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 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3 [Holmes and Co]

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DescriptionTranscribed from Bengal Obituary. A compilation of tablets and monumental Inscriptions from various parts of Bengal and Agra Presidencies. By Holmes and Co., printed by W Thacker and Co 1851.
Date transcribed2012-08-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentSouth Park Street Burial Ground begins on page 106 of the book and ends on page 176 - listing all inscriptions found in that cemetery as at 1851.

Surname  Morrison    
Forename(s)  John    
Rank or Title  Assistant Surgeon    
Year of Death  1821    
Inscription  Sacred to the Memory of Captain George Lindesay, of the Engineers on the Bengal Establishment, eldest son of George Lindesay, Esq., of Wormiston in Fifeshire, who after 12 years service, in which he acquired not only the approbation of his superiors, but the warm regard and esteem of many private friends, prematurely perished on the 10th of Oct. 1821, in the 31st year of his age. (In company with John Morrison, Esq., an Assistant Surgeon on this establishment,) by the upsetting of a Pinnace near Kedgeree. This memorial is erected by a few of those who most highly valued their departed friend as a slight tribute to his worth.    
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Transcribed from Holmes and Co - Bengal Obituary, and photographs of headstones at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.
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