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Thanks for the update.

The link below will put the era that you are researching into context. It was all new territory in a Colonial sense. The earliest surveys for land settlement, were only about 10 years old, following the Waikato confiscation.

Alan.

https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/docs/default-source/your-council/plans-policies-and-bylaws/plans/district-plan-review/section-32-reports/historic-heritage/appendix-10-4-1-6-historic-overview---6-ngaruawahia.pdf?sfvrsn=8c2480c9_2 

Contact made, and a copy of the photos have been sent to Deelin.

Thanks SPADES for sorting out the issue.

Alan

OK.

If interested I can send you some photos of barren, early TAUPIRI in the era that the main trunk railway line was pushed through into the lower WAIKATO.

Will PM you with the heritage research email for a person who was a regular history contributor to the Saturday WAIKATO TIMES.  Using the by line of HERITAGE - The dead tell tales. Usualy containing the photo of a early grave, then a researched bio of their pioneering life.

Alan.

HI AGAIN.

Sorry I have no time available to be doing a bit of research. There are a few newspaper notices where it is noted that the service would terminate at the railway station, with the body heading to a church cemetery in South Auckland or Auckland central.

The earliest colonial public cemeteries were at Cambridge, KIRIKIRIOA/HAMILTON, Ngaruawahia, followed by Taupiri. And note that the railway did not reach there until the late 1870's.

Alan.

Mary stayed with a sister in Auckland for a couple of weeks after hubby went off. But I don't have any names. D

"Robina WHEATCROFT,  sister of the bride.  Auckland."  signed as a witness of the wedding.

Alan.