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→Southern Asia: add Malabar Christian Memorials at Cannanore, Tellicherry and Mahe 1723-1990
Covers the tea areas in the valleys of Luskerpore, Balisera, Manu/ Doloi, Lungla and Juri; also the oldest cemetery in Sylhet town. With 45 illustrations, maps and plans.
* Roberts, John Cantwell and Chekkutty N.P.
''Malabar Christian Memorials at Cannanore, Tellicherry and Mahe 1723-1990''
London : British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 2013. ISBN 978 0 907799 93 1
Physical details: xiii, 258 pages : illustrations. Includes list of regiments stationed at Cannanore.
Contains details on the Portuguese, Dutch, French and English gravestones in the region.
The authors have photographed church records, cemetery markers and memorials which still exist. These vary in coverage- one parish priest burnt records in the 1960s!. Other sources were previously published books such as JJ Cotton’s 1905 List of European and Christian Tombs in the Malabar District, research in the British Library , records of ANOM, the French Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, in addition to information held by a local historian.
Records are listed alphabetically within cemeteries which makes it easier tracing family groups. However for the general reader, a sense of the historic nature of the burials is lost.
Note: only available from South India Research Associates (SIRA), Calicut, which is engaged in the retrieval of European records and monumental inscriptions in South India.
Comprehensive list of the epitaphs at Kacheri Cemetery.
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