Researched, written, and produced by M. T. Rusk, 2006. This story has close similarity with that of Makaraka Cemetery, which is described...

A Gisborne Herald photo from 1970 shows weed invasion around the boundary of the Cemetery. Many graves were covered by blackberry and...

More than 200 Gisborne women signed the 1892 Gisborne petition that gave New Zealand women the vote in 1893. Many of these women are...

Click the link to view a document which includes brief sketches of the life stories of many of the people who are buried in the Old...

The Waerenga-a-Hika NZ Wars memorial is in Block B. This memorial records the names of six Hawke’s Bay Military Settlers who died on 18...

William Donald Stuart MacDonald's beautiful red granite monument stands at the entrance to the cemetery at the corner of Block C. Known...

Victor Strachan Lardelli's grave is in Block E with a beautiful new headstone. Victor was an early Waimata settler who bought Kowhai...

Mihi Hetekia and her husband Rawiri Karaha are buried in Block F. The photo is from 1971, and unfortunately the headstones are no longer...

David John and Catherine Barry's grave is in Block G. DJ Barry owned a cordial bottling plant, and later took over William Crawford's...

The only wooden headstone remaining in Makaraka Cemetery is that of Mary Ann Fraser in Block H. It is likely that many early wooden...

John Hervey's grave in Block I is shown below. He was trading from a store on the Waipaoa riverbank in the mid 1800s when Matawhero was...

Below is a 1971 photograph of Georgina and John Alfred Harding's grave in Block L. Click the link to view a document which includes brief...

Below is a 1971 photograph of Samuel and William Tarr's plots in Block M. Click the link to view a document which includes brief sketches...

This monument is located near the Makaraka Main Road, in Block B, Plot 81.

Susan Libline, Annette Blair, Gillian Ward - September 2020 (and ongoing) Brief sketches of the people and their lives and families, who...

Who were those people whose cemetery plot headstones were selected for safe-keeping, while so many other were demolished in the early...