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Purswalkum Cemetery - Vepery - Madras |
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Index to Purswalkum cemetery images.
Description | This is the burial ground for St Matthias at Vepery. The cemetery has had many of the headstones demolished to build a Tamil church. | Date transcribed | 2021-00-00 | Transcribed by | Andrew Cumine, Betty Rudder, Hilary Condon | Comment | Data 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. |
| Image1 | View image | | Surname | Raw | | First names | Harwood W | | Rank/ Title | Rev | | Regiment/ Occupation | Founder CSI Harwood Raw church | | Death Date | 10 Oct [1905] | | Inscription | This cemetery is renovated and rededicated on his 105th death anniversary on the 10 Oct 2010 The congregation of CSI Harwood Raw Memorial Church Chennai 600 007 | | Remarks | Research shows Harwood W Raw was buried at Pursewalkum Madras 10 Oct 1905 [BL /BIO Death Burials N-2-98 / 330] |
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Digital photographs and transcriptions taken from headstones located at Purswalkum Cemeteries, Madras
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