ADVISORY - Lost burial ground of Wairarapa’s Greytown.

[Fresh Fields]

The NZ Genealogist June 2020 pages 90, 91, & 118 detail research into informal burials therein between the years 1856 to 1862.

Quite an interesting article for me, as I also have done research into the origins of a public cemetery which are not what one might have expected from the limited press coverage available.

Greytown names mentioned being; Jane FISHER 1858, Rachael HARTLEY 1858, Margaret MORRIS 1860, Mary Jane McCAUL 1860, William BLACKWELL 1860, Charlotte SAILSBURY 1861, William SAILSBURY 1861,  Joseph Terry (sic. ?) 1861, Henry MEYRICK 1862, and Robert Henry Greathead (sic. ?) 1862.

Settlement of the area started in 1854, but it was 1863 before todays recognised Greytown Cemetery was finally open for business, following proclamation in March 1862 and survey in December 1862.

Contact details for the researcher, is published with the article, or I can PM supply. [A living person].

Alan.