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[TD="align: left"]Jan., 1841[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]Burial:
Old Protestant Cemetery
Macau
Concelho de Macau, Macau
Cemetery notes and/or description:
The Old Protestant Cemetery was founded in 1821 after the British East India Company purchased a plot of land to address a need for Protestants to be buried within the Catholic Portuguese colony of Macau.
Robert Morrison
, who is buried here, was instrumental in lobbying for the cemetery's purchase. Prior to 1821, Protestants had to bury their dead secretly in the no-man's-land between Macau and China, neither of which was willing to allow such burials in their territories. A number of graves were relocated from outside the Macau walls into the cemetery. The cemetery accepted burials until 1858, when another cemetery, the New Protestant Cemetery, was opened.
Thomas Beale ( - 1841) - Find A Grave Memorial
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