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***The first article contains the following comments by Peter J. Karthak on November 8, 2009
::"1) The English Cemetery was known more as the Hooker Road Cemetery or Hill Cart Road Cemetery in our times, up to 1966, when I left Darjeelingtown. The cantilevered bridge separated the lower and upper parts of the graveyard, and we walked on it to and fro our college at North Point. The upper part's view was more prominent from the vantage point of the Birch Hill Road leading the Shrubbery Grounds, the DC's office and the Governor's Palace. In our time, the resting place was not visited by intruders and romantic couples (as the photos and descriptions show), except howling jackals at night...
::2) While at it, I must also mention other cemeteries of the town. Right below St Joseph's College, I used to look at a large cemetery to the right. Because of its isolation, it looked to be in good condition. I never visited it, and I wonder what has happened to it.
::3) My own Church's (St Colomba's) small cemetery at the Singamari Fatak (gate) was in deplorable condition by the 1960s while, below it, there was what we knew as Jewish Cemetery, and it was maintained in good condition.
::4) It seems the above cemetery was full, and my old church obtained another piece of land below the Government College. This is where my mother is buried…"
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**[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=521&s_id=711 Named images of graves at Hill Cart Road cemetery] Fibis database
**[http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/Ecological-issue/Darjeelings-English-Cemetery.html Darjeeling’s English Cemetery] by Rebecca Bragg November 06, 2009 DarjeelingTimes.com, a subsequent article dated [http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/opinions/general/231-darjeelings-english-cemetery.html 7 February 2010] and also the [http://rebeccabragg.com/updated_story_10.html updated information] from her website including a Questions and Answer session with a [[BACSA]] representative in July 2010 and [http://rebeccabragg.com/cemetery_photos_7.html Cemetery photos]
* Darjeeling New Cemetery. (Singtom Cemetery] Established 1858.
** This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2007-05/1179823575 India List post] reports that the Singtom cemetery is in a neglected state and gravestones have disappeared.
