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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.</ref>) The crematorium was built by a French company Toisoul Fradet & Co. Refer 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"]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] for more details about this siteby 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.

The BACSA British Library archive catalogue is now available online at the BACSA website. Under the category Cemetery Files and Registers, [http://www.bacsa.frontisgrouporg.com/binuk/aps_browse_sources.php?modepage_id=list_sources&source_class=211 West Bengal] references at the British Library may be found for the cemeteries at Calcutta and surrounding areas.  There is also an Archives Catalogue available through the British Library website which gives the following items for the 697 BACSA Archive:<br>Cemetery files:*620 Calcutta, General *621 St John's Churchyard, Calcutta *622 St John's Churchyard, Calcutta** “St John's Church, Calcutta” by Pauline Rohatgi (1979)** “This hallowed spot” by Reginald C Adams (typescript, c1978)** “St John's Church (1787-1987)” *623 South Park Street, Calcutta - History *624 South Park Street 2, Calcutta - BACSA Connection *625 South Park Street 3, Calcutta - photos 1 *626 South Park Street 4, Calcutta - photos 2 *627 South Park Street 5, Calcutta- Maps of South Park Street *628 South Park Street 6, Calcutta - Photographs of Standing Tombs, Area 1 (North-East) Kept in BACSA Cupboard *629 South Park Street 7, Calcutta - Photographs of Standing Tombs, Area 2 (South-East) Kept in BACSA Cupboard *630 South Park Street 8, Calcutta - Photographs of Standing Tombs, Area 3 (South-West) Kept in BACSA Cupboard *631 South Park Street 9, Calcutta - Photographs of Standing Tombs, Area 4 (Central) Kept in BACSA Cupboard *632 North Park Street, Calcutta - 1799-1880, closed *633 Lower Circular Road, Calcutta 1841-, open *634 Bhowanipur [or ‘Fort’], Calcutta - 1841-, open *635 Scottish Cemetery, select Calcutta - 1826-1945, closed; reopened - see also Mss Eur F370/1406 for burial and plot registers, 1817-1990s *636 French Cemetery, Calcutta - 1796-1894, closed *637 Catholic Cemeteries, Calcutta ** Murghihatta: 1712-1869, closed** Dhuramtollah: 1833-1892, closed** Boitakhana: 1809-1879, closed** St John's Catholic Cemetery: 1808- *638 Minor Cemeteries, Calcutta** Armenian: pre-1707-** Entally: 1919-1945, closed** Greek: c1777-, open** Maniktalla: 1874-1912, closed** St Stephen’s, Kidderpore** Bowrah Cotton mill 1707-1945*639 Jewish Cemeteries, Calcutta - 1840-1983 - open 1840-1983*640 "West Bengal Past and Present" extracts - 1907-1940<br> Registers<br> *1406 Scottish Cemetery, Calcutta - Plot Register, 1826-1990s - Burial Register, 1917-1989 - Plan of plots  Under the heading Publications - Calcutta there are the following references, also part of shelfmark Mss Eur F370*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 ==Notes==<references />

*[httphttps://www.flickr.com/search/?qtext=South+Park+Street+Cemetery %22South%20Park%20Street%20Cemetery%22 Photographs of 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 *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://standrewschurch-kolkata.org/ScottishCemeteryKolkata.html Records of the Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata] Grave number, name and burial year transcribed from handwritten cemetery records. Further information, where available, on request. From the website of [http://standrewschurch-kolkata.org/index.html St Andrews Church, Kolkata]

*[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.dhtcollections.com/item/Brand_GravesofJuteMillmanagersburiedinIndia_0_0_28576_1.html 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://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 [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090811/jsp/calcutta/story_11343895.jsp link] from the ''Telegraph'', Calcutta. ‘Father of Indian finance', he was finance member of the Viceroy of India Council, akin to the post of chancellor of the Indian Exchequer.

*Mullickbazar grave of ''Economist'' 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.

*This India List [http://archiverwww.academia.edu/5121162/The_Greek_Cemetery_of_Kolkata "The Greek Cemetery of Kolkata"] by Helen Abadzi. academia.edu.rootsweb*[[Jewish]] records: [https://web.ancestryarchive.comorg/web/20110704132728/http:/th/readwww.americansephardifederation.org/indiaPDF/2009-11genealogy/1258445224 threadcalcuttagraves.xls.pdf Calcutta Grave Records] is about the from [[Fort William]] burial groundhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110219144254/http://sephardiclibrary. The 'new' burial ground is part of the military base and is closed to the publicorg/genealogy. The 'old' burial ground is no longer in existencehtml Genealogy] National Sephardic Library, and some of the headstones were moved and are now mounted on the walls at South Park Cemeteryarchived webpages.*:[http://www.indianjewsjewishcalcutta.orgin/exhibits/englishshow/?page_id=192 Kolkata (Calcutta) cemeteries Exhibit 09 Jewish CemeteryIn 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://wwwdouble-dolphin.indianjewsblogspot.orgcom/2014/10/english Indian jewish-cemetery-narkeldanga-main-road.html "Jewish Heritage CenterCemetery, Narkeldanga Main Road"] Israel including16 October 2014. The Concrete Paparazzi.</ref> “Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories Of The Jewish Community In Calcutta”. jewishcalcutta.in**:[http://www.indianjewssephardicgen.com/databases/CalcuttaCemeterySrchFrm.html Calcutta Cemetery Search] Index Search. SephardicGen. :The Jewish Cemetery was restored in 2017.<ref>[https://rangandatta.wordpress.orgcom/2018/01/english05/?page_id=194 A Historical Review restoration-of the Calcutta -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://wwwshodhganga.inflibnet.indianjewsac.orgin/jspui/bitstream/10603/164753/english12/?page_id=204 Burial Records12_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>*Online [httphttps://sephardiclibraryindianvagabond.orgcom/2022/11/07/portuguese-burial-ground-kolkata/genealogy.html Calcutta Jewish grave records "Portuguese Burial Ground Kolkata"] National Sephardic Libraryby Subhadip Mukherjee November 7, American Sephardi Federation2022. 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>)