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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 | Wynch | | Other names | Sophia | | Death | 3 June 1754 | | Inscription | Here lieth interred the body of SOPHIA WYNCH, wife of Alexander Wynch, Esq., and one of the daughters of Edward Cooke, Esq., who departed this life the 3rd of June 1754, N.S., aged 25 years. Likewise the body of HARRY WYNCH son of Alexander and Sophia Wynch, who departed this life the 11th of December 1754, aged one year and eight months. | | Comment by Rev. Charles Herbert Malden | Alexander Wynch the husband, became Governor of Madras. The Wynch family have been continuously connected with Madras for nearly two centuries. |
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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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