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Go to record Purswalkum Cemetery - Vepery - Madras Purswalkum Cemetery - Vepery - Madras
 Index to Purswalkum cemetery images.

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DescriptionThis is the burial ground for St Matthias at Vepery. The cemetery has had many of the headstones demolished to build a Tamil church.
Date transcribed2021-00-00
Transcribed byAndrew Cumine, Betty Rudder, Hilary Condon
CommentData transcribed from photographs (Headstone Inscriptions) taken by members and friends of FIBIS who went on a Family History Tour of Southern India in 2015. Thousands of photos were taken, and were very kindly donated for our website.

Our thanks to Andrew Cumine for permitting FIBIS to share these photogaphs.

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View all other items of "Surname" with value "Grant" in "Index to Purswalkum cemetery images." Surname  Grant    
First names  William    
Mother/ Wife name  Philipiana Grant    
Death Date  26 Jul 1857    
Death age  54y    
Inscription  William Grant and Philipiana his wife *ormer after a life of unwearied industry and *trusive benevolence fell asleep in Jesus on the 26th July 1857 in the 54th year of his age followed by her death on the 27th July 1861 in her 55th year *** of deep affection This monument is raised to their memory by their surviving children    
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Digital photographs and transcriptions taken from headstones located at Purswalkum Cemeteries, Madras
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