Everything tagged: cemetery

We found this while crashing through the undergrowth above Mount Davis Road. Here's the first stone we saw, which Thomas says indicates a mass grave:

This is visible on an 1889 map of the City of Victoria (Plate 3-2, Mapping Hong Kong), marked "Old Protestant Cemetery". It ran down the hill until it reached the southern boundary of IL 650, which today houses the little park called Dominion Garden.

Place marker is *very* approximate.

Name may also be spelled "Ho Mun Tin".

The marker is a rough guess at it's location.

The cemetery is mentioned in Government Notification 522 on 25th Nov 1897, which announces it is now an "Authorised Cemetery".

I looks like it is reached by a set of stairs and path next to 20 Broadwood Road, or take the road up to Broadwood Park, 38 Broadwood Road.

Chinese name is Coffee Garden Cemetery - 咖啡園墳場

Use http://www.map.gov.hk to see it properly.

Notes from Patricia:

The research I'm doing at the moment has meant that I spend a lot of time in St Michaels.  I've found the ladies in the office really helpful - they don't have much English, but if you're friendly and gentle, and write names and dates down, and say its your family, they'll look it up on the database they have.  This is only as good as the transcription from the original burial books (which they'll then bring out in order to identify the grave).  Try other spellings as well!

Findagrave.com has records for this cemetery, and several graves within the cemetery.

The Commonwealth Graves Commission website doesn't record any wartime graves in this cemetery.