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Cemetery Search
Council's cemetery records have been compiled by transferring information
from district registers/books into a database. While every care has been
taken during the transfer, omissions/errors may have occurred. Please
also note that details have been collected over more than 100 years and
Council cannot guarantee accuracy from outside sources. Council therefore
accepts no responsibility for any consequences arising from information
errors or omissions.
This Cemeteries Search service is provided by Council in order to assist its communities, to the best of its ability.
Please forward any information enquiries and/or corrections to updates@mdc.govt.nz.
If information can be verified, the appropriate data will be updated.
Council has received a number of enquiries in relation to the spelling of the Sandon Cemetery which has caused some confusion.
Although located near the outskirts of Sanson, the Sandon Cemetery is located in an area known as the Sandon Block contained on the Oroua Survey Map. The Sandon Block covers many square miles in an area reaching from north of Sanson and east of the Rangitikei River through to the environs of Feilding.
The history behind the creation of the Sandon Block stems back to the wars in Taranaki where men who served in the Army were given scrip which later could be exchanged for land. The Government brought in legislation prohibiting the use of scrip to acquire land in a township area. It therefore drew provisional boundaries on maps still virginal and proclaimed the enclosed areas as towns with names. Sandon was one of those towns and although a town was never built there, the town of Sandon still remains on survey maps today. Council has continued with that history by retaining the original name of the Sandon Cemetery. |
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