Mount Victoria Cemetery in Devonport, Auckland

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Get directions Behind the two churches on the left past the roundabout at Lake Rd and Albert Rd,
Devonport, Auckland Council, Auckland 0624 New Zealand

Coordinates: -36.82525, 174.79781
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The Crown reserved land for a cemetery when the area around Flagstaff Hill, now known as Mt Victoria, was sold for suburban farms in 1850. There were also interments at the Catholic, Presbyterian and Anglican churchyards on the slopes of Mt Victoria.

In 1854 the Executive Council approved the site for usage as a burial ground. Many Devonport settlers are buried here.

Mt Victoria Cemetery was closed in November 1890, but because O'Neill's Point Cemetery had not yet opened, interments still took place there, and in fact continued to at family plots, until the 1930s.

The first interment at Mt Victoria Cemetery is of the great peacemaker Eruera Maihi Patuone. He died in 1872 at the age of 109 and his grave is marked with a simple wrought iron railing and stone plaque. Patuone was a great warrior chieftain, but also acted as a peacemaker between the Maori people and the white colonists. Other members of the renowned family, who sold the land in the Devonport area, are also buried there.

Mr William Oliver, the first settler to buy land in what is now North Shore City, is also interred at Mt Victoria Cemetery. Unfortunately there is no record of where the interment actually took place, only a listing with his name and date of death