Western Cemetery (Port Louis)

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The Western Cemetery (Westfriedhof) is a cemetery in Port Louis , the capital of Mauritius .

Originally, part of what is now Company Gardens was used as a cemetery. This area was swampy and therefore unsuitable for building. Under the governor Desroches (1769–1772) the area was drained and the use of the cemetery was discontinued. Instead, a new cemetery outside the city, today's Western Cemetery, was created.

The cemetery is in the Les Salines district, adjacent to the Robert Edward Heart Gardens public park . After a series of extensions, the entire cemetery complex in Les Salines consists of the neighboring cemeteries of St Georges, Gebert, Western and the Muslim cemetery. In addition, there is the Eastern Cemetery (Ostfriedhof) in the Roche Bois district. All cemeteries are operated by the Public Health Department of the Municipal Council of Port Louis.

A number of graves in the cemetery are listed :

  • Grave of Charles Henry Leal
  • Grave of Colonel Joseph Yates
  • Grave of D'Archibald de Litchfield
  • Grave of Dominus Arthur Chichester
  • Grave of dr. F. Dauban
  • Grave of General Jacob de Cordemoy
  • Grave of Leoville L'Homme
  • Grave of Lislet Geoffroy
  • Grave of Louis Lechelle
  • Grave monument of Revd. Mère Barthélemy
  • Grave monument of Dr. Aimé Joseph Mailloux
  • Grave monument of Rémy Ollier
  • Grave monument of Revd. Jean Lebrun
  • Tomb of Prosper d'Epinay
  • Grave of Revd. Sommuel skirt
  • Grave of Sir Lionel Smith
  • Grave of Sir Robert Barclay
  • Grave of SRB Swinny
  • Charles Baissac's grave
  • Grave of dr. Onesipho Beaugeard
  • Tomb of Wenceslas Bojer
  • Grave of Jean Pascal Dujonc de Boisquesnay

literature

  • National Monuments of Mauritius, Volume 1, Port-Louis District, 1988

Web links

  • National Heritage Fund Act (No. 40) of 2003, online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vintage Mauritius
  2. ↑ Public Health Department of the Municipal Council of Port Louis ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpl.intnet.mu

Coordinates: 20 ° 9 ′ 37.7 ″  S , 57 ° 29 ′ 15.6 ″  E