Conservation Plan Addington Cemetery - Christchurch City Libraries

Conservation Plan for Addington Cemetery
Many of the graves in the Addington cemetery simply record the social history of
the lives of ‘ordinary’ people in the area.
Headstone of Alfred Muddle
Alfred Muddle died in March 1883 aged 39. He was an employee of New Zealand
railways and this headstone was erected as a mark of esteem by his fellow
employees at NZR. Addington had grown as a suburb due to the building of the
southern rail line from 1865. The NZR provided the main employment for more
than a century in Addington where the main railway workshops were situated.
The above two headstones record the sobering fact of one of the more harsh realities
of colonial life – the premature death of children. Three of James and Mary Brown’s
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