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Index of "A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras"
Date transcribed | 2017-08-00 | Transcribed by | Andrew Cumine | Comment | Index of names from 'A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras', written by the Rev. Charles Herbert Malden, Canon of St George's Cathedral, Madras and Garrison Chaplain, 1893-4 and 1901-6. The transcription is of The Old Tombstones | Outside St Mary's Church. The other memorials recorded in the book are of those inside the church.
The book contains a useful checklist (as at 1905) of the church's registers from 1680.
The book is in the library of the East India Club in St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LH. |
| Surname | Baker | | Other names | Elizabeth | | Death | 5 August 1652 | | Inscription | Long inscription in Latin. | | Comment by Rev. Charles Herbert Malden | Wife of Aaron Baker the first President and Governor of Fort St George. This is the oldest British inscription in India. The stone is broken, but the inscription as restored is as follows .... From the above epitaph it is apparent that Mrs Baker gave birth to a child somewhere at sea somewhere near the Cape of Good Hope, but succumbed to a fever caught in Java, where the vessel stayed for a few days. She died three weeks before the ""Roebuck"" arrived in Madras, but her body was brought on shore for burial on shore. |
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The major central Anglican cemetery in Madras in Anna Salai (formerly Bodyguard Road, an extension towards the Fort St George of Mount Road)
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