Clinton Cemetery

 

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View east

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View south-east

 

Search Cemetery Database

Purekireki Cemetery Plan – there is no plan for this cemetery. It is small so you will easily locate a grave where there is a headstone J

 

Location

Travel up the Owaka Valley Road on the Owaka-Clinton Highway until you reach the intersection with Hunt Road. This cemetery is on private property. To obtain permission to see the cemetery please turn right onto Hunt Road and ask at the first house on the right.  Return to the intersection and turning right, travel a short distance further on Owaka Valley Road where you will see the cemetery on your right across a paddock and up the hill.  Please leave dogs in your vehicle.  Please leave gates as you find them and treat the property with respect.

 

About the Records

No cemetery records exist today.  Information, not sourced from headstones, has been taken from burials recorded on death registrations at the Owaka Post Office (now demolished) and were originally transcribed by group member, the late Roma Buchanan, in the 1970’s.  These date from 1898 to 1929

 

13 Nov 2016

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