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South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Grave Transcriptions [FHT-2015]
Description | Transcriptions of Headstone inscriptions at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta (Bengal Presidency). Cross referenced with Holmes and Co datasets Parts 1 to 5. | Date transcribed | 2024-09-09 | Transcribed by | Sandra Seager | Comment | These photographs were taken by members and friends of FIBIS who went on a Family History Tour of India in 2015.
Our thanks to Brenda Boggild who took the photographs and has permitted FIBIS to share them. |
| Image1 | View image | | Surname | Monson | | First names | Anne | | Rank/ Title | Lady | | Father/ Husband name | George | | Birth date | 25 Jun 1726 | | Death day/mon | 18 Feb | | Death year | 1776 | | Inscription | In Memory of the Lady Anne Monson born June 25th 1726. Eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Darlington and great grand daughter of King Charles II. Married in 1757 Colonel the Hon George Monson and previously to the Hon Charles Hope Vere father of her two sons. A Botanist of renown friend of Linnaeus and an Entomologist in England India and at the Cape of Good Hope. She died in Calcutta on February 18th 1776. This tablet has been placed here by the family of John 11th Baron Monson in the year 2014. |
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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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