Port Molyneux Cemetery in Port Molyneux, Otago

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Get directions Cemetery Road, Port Molyneux
Port Molyneux, Clutha District, Otago New Zealand

Coordinates: -46.36266, 169.76330
03 419 0200
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The Port Molyneux cemetery is situated on Cemetery Road, off Port Molyneux Road, between Romahapa and Kaka Point, overlooking the site where the township of Port Molyneux once was.

In 1868, the "Bruce Herald" reports that a meeting of the residents of Port Molyneux moved that G. Hay, J. Paterson and J.H. Jenkinson be Trustees for the Port Molyneux Cemetery. Ten years later, J.H. Jenkinson wrote in a letter to the "Clutha Leader" that only two burials had taken place, the latest "about seven years ago" as of January 1878, "both of which were found on the beach and one identified". No other burials were known to have taken place as of that time.

Recorded burials date back to 1880, and the cemetery is now administered by the Clutha District Council. Burial records are available through the Clutha District Council's cemeteries web site at https://www.cluthadc.govt.nz/community/cemeteries .

Blocks and plots are taken from these records, but the numbering seems to be duplicated in places, and a cemetery map is not yet available.