ID Number104901
NameMEREDITH Henry Price
Family NameMEREDITH
Plot2004
CemeteryChurch of England
StatusReinstated Monument after Disinterment for Motorway
Location on the Modern Grid MapB12 20
Inscription on TombstoneSacred to the memory of Henry Price MEREDITH, Surgeon, died 1 March 1866, aged 31, also Louisa ANDREWS, died 16 December 1878, aged 46, and James ANDREWS, died 24 June 1891, aged 81, also my dear brother, William Henry Price MEREDITH, died 2 November 1926, aged 68, and of my dear nephew Gunner Mark LAVIN, killed in action in France, 31 March 1918, aged 21. "Though absent from sight To memory ever dear". [-Mansfield-]
Description of GraveUpright white marble headstone with quite ornate sculpted decorative border (including ivy) across the pointed top. Lead lettering. Set on a new base in 2019, turned to face the path.
Date of Death or Burial*01 Mar, 1866
Public Cemetery Register Number
Type of Record Burial
Age31
SexMale
BiographyLouisa Rosamond de MONTMORENCY married Dr Henry Price MEREDITH at St Marylebone, London, on 20 Apr 1855. They emigrated to Auckland, and later moved to Wellington, where Henry died on 1 Mar 1866 at his home in Cuba Street after a long and painful illness, aged 32. Their son, William Henry Price MEREDITH was born in 1858. After Henry's death, Louisa then married James ANDREWS about 1868, and they had a daughter, Susan. In 1896, Susan married Thomas LAVIN (1870-1928), and they had a son, Andrew Mark LAVIN (1897-1918).