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Information on '''cemeteries in [[Calcutta]] cemeteries''' . ==Bengal Obituary==Calcutta cemeteries listed in the ''Bengal Obituary''<sup>[[Cemeteries in Calcutta#Notes|1]]</sup> are:
# '''St John's Churchyard''' - from 1709 and maybe earlier.
*5 [[Chinese]] Cemeteries
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 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 relevant 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
