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# '''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.# '''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.

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).

''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, 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 (perhaps e.g. the ship carrying the returns to England may have sunkwas lost). There are also some biographical details.*burials Burials 1759-1761 Volume 5 (Jan-June 1910) .*burials Burials 1762-1774 Volume 6 (July-Dec 1910) pages 92-126.