John - 12 Sep 1952 aged 74
SILVESTER, Alice Edith - 30 May 1919 aged 2 months
SILVESTER, Catherine Mary - aged 89
SILVESTER, Emma - 3 Sep 1920 aged 35
SILVESTER, George Francis - 22 Aug 1942 aged 48
SILVESTER, Grace Ellen - 6 Oct 1959 aged 55
SILVESTER, James A - 11 April 1927 person not found
* possibly 1 of the 'infant children' buried with James Albert & Ada Silvester
SILVESTER, James Albert - 24 Oct 1954 aged 71
SILVESTER, Mary Ann - 3 Aug 1933 aged 81
SILVESTER, Richard Major - 24 Nov 1960 aged 74
SILVESTER, William Henry - 15 March 1928 aged 51

SIMS, Eleaner May - 20 Oct 1892 aged 32

SINCLAIR, Arthur - 14 Dec 1933 aged 86
SINCLAIR, Donald - 13 Feb 1925 aged 8 hours
SINCLAIR, Grace - 5 Oct 1894 aged 93
SINCLAIR, James Maitland - 15 Nov 1894 aged 59
SINCLAIR, John - 5 July 1886 aged 85
SINCLAIR, Margaret - 23 Aug 1892 aged 55
SINCLAIR, Sarah - 7 Sep 1918 aged 77
* wife of Arthur
SINCLAIR, Thomas - 19 Jan 1881 aged 88
* from Dunrossness, Shetland

SKERRETT, Annie Wahine - 26 Dec 1903 aged 7 months
SKERRETT, Charles Henry - 21 Sep 1903 aged 18.9
* died in Gisborne

SLATER, Alfred - 25 Aug aged 7
SLATER, Marguerite Vera - 2 Aug 1900 aged 1
SLATER, Percy James - 18 Oct 1898 aged 4 months

SMITH, Charles Adolph - 15 Feb 1939 aged 77
SMITH, Elhanan Winchester - 9 July 1906 aged 24
SMITH, Elma Evelyn - 27 Aug 1934 aged 49
SMITH, George Henry Fife - 10 Feb 1965 aged 87
SMITH, Capt James - 8 Nov 1906 aged 76
SMITH, James Ell - 24 Sep 1943 aged 31
* son of Joseph & Elizabeth
SMITH, John - 3 May 1935 aged 74
SMITH, John Albin - 21 March 1953 aged 87
SMITH, Joseph Anson - 7 Nov 1947 aged 77
SMITH, Margaret - 9 July 1953 aged 83
SMITH, Margaret Euphemia - 1 Oct 1948 aged 73
SMITH, Mary - 30 May 1907 aged 79
SMITH, May Waari Fife - 28 April 1941 aged 47
SMITH, Paul - 3 March 1915 aged 79
SMITH, Paul James - 28 Jan 1890 aged 16

SMITHERS, Hazel I - 23 Aug 1938 person not found

SOMMERVILLE, Helen - 24 Feb 1917 aged 70

SPENCER, Alfred Kihau - 9 April 1886 aged 3 weeks
SPENCER, Ann - 22 March 1900 aged 56
SPENCER, Catherine - 8 May 1890 aged 18
SPENCER, Christina - 11 Sep 1946 aged 64
SPENCER, Duncan Jennings - 4 Jan 1943 aged 18
SPENCER, Edward Easy - 13 March 1930 aged 26
* born Easy Harbour, Stewart Island to George & Flora
SPENCER, Edward John - 3 Oct 1906 aged 19
SPENCER, Elizabeth, 16 July 1932 aged 27
SPENCER, Flora - 26 July 1930 aged 58
SPENCER, Frederick - 9 Dec 1902 aged 19
SPENCER, George Greig - 14 Aug 1906 aged 24
SPENCER, Harriet - 28 May 1907 age not found
SPENCER, Horiana Arawa Louisa - 26 Dec 1939 aged 22
SPENCER, James - 8 Dec 1903 aged 62
SPENCER, James Campbell - aged 6 months
SPENCER, James Coupar - 15 Feb 1908 aged 22.5
* drowned in Bluff Harbour trying to save others
SPENCER, James Coupar - aged 32 hours
SPENCER, John Maupo - 13 Dec 1916 aged 37
SPENCER, Lena Takerau - 1 July 1973 aged 73
SPENCER, Louisa - 15 Nov 1930 aged 84
SPENCER, Manuel - 27 May 1907 aged 1 day
SPENCER, Maria - 31 March 1948 aged 69
SPENCER, Mary Ann - 17 March 1878 aged 8 months
SPENCER, Mary Ann - 26 May 1874 aged 8
SPENCER, Rena Ena Veronica - 29 Dec 1972 aged 78
SPENCER, Robert - 2 Jan 1888 aged 13
* accidentally killed
SPENCER, Robert Edmund Bruce - 23 Jan 1958 aged 66
SPENCER, Robert Taare Paro - 28 Sep 1913 aged 1
SPENCER, Steady George - 2 Jan 1923 aged 10
SPENCER, Thomas George - 21 May 1948 aged 73
SPENCER, Thomas Stewart - 19 March 1960 aged 82
SPENCER, Thomas Te Aoriri - 1 Jan 1964 aged 31
SPENCER, William - 24 Oct 1959 aged 90
SPENCER, William Hautehi - 1 May 1929 aged 23
SPENCER, William Tihope, 11 Feb 1958 aged 65
SPENCER, William - 19 Jan 1938 aged 93

SQUIRES, Catherine - 15 July 1912 aged 69
SQUIRES, John - 21 Dec 1901 aged 66
SQUIRES, Robert Westbrook - 24 July 1917 aged 8½

SUTHERLAND, Margaret - 31 May 1898 aged 4

SUTTON, Charles Wyburn - 9 Dec 1894 aged 1
SUTTON, Dorothy Isabel - 2 June 1980 aged 53
SUTTON, Frances Mercy - 14 Aug 1890 aged 53
SUTTON, George Lewis - 2 April 1902 aged 10 months
SUTTON, William Frederick - 25 Sep 1898 aged 17 months

SWEET, Jack - 16 July 1957 aged 72
SWEET, Maud Helen - 23 March 1934 aged 14.11
* daughter of Jack & Maude
SWEET, Maude Edith - 12 June 1976 aged 84

SYCAMORE, Elizabeth Ann - 15 Aug 1901 aged 29 (nee Daysh)
* daughter of John Daysh & Elizabeth Frew Tannahill. Married Wallace Sycamore in 1896 & had 4 children. Wallace next married Ada Lainchbury in 1902 & had 8 children

TAHANA, Ellen - 3 July 1913 aged 25

TAIT, James - 26 May 1952 aged 76
TAIT, Robert Ian - 19 Nov 1952 child

TALL, Agnes Jane - 18 March 1959 aged 86
TALL, Albert Edward - 21 July 1917 aged 53
TALL, Joseph - 20 Oct 1894 aged 32
TALL, Kennetha Fraser - 29 Feb 1920
* buried with the Dale family

TAYLOR, Frank - 25 April 1965 aged 79
TAYLOR, Henry - 21 Jan 1881 aged 31
TAYLOR, Jessie - 6 May 1973 aged 86
TAYLOR, Thomas - 24 April 1912 aged 56

TE AU, Alice Te Kuikau - 16 March 1925 aged 9 months
TE AU, Charles Henry Te Waiai - 16 Aug 1923 aged 7 months

TE KOETI, Elizabeth Melinda - 18 April 1994 aged 83
TE KOETI, Frederick George Daniel - 28 May 1999 aged 96
TE KOETI, Kevin William - 9 Sep 1949 infant son of Frederick & Elizabeth

TE MARARU, John William - 8 Nov 1918 no age

TENNANT, Robert - 19 Nov 1948 age 67

THOMAS, George - 3 Jan 1909 age not recorded
THOMAS, John - 2 Aug 1944 age not recorded

THOMPSON, Christiania - 3 Oct 1913 aged 82
THOMPSON, Peter Basil - 11 Oct 1958 aged child
THOMPSON, Sarah Anne - 25 Oct 1960 aged 91
THOMPSON, Thomas - 20 Sep 1884 aged 20
THOMPSON, Thomas Johnston - 30 March 1886 aged 52

THOMSON, Emily L - 23 Dec 1876 aged 48
THOMSON, Janet Barr - 23 April 1977 aged 93
THOMSON, John Duncan - 29 Aug 1952 aged 72
THOMSON, Thomas - 28 Sep 1882 aged 60

TIPENE, Arthur Frederick Kihau - 30 Sep 1946 aged 51
TIPENE, Robert William - 26 April 1968 aged 78
TIPENE, Sarah Mary - 30 April 1955 aged 59

TIPPING, Alicia Anne - 13 April 1923 aged 44
TIPPING, Augusta Ward - 17 Nov 1969 aged 62
TIPPING, Charles Jones Augustus Hill - 20 Dec 1931 aged 85
TIPPING, Eelin Cameron - 15 Dec 1993 aged 85
TIPPING, Frances Joseph - 27 June 1946 aged 69
TIPPING, Mary Eliza Frances - 24 Aug 1927 aged 75

TUPAI, John - 2 July 1940 age not found
TUPAI, Olive A - 6 July 1937 age not found

URWIN, Bruce William - 7 Feb 2003 aged 49
URWIN, Gladys - 2 June 1963 aged 66
URWIN, Margaret Adelaide - 13 Nov 1972 aged 89
URWIN, Mary - 7 Dec 1930 aged 69
URWIN, Thomas Clarke - 31 March 1922 aged 68
URWIN, William James - 10 March 1959 aged 78
URWIN-TRAYNOR, June Johanna - 8 Aug 2000 aged 72 (nee Eddy)

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PHOTO
Plot 40, Block General 1
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
James Coupar Spencer
Aged 22 years 5 months
Drowned in Bluff Harbour in
Attempting to save life on
Feb 15th 1908
In loving memory of Robert Spencer
Accidentally killed January 2nd 1888
Aged 13 years
Also Alfred Kihau Spencer
Died April 9th 1886 Aged 3 weeks
Horiana Arawa Louisa
Beloved daughter of
T. S. Spencer
Died 26th Dec 1939 Aged 22 years
Erected in the year 2000
By the descendants of one of Southlands earliest pioneers James Spencer Who founded Bluff in January 1824, Established a whaling station in 1839 And died at sea 1846
His wife Meri Kauri Was born at Otakou in 1816
And was buried at this site 20 April 1876
Mother of James and William Spencer And Thomas Shepard Also wife of William Shepard