Here are some of the answers picked up online: Floyd Almeida Not Goa, but in Bassein now Vasai inside the fort there are many grave stones with Portuguese symbols, names etc
Pramod Kolambkar We used to visit Anjadev island, when we're in school for picnics, here there were old cemeteries, presently what is the state I didn't know. the Church of Our Lady of Springs, was built in 1505. The Chapel of St Francis D’Assissi is also located here but it is in ruins. Cliff Pereira The first Portuguese capital of the Eastern Imperio was at Cochin (Kochi), so quizá you could check that. Besides there were other Christians in India prior to the Portuguese arrival and they too would have had burial sites. Zé Teixeira de Queiroz when the portuguese arrived in India there were no cemeteries, bodies were buried inside the churches, in tombs or in the soil. Cemeteries started for hygienic reasons in the beginning of the XIX siglo, usually on the grounds of the recently (XIX ...) Received via the Indo-Portuguese History Group on Facebook. FN On Monday, 12 September 2022 at 23:14:15 UTC+5:30 lescarvalhos wrote: > If the person querying hasn't already checked out Indo-Portuguese forum on > FB, they can do so, I've put up several cemetery posts and photos. > > All best, > Selma > > On Monday, 12 September 2022 at 17:23:44 BST, Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > So sorry can’t help with this query as I have no knowledge in this area. > > > > BW > > > > *Dr. Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes * > > *Director, Stellar Consultancy Services* > > *Social Research, Evaluation and Training* > > *Tel: 00 44 7913901776* > > > > Community Organising for Inclusive Industrial Policy: A Case study of > Citizens UK Birmingham and migrant micro-enterprises (nesta.org.uk) > <https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Birmingham_Evaluation_Report.pdf> > > > > (PDF) The Role of Portuguese and British Colonialism in the Migration and > Settlement of Goans in Britain (researchgate.net) > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343699778_The_Role_of_Portuguese_and_British_Colonialism_in_the_Migration_and_Settlement_of_Goans_in_Britain> > > > > *Colonialism, Migration and the International Catholic Goan Community * > https://archive.org/details/cmicgc-smk > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On > Behalf Of *Frederick Noronha > *Sent:* 12 September 2022 10:58 > *To:* Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [GOABOOKCLUB] Query about European cemeteries in India > > > > *A friend sent me this query. Would you have an answer?* > > > > I am researching European cemeteries in India. The Portuguese were the > first major European in India or Goa. Naturally they were the earliest to > establish an organised place for burial or, cemetery, long before the > British did. I am looking for information on the oldest Portuguese > cemeteries in Goa in general. I have been unable to find anything useful on > the internet, apart from the few scattered mention of Goa's cemeteries. But > I would like to know more. Like, what their tombs look like, the > inscriptions and stuff. Any books or sources regarding the same will also > be useful. English will be better. So, could you help? > > > > So far my research tells me that back since the middle ages, it was normal > custom to inter vip bodies beneath church, and common folks in the adjacent > churchyard. That is why there are tablets or plaques on the floor. I have > read that The Portuguese were the first to introduce separate burial > grounds in India, but the author does not exactly say that, " this is the > cemetery opened in that year, and this is the first ever Christian cemetery > in India". > > > > While the Roman Catholic cemetery at Agra survives from 1611, Portuguese > examples should date from the 1500s. Perhaps nothing survived. Some > Portuguese cultural website told me those cemeteries used to be covered > with a roof (a novelty) and a chapel used to be there. Perhaps nothing > survived. > > > > Portuguese Goa fascinates me. But there aren't many books on that (I may > be wrong). In fact, in my opinion, cemeteries are generally seen as a > morbid thing and something to be avoided. 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