Friends of Mount Street Cemetery AGM
30 June @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Friends of Mount Street Cemetery is hosting their AGM here at the Archdiocese offices!
Mount Street Cemetery is Wellington’s first Roman Catholic cemetery, consecrated in 1840 by Bishop Pompallier, and used for all Catholic burials until Karori Cemetery was opened in 1891.
The first generation interred at Mount Street included Māori and the first wave of immigrants to New Zealand from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, and what is now Italy, Germany, and Poland.
Many Catholic families are represented among the names of those interred at Mount Street.
Friends of Mount Street Cemetery, formed in 2010, is a volunteer group of descendants and others committed to:
– the conservation of the Cemetery,
– restoration of burial sites in this sacred ground,
– establishing full records, and
– conserving the Cemetery as a link to our ancestors and an important heritage site in Wellington.
Perhaps one of your ancestors’ rests there? To find out come along to the Friends Annual General Meeting on Thursday 11th June at the Archdiocese offices (Level 2, 204 Thorndon Quay, Thorndon, Wellington).
The AGM starts at 5:30pm with refreshments. All are welcome.
Hope to see you there!
For further information, contact Vaughan at v.stagpoole@gmail.com
www.mountstreetcemetery.org.nz