Barbadoes Street Cemetery
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Some of the notable people buried at the cemetery include William ArmsonWilliam Armson
William Barnett Armson was an architect, surveyor, engineer in colonial New Zealand. A co-founder of the Canterbury Association of Architects, and an architect to the provincial government, he established the architectural firm of Armson, Collins and Harman in 1870, which remained active until 1993...
, William Montgomery
William Montgomery (New Zealand)
The Hon. William John Alexander Montgomery was a New Zealand politician from Little River on Banks Peninsula, and a merchant. Born in London, he lived in a number of places and pursued a number of occupations before settling in Christchurch, New Zealand.-Early life:Montgomery was from an old...
, Frederic Jones
Frederic Jones
Frederic Jones was a New Zealand politician. Originally from England, he settled in the colony in 1863 for health reasons.-Early life:...
and Henry Tancred. Six former Mayors of Christchurch
Mayor of Christchurch
The Mayor of Christchurch is the head of the municipal government of Christchurch, New Zealand, and presides over the Christchurch City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system...
are buried at the Barbadoes Street Cemetery:
- Henry Sawtell (1872–1873)
- Edward Brenchley Bishop (1873–1874)
- Michael Hart (1874–1875)
- Charles Thomas Ick (1879–1881)
- George Ruddenklau (1882–1884)
- Samuel Manning (1890–1891)
Memorials, obelisks and headstones were damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
2011 Christchurch earthquake
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island at on local time , The earthquake was centred west of the town of Lyttelton, and south-east of the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-most populous...
and silt from liquefaction
Liquefaction
Liquefaction may refer to:* Liquefaction, the general process of becoming liquid* Soil liquefaction, the process by which sediments become suspended* Liquefaction of gases in physics, chemistry, and thermal engineering* Liquefactive necrosis in pathology...
covers part of the cemetery.