Linwood Cemetery Tour Guide - Christchurch City Libraries

Joseph’s, which was established next door to the Good Shepherd Convent at Mount
Magdala, Halswell. Although the orphanage no longer exists, the Catholic Church still
has an Eliza White Trust and Eliza White Home for children in Albert Terrace.
Alfred and Eliza had seven daughters and one son.
Row A
Nos 1421-1425
Loughnan family and Mary Teresa Wood
The Loughnans were among the few colonial Christchurch Catholic families who
belonged to the gentry, most Catholics being much further down the social scale.
Their name is commemorated in the legal firm of Izard and Loughnan.
When Mary Teresa, a daughter of the family, reached marriageable age, she had a
problem. As she told her bishop, there was ‘no Catholic gentleman in her own social
position with whom she could honourably contract marriage’. She sought and
received the bishop’s permission to marry land-owner and flour-miller William
Wood. On 10 September 1890, five years after the wedding, Mary Teresa fell ill with
typhoid fever and died, aged 30 years.
Row C
No. 1496
Murray
James Murray, publican, was part of a drama which gripped Christchurch in March
1896. On 29 February four men undertook a night trip on the yacht Waitangi on the
Avon-Heathcote Estuary. The vessel went down in a sudden storm and only Harry
Nelson Hawker, who managed to swim to the quicksands and then roll through these
to safety, survived. One of those who drowned, Francis Herbert Stewart, has a
plaintive stone at Barbadoes Street. The funeral procession of James Murray and
William Francis Warner of Warner’s Hotel was on a grand scale, leaving New
Brighton, and meandering up the tramline (Pages Road) to the Mile Road (now
Woodham Road). Murray’s cortege moved into the Linwood Cemetery while
Warner’s went through the city to St. Peter’s, Upper Riccarton.
The Linwood gravestone states that James, brother of John Murray, died 2 March
1896.
Row E
No. 1556
Burney
Peter Burney, 54, fellmonger of Belfast, and a ‘man of colour’ from Jamaica, died on
1 December 1899. In 1919 his wife, Ellen, 71, was distressed by the way her
neighbours treated her. She lived at 60 Strickland Street, near the Malthouse, and tried
to commit suicide by jumping into the Heathcote. She was rescued but succumbed to
the trauma which she had experienced.
Linwood Cemetery Tour Guide
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