Terrace End Cemetery
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Terrace End Cemetery

Also known as Palmerston North Cemetery

Palmerston North, Palmerston North City, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand

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The cemetery is in Napier Road, Palmerston North.

The Medical Corps Reinforcement Camp was established at Awapuni, on the Manawatu race-course, two miles from Palmerston North. Twenty-three (23) burials took place associated with that Camp during World War One. A few more more took place later, during World War Two.

Cemetery Transcripts from the NZ Genealogy Society via Ancestry.com indicate in the introductory notes that there were a number of reinterments from Public Reserves to "Denominational" blocks and that there will be 2 burial records for these. If you have an Ancestry account you can validate this here:
ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60547/images/43391_344169-00532
The Public Reserves were used for pauper graves and stillbirths, and it looks like it was not possible to erect a headstone unless the grave was paid for. This may have been an incentive to ditch the pauper burial in favour of a denominational burial with a headstone. (If you have to pay for a plot, you may as well have it where you want it!) There may also have been shame associated with pauper burials.





The cemetery is in Napier Road, Palmerston North.

The Medical Corps Reinforcement Camp was established at Awapuni, on the Manawatu race-course, two miles from Palmerston North. Twenty-three (23) burials took place associated with that Camp during World War One. A few more more took place later, during World War Two.

Cemetery Transcripts from the NZ Genealogy Society via Ancestry.com indicate in the introductory notes that there were a number of reinterments from Public Reserves to "Denominational" blocks and that there will be 2 burial records for these. If you have an Ancestry account you can validate this here:
ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60547/images/43391_344169-00532
The Public Reserves were used for pauper graves and stillbirths, and it looks like it was not possible to erect a headstone unless the grave was paid for. This may have been an incentive to ditch the pauper burial in favour of a denominational burial with a headstone. (If you have to pay for a plot, you may as well have it where you want it!) There may also have been shame associated with pauper burials.





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