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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 | Lumsdaine | | Forename(s) | William | | Rank or Title | Captain | | Year of Death | 1830 | | Inscription | Sacred to the Memory of Captain William Lumsdaine, Deputy Commissary General of the Army, who died on the 6th January 1830, aged 38 years. Distinguished in public life by talent, honor and industry; beloved and esteemed in private society for his mild virtues and peculiarly amiable general character. This stone is inscribed as a last sad tribute to the remains of one who in life possessed with the highest claims to the public admiration, the warm private friendship of numerous individuals, amongst whom were ranked some of the first characters in India, and carried with him to the tomb the sincere regret of all who knew him. |
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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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