Sewri Christian Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}} {{Infobox Cemetery |name = Sewri cemetery |image = Statue in Sewri Christian Cemetery.jpg |imagesize = |caption = Statue in Sewri Christian Cemetery |established = {{start date and age|1864}} |country = India |location = Sewri, Mumbai |coordinates = {{coord|19.001|N|72.851|E}} |type = Public |owner = Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation |size =  |graves =  |website =  }} The '''Sewri Christian Cemetery''' (Marathi: ''Sewrī Kristi smashan bhumi'') in Sewri, Mumbai, India, was established by Arthur Crawford, the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay as a location for European burials. The land was acquired from the Agri-Horticulture Society's gardens in 1865. The bodies of Commonwealth military service personnel buried in the cemetery during the First and Second World Wars were all exhumed and reburied at Kirkee War Cemetery where permanent maintenance by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission could be assured,<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2016603/BOMBAY%20(SEWRI)%20CEMETERY] CWGC Cemetery Report.</ref> with the exception of a Second World War soldier of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2191568/FOLEY,%20THELMA] CWGC Casualty record.</ref> whose grave is still registered and maintained by the commission.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-10-26|title=সেওরি সেমেটারির ভূত|url=https://www.exclusiveadhirath.com/ghost-of-sewri-cemetery/|access-date=2020-09-05|website=Exclusive Adhirath|language=en-US}}</ref>

==People buried== {| class="wikitable"

|James Docherty

|1926

|Assistant Business Manager (Times of India)

|- |Francis Newton Souza | 2002 | Avant Garde artist |- | Frederick William Stevens | 1900 | Architect of the Victoria Terminus |- | Dom Moraes | 2004 | Poet<ref name="mores">{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071013/saturday/above.htm|title=This Above All Requiem to Dom Moraes|newspaper=The Tribune|author=Khushwant Singh|author-link=Khushwant Singh|access-date=2009-02-05}}</ref> |- | Joseph Baptista | 1930 | Mayor of Bombay |- |Cyril Frederick Golding |1951 |25 Jun 1937, elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly, from the constituency of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and the Bombay Presidency Trades Association. |- |Thomas Blaney |1903 |Irish physician and philanthropist in Bombay. Two-time Sheriff of Bombay. |}

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==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{cite news|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=105566|title=Families pray for kin on "All Souls Day"|newspaper=The Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd|author=Express News Service|date=2004-11-02|access-date=2009-02-05}}{{dead link|date=February 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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