Porirua City Council is seeking the public’s help on a project to memorialise former Porirua Hospital patients in unmarked graves. More than 1,800 people are buried in Porirua and Whenua Tapu Cemetery who were former patients of the Porirua Mental Hospital.
All of these people lie in unmarked graves and as part of the recommendations from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in care the Government has set up a fund for headstones for patients buried in unmarked graves throughout the country.
As part of this project, we are releasing a list of all the people known to be buried at Porirua Cemetery and Whenua Tapu Cemetery who are confirmed firstly as being patients of the Hospital and secondly are still without a headstone.
The hospital was once the biggest Asylum in the country and working towards naming every single patient buried with us is a huge step to restoring the mana and dignity of those individuals who died while in the hospital's care.
Contact us if you see a known family member from your family tree on either of these lists:
Contact us
Phone: 04 237 5089
