| Description | Records names of those buried (some ages given), with sums paid for the funeral, pall, bells, prayers, gravedigging, Rector's and Sexton's fees, and East India Company's fee.
Entries for 1826-1846 appear to agree with those in the burial register, although the latter do not include the following 8 entries for Asian sailors / seamen in the burial dues book :
3 December 1841 Momed 'an Asiatic Sailor' ('this was the first interment of an Asiatic sailor')
17 December 1841 Salla Amed Ally, 'Asiatic Sailor', 38 years
17 December 1841 Mahomed Caprm, 'Asiatic Sailor', 35 years
24 December 1841 Iyew, 'an China or Tartar Sailor', 26 years
22 December 1842 Seedin, 'an Asiatic Sailor from ship Fort William', 24 years
19 March 1842 Ebram, 'Asiatic Sailor from ship Francis Smith'
9 April 1842 Amey, 'an Asiatic Sailor from ship George Fourth'
10 October 1844 Snder Ali, 'Asiatic Sailor from ship Carnatic'
Also includes entry for
21 March 1842 John Africanus Hall, aged 5 years
On cover of volume: "Burials in the ground of the Honble. East India Company at Poplar - Henry Higginson, M.A., Chaplain, 1825".
Note at end of volume: "the burial ground closed, 14 day of September 1855".
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| CustodialHistory | Formerly catalogued as L. 737 in Local History Library |