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Burial grounds were also located at [[Dum Dum]], [[Barrackpore]], [[Serampore]], [[Chandernagore]], [[Chinsurah]], [[Bandel]] and [[Howrah]] (epitaphs from which are represented in ''The Bengal Obituary'' - see Notes below). Many maritime related burials took place at Howrah, where St Thomas' Church and Cemetery were established in 1833.
==Records==
===BACSA Records at the British Library===
The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the [[British Library]] , shelfmark Mss Eur F370 includes the following entries in its catalogue under the heading Publications - Calcutta.There may well be other relevanr references.
*1207 Illustrated handbook to St John's Church (Old Cathedral) Calcutta [by E W Madge and K N Dhar] (66 pp. Calcutta, 1909)
*1208 St John's Church (1787-1987) by Nisith S Ray. (21 pp., 1987) 2 copies with copies of Parish Magazine 1973-74
*1209 A visit to St John's Church, Calcutta [by J A Gonsalves] (3 pp., 1971)
*1210 St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Calcutta 1815-1965 with copies of Church magazines, July 1974 and Jan 1977 (20 pp., 1965)
*:::: St Paul’s Cathedral Calcutta: see Mss Eur F370/1330
*1211 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta. Register of graves and standing tombs: from 1767 by Maurice Shellim and others (BACSA 1992)
*1212 The South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta by Aurelius Khan and others (BACSA 1978)
*1213 The South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta 1978-1986 by Aurelius Khan and others (2nd ed, BACSA 1986)
*1214 The South Park Street Cemetery Calcutta 1978-1997 (3rd ed, APHCI, 1997)
*1215 French Cemetery, Park Street, Calcutta (BACSA 1983)
*1216 "Préserver nos cimetiéres, l'example de nos collègues anglais: le cimetière francais de Calcutta" par Xavier Guyot, La Vie Généalogique, n.s. 3, no 13, (1996), pp. 17-22.
*:::: Therefore Forward ! The Story of Carey Church Calcutta: see Mss Eur F370/1388
===Other Records===
''Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', available at the [[British Library]] has a list of burials based on the original registers in Calcutta, two articles written by Rev W. K. Firminger. They are probably mostly covered by the Ecclesiastical Returns in the B.L., however there may be some additional entries which never made it to England (e.g. the ship carrying the returns to England was lost). There are also some biographical details.
*Burials 1713-1755 Volume 10 (1915) pages 257-284 (author not known)
