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Turakina cemetery

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Turakina cemetery

Scots were prominent amongst settlers in the Turakina River valley. These migrants from the Borders district of Scotland, buried in the Turakina cemetery, came to the area in the 1850s.

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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Forging a region, 1870s–1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19037/turakina-cemetery (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.

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Read
20 August 2011
Looking for any connection with "Read" family in Turakina