About this project

There are a number of old (1890 - 1930) headstones in an area of the Karori Cemetery, public area 2, also known as Gum Gully, which has fallen in to disrepair.

The Friends of the Karori Cemetery have spent considerable hours clearing this area and cleaning the headstones.

A number of neglected, and perhaps forgotten Chinese headstones, have been found and this website is intended to document them. We hope to add small biographies where possible.

Please use the navigation bar at the top right ... only entries for Karori will be found and added to in due course.

How to read Chinese Graves

2021 Article from Australia that applies to NZ. See here

Origins

These are mentioned in the Australian article linked to above and likely are relevant to NZ

香邑 = 香山 Heung Shan/Hsiang Shan/Xiangshan (later Chungshan/Zhongshan 中山)
寧邑 = 新寧 Xinning/Sunning (later 臺山 / 台山 Taishan/Toishan)
開邑 = 開平 Kaiping//Hoi Ping
恩邑 = 恩平 Enping/Yanping
會邑 = 新會 Xinhui/Sunwui
增邑 = 增城 Zengcheng/Tsang Sing
東邑 = 東莞 Dongguan/Tung Guan
高邑 = 高要 Gao You/Gao Yao 安邑 = 寶安 Paoan/Bao'an (aka 新安 San On/Xin'an)
順邑 = 順德 Shunde/Sun Tak
番邑 = 番禺 Fan Yu/Panyu/Poon Yu
南海 Nanhai/Nam Hoi (not Hainan 海南 unless after WWII)

Sexagenary Calendar

Here's a table for the years 1909-1946