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# '''Lower Circular Road''' (at 184 Acharya Jagadis Bose Road) - "The New Burial Ground, Circular Road" was opened on 29 April 1840 for 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.

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  ==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 HowrahSouth 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, where St Thomasco-author of '' Church 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 were established in 1833, the old (separate) part of which is known as the Military Burial Ground.

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, available to read online, computer page 261, on the Digital Public Library of India websiteCollection. Refer </ref>) The crematorium was built by a French company Toisoul Fradet & Co. based in Paris, which specialised in crematoriums,<ref>[[Online books#Digital Library https://indianvagabond.com/2015/11/21/a-french-crematorium-for-the-christians-and-brahmos-of India| Online books-Digital Library calcutta/ "A French Crematorium for the Christians and Brahmos of India Calcutta"]] for more details about this siteby Subhadip Mukherjee November 21, 2015 indianvagabond.com.</ref> The and continued operating until the early 1980s, when erratic gas supply caused it to close.<ref>[httphttps://wwwrangandatta.christianburialboardkolkatawordpress.com/statistics.html Mini Cemetery with a closed 2015/12/09/gas-crematorium-crematorium-street-kolkata/ Gas Crematorium: Crematorium Street, Behind Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Kolkata] (150 graves) is now under the control of the Christian Burial Boardby Rangan Datta December 9, Kolkata2015 rangandatta.wordpress.com.</ref>

==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 entries in its catalogue under Cemetery Files . The Notes advisehttp: The 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//www. The cemetery status (ichristianburialboardkolkata.ecom/statistics. whether open or html Mini Cemetery with a closedGas Crematorium] (150 graves) is based on now under the information to hand, and may since have changed. If a particular cemetery is not in control of the listChristian Burial Board, some details of it may sometimes be found in the general file for the province or town in which it is situated.Kolkata

The BACSA British Library archive catalogue is now available online at the BACSA website. Under the category Cemetery Files and Registers, BACSA Archive references at the British Library may be found for Calcutta on [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_idMaps of Calcutta=86&sort=0&st=200&np=24&tn=1188 pages 5 and 6]. In For location of the vicinity of Calcutta:Bandel cemeteries see [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=50&np=24&tn=1188 page 2], Barrackpore, and Berhampore [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=100&np=24&tn=1188 pages 3 and 4], Chandernagore [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=250&np=24&tn=1188 page 6Calcutta#Maps|Calcutta - Maps], Chinsura [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=300&np=24&tn=1188 page 7], Dum Dum [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sourceswhere a number of maps produced at different dates are available.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=400&np=24&tn=1188 page 9], Howrah [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=500&np=24&tn=1188 page 11], Serampore [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=209&s_id=86&sort=0&st=1050&np=24&tn=1188 page 22]

Under the heading Publications - Calcutta there are the following references, also part of shelfmark Mss Eur F370==Records=====BACSA records===*1207 Illustrated handbook to St John's Church [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (Old CathedralBritish Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) Calcutta [by E W Madge and K N Dhar] (66 pp. Calcutta, 1909)] cemetery publications are *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 Graves and standing tombs: Standing Tombs (from 1767 by Maurice Shellim and others (BACSA )'' 1992)*1212 The South Park Street Cemetery"128pp, 9 plans, Calcutta by Aurelius Khan and others (also serves as index to tomb photos in BACSA 1978)archive"*1213 The *''Calcutta: South Park Street Cemetery'' by Maurice Shellim, Calcutta 1978-1986 by Aurelius Khan and others (2nd ed, BACSA 1986edition)*1214 "On progress in restoring 'The South Park Street Great Cemetery Calcutta 1978-1997 (3rd ed'. 28pp, APHCI8 illustrations, 1997)2 plans" *1215 *''Calcutta: French Cemetery'' by Basil La Bouchardiere, Park Street, Calcutta (BACSA 1983)*1216 "Préserver nos cimetiéresCemetery cleared in 1977 - a complete record. 28pp, l'example de nos collègues anglais8 illustrations, 4 maps/plans" :See [http: le cimetière francais de Calcutta" par Xavier Guyot, La Vie Généalogique, n//indian-cemeteries.sorg/bacsa/html/bacsa_books. 3, no 13, (1996), pp. 17-22html BACSA Books].* : Therefore Forward ! The Story [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of Carey Church Calcutta: see Mss Eur F370/1388the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service

===Other =BACSA recordsat the British Library====The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|''Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'BACSA Archive''', available ]] at the '''[[British Library]] has a ''', shelfmark '''Mss Eur F370''' includes entries in its catalogue under Cemetery Files . The Notes advise: The arrangement of this list and the names of burials provinces, places and cemeteries are based on the original registers list which BACSA took over in Calcutta, two articles written by Rev W1976 from the British High Commission in India. KThe cemetery status (i. Firmingere. They are probably mostly covered by whether open or closed) is based on the Ecclesiastical Returns information to hand, and may since have changed. If a particular cemetery is not in the B.L.list, however there some details of it may sometimes be some additional entries found in the general file for the province or town in which never made it to England (eis situated.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)*Burials 1759-1761 Volume 5 (Jan-June 1910) pages 136-142*Burials 1762-1774 Volume 6 (July-Dec 1910) pages 92-126. ==Notes==<references />

*[http://www.burialsinindiachristianburialboardkolkata.netcom/ home.html Christian Burial Board, Kolkata] The Christian **[http://www.christianburialboardkolkata.com/burialrecords.html Burial Boards online Records]**[http://www.christianburialboardkolkata.com/archaeology.html South Park Cemetery] *[https://www.flickr.com/search facility for access to grave records and pottahs /?text=%22South%20Park%20Street%20Cemetery%22 Photographs of burials dating back to the 1700s South Park Street Cemetery] including a small group by [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=35582639@N04&q=South%20Park%20Street%20Cemetery ron de lightbox] Flickr.com

*[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.christianburialboardkolkatadhtcollections.com/archaeologyitem/Brand_GravesofJuteMillmanagersburiedinIndia_0_0_28576_1.html South Park Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India] Dundee Heritage Trust. Includes wives. Contains twenty five records at the Scottish Cemetery in Calcutta, 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://wwwscottishcemeterykolkata.christianburialboardkolkatawordpress.com/indexScottish Cemetery Kolkata] The official blog for the team who went to Kolkata in 2008 to survey the Scottish Cemetery for The Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust **[http://canmore.rcahms.html Christian Burial Board gov.uk/en/search/?keyword=Kolkata&submit=search Photographs]of Scottish Cemetery, Park Street Cemetery, St Andrew's Church BBD Bagh, Bishop's House

*This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-07/1248700329 July 2009] post and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249307371 Aug 2009] post from the [[Mailing lists|India List]] are about Lower Circular Road Cemetery. *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-04/1271358656 April 2010 post] mentions several cemeteries, including Lower Circular Road. *[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/india-calcutta/graveyards-in-calcutta-kolkata.html Surnames from St Andrews Scots Cemetery, Calcutta (Kolkata)] Kabristan Archives website *[http://scottishcemeterykolkata.wordpress.com/ Scottish Cemetery Kolkata] The official blog for the team who went to Kolkata in 2008 to survey the Scottish 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'' founder James Wilson, died 11 August 1860, in this . [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20171011181309/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1090811/jsp/calcutta/story_11343895.jsp link"Taxman rediscovers father of taxation"] by Sumatra Das from the ''Telegraph'', Calcutta11 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.

*''Asiaticus : In Two Parts. Part One, Ecclesiastical, Chronological and Historical Sketches. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xHYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR23 PA61 Part Two, the Epitaphs in the Different Burial Grounds in and about Calcutta]'' by John Hawkesworth 1803. (80 pages) (Google Books)