Inscription on reverse reads: “Amos Burr’s rather overgrown grave at the Karori Cemetery, Wellington, as discovered (but weeded) on 16/12/1988. Name scratched on with chalky plaster from the footpath.”

The grave of Amos Burr (1822 – 1906), Karori Cemetery, Wellington. Taken on 16.12.1988 by V A Burr.

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Bolton Street cemetery. [Karori Cemetery]

Correction provided by Graham Saunderson (November 2015):

You have a picture of Amos’s grave and the caption:’ Bolton Street Cemetery’. I have attached that same picture (my one may be a bit more clear than the one currently on Kete Horowhenua) plus two more small pictures. The correct full address for the location of Amos’s grave is: ‘Karori Cemetery, Karori. Wellington’. He is not buried at Bolton Street. Burial date from the Karori cemetery records is 19.05.1906, and he is in Plot Number 84Q. He was 85 years old when he died.

Pippa Coard

Note: A current total of 4 photos of Amos Burr's grave can be viewed if you type 'Amos Burr's grave' into the Kete Horowhenua search box on the home page and then click on 'images'.

Graham Saunderson, 15.02.2016.

One of the most fascinating stories of early New Zealand must be that of Amos Burr. The victim of a ghastly accident within days of his arrival, he had to spend the rest of his life, maimed, an object of curiosity and pity – an ogre to little children who dreaded the steel hooks that replaced his missing hands.

This fork belonged to Amos Burr, early Settler in Foxton. He lost both his arms in a canon misfiring accident aboard the “Cuba” in Wellington harbour on 22nd January 1840.

One silver fork with a modified handle, in a cardboard box. Used by Amos Burr – who had no hands.

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