The people buried in this cemetery have been linked with the island in various ways over many years, they include: James Jarvis, a child of six months, buried in May 1825. He was possibly the son of one of the early officers. The inscription to Margaret Boyd tells its own story. Her husband (James Boyd) was to become the head of a number of convict stations, including 18 years in charge of Port Arthur. Hohepa te Umuroa was one of the lesser Maori chiefs imprisoned on the island for ‘rebellion’. Aged about 25 years, he was over 185 cm tall and died of tuberculosis on 19 July 1847. The Superintendent’s one year old son, Charles Lapham, was buried here in June 1848 and the Visiting Magistrate, Capt Benjamin Bayly, was interred after his death on 3 March 1850. Thomas Adkins was works manager of the first cement works and died in June 1890 while preparing a sample of cement for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. His wife Rosa (who was later to run the island’s Boarding House) died in 1942 at the age of 94 years and was the last person to be buried in the Maria Island cemetery.