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South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3 [Holmes and Co]
| Description | Transcribed 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 transcribed | 2012-08-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | South 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 | Young | | | Forename(s) | Robert Rayner | | | Rank or Title | Captain | | | Regiment | 27th N.I. | | | Year of Death | 1819 | | | Inscription | Robert Rayner Young, a Captain in the 27th Regt. of Native Infantry, on the E.I. Company's Bengal Establishment, Sub-Assistant Commissary General of the Staff and Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Supreme Government in the Military Department. He died at Calcutta on the 14th July 1819. In the 30th year of his age. How much beloved and how much regretted all those can tell who knew him in public and in private life. His sorrowing widow and brothers have erected this memorial of past happiness. Sophia, John, James and William. |
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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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