Hi Frederick,
There is a cemetery inside the Sao Jeronimo Fort in Daman. Ihave a few pictures
from it from 2018. Most graves are recent but I remember seeingsome ancient
ones. Not sure how old though.
I also have photos from graves inside churches from Damanand from the Bassain
fort. I took them for a friend from Mumbai who wasdoing his PhD on Portuguese
inscriptions.
If your friend would like to take a look at them, I’d be glad to share
thosewith him/her.
I just need sometime to look for them in my files. Please let me know.
Best wishes,
Cibele Aldrovandi
On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 08:51:36 PM GMT-3, fredericknoronha2
<[email protected]> wrote:
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
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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. That is why perhaps there aren't many books on
cemeteries.
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