Cemetery plans

This collection contains plans of historic Christchurch cemeteries showing the layout of a cemetery and plot numbering. The plans may also contain names of plot purchasers and those interred.

Cemetery plans

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Barbadoes Street Cemetery plans

Nine plot plans of the Barbadoes Street cemetery. Barbadoes Street Cemetery was Christchurch's first burial ground, opening in 1851. It was originally three separate cemeteries controlled by...

Bromley Cemetery block plans

Block plans for Bromley Cemetery showing denominations and plot details. The plans of the blocks and plots include numbering, dates, names of either purchasers or those interred, and notes and...

Linwood Cemetery plans

A collection of 69 plot and block plans for Linwood Cemetery. The plans include the Church of England, Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Roman Catholic and re-sited Jewish sections. Linwood Cemetery, which...

Block plans for the Ruru Lawn cemetery showing the plots, and denomination areas. The block plan has plot details, including numbering, dates, names of either purchasers or those interred, and notes...

Sydenham Cemetery plans

A collection of 23 sheets of plot plans for Sydenham Cemetery. The plot plans begin in 1896, with the first burial recorded in May 1896, before the cemetery was fully open. Details of interments...