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South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3 [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 | 2012-08-01 | | 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. |
| | Surname | Gibson | | | Forename(s) | Elizabeth | | | Year of Death | 1801 | | | Inscription | Within this tomb is interred the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Gibson, eldest daughter of Thomas Pelling, Esq., of Madras, Free Merchant, who departed this life on the nineteenth day of May 1801, in her fifty-second year. Her parents experienced in her a dutiful daughter, her husband a faithful and tender wife, her relations an equal and sincere affection, the poor, a ready and compassionate supporter, and her children and affectionate mother. With deep sorrow they lament their irreparable loss. Also Sacred to the Memory of of Captain Thomas Gibson, her husband, who was inteered near this spot in his thirty-second year, on the twenty-fourth day of November 1772 |
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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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