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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 | Poirier | | Other names | Lucy | | Death | 25 October 1712 | | Inscription | Here lyeth interr'd the body of LUCY, daughter of Robert Fleetwood, formerly Chief of Metchlepatam, and wife of GABRIEL POIRIER, Captain Commandant in Fort St George. She departed this life the 25th October 1712, in the 48th year of her age. Here is also interr'd the body of Captain GABRIEL POIRIER, who departed this life the 4th day of July 1716, in the 46th year of his age, having served the Hon'ble East India Company upwards of seventeen years in Military employs. | | Comment by Rev. Charles Herbert Malden | Gabriel Poirier was Lucy Fleetwood's third husband. (Edward Fleetwood) is probably her brother. |
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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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