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 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 2 [Holmes and Co]
| Description | Transcribed 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 transcribed | 2010-08-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | South 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 1800 onwards. These are not in date sequence and so this Part 2 is the first part of subsequent records. Further records will be transcribed and included in Part 3, etc. until all are completed up to 1851. |
| | Surname | Weston | | | Forename(s) | Charles | | | Year of Death | 1809 | | | Inscription | Sacred to the Memory of Charles Weston, who departed this life on the 25th Dec. 1809, in the 78th year of his age. A life protracted to an unusual length, he marked by an inostentatious life of benevolence and charity, seldom equalled, and never yet exceeded in British India. By the wise economical management of a fortune, far from enormous, (the product of his own industry, secured by the Divine blessing,) he was enabled to pour forth streams of bounty and mercy. He manifested a grateful mind by cherishing in his old age his former employer and benefactor, the late Governor Holwell, and after living the friend of the destitute, the support of the widow and the fatherless, an ornament to the British name, and a blessing to mankind, he descended to the tomb amidst the tears of the indigent, and the lamentations of surviving friends. This stone is placed here as a tribute of united regard to the Memory of a tender and revered grandfather, by his affectionate and dutiful grandchildren. Reader! This stone is no flatterer! go, and do thou likewise. |
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Transcribed from Holmes and Co - Bengal Obituary, and photographs of headstones at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.
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