Symonds Street Cemetery Walk with David Verran
Saturday 27 February 10am-12pmJoin David Verran for this weekend Heritage Walk around Symonds St Cemetery, to learn about some of our early families buried there.
Taking in both Grafton and Newton Gullies, Symonds Street Cemetery is Auckland’s oldest, dating from 1842.
Explore the past through a two hour guided walk by David Verran, local historian, visit the graves of some of Auckland's founding families and learn about the many nineteenth century communities represented in the burial grounds, including Catholic, Anglican, Jewish, Presbyterian, Methodist and Māori.
Speakers’ biography
David Verran is a retired librarian, and former Team Leader and local historian of Research Central, Auckland Libraries. David has authored a number of books, most recently Auckland City Libraries: another chapter and The North Shore: an illustrated history. He has also written many articles, including a couple of articles about Isaac Rhodes Cooper for the NZ Society of Genealogist’s magazine “The Genealogist” and Channel Magazine. David is the vice-president of both the Friends of Symonds St Cemetery and Devonport Museum; he is on the committee of the NZ History Federation and also serves as a volunteer for the Birkenhead Museum.
Numbers are strictly limited. Please book with Research Central by
email arc@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz or phone 09 8902412.
See our other HeritageTalks @
aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/heritagetalks
