Jessie Mary Eucker

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
OUR DARLING MOTHER
JESSIE MARY EUCKER
WHO DIED ON 26TH OCTOBER 1928(?)
AGED 75 YRS 4 MTHS 13 DAYS
(Gonda Cemetery)

Felix and Edward Quieros

The graves of Felix John Quieros Jr Aged 52 and Edward Quieros (Residency)

Evangeline Florence Bayley 1872-1939

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
 OF
EVANGELINE FLORENCE BAYLEY
BORN 3RD JUNE 1872
DIED IN GONDA ON 4TH MARCH 1939.  
Mother of Dennis Henry M Bayley,
a guard on the railway and
grandmother of Vivian, Dennis, Denzil and Eva Bayley and great grandmother of Keith Bayley who died in Gonda and was buried in Gorakhpur.

(Pic taken in 2012 Gonda Cemetery)
Gonda was only important as a railway junction in those days.
 The bricks that lie scattered around has the name of the railway on them.   
"A light has from our household gone
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our hearts
Which never can be filled"       

Photo taken  Thurs Nov 23, 2017

Lieut F. J MacDonnel 1858

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
LIEUT F.J. MACDONNEL
ADJUTANT OF 2 PUNJAB CAVALRY
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT ?? NEAR LUKHNOW
ON 23RD MARCH 1858 AET 23 WHILE GALLANTLY CHARGING AT THE HEAD OF HIS MEN.
LOVED & RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
THIS STONE HAS BEEN ERECTED OVER HIS MORTAL REMAINS BY THE OFFICERS & MEN OF HIS REGIMENT TO MARK THEIR GRIEF FOR HIS EARLY DEATH AND TO RECORD THEIR LAST SENSE OF HIS MANY GOOD QUALITIES AS A SOLDIER AND A MAN.
THIS WAS REMOVED FROM MARION CEMETERY.
(This stone has been placed within the entrance gateway of the Bandariabagh Cemetery. 
There is no indication when the stone was moved here.)

From a Survey Map

The Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow (Established in the latter half of the 19th Century)

There are encroachments against its west wall and in part along the northern wall. A major portion of the northern wall has blocks tenement blocks built by the Lucknow Development Authority from where garbage is thrown into the cemetery. Since garbage disposal is a major problem in Lucknow and so-called leaders within the Christian are too self-centred or weak-kneed to take up the issue the problem is getting worse. One needs to educate the people on the feelings of others' sentiments etc.
Just for the record: Lucknow at one time had a paper mill established south of the cemetery by the side of the River Gomti with a metre-gauge railway track (the black line on the map)  used for supply of raw material. The mill with its tall silvery chimney has long disappeared and the track which lies buried is the pathway between the encroachments (homes) against the west wall of the the cemetery and shops on the left along the main road. I was told a long time ago that there were graves where the shop are today. I never saw then and never will, I sure! Why would there be graves outside the cemetery. There are two possibilities: That the burials took place before the area for the cemetery was finalized or perhaps they were suicides in keeping with the church doctrine of using unconsecrated ground for 'sinners'. 
This information was given me by Late Donald David, nephew of Barney David, who was a member of La Martiniere College office staff. Donald's father had an arms and ammunition shop in Hazratganj before 1947. Though Donald had a massive store of knowledge on Lucknow's history and cemeteries, sadly, there is no resting place for him. I heard about his death much later. He wasn't buried in a Christian cemetery.

Deliberate destruction

Harold Ward

Reginald Fisher

Bandariabagh, Lucknow

The dry leaves around here have been burnt.

Theophilus Langstaff

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THEOPHILUS LANGSTAFF
STAFF ASSISTANT SURGEON
????
WHO DIED OF CHOLERA AT
 LUCKNOW
ON THE 20TH JUNE 1885(?)
AGED 27 YEARS ? MONTHS

Elizabeth Anne Churchill nee Hodder

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ELIZABETH ANNE CHURCHILL
NEE
HODDER

THE WIFE OF WALTER HERBERT JOHNSON
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT O & R RAILWAY,
MORADABAD
BORN 28TH FEBRUARY 1888
DIED 21ST NOVEMBER 1921

SWEET REMEMBRANCE IS ALL THAT
WE HAVE LEFT OF OUR DEAR ONE
WHOM WE CAN NEVER FORGET.
PEACE PERFECT PEACE

(NISHATGANJ CEMETERY, LUCKNOW)
Sunday April 21, 2013

Celia Patricia Coomber - 1943

CELIA PATRICIA
THE BELOVED ONLY CHILD
            OF
MR AND MRS D.K. COOMBER
WHO PASSED AWAY
ON
THE 25TH SEPTEMBER 1943
AGED 16 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS

TO MEMORY EVER DEAR
(Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow)
Sun April 21, 2013.

Alan (Bunting) Carville, 21 years, died 1940

In Loving Memory
of
OUR DARLING
(BUNTING)
ALAN CARVILLE 
WHO PASSED AWAY
AT LUCKNOW
ON THE 4TH MAY 1940
AGED 21 YEARS
AND 7 MONTHS

(Nishatganj Cemetery
Lucknow)
Sun April 21, 2013

Alan Carville, according to the burial record taken from FIBIS, was an E.I. Rly employee.  When I photographed this grave two years ago, I contacted an old school friend
with the same surname, as would be
natural, but he was unaware of any connection to Alan! 
A recent email from Tony Carville from the UK settled the matter!
Alan was the eldest of Allahabad resident, Eustice and Olive Carville's five children. Tony's dad, Derek Joseph, settled in the UK after finishing with the British Army. Tony has two aunts, Phyllis and Shirley living, while Aunt Barbara has passed on.  Tony is one of Derek's six children. 

Bertram Waldmere Queiros

Sunday April 21, 2013 Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow.

Mr Bertram Waldmere  Queiros
Born 2nd Feb 1887
Died on 23rd Oct 1945

Gone but not forgotten


Queiros or Quieros (?) was a well-known name in Lucknow going back at least to the 18th Century. Bertram at a guess was the father of Rosalind Queiros who became a Mrs Holloway when she was well past  middle age.


It's not easy to get information from people as one can see from the answer I got to my email to Peter Quieros a school friend. He ignored by question about Bertram Quieros.

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:02:39 +0530
From: georgeshepherdlkw@gmail.com

April 24, 2013.

Hi Peter,

 Even if you send me only these chain mails its fine. I'm lucky! There are lots of old friends who are too busy - I bless them!!

Now, I'm a rather grave man! I don't know whether I've mentioned it before but I have a blog on graves.The blog's purpose is served when someone who has come across it, asks me about a certain grave - like a couple of weeks ago - a 78-year-old, Richard James from the UK asked me about the possibility of his father's grave still being around. His dad, a railway man, died in 1943 when Richard was small. So last Sunday since I had to go to the cemetery anyway, I searched. I didn't find it but intend to go again.

 During these searches I find  names of people I remember or at least the name is familiar. Two names in particular interested me that of Bertram Queiros died 1945 and an Alan Carville 1940 or 43. I've sent Russell a message with a pic of the grave and now await his reply.

About Bertram I'm just guessing that he must have been Rosalind Queiros' father.

I vaguely remember once on the way to the cemetery as pall-bearers, I presume, chatting with you or Clyde who mentioned having an aunt here who had a school? That was Rosalind or Girly Q. She married very late in life an ex-railway person, Mr Holloway and subsequently moved to the UK. A long time later we heard he had died. They had settled in Spain.

This is boring stuff! 

Cheers

George

  





From: Peter Quieros
Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:15 PM
To: george shepherd <georgeshepherdlkw@gmail.com

Thanks so much Georgie. I really do appreciate the trouble you take to type pretty newsy emails. Must say there were many Quieros' especially buried in the Residency who lost their lives in the Great Uprising of 1857. There you are, who says I cannot remember dates. Infact we have our own burial ground in the Residency - not that it means much. I remember once reading that he who talks about his ancestors is like a potato- the best part is underground. 

Must tell you last Saturday I went for Gordon Bruce's 60th birthday party and met William Lyons and his wife. Bob Jordon made the effort to come from Sydney. Neville Baker and his wife were also there. It was a lovely evening.

Take care Georgie and keep in touch whenever you can. I love hearing from you. Look after yourself.
All the best,
Peter

Henry Crichton Strachan

(Sun April 21, 2013)
         Sacred to the memory 
                        of
HENRY CRICHTON STRACHAN

ASSISTANT TRAFFIC MANAGER
BENGAL AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY
         GORAKHPUR
          AGED 40 YEARS
                 *
   WRITE ME AS ONE WHO
   LOVES HIS FELLOW MEN
                 *
ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS
                 *
(No date of death given?)
In 2009 members of Henry Strachan's 
family came from Scotland to 
see the grave.

Kanes James Ford Died 1903

Sun April 21, 2013

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
KANES JAMES FORD
WHO DIED AT LUCKNOW
ON 1ST DECEMBER 1903
AGED 73 YEARS
**
In Me ye shall find peace
****
(Nishatganj Cem., Lucknow
 02-12-2017)

Mullarkey babies

Patrick Stephen the darling baby of
Ruth & Sergt PS Mullarkey
Born 25th May 1915
Died 10th May 1916.

Robert Thomas
the darling baby of
Ruth & Sergt PS Mullarkey
Born 26th Nov 1913
Died 31st Aug 1914.

(Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow Sun April 21 2013)

Lilian Eva Rowe

In loving memory of
our dear sister
Lilian Eva Rowe
Died 13th October 1934.

This grave, like hundreds of others, has
all but disappeared. I walked across to
take another pic of Walter Burley Griffin's grave to update my earlier one
when my eyes fell on this one.
(George Shepherd guava gardens blog author Sun April 21, 2013)

Richard William Raynor 1885-1930

In loving memory of
Richard William Raynor,
son of the
Late 
Albert Charles Raynor
Born 31st March 1885
Died 27th March 1930.
                ***
Blogger: In my grandfather's (George H Shepherd) notebook, filled mainly with
his correspondence, I came upon one letter to a
Mrs Raynor. In the letter dated 22 August 1921 my grandfather  had written asking  Mrs Raynor whether she had sold her house on Outram Road, Lucknow (today's Ashok Marg).
The letter also mentions a few items that were
left to my GF for sale and he mentions three items,
binoculars, a dentist set and one more item that is illegible that were still to be sold.
The letter ends wishing Mrs Raynor well and hoping she is enjoying the 'fine climate' .
It is quite unbelievable how certain 'items' seem to stick around!
My grandfather died in 1928. His wife, my grandmother, died in 1971 and had my
father, the youngest of the children, been alive today, he would have been 98 years old. 
Yet, all these years a 'dentist set' has been in my possession. The leather case fell apart with age a few years ago but the instruments are still with me. There couldn't have been another set, could there?
*****
When I came upon the letter I wondered whether there was any connection between Mrs Raynor and Richard William Raynor, died 1930 and Frank Ernest Raynor , died
in 1948 both buried at the Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow? This is given the fact that Mrs Raynor has sold and moved out of Lucknow around 1921!

Gen James GS Neill 26th May 1810-25th Sept 1857

This Tablet 
marks the spot where towards
 the evening of the 25th Sept
 1857 AD
General Neill
fell mortally wounded by a shot fired from the top
of the adjacent gateway.

Lt Percy C. Smyth died 1858

Sacred to the memory
of
Lieutenant Percy C. Smyth
of Her Majesty's 97th
Regiment who died on the 4th
March 1858 of a wound
received at the attack on the fort
of Dhow-Rara of the morning of that day.

I first visited this grave in 1999 when it was surrounded by trees and bushes then about a year back I searched for it but missed the spot and thought it had been wiped out. Today, April 13, 2013, I was happy to find it was still in existence. 
George Shepherd
Two pics added July 16, 2014
The flyover has pushed the side road that leads to the nearby village closer to the grave but it isn't any worse than before! 

Tuesday Oct 24 2017
This morning I chose Sultanpur Road for my cycle ride and was
 surprise when I didn't spot the grave. It was almost as if I had come to 
the wrong spot. Then a local villager came along and told me that the 
grave had been removed sometime in the last six months by Army 
personnel.  That shocked me because I always felt it had survived only 
because it was on defence property.  Since all the bricks were not 
removed one  can tell in this pic where the missing walled 
enclosure stood. When I think back to the Lt Col Pogson 
memorial in Varanasi, I feel removing this grave is a good idea. 
The Pogson memorial was turned into a shrine by someone with 
an eye to business. The Pogson grave is also on this blog. The 
guy I spoke to mentioned a place of worship just about 150 metres 
from this spot. There's a culvert there that needed broadening
along with the road. He said that neither of the two PWD
engineers supervising the work had the courage to deal
with the culvert because of the temple. At the moment there's
no temple but metal rods onto which brass bells, hundreds
of them from tiny to huge,

 have been hung as 'offerings'. This is  a state highway
which is also used by the army to reach it ranges in the area.
If this place grows into a temple there are going to be
those auspicious occasions when crowds collect
and traffic will come to a halt, worse still, people
can get killed by fast moving vehicles.

Pic taken 11-11-2017

Residency mass grave

Inscription from the wall:

Within this enclosure are buried over one hundred brave defenders of the Residency who were killed during the

early part of the siege. Their names are not recorded.

The stone enclosure was topped by iron railings till perhaps sometime in the 1970s. I visited the Residency after an interval of a few years in 1977 and was disturbed to find that the railing had been taken away. There were several graves surrounded by iron chains, including that of Henry Lawrence, all have been stolen. The grave in the foreground is one of many without a name.

 It was pointed out to me recently that the cemetery is well documented. I am aware of a book by Edward Hilton which I saw some years ago that had a numbered plan of the graves and memorials, with the names listed. I guess a stone with just the name on these graves would be asking for too much!

William Ireland 1841-1914

Pic 1. In sacred memory of
Rebecca Ireland
Relict of the Late William Ireland
Born 28th January 1874
Died 7th August 1914.
The Lord giveth thee
Rest from thy labours.

Pic 2. Sacred to the memory of
William Ireland
Mutiny veteran
Born 17th December 1841
Died 9th June 1914.
Weep not for me
my children dear
I am not dead
But sleeping here
Pic 3. In loving memory of Gerald Hartwell
Son of Mr & Mrs W. Ireland
Born 3.2.08 Died 6.6.10.
This lovely bud so young & fair
called hence by early doom
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In paradise would bloom.

Pic 4. In loving memory of Leslie Lionel son of Mr & Mrs W. Ireland
Born 10.11.03 Died 27.5.10.
Weep not for me my parents dear, For I'm not dead but sleeping here
Await awhile and you shall be In paradise along with me.
(The marble stone on this grave has split into five pieces.)

Pic 5. In loving memory of James A.W. Ireland
son of Mr Wm & R. Ireland
Aged 9 years, 9 months & 8 days.
Died 11.1.00.
Safely gathered (?) he is sleeping, sleeping with the holy dead
safe within his Father's keeping, Angels watch around his bed.

(There were two graves that came in between with no names.)