With Scottish and Irish lineage, her oldest descendent buried at the cemetery is her great great grandfather William Thorburn, a farmer who emigrated from Scotland in 1841.

"As I have many family members buried here, I want to see the cemetery in the best state that it can be," she said.

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Located on Kangaroo Valley Road, the land was donated by David Berry in 1865 and holds the remains of ancestors from recognisable local dairy farming families like the Boyds, Croziers, Agars and Strongs.

Around 1900 the cemetery was declared full and a new one was opened at Harley Hill on Beach Road. Burials resumed fourteen years later when the land was subdivided and the space was enlarged, resulting in two distinct burial areas differentiated by the arrangements of the graves.

The old section has graves facing east-west inline with the Christian Teutonic tradition whereas the newer graves are aligned in a more modern, space-efficient way.

But with Camphor Laurel tree roots, weeds and leaf litter wrecking havoc on many of the older graves and tombstones, Laurelle and the Friends of Berry Cemetery group have been working hard to preserve the gravesite.

But they've run into a little bit of a roadblock; they can't touch graves without family approval.

That's why the Friends of Berry Cemetery group is calling on people with ancestral connection to those buried at the cemetery to come forward and give approval for grave maintenance works.

If you have family members resting at the cemetery and you would like to support the group's efforts, or you would just like to join, you can get in touch at friendsofberrycemetery@yahoo.com.