Quick Search
Advanced
Browse Records
Cemetery & Memorials > Bengal Presidency > Calcutta/Kolkata
Share this page 
Go to record South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 1 [Holmes and Co]

click to hide Data table details
DescriptionTranscribed from Bengal Obituary. A compilation of tablets and monumental Inscriptions from various parts of Bengal and Agra Presidencies. By Holmes and Co., printed by W Thacker and Co 1851.
Date transcribed2009-08-22
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentSouth Park Street Burial Ground begins on page 106 of the book and ends on page 176 - listing all inscriptions found in that cemetery as at 1851.

Records transcribed to date are from the establishment up to 1799 inclusive.

Surname  Pearse    
First Name(s)  Thomas Deane    
Rank or Title  Colonel    
Regiment  Bengal Artillery    
Year  1789    
Inscription  Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Deane Pearse, Esq. Late Colonel in the service of the Hon. East India Company. He was an officer in the Royal Artillery; in 1757 was present at the siege of Guadeloupe, the Havannah, and Bellisle. In 1768, he came to India with the rank of Major in the Artillery, and in 1769 succeeded to the command of that Corps, which he retained till his death. He marched a detachment to join the army under Sir Eyre Coote, in the Carnatic; and served there during the war, and returned to Bengal in 1785, and for the last three years of his life he was senior Officer of the Bengal army. In his public capacity, he distinguished himself by his abilities and unwearied attention to the duties of his station, and to the general interests of those he commanded. As an individual he was respected for the benevolence of his disposition, and for the warmth of his friendship. He died on the 15th of June 1789, aged 47 years.     
  << first    < previous   next >    last >>  

Transcribed from Holmes and Co - Bengal Obituary, and photographs of headstones at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.
click to expand  More details

© Families in British India Society. Unless stated otherwise, all rights including those in copyright in the content of this website are owned by or controlled for these purposes by the Families in British India Society.The content of this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way without first obtaining written permission from the Families in British India Society or that of the copyright owner.
If you found this useful then why not join FIBIS to get all the benefits from membership and help this work to continue. You can now join on-line in the FIBIS Shop...
Frontis V4.20.04.06 Rev: 217. Web site engine code is Copyright © 2005-2020 Frontis. All Rights Reserved.
Decrease text size text size  Increase text size 		Powered by Frontis, The Archive Publishing System