Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Urban area / Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Robben Island / Robbeneiland / Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Robben Island, General cemetery (aka Irish cemetery) / (27 of 34 images)
Cemetery information:-
Staff Burial Ground
The Staff Burial Ground of the Infirmary period was situated in the village precinct and is the second largest cemetery, with 253 individual graves. A number of the deceased were people of Irish descent who were working at the General Infirmary, and members of their families. The site is enclosed on three sides within low rectangular dry-stone uncoursed walling.
From the Robben Island Museum leaflet.
Album incomplete, we do not have photographs of all the graves in this section.
Note: We have been told that bull dozers flattened a whole lot of the graves on the island, when the prison was build. The island has no record of who was interred on there.
eGGSA captions done by: Heleen Nel, Lorraine Beechey, Wilna Eygelaar, James Anderson & Eileen de Jager
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information of the cemetery location:-
Cemetery ID: 1729
Information submitted by: Johann Janse van Rensburg
Google Earth Project Information:-
GPSID: 1879
GPS: -33 48.814 18 22.667
SWANSON H. -1866
contributed by: Johann Janse van Rensburg
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