Carterton Cemetery Tour

Annual Cemetery Tour at Clareville. Carterton.
January 10th is the Anniversary when Ellen Dougherty became The First Registered Nurse in the world. Come and visit her grave and other interesting graves, see the file Adele has on her and other graves.

Charles Rooking Carter whom Carterton is named after. Lady Marion Stuart-Forbes whose brother in law died with Custer 1876. Richard Fairbrother, First Mayor of Carterton, and who named Dalefield after an area in Eire where his wife came from! Ellen trained at Wellington Hospital when she was 44 years old.. First recorded buried was 1866 at Clareville..