Stories in Stone

The following series of Stories in Stone appeared in the Otago Daily Times, Magazine Section each Saturday from June 2004 until December 2012.

Stewart Harvey photographed the grave markers, and researched, compiled and edited the stories (a few stories were contributed as acknowledged). The initiation point for a story could be an inscription on a headstone, or it could arise from an anecdote in a book or report on Papers Past website.

The series provides interesting, and sometimes harrowing, vignettes on people and their lives in early Otago. These range through the whole of early colonial society, including the wealthy, politicians, business owners, leaders, ordinary folk, engineers, teachers, musicians, doctors, police, and many others.

Many stories cover tragedies involving, drownings, accidents, disease.

     
     

Surname Given names File No.








Allen James
210106
N

Allen Thomas
180912
N

Anderson James
240109
AB

Anscombe Edmund
140209
AB

Arthur Street Memorial
20705
Arthur Street

Arthur Thomas
260909
N

Aylmer Caroline
11011
Western Southland

Bailes Mary
280309
N

Balfour James
40904
S

Bannerman William & Jane
190604
S

Barber Edward
30410
Hamiltons

Barling Philip
50806
AB

Barningham Samuel
171009
S

Barr George Morrison
180212
S

Barr James
50610
S

Barr James
190211
S

Barth Arthur James
100710
N

Batchelor Ferdinand Campion
110807
AB

Bathgate John
90711
N

Baumgardt (Bungard) Paul & Eva
241112
Waihola

Becker Brothers
240410
Moa Creek

Bedford Harry Dodshun
210412
N

Begg Charles
60908
N

Beissel Franz Edward
110709
S

Bell George
91206
N

Bell Norman Harper
250306
AB

Bills Charles
230612
N

Bingham Henry
230906
AB

Bishiski 4 children
180605
S

Blair William Newsham
30711
N

Blanck Charles Ernest
220510
S

Bonner Charles
40605
PCN

Boreham Charles Stephen
280209
S

Boult William Mouat
180812
N

Boyd & McDougall Robert & Ronald
101211
Clyde

Boyes Duncan
310704
S

Bradshaw John Benn Bradshaig
260604
N

Braik Alexander Mennie
60310
N

Branigan St John
100704
S

Brebner Thomas
230705
PCO

Brinsley Richard
290111
Portobello

Broad Alfred
120211
AB

Brown James Clark
200310
N

Bruce John
80510
S

Brunton Alfred
310710
N

Burns Arthur John
220711
S

Burns Thomas, Rev
210707
S

Burnside John Arthur
10907
AB

Burt Alexander & Thomas
190205
N

Burton family
130908
Roxburgh

Cable Joseph
190909
S

Cairns Alexander
310312
S

Cameron Angus
61012
N

Campbell family & servants
110904
S

Campbell Robert
140707
N

Campbell Samuel
170911
AB

Cargill Edward Bowes
190512
S

Cargill William
210608
S

Carrick Henderson
150809
N

Champtaloup Sydney Taylor
130805
AB

Chapman Henry Samuel
110206
N

Chiaroni Ambrose
70810
N

Chiaroni Ambrose (jun)
240911
S

Chisholm Robert
90411
S

Christie John - Rev
220809
Waikouaiti

Christie Thomas Reid
170709
N

Christie Children  
110211
Balclutha    
Clayton William Henry
260305
N

Cleghorn James
51209
PC

Codling Sarah
11207
S

Cohen Mark
70707
S

Collie John
50311
East Taieri

Connolly Phillip George
220406
AB

Cook George
260211
N

Cooke Frederick Augustus
260708
AB

Coombs Hannah Lyall
50211
N

Copland James
250206
N

Coughtry Millen
290406
AB

Crust Henry
220907
S

Cuddie Mary
190408
East Taieri

Culling Thomas
70511
S

Cutten William Henry
240704
N

Dansey children
300411
Otekaieke

Dawson William
191105
N

Demaus David
120909
PC

Dewar James
90906
S

Dempster Nellie
41106
AB

Don Alexander
50604
S

Dougall John
20906
QI

Downes Alexander Dalziel
31205
N

Dreaver Elizabeth Creilman
190311
N

Driver Henry
170307
S

Driver Richard
140112
Purakaunui

Drucki-Lubecki Konstantin Alois
231004
S

Duncan James & Alfred
110910
S

Eades Alan Reginald
31211
AB

Earland Myrtle
140511
AB

Easton John Campbell
280511
N

Eliott George Eliot
170312
N

Eichardt Adolph Albert & Julia
161004
Queenstown

Ellis Arthur
210511
AB

Esquilant Edward Henry
130609
N

Eustace John
21206
AB

Evans Josiah
270210
N

Evans Fanny & William
110611
N

Every Simon Frederick
271104
AB

Ewing John
30207
AB

Farra Joseph
250611
N

Fels Wili
260806
S

Fenwick George
40206
S

Ferguson Henry Lindo
140505
N

Finch Julia & Lousia Irwin
21010
S

Firefighters
70804
S

Fish Henry Smith
240905
S

Fogo Sarah
101205
N

Fulton Catherine Henrietta Elliot
40306
West Taieri

Fulton James
51111
West Taieri

Garvey Edward
120604
S

Gaudin George Howard
20612
AB

Gawne William
210712
N

Gibbs William
260108
PCO

Gill Henry
151011
N

Gillies Emily
31009
N

Gillies John
300906
S

Gillies John Lillie
240107
N

Gillies Robert Craig
201012
N

Given Andrew
70712
AB

Glendining Robert
60506
N

Goldie William
281006
PCO

Goyen Peter
150907
N

Graham Donald
60210
Hindon

Graham Harry
190708
S

Grant James Gordon Stuart
40807
S

Gray Wilson
310109
S

Green George
120512
S

Gregg William
230808
N

Grieve Robert William Symington
40910
S

Guthrie Walter
201208
S

Haggitt Catherine
70608
S

Haggitt Bryan Cecil
221011
N

Haley Cyrus
40812
N

Hallenstein Bendix
160906
S

Hanlon Alfred Charles
181204
AB

Hardy Henry Frederick
190305
S

Harris John Hyde
270805
N

Harrop William
81108
N

Harroway Henry
130811
Green Island

Hart Thomas, Capt
240312
S

Hastie James
181210
S

Harwood Octavius
110605
Portobello

Hatton Marion
170905
S

Hawcridge Robert
181106
N

Hawthorne Stuart
81011
N

Haynes Daniel
160411
N

Hazlett James
251106
AB

Heenan Daniel
30905
West Taieri

Henry Charles
301010
N

Hepburn George
160110
S

Hewitson William
30307
N

Hislop John
151005
N

Hitchins Priscilla
230710
N

Hocken Thomas Morland
150706
N

Hodgkins William Mathew
30312
N

Hogan Robert
200210
East Taieri

Hordern John
271110
AB

Hudson Richard
10706
N

Hulme Edward
160206
N

Inglis Alexander
190806
S

Inglis Hugh Hutchison
120806
ET

Ireland Peter
20509
N

Irvine John
91010
N

Jago John Wesley
180910
N

Jamieson Richard
201110
N

Janverin Thomas
241107
S

Jeffrey James
11108
AB

Joel Maurice
190507
S

Jones John
160904
S

Joseph Francis Antonio
61110
S

Karetai
281108
Otakou

Kempthorne Thomas
280707
N

Kerkham Roger
110409
N

Kettle Charles Henry
130506
S

Kitchener Henry, Capn
130310
N

Koo Hoy Yow
50205
Skippers

Laing John William
290809
N

Lambert James Halls
280712
N

Lawson Robert Arthur
90808
N

Thomas Thomson
300110
N

Lee Thomas
190610
N

Lei-Wia
131208
N

Lichtenstein Bernard, Rev
100410
S

Logan Thomas
231108
S

Lo Keong Matilda
121105
N

Langlands Lachlan
240307
AB

Laurenson James Gifford
31107
N

Lewis James George
80907
N

Macandrew James
220105
Macandrew Bay

Macassey James Livingstone
120610
S

Macdonell Alexander Ranaldson
280106
S

Macfie James
41210
S

McGeorge Alexander Crow
200908
S

Mackenzie Thomas Noble
51105
N

MacNeil Hugh
250605
N

Mathieson John
81005
AB

McBride John
270609
Frankton

McDermid Hugh
160705
Sawyers Bay

McGlashan Edward
40611
N

McGlashan John
300705
S

McGregor John
220111
AB

MacGregor John
250812
AB

McIndoe Sir Archibald Hector
90405
AB

McKenzie Sir John
70406
Palmerston

McKinlay Robert
171205
S

McLean George
50708
S

McMillan Alexander
211006
AB

McNeur George Hunter
290907
AB

McPhee Gordon & Alexander
290706
AB

Malcolm James (Capn)
260408
N

Mandeno Henry Thomas
191209
AB

Marsh Samuel
160808
N

Martineau Horace Robert
250910
AB

Meikle John James
300808
S

Meenan Frances
141111
S

Methven George
71006
S

Mill John
300405
PCN

Millar John Andrew
260512
N

Miller George
20711
S

Miller Henry John
10510
Oamaru

Milne Mary Jane & Peter, Rev.
170711
N

Mirams Samuel Haywood
50305
N

Mitchell Henry Gavie
300509
N

Moller Carl
50408
N

Monkman Robert Boyle
100307
N

Monson Henry
241009
West Taieri

Monti Domenico Vito
100911
PC new

Moran Bishop Patrick
61004
S

Moran Helen Margaret
140309
AB

Morris John Richard & Guy Clayton
310207
AB

Muir Amelia
220912
N

Muir Thomas Mintaro Bailey
209012
N

Mullany William Ernest & Thomas Curran
261111
AB

Munro George & Helen
260205
Lawrence

Murphy Daniel Francis
41204
S

Myers Septimus S
260507
S

Nees Heinrich
170508
N

Neill Percival Clay
41212
N

Nevill Samuel Tarratt
100207
St Barnabas, Warrington

Nicol Helen
170905
S

Ninnis Aubrey Howard
10912
AB

Norman Robert Henry
281109
Wanaka

O'Brien George
120305
N

O'Leary William
111210
AB

Orbell John
50909
St Johns Waikouaiti

Outram John William
280608
S

Parker Thomas Jeffery
241211
St Barnabas, Warrington

Passmore James Linster
181008
S

Paterson Alexander Stronach
240207
N

Paterson Thomas
40904
S

Pattillo Cecil Wright
270107
AB

Petre Francis William
160405
AB

Phillips Samuel Charles
270412
N

Pidwell John Lawrence
81207
S

Pinkerton David
20607
S

Pinkerton Rachael
201007
S

Polson George & William
211109
Morven Hills

Powley Robert & Gertrude
230607
N

Pring Joseph
160612
S

Purdie William
100905
S

Pyke Vincent
30704
N

Rainham (Raynor) William
171211
S

Ramsay Keith
101107
N

Reed Alfred Hamish
241205
N

Reid Donald
11005
S

Reid John
131012
S

Reid William
280112
N

Remshardt Christian Eugene
300612
AB

Reynolds Rachel Selina
301004
S

Reynolds William Hunter
20808
S

Richardson John Larkins Cheese
80809
N

Riddell Walter
40409
AB

Ridley Henry, Capt
280810
PC

Riemenschnieder Johann Friedrich
70505
PCO

Riley Frederick Ratcliffe
230509
N

Ritchie James McLaren
111106
AB

Roberts John
70805
N

Rocard Alexandre
30710
N

Ross Elizabeth
120708
S

Ross John
170606
AB

Rudd Ben
11212
AB

Rumbelow John
170109
S

Runciman Jane Elizabeth
231010
N

Russell Theodore
30508
Wanaka

Rutherford Robert
291011
AB

Salmond John Louis
150406
AB

Salmond William
20208
S

Saltzman Samuel
120507
S

Scally family
210309
Cromwell

Scott Joe
71109
N

Scoular William
110212
S

Sew Hoy Charles
90512
S

Sexton's Cottage
260610
N

Shacklock Henry Ely
150105
AB

Shand John
250807
N

Shaw Joseph Lowe
261210
N

Shennan Watson
291005
AB

Shiel Charles Alexander
100508
AB

Shum Joe Leong
91004
AB

Sidey John
170710
S

Sidey Thomas Kay
271007
AB

Siedeberg Emily Hancock
261105
N

Sievwright Basil
171112
S

Silk Antiss Dottin
120205
N

Sillars family
270908
Millers Flat

Sim William Alexander
70309
AB

Sise George Lyman
190108
N

Skey Henry
131007
N

Slattery Edward
311009
AB

Sligo Alexander
50512
N

Smellie John Horne
20411
Green Island

Smith Harry
11207
S

Smith Sarah
61007
AB

Somerville William & family
161206
AB

Sparrow Joseph
180611
N

Speight Charles
250904
N

Squarise Raffaello
210407
AB

St Omer Francis
61104
Queenstown

Stephens Oswald Counsell
50507
S

Stevenson Isaac
101112
PC new

Stevenson Roy Hunter & Alicia
171107
AB

Stewardesses s.s. Wairarapa
100606
N

Stewart William Downie
221207
S

Stone John
151207
S

Stout Robert
31112
Karori

Strain Hans
90705
Arthur Street

Street William Edward
100312
N

Stuart Donald McNaughton
101009
S

Studholme Robert
130210
Wanaka

Styles William
141109
Broad Bay

Swan William
230411
N

Taiaroa
61208
Otakou

Talbot Frances Ellen
200811
AB

Tannock David
110812
N

Tapley Harold Livingston
240606
AB

Taylor Alice
90509
N

Taylor William
120311
N

Theomin David Ezekial
151108
S

Thompson Effie & Russell
210810
S

Thomson Alexander
160607
N

Thomson John Turnbull
230405
Invercargill

Tily Paul
270310
S

Tiramorehu Matiaha
10809
Moeraki

Tolmie William Alexander
140810
N

Torrance John Ainslie
250212
S

Towle Henry Francis
191111
S

Tubman Robert
271012
N

Tulloch William Paton
121209
Glenore

Ulrich George Henry Frederick
230110
N

Vallis Albert
131110
AB

Valpy William Henry
30606
S

Wain Job
290510
N

Wakefield Oliver
210209
N

Walden Edward Walter
140412
AB

Wales Nathaniel Young Armstrong
310508
S

Ward Sir Joseph George
180306
Bluff

Ward James Patrick
221005
AB

Waddell Rutherford
90607
S

Weldon Thomas King
150510
S

West Thomas
111008
S

Wheeler Jessie
180409
N

White David Renfrew
220706
N

White Joseph Eli
161010
N

Whitehead David Lunam
100606
S

Whitson John, Capt
170307
N

Wilde James Swindells
160509
AB

Wilkinson Thomas Merrett
250709
N

Will William Rev
170410
East Taieri

Williamson Janet Wise Mackie
140608
S

Wilson Robert & family
200609
S

Wise Henry Aitken
111204
AB

Wolf Sidney Ignatius Joseph
240508
AB

Wood Stephen
70412
N

Woods John Joseph
270811
Lawrence

Young Thomas
210112
N

Ziele Charles George
260311
S