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Symonds Street Cemetery

Symonds Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery and park in central Auckland, New Zealand. It is in 5.8 hectares of deciduous forest on the western slope of Grafton Gully,[3] by the corner of Symonds Street and Karangahape Road, and is crossed by the Grafton Bridge. The street (and by extension, the cemetery) is named for William Cornwallis Symonds, a British Army officer prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand.[4] It has a Historic Place – Category I listing with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.[2] Maintenance and administration of the cemetery is provided by the Auckland Council.

Symonds Street Cemetery

1842

Auckland

New Zealand

36°51′34″S 174°45′51″E / 36.8595°S 174.7642°E / -36.8595; 174.7642

Historic

1200 known[1]

10,000 or more (estimated)[2]

Symonds Street Cemetery

Symonds Street Cemetery

27 June 2008

7753

(1805–1875), 1st Mayor of Auckland Borough Council in 1851

Archibald Clark

(1794–1883), land owner and philanthropist

Edward Costley

(1810–1886), significant entrepreneur who gave his name to the suburb of Henderson

Thomas Henderson

(1792–1842), first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi

William Hobson

(1788–1855), officer in the British Army

William Hulme

(1791–1879), early pioneer, entrepreneur, financier and community leader

Henry Keesing

(1812–1883), writer and judge of the Native Land Court

Frederick Edward Maning

(1818–1865), MP in the first two Parliaments

Frederick Merriman

(1816–1886), merchant and Jewish community leader

David Nathan

(1837–1922), optician, Mayor of Auckland, MP

Thomas Peacock

(1831–1913), 1st Mayor of Auckland City (1871–1874)

Philip Philips

(1772–1851), Lieutenant-Governor of New Ulster Province

George Dean Pitt

(1835–1905), missionary, temperance and suffrage activist.

Annie Jane Schnackenberg

(1844–1885), MP from 1872 to 1885

John Sheehan

(1814–1860), radical English journalist and freethinker

Charles Southwell

(1827–1875), MP from 1868 to 1870

William Turnbull Swan

(1793–1864), adventurer who attempted to establish his own sovereign state in New Zealand before British annexation

Charles de Thierry

(1793–1850), Royal Navy officer and first colonial storekeeper

Henry Tucker

(1794–1875), an early Methodist missionary

William White

(1829–1900), a prominent trader from Northland

Samuel Yates

by David Verran, Local History Librarian, Auckland City Libraries

History of the Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland

Symonds Street Cemetery records

held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.

Photographs of Symonds Street Cemetery

Media related to Symonds Street Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons