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St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta - Mis and Graves [FHT2015]
Date transcribed | 2024-04-24 | Transcribed by | Helen Modern, Sandra Seager | Comment | Index of names. Transcribed from Photographs of Memorial tablets and Headstone Inscriptions at St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta, Bengal
These photographs were taken by members and friends of FIBIS who went on a Family History Tour of East India in 2015. Thousands of photos were taken, and were very kindly donated for our website.
Our thanks to Brenda Boggild and Greta Lawrence for permitting FIBIS to share these photographs. |
| Image1 | View image | | Image2 | View image | | Image3 | View image | | Image4 | View image | | Surname | Johnson | | First names | John | | Death year | 1756 | | Death day/mon | Jun | | Inscription | [Black Hole prison Memorial. 21 names listed on this tablet] Persons who are known to have been killed, or to have died of their wounds, during the siege of Calcutta in June 1756, and who either did not survive to enter the Black Hole prison or afterwards succumbed to its effects. Monument erected by Lord Curzon, Viceroy and Governor General of India, in the year 1902. |
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Transcriptions taken from publications. Photographs of headstones and memorial tablets located at St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta.
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