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More than famous men and women: Sites for student investigation and analysis. As time passes our old cemeteries become less a landscape for mourning and remembrance by loved ones more a source of curiosity, more a


  1. More than famous men and women: Sites for student investigation and analysis. �

  2. As time passes our old cemeteries become • � less a landscape for mourning and remembrance by loved ones • � more a source of curiosity, • � more a quiet or contemplative environment, • � and more an invaluable source of evidence of the way past generations lived and often died. When combined with paper and electronic sources, the historic cemetery opens up to students a direct and accessible link to a significant proportion of the past population, the ordinary as well as the elite, allowing unique opportunities to investigate many different aspects of their lives and their deaths.

  3. Electronic archives allow classroom access to searchable original and secondary sources. Secondary sources: Primary sources: • � • � T e Ara Images from Timeframes • � Dictionary of New Zealand Biography website Newspaper stories from ��� • � • � Google maps • � Heritage trails Papers past website ( as • � City Council archives below)

  4. Jewish Portion Dunedin Southern Cemetery � Student investigations can centre on Mark & Septimus Myers �� Sarah Plot 110 � Cohen • � an individual or family, Plot 88 � �� • � a particular suburb, • � a specific migrant group, �� Maurice �� �� �� Joel, Plot • � a specific town or district, 144 � �� • � a city or region or �� �� The • � even the nation as a whole. Theomins Plot 124 � �� �� �� �� Bendix Hallenstein & Willi Fells Jewish section Map reproduced from Ockwell, N. (Ed.). Plot 140 � (1985). Southern Cemetery Dunedin. Vol 5. Jewish and Chinese Portion. Prepared for the New Zealand Society �� of Genealogists. �

  5. At the Anderson � s Bay Cemetery � Finding first settlers from the first ships to the colony 1848 -1852 � Student work cards – Cut out fold in half and give one to each group Block 105 Plot 63 (Anderson) � Block 4 Plot 31 (Patrick) � An example of the student cards. T eachers print onto light card, cut out, and fold along each card along the dotted line. Put in a box and take to the cemetery. Student groups “dig” for a grave, locate using a cemetery map, record details and investigate using local resources. Fold � Fold � ��� ���

  6. At the cemetery: In depth investigation Southern Cemetery � Memorial information Area 1: Student recording sheet – page 2 offers opportunities for student inquiry into Block 6P Plot 27 - 28 Name Y ear Died Age wider social and living conditions during the later 19 th and early 20 th centuries. One of the most obvious inquiries is to have students gather mortality data (names, ages, and date of deaths) from the epitaph Details from the epitaph such as an accident, a person � s occupation, or war involvement � ______________________________________________________________________ � information. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Data plotted into age bands by decade and time by decade reveals information about life expectancy in New Zealand colonial society and allows for interesting follow-up investigations .

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  8. • � Occasionally students will Erected to the Memory encounter headstones such of as these pictured. William Sutherland Died 6th April 1871 • � Aged 6 years and 8 months Cause of death is usually not recorded on headstones Davidina Sutherland unless that death was Died 6th April 1871 Aged 5 years 6 months accidental. John Sutherland Encourage students to Died 6th April 1871 investigate…. Aged 3 years 4 months • � Water supply and links to Henrietta Margaret Sutherland typhoid Died 21st April 1871 • � Effluent and garbage disposal Aged 1 year • � Methods of cooking and food John Sutherland storage Died 15th July 1905 • � Establishment of medical Aged 76 years services Ann wife of above • � Child care and immunisation Died 30 th Oct 1911 Aged 76 years

  9. Timeline illustrating conditions & changes that impacted on high mortality rates in colonial New Zealand � Decade = 1850 � s Dunedin

  10. Headstones in the Chinese section of Dunedin’s Southern Cemetery tell of many Chinese sojourner gold seekers who came to Otago and who endured incredible hardship and cultural and physical isolation. Most of these headstones now provide the only record that exists today of men from Poon Y ue province in Southern China who were never able to return to their families and homelands. When combined with Genealogy Society transcripts and translations the data from these headstones tell a unique demographic story. The story can be rounded out with original resources and secondary resources many of which are available online.

  11. • The disaster recorded here opens our eyes today to the realities and the hazards involved in the social and working conditions at the time.

  12. Fate For of such is the kingdom of heaven. The Resurrection A few short years of evil past, Mortality of man We reach this happy shore, Where death divided friends at last, The Day Shall meet to part no more. of Judge- Oh may we stand before the lamb, When Earth and seas are fled, ment Mourn not for me my comrades dear And hear the judge pronounce our name I am not dead but sleeping here With blessings on our heads. My end you know, my grave you see Mitchell Grave Northern Cemetery Dunedin Prepare yourself to follow me. Northern Cemetery Dunedin “The Spirit and the Bride say ‘come’. Rev 22:17 Passages from the bible are also With Jesus common

  13. Religious epithets Religious symbols � � � � � � � � � 2000-9 2000-9 � � � 1990-9 1990-9 � � � � � � � � 1980-9 1980-9 � � 1970-9 1970-9 � 1960-9 1960-9 � � � � � � � � 1950-9 1950-9 1940-9 1940-9 � � � � � 1930-9 1930-9 � � � � 1920-9 � � � 1920-9 � � � 1910-9 1910-9 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1900-9 1900-9 � � � � � 1890-9 1890-9 � � 1880-9 1880-9 � � � 1870-9 1870-9 Cross Open Wreath Angel Lily Cross & IHS Ivy Pall RIP Fate Resurre With At rest Biblical book ribbon crown ction Christ Quote

  14. Changes in monument styles may be used to infer meaning with respect to social and political structures. Changes in memorials can be attributed to changing beliefs about 1900s memorialisation and a 1890s 1880s 1870s move towards a more egalitarian society that was apparent in New Zealand from the 1920s onwards. … 1990s 1940s … 1920s 1930s

  15. Coll Boyd McDonald (Cade t) kille d whe n Ian Grant Kille d T roope r J ohn Wood. the training ship on H.M.S Achille s Pre ston Logan Kille d in Kille d in action at S.S. Aparima was during the battle action at Gallipoli, May Damascus 1917. torpe doe d in the 1915. Auckland with Graf Spe e at Impe rial Came l Mounte d Rifle s . English Channe l in the Rive r Plate in Corps. 1917 1939

  16. Lieutenant Preston Logan Auckland Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F . Died on the hospital ship Soudan and buried at sea, 22 nd May 1915 aged 22. Commemorated on the Lone Pine urkey . memorial, Gallipoli T

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