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...

By Sue Elizabeth Ralston Haxton, 15th November 2020. The inscription on the headstone is not easy to read in the photos in this article....

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...

The three stonemason businesses in Gisborne are all working on the job of reinstating the recovered headstones. Originally the grave...

With the help of the Lotteries grant the headstones that were recovered from a trench at Makaraka Cemetery are gradually being...

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