“Digging Up” the Dead :: How YOU Can Help “Resurrect” Norsewood Cemetery's Lost Grave Records
We need YOUR help to “dig up” the dead — that is to try to work out who is buried in unknown graves at Norsewood Cemetery.
The scope of this project is enormous, and well beyond the means of a few individuals. (For example, the cost of obtaining death registrations for persons known to have been buried at Norsewood Cemetery would be around $NZ 20,000 — and that's just the ones we know about!)
It appears that most of the records from 1872 to about 1900 — ie, the historically-significant graves of first and early settlers — appear to have been lost.
So, we are seeking people who are prepared to purchase Death Registrations on our behalf.
We plan to trawl through tens of thousands of names on the New Zealand Death Registration Indices for Southern Hawkes Bay (microfiche), particularly those registered at Tamaki/Norsewood, to attempt to extract deaths registered in, and around, Norsewood. This is a huge task.
We will post the results of our searches here:
Please consider sponsoring Death Registration(s) from one of the above pages.
For additional information on ways you could assist our project, please see:
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