Researching your family? There's no better place to start your search than Moravian Cemetery.
Please note, Moravian
Cemetery is an active cemetery and does not accept walk-ins.
Please contact us by e-mail: cemeteryguy@earthlink.net
You can also submit
your request in writing to:
Richard Simpson
c/o Moravian Cemetery
2205 Richmond Road
Staten Island, NY 10306
Include your name and e-mail,
and as much information as possible about the person you are inquiring about. You will be contacted as to what information is held by our office.
Researching Your
Family?
Our records start
in 1867.
We can provide
Cemetery Records (Interment Records, Plot Card & Diagram Card), Photographs
of Gravestones, and Obituaries.
Cemetery Records:
Interment Records – Our records start in 1867. We
can supply Interment Records for everyone who rests at Moravian Cemetery. Information on a record will usually include
the deceased’s name, age, date of death, cause of death, place of death,
location of grave, date of interment, name of person giving order, name of
undertaker, arrival time at cemetery, and clergyman. There is a fee of $10. per
person, per record. All Interment Records will be sent to you through the US
Post Office. Please note, because of privacy issues, the cause of death will
not be listed on records after 1960.
Plot Card - A Plot
Card shows who and when they were interred at the site.
Diagram Card - A Diagram
Card shows the location of graves. Please note, Single Graves do not have a
Diagram Card.
Photographs of
Gravestones – We can supply photographs of
gravestones providing one is placed at the gravesite. There is a fee of $15.
per photograph, per gravestone. Photographs will be sent attached in an e-mail.
Please note, there is an additional fee of $5. (per photograph) for photographs
to be printed out and sent through the US Post Office.
Obituaries – We can supply obituaries (providing one was placed in the local
newspaper) for anyone resting in any cemetery on Staten Island. There is a fee
of $15. per obituary. We will do a 12-day search in local newspaper (which
begins in 1920). If an obituary is found we will make a copy and send it
through the US Post Office. If no obituary is found, the fee is considered time
spent researching and is not refundable.
*** Please contact
us for payment instructions before sending any monies. We do not accept
personal checks. Please obtain either a Bank Money Order or a US Post Office
Money Order.
Mail your check (made
payable to Richard Simpson) along with a note stating exactly what information
you are requesting to: Richard Simpson
c/o Moravian Cemetery. 2205 Richmond Road. Staten Island, NY 10306.
As I am at the cemetery office one afternoon each week, all requests will
take 3-4 weeks to complete.
