Chater Genealogy

Researching Armenian Genealogy in Asia and Beyond

Armenian and Other Graves in Asansol

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The Armenian Section of the Christian Cemetery at Asansol

Photographs of the Armenian Section of the cemetery at Asansol, India are courtesy of Nigel Galstaun (taken in 2013), and Tanya Avetoomyan (taken in 2012) to whom I offer my acknowledgement and thanks.

Just like the Armenian cemetery at Haiderabad which is also neglected and abandoned what is apparent from the photographs taken on a recent visit to Asansol, is that the cemetery is unkempt and uncared for and unfortunately the Armenian Section appears to have been left to the ravages of nature.

Names of those known Armenians buried in this cemetery

Charles Paul Agabeg Edgar Clarence Agabeg Harriet Marian Agabeg Hector Bettson Agabeg Robert Vivian Agabeg Hovannes Mackertich Apcar Doris Ivy Blossom Arratoon Joseph Chater	Elizabeth Hyrapiet H.M. Hyrapiet Kitty Lucas nee Hyrapiet Hyrapiet Jacob Winifred Jordan Aratoon Catchick Mackertich Varthain Mackertich Henry John Vardon

Asansol Cemetery - Entrance

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Asansol Cemetery - Entrance

Asansol Cemetery

Part of the cemetery has been turned over to a football field.

Asansol Cemetery

The Armenian Section of the cemetery is heavily overgrown, to sense the scale of the neglect the boundary wall, which is over 6 feet high, is almost completely obscured.

Asansol Cemetery

The Armenian Section of Asansol Cemetery, impossible to see any of the remaining graves.

Asansol Cemetery

Densely overgrown, the Armenian Section of Asansol Cemetery.

Asansol Cemetery

Nigel is dwarfed by the long overgrown shrubbery

Asansol Cemetery

In loving memory of Victor Gordan Vaz
Died 3-Feb-1980
and
Allen Bernard Vaz
Died 2-Jan-1999
[remainder cannot be deciphered]

Unknown Grave

Unknown marker

William James Jameson

In ever loving memory of
William James Jameson
1915-1971
Beloved husband of Sarah
Beloved father of Patrick
Indian Police
1935-1947
Indian Police Medal
Bengal Coal Co. Ltd.
1947-1971

Adelaide Muriel White

In ever loving --- --- ---- memory of my darling wife
Adelaide Muriel White
Who departed to her eternal home
On the ---- November ---
Sadly and dearly missed by her
Loving husband and children, mother, brothers and only sister.
Aged -3 years 10 months and 18 days.

So where this silent marble weeps
A friend a wife a mother sleeps
A heart within whose sacred cell
Peaceful virtues love to dwell.

Illegible Marker

Difficult to adequately and correctly transcribe

Asansol Cemetery

Tanya's photographs taken in 2012 year show the same neglect at the Armenian section of the Asansol Cemetery: The Armenian Section

Asansol Church

Tanya's photographs taken in 2012 year show the same neglect at the Armenian section of the Asansol Cemetery: The Church at Asansol

Asansol Cemetery

Tanya's photographs taken last in 2012 show the same neglect at the Armenian section of the Asansol Cemetery: Inside the Cemetery

Asansol Cemetery

Tanya's photographs taken last in 2012 show the same neglect at the Armenian section of the Asansol Cemetery: Armenian Section