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Memorial window

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Memorial window

This window at Karori Crematorium is a memorial to Jane Anne Moorhouse, the wife of William Sefton Moorhouse, superintendent of Canterbury Province in the 1860s. The couple married in Wellington and returned to live there in the 1870s. Their names are remembered in Moorhouse, Sefton and Anne Streets in the suburb of Wadestown.

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by Chris Maclean

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Chris Maclean, Wellington region – Boom and bust: 1900–1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13253/memorial-window (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Maclean, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.