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Index of "A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras"
Date transcribed | 2017-08-00 | Transcribed by | Andrew Cumine | Comment | Index of names from 'A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras', written by the Rev. Charles Herbert Malden, Canon of St George's Cathedral, Madras and Garrison Chaplain, 1893-4 and 1901-6. The transcription is of The Old Tombstones | Outside St Mary's Church. The other memorials recorded in the book are of those inside the church.
The book contains a useful checklist (as at 1905) of the church's registers from 1680.
The book is in the library of the East India Club in St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LH. |
| Surname | Legg | | Other names | Hannah | | Death | 27 July 1717 | | Inscription | Here lyeth the body of HANNAH LEGG, the wife of John Legg, Esq., one of the Council, and Mayor of this place, who bemoaning the loss of his dear and faithfull spouse, comforts himself with the hope that he shall follow her to a happy state. She dyed in childbed on the 27th of July 1717 in the 23rd year of her age. | | Comment by Rev. Charles Herbert Malden | The wife of John Legg, Mayor. She was the daughter of Capt. Francis Seaton by his second wife Hannah, whose gravestone is (Hannah Seaton). |
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The major central Anglican cemetery in Madras in Anna Salai (formerly Bodyguard Road, an extension towards the Fort St George of Mount Road)
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