Our Paterson Ancestors Buried in Herbert Cemetery

headstones are marked with ‘blue heart’ stones

The first Patersons who came to NZ with some of their adult children in 1862

My generation’s great great great great grandparents

John Paterson 13.12.1800 - 23.5.1877 (4)

Elizabeth Douglas Paterson 1806 - 31.8.1884 (3)

Block 2 Plot 3 & 4

My generation’s great great great grandparents

Son of John and Elizabeth, George & Isabella’s brother

Anthony Paterson 28.4.1839 - 29.2.1912

Elizabeth Gordon 1843 - 2.3.1915

and their son

Thomas Douglas Paterson 8.2.1873 - 11.8.1960

Block 1 Plot 19

My generation’s great great grandfather and great great grandaunt

Son and daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth

John William Paterson 28.2.1866 - 1.5.1895

Isabella ‘Bella’ Munro 1877 - 26.3.1897

and their nephew, Walter Douglas’s son, Anthony & Elizabeth’s grandson

Walter Douglas Paterson ?.6.1898 - 1.9.1912

Block 1 Plot 20

My generation’s great great great grandaunt

Daughter of John and Elizabeth, Anthony & George’s sister

Isabella Paterson Munro 1830 - 19.11.1902

and her husband

Donald Munro 1826 - 30.3.1906

Block 8 Plot 12

My generation’s great great great granduncle and aunt

John and Elizabeth’s son, Anthony & Isabella Munro’s brother

George Paterson ?.2.1843 - 9.10.1902

Janet (Jessie) Cochrane Little Paterson 1852 - 14.4.1930

and their children

Elizabeth Mains McKay Paterson 1872 - 30.6.1876

Henry Little Paterson 1878 - 20.5.1880

Neil Campbell Mains Paterson ?.6.1883 - 31.8.1884

Thomas Little Paterson ?.1.1885 - ?.10.1886

Block 6 Plot 1

George Paterson?.11.1879 - 15.2.1880

Block 6 Plot 2

My generation’s great great granduncle

Anthony and Elizabeth’s son

Henry (Harry) McKay Paterson 4.5.1871 - 20.7.1916

Block 10 Plot 15

and his wife

Agnes Forrest Paterson

Block 10 Plot 16

My generation’s great great grandaunt

Anthony and Elizabeth’s daughter

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Cameron 1874 - 6.1.1953

Block 11 Plot 35

and her husband

Robert Cameron 1866-6.8.1945

Block 11 Plot 36

My generation’s great great granduncle

Anthony and Elizabeth’s son

Anthony Paterson 1876 - 19.12.1954

and his wife

Evangeline (Eva) Andrewartha Warren Paterson 1877-5.5.1949

and their son

Lawrence 1914-7.2.1936 (accidental gunshot wounds while rabbit shooting

Block 11 Plot 49

My generation’s great great granduncle

Anthony and Elizabeth’s son

Walter Douglas Paterson 24.7.1879 - 15.4.1962

and his wife

Helen Isabella Southgate Paterson 12.8.1879 - 27.11.1968

and their son

Gordon 1901- 9.8.1919

Block 10 Plot 42

NB: another son, Walter Douglas is buried with John William Paterson and Isabella ‘Bella’ Munro Block 1 Plot 20

NO HEADSTONE

Children of my generation’s great great granduncle Thomas Douglas Paterson (Anthony and Elizabeth’s son) and his wife Agnes Heron Paterson

David Paterson 1898-1898 (14 days old)

Margaret “Maggie” Paterson?.2.1900 - 17.8.1903 (died tragically in a fire)

Mary Paterson 3.11.1903 - 6.11.1903

David Heron Paterson 1906 - 5.8.1913

Block 3 Plot 13

My generation’s great great great granduncle and aunt’s daughter

George and Jessie’s daughter

Margaret Little Hill 1874 - 13.6.1942

Block 11 Plot 1

and her husband

James Ernest Hill 1850 - 30.3.1932

Block 11 Plot 3

and their daughter

Jean Hill 1917 - 13.9.1946

Block 11 Plot 2