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Information on '''cemeteries in [[Calcutta]] cemeteries''' listed in the ''Bengal Obituary''^{[[Cemeteries in Calcutta#Notes|1]]} are:.

==Bengal Obituary==Calcutta cemeteries listed in the ''Bengal Obituary'',<ref>The full ''Bengal Obituary'' (1851) can be viewed online at [http://www.archive.org/details/bengalobituaryo00calgoog archive.org] or [http://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C Google Books]</ref> are: # '''St John's Churchyard''' - from 1709 and maybe earlier.# '''South Park Street Cemetery''' - "The Great Burial Ground of Chowringhee" - opened on 25 August 1767.# '''North Park Street Cemetery''' "New burial ground Chowringhee" - probably opened in 1799 - on the opposite side of the road to South Park Street but no longer in existence. Was It was the final resting place of Richmond Thackeray (father of novelist), Lt Col James Achilles Kirkpatrick (the White Mughal) and other well known persons.# '''The Mission Cemetery''' - "The Mission Burial Ground, Chowringhee, commonly called Mr Kiernander's" - opened in or by 1773 for the wife of Rev John Zachariah Kiernander. Also but no longer in existence.

# '''Lower Circular Road''' (at 184 Acharya Jagadis Bose Road) - "The New Burial Ground, Circular Road" was opened on 29 April 1840 for reception of the remains of Captain E T Milner's child. This cemetery is still in use. However, the condition of the older graves in general is not good.The [http://www.christianburialboardkolkata.com/ Christian Burial Board] now oversees this cemetery and will identify and show visitors to a relevant grave. Burial records are maintained on site and the Board is contactable by email for enquiries. # '''Scottish Cemetery''' (3 Karaya Road) - "The Scotch & Dissenters Burial Ground - was purchased in 1820.

# '''Greek Church & cemetery''' - The the [[Greek]] Church of the Transfiguration of Our Blessed Redeemer on Mount Tabor was consecreted 6 August 1781, but demolished and a new one built at Kalighat in 1926. "Greek cemetery at 105 Narkeldanga Main Road is forlorn" (NB: Interestingly I have a CD of pictures of Greek gravestones which was given to me, but need transcribing).# '''Portuguese Church & burial grounds''' - of which there seem to be several, the most notable cemetery maybe may be the [[Portuguese]] Burial Ground at Boithakhana , opened on 8 Feb February 1786. # '''St Pauls Cathedral'''

Nos 3, 4 and 5 above were adjoining about adjoined opposite the South Park Street Cemetery which has been so well recently restoredto a good standard. The sites of these cemeteries are now occupied by tall buildings.

*5 [[Chinese]] Cemeteries (5 of them)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).  ==Fort William Burial Ground==As a result of new construction in the Fort in the 1880s, the ‘old’ burial ground is no longer in existence, and some of the headstones were moved and are now mounted on the walls at South Park Cemetery. <ref>Evers, Maureen [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118055550/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240541/ Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 21 November 2009, archived. The original advice was from Dr John Roberts, co-author of ''Malabar Christian Memorials at Cannanore, Tellicherry and Mahe 1723-1990'' and ''Nilgiri Hills Christian Memorials 1822-2006'', who has researched in Calcutta.</ref> The ‘new' burial ground is part of the military base and is closed to the public.<ref>Murphy, Sylvia [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118055402/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240456/ Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 November 2009, archived.</ref> These burial grounds are different burial grounds to those at Bhowanipore Cemetery, the old (separate)part of which is known as the Military Burial Ground. ==Crematorium==A crematorium was erected in Calcutta in 1903, situated to the east of the Circular Road Cemetery. There was provision for the erection of a monument not exceeding 2 feet by 2 feet. It was intended mainly for the use of Europeans, Anglo- Indians and Indians who had adopted a European style of living. (More details.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33547/page/n260 Page 222] ''Municipal Calcutta'' by SW Goode 1916. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.</ref>) The crematorium was built by a French company Toisoul Fradet & Co. based in Paris, which specialised in crematoriums,<ref>[https://indianvagabond.com/2015/11/21/a-french-crematorium-for-the-christians-and-brahmos-of-calcutta/ "A French Crematorium for the Christians and Brahmos of Calcutta"] by Subhadip Mukherjee November 21, 2015 indianvagabond.com.</ref> and continued operating until the early 1980s, when erratic gas supply caused it to close.<ref>[https://rangandatta.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/gas-crematorium-crematorium-street-kolkata/ Gas Crematorium: Crematorium Street, Behind Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Kolkata] by Rangan Datta December 9, 2015 rangandatta.wordpress.com.</ref> The [http://www.christianburialboardkolkata.com/statistics.html Mini Cemetery with a closed Gas Crematorium] (150 graves) is now under the control of the Christian Burial Board, Kolkata ==Maps of Calcutta==For location of the cemeteries see [[Calcutta#Maps|Calcutta - Maps]], where a number of maps produced at different dates are available.

==Notes==BACSA records at the British Library====#The full [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|'''BACSA Archive'Bengal Obituary'' (1851) can be viewed online ]] at the '''[[httpBritish Library]]''', shelfmark '''Mss Eur F370''' includes entries in its catalogue under Cemetery Files . The Notes advise://wwwThe arrangement of this list and the names of provinces, places and cemeteries are based on the list which BACSA took over in 1976 from the British High Commission in India.archiveThe cemetery status (i.org/details/bengalobituaryo00calgoog archivee.org] whether open or [http://booksclosed) is based on the information to hand, and may since have changed.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C Google Books]If a particular cemetery is not in the list, some details of it may sometimes be found in the general file for the province or town in which it is situated.

== External Links ==*[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2319595/scottish-cemetery Images of over 2,000 graves in Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata] findagrave.com**[http://readinggamesplayingbooks.com/scots/node/194 The Scottish Cemetery Project] includes [http://readinggamesplayingbooks.com/scots/full-list-of-tombs Full list of tombs] and an advance search. It is stated on the Main Page that “The digitized versions of the burial records of St. Andrew’s Kirk have been made available to us”. However, as far as can be established, this website does not include those digitised burial records, neither can an online source for the burial records be established. Perhaps they may be held by St Andrew’s Church, for the use of Church staff.**[http://www.computaxdhtcollections.com/item/Brand_GravesofJuteMillmanagersburiedinIndia_0_0_28576_1.html Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India] Dundee Heritage Trust.indIncludes wives.Contains twenty five records at the Scottish Cemetery inCalcutta, fourteen at Barrackpore Cemetery and one of Tollygunge Cemetery. Graves date from 1881 to 1951, covering workers at the four of the major Indian mills - Titaghur, Samnuggur, Angus and Victoria. **[http://scottishcemeterykolkata.wordpress.com/cbb-pottah Christian Burial BoardScottish Cemetery Kolkata] The Christian Burial Boards online search facility official blog for access the team who went to grave records and pottahs of burials dating back Kolkata in 2008 to survey the 1700sScottish Cemetery for The Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust **[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/search/?keyword=Kolkata&submit=search Photographs] of Scottish Cemetery, Park Street Cemetery, St Andrew's Church BBD Bagh, Bishop's House

*Mullickbazar grave of ''Economist'Online Books'founder James Wilson, died 11 August 1860. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171011181309/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1090811/jsp/calcutta/story_11343895.jsp "Taxman rediscovers father of taxation"] by Sumatra Das from the ''Telegraph'', Calcutta 11 August 2009, now an archived webpage. ‘Father of Indian finance', he was finance member of the Viceroy of India Council, akin to the post of chancellor of the Indian Exchequer.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180217175111/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org:80/ www.indian-cemeteries.org], now archived, has photographs and transcriptions from the following cemeteries. Although an archived website, the internal links appear to be still working.**Lower Circular Road Cemetery. **North Park Street Cemetery. **Scotts Cemetery. **South Park Street Cemetery. **St Johns Church. **St Johns Church Black Hole Memorial. **St Pauls Cathedral. *[http://www.academia.edu/5121162/The_Greek_Cemetery_of_Kolkata "The Greek Cemetery of Kolkata"] by Helen Abadzi. academia.edu.*[[Jewish]] records: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704132728/http://www.americansephardifederation.org/PDF/genealogy/calcuttagraves.xls.pdf Calcutta Grave Records] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20110219144254/http://sephardiclibrary.org/genealogy.html Genealogy] National Sephardic Library, now archived webpages. :[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/exhibits/show/cemeteries Exhibit 09 Jewish Cemetery In Calcutta, Narkeldanga], which in turn includes a list of the graves. This data comes from handwritten cemetery registers which were digitised c 1999.<ref>[http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/2014/10/jewish-cemetery-narkeldanga-main-road.html "Jewish Cemetery, Narkeldanga Main Road"] 16 October 2014. The Concrete Paparazzi.</ref> “Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories Of The Jewish Community In Calcutta”. jewishcalcutta.in:[http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/CalcuttaCemeterySrchFrm.html Calcutta Cemetery Search] Index Search. SephardicGen. :The Jewish Cemetery was restored in 2017.<ref>[https://rangandatta.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/restoration-of-jewish-cemetery-kolkata/ "Jewish Cemetery, Kolkata"] by Rangan Datta January 5, 2018 rangandatta.wordpress.com. </ref> :The Oseh Haised Board [Jewish Burial Board] also maintained the Jewish cemetery in Darjeeling.<ref> From a page "A Historical Review of the Calcutta Jewish Cemetery" www.indianjews.org/english, no longer available.Also mentioned in [http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/164753/12/12_chapter%208.pdf "Chapter 8"], ''The Jewish world of Calcutta 1798 to 1948'' by Kaustav Chakrabarti, 2010 thesis University of Calcutta. shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in </ref>*[https://indianvagabond.com/2022/11/07/portuguese-burial-ground-kolkata/ "Portuguese Burial Ground Kolkata"] by Subhadip Mukherjee November 7, 2022. indianvagabond.com *[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/92010/CALCUTTA%20(BHOWANIPORE)%20CEMETERY,%20KOLKATA Inscriptions from Bhowanipore Cemetery, Kolkata] Over 700 names from Commonwealth War Graves Commission. cwgc.org. The Commission also has responsibility for the care of 233 non-war burials in the cemetery, who are not named.*[http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/buried-history-112060300010_1.html Buried history] by Shine Jacob Kolkata June 3, 2012 business-standard.com. Calcutta cemeteries. Includes advice that the [http://www.eict.org.in/tiki-index.php East India Charitable Trust] answers queries about Bhowanipore Cemetery in respect of the section they manage.(not War Graves) (Note: this function is not mentioned on the EICT website, although it is stated the Trust is actively associated with the [[BACSA|British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA)]]. Select “Contact Us” in the EICT website for contact details). (In 2005 it was advised the Bhowanipore Cemetery was maintained by APHCI, the Association for the Preservation of Historical Cemeteries in India, the sister organisation of BACSA), with contact details given.<ref>Kendall, John [https://web.archive.org/web/20181025102253/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/6410770/ "preserving Fort William Cemetery record"] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 22 October 2005, archived.</ref>) ===Historical books online===