Our cemeteries

For enquiries about our cemeteries or the crematorium, please phone the cemetery office on (04) 237 5089 during business hours. You can also search our cemetery records online. Our cemeteries are open from 7.30 am to dusk every day.

The main cemetery and crematorium at Whenua Tapu between Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay has a peaceful native bush setting and offers various options for burials and cremations. View Whenua Tapu cemetery maps (pdf)

Many of the 4,000 graves in Porirua Cemetery are unmarked and more than 2,000 are the resting place of patients of the former Porirua mental hospital. 

View Porirua Cemetery maps (pdf). List of war veterans known to be buried at Porirua Cemetery: Porirua war veterans

Pāuatahanui Burial Ground

Pāuatahanui Burial Ground dates back to the 1850s and many members of the district’s pioneer families are buried there. 

View Pauatahanui Burial Ground maps (pdf).

Porirua City has several other historic cemeteries. Details for these sites are available on microfiche at Porirua Library's Genealogy Resources:

Pāuatahanui

• Battle Hill 1846–1883 
  
• Pāuatahanui Public Burial Ground 1850–1969 (see list of inscriptions)
  
• St Albans Anglican Church 1930–1979 
  
• St Josephs Catholic Church 1885–1978 (See layout plan, and list of burials)
  
• Pāuatahanui Burial Ground Heritage Roses [Booklet, pdf, 6mb]
  

Plimmerton 

• Honoeke Māori 1940-1979
• Māori November 1918 

Pukerua Bay 

• Māori November 1921 

Porirua

• Porirua Cemetery 1895–1980 
  
• Takapu Māori 1858–1976 
  

Soldiers from Porirua have taken part in conflicts as far back as the Boer War, right up to modern peacekeeping mission in war zones around the world. Their stories have been carefully collected and can be found at the Porirua War Stories website, www.poriruawarstories.com