Here is a list of all the burials of the new English Burial Ground at Livorno, transcribed from the cemetery’s register. This cemetery was opened in 1839, when the older cemetery was closed. This “English garden” is, as well as the older one, in a very bad condition and most of the graves are inaccessible due to an extremely deep and dangerous vegetation. A few weeks ago I began exploring some parts of it with the help of a friend and by using some cutting tools. In the meanwhile I decided to publish this list to help out people looking for their relatives and hoping to get in touch with some of them.
N.B.: Please note that the spelling of names reflects the original register’s spelling as it was written by the then guardian of the place who transcribed the names directly from the graves.
*** UPDATE August 2010
An extensive cleaning of the cemetery is undergoing since June-July and finally the cemetery is now accessible. I just began taking pictures of the graves and will be able soon to make a new definitive list of the burials with dates and inscriptions. Unluckily there are many damaged graves, railings are falling apart, some marble monuments are destroyed or missing pieces, some inscriptions are hardly readable or worse. I also noticed many burials without any monument or slab, I am not sure whether these were once marked. Stay tuned.
*** UPDATE August 2011
The cemetery is still in ‘good’ condition. We are trying to figure out a way to set up a working organization for the upkeep and visits of this burial ground. I was not yet able to document all the monuments but a large part of them have been photographed. Soon there will be some maintenance works on the roof of the caretaker house. I finally got a proof of the fact that also this cemetery, as the old one, was bombed during WWII, and I found several pictures of the damages and some basic schemes of where the bombs fell.
*** UPDATE August 2018
During the years I’ve been collecting genealogical information on most of the people buried in this cemetery and in the old one. If you are interested in any of these people please get in touch.
Name & Year of Death
| Catherine Ann ALLEN 1868 |
| Caroline Cadwalader APPELIUS 1867 |
| Costantine Jarney ARCHER 1892 |
| Giovanna ARCHER 1907 |
| Joseph ARCHER 1875 |
| Thomas ARCHER 1888 |
| William Spearman ARCHER 1891 |
| Joanna ARCHIBALD 1862 |
| Arthur Edward ARNOLD 1881 |
| Ada Mary ASHTON 1870 |
| Alice ASHTON 1870 |
| Pell ASLER 1883 |
| John Church BACKHOUSE 1848 |
| Charles Frederic BANCKS 1873 |
| John Edward BANCKS 1873 |
| Agnese BANCROFT 1882 |
| Giovanni BANCROFT 1883 |
| R. BARCLAY 1918 |
| Walter BARNES 1842 |
| George BATEMAN 1877 |
| Charles BAYARD BECK DU TERRAIL 1874 |
| Mary Louise Bettarini BAYARD DU TERRAIL 1889 |
| BAYLEY 1917 |
| Charles (sculptor) BEAMISH 1842 |
| Elisa Mercedes BEAUMONT 1917 |
| William Hindle BECK 1864 |
| Henry Stanislaw BENIAKIEWKZ 1952 |
| Annie BETHELL |
| Benjamin BETHELL 1862 |
| Kate Courtman BETHELL 1936 |
| Mary Ellen BETHELL 1890 |
| Mary BETHELL 1880 |
| Willie BETHELL |
| Enry BETTI 1843 |
| Edward Albert BLACKBURN 1863 |
| Eliza Sarah BLACKBURN 1863 |
| Joseph BLACKBURN 1902 |
| Charles Altavilla BLAKENEY 1907 |
| Patrick (Rev.) BOOTMAN 1859 |
| Frederik (Consul) BORCHERDT 1877 |
| Emily Elwes BORZATTI 1892 |
| James BOWKE 1846 |
| Emily BOWYER 1840 |
| Matthew Henri BOX 1900 |
| Eliza BRADBURY 1889 |
| Mary Elizabeth BRADHURST 1897 |
| William George BRAY 1849 |
| Anne Charlotte BRICE 1850 |
| James BROK 1905 |
| T. S. BROWN |
| Hele Norah Selby BRUCE 1851 |
| John Collin Wood BRUCE 1854 |
| Mary Florence BRUCE 1849 |
| Charles BRUSH 1844 |
| Fanny Elisabeth BUTLER 1881 |
| Reginald CALDECOT 1959 |
| Thomas Andrew CARMICHAEL 1846 |
| Eliza CLARK 1890 |
| Ellen Elisabeth CLARK 1855 |
| James CLARK 1859 |
| Peter CLARK 1855 |
| Maria COATES 1921 |
| Graham COCKBURN 1897 |
| Cristofer Theophilus COLLET 1847 |
| Henry COLLEY 1848 |
| James COLLEY |
| Natale COLLEY 1848 |
| James COLLIE 1874 |
| Leonor Stuart COLLIE 1867 |
| William COLLIER 1859 |
| Elisabeth COLQUHOUN 1870 |
| Amelia Ann CONNOR |
| Robert CONNOR 1897 |
| Edward COOK(E) 1853 |
| John COOK(E) 1889 |
| Dermont Terence (son of William Charles and Marie Carrol) COOKE 1989 |
| William Brian COOKE |
| Thomas COOMBES |
| Artur Gilbert CORSER 1927 |
| Kate Bethell COURTMAN 1936 |
| Mannig William COURTMAN 1949 |
| Ester CRAWFURD 1840 |
| Henry George CRAWFURD 1848 |
| Mitchael CROOKE 1841 |
| Anne CROSBIE 1842 |
| Somaire Sophia DALTON 1875 |
| Robert DALY 1874 |
| Elisabeth DAVIES 1869 |
| Frederick DAVIES 1861 |
| Johanna Barbara DAWSAN 1871 |
| Francis Dennis DAWSON 1859 |
| Mary Agnes Massy DAWSON |
| Susan Massy DAWSON |
| Albert DE NORMANN 1914 |
| Baron John DE NORMANN 1912 |
| Henrietta DE NORMANN 1907 |
| William Daniel DE YONGH 1855 |
| Julie Caterine DEARLE 1881 |
| Eleonor DENISON 1843 |
| Robert DICKSON 1846 |
| John Smith DISTON 1840 |
| Maria Francis DOWDESWELL 1867 |
| Alick DOYLE 1896 |
| Charles (Sir) D’OYLY 1846 |
| Niram A. DRUBY 1881 |
| James A. DRUMMOND 1924 |
| Hemby DUNKERLEY 1817 |
| Henry DUNN 1867 |
| Louisa Wallner DUNN 1878 |
| Roberto DUNN 1887 |
| John E. DYER |
| M. Elisabeth EASTER 1843 |
| Beatrice Alice Julia Grace ELLIOT 1875 |
| Elisabeth ELWES 1848 |
| Katherine ELWES 1844 |
| Robert ELWES 1866 |
| Herbert Francis ERISIPPO 1865 |
| John FALCONAR 1843 |
| Frederick Thomas FARQUHARSON 1841 |
| Kickson Woolman FIELD 1888 |
| Mary Eleonor FIELD 1865 |
| Kennedy Artur FORBES 1803 |
| Calotte Anne FORSTER 1840 |
| France FORSTER |
| Giovanna FORSTER |
| Grace FRASER 1853 |
| M. Joseph FRY 1848 |
| Mary Jane Ulton Enderson FULTON 1896 |
| George Francis FURSE 1841 |
| Thomas Anderson GALBRAITH 1857 |
| John Daniel GALL 1924 |
| William GALL 1861 |
| Maria Rolanda GAMBIER 1874 |
| Samuel James GAMBIER 1878 |
| Sarah Joice GANDELL 1857 |
| Caroline Mary Louisa GARDNER 1851 |
| Grace Caton GARDNER 1858 |
| Robert (Colonel) GARSTON 1865 |
| Cecilia Isabella Eugenia GIBBON 1911 |
| James GIBBON 1884 |
| Thomas Brommond GILBERT 1904 |
| Edward Norwood GOODWIN 1883 |
| John GOODWIN 1889 |
| Mary Anne GOOK 1889 |
| Jane GORDON 1881 |
| Abel A. S. GOWER 1899 |
| Caroline B. GOWER 1859 |
| George Henry GOWER 1879 |
| Merope GOWER 1935 |
| Anna Louisa GRAFF 1911 |
| Anna GRAFF 1878 |
| Caroline GRAFF 1924 |
| Eliza GRAFF 1931 |
| George GRAFF 1883 |
| Samuel GRAFF 1883 |
| Isaac GRANT 1852 |
| John (Reverend) GRANT 1838 |
| James GRAWFORD 1916 |
| Edward Frederick GREEN |
| Ellen GREEN 1870 |
| Henry D. GREGGS 1852 |
| (Gow) Helen Cazalet GREGOR 1891 |
| Eleonor Mary GROSS 1863 |
| Eleonor GROSS 1862 |
| Mary GROSS 1891 |
| William Jenniags GROSS 1881 |
| Eliza Jane GURNEY 1847 |
| Joseph John GURNEY 1848 |
| Caroline HALES |
| John (M.D.) HALL 1886 |
| Lucy Giorgina HALL 1866 |
| Thomas HALLOWES 1856 |
| Elisabeth HARINGTON 1850 |
| Maria Elisabetta HARINGTON 1850 |
| Lucy HARLAN 1888 |
| Thomas HARRISON 1856 |
| George HASLEWOOD 1846 |
| Joseph Thomas HASLEWOOD 1818 |
| Mary HASLEWOOD 1847 |
| Charle Edward HATAERLY 1872 |
| Anna HAWKSHAW 1872 |
| Leslie George HAYWARD 1863 |
| Margaret Porter HEAP 1891 |
| Elisabeth Ramphi HENDERSON 1868 |
| Elma HENDERSON 1880 |
| Fulton HENDERSON 1858 |
| George Paterson HENDERSON 1891 |
| George HENDERSON 1877 |
| George HENDERSON 1934 |
| Guido HENDERSON 1879 |
| James Thomson HENDERSON 1885 |
| Jemima Thomson HENDERSON 1847 |
| Lizzie HENDERSON 1898 |
| Maud HENDERSON 1949 |
| Mimi HENDERSON 1873 |
| Norah HENDERSON 1876 |
| Robert Charles HENDERSON 1913 |
| Sarah (Hossel) HENDERSON 1913 |
| Sarah HENDERSON 1857 |
| Thomas HENDERSON 1854 |
| Thomas HENDERSON 1924 |
| Dinam HIERLY 1851 |
| Elisabeth HIERLY 1920 |
| Sarah HIERLY 1845 |
| Elisabeth HIGGS 1852 |
| Clara HOLLAND 1897 |
| George HORTON 1852 |
| Emma Morse HOSFORD 1924 |
| Caroline Harriet Clementina HOSTE 1872 |
| Maria H. HUBER 1909 |
| Robert HUGHES 1877 |
| Ada Elisabeth HUNTINGTON 1863 |
| Madalene Morrol HUNTINGTON 1872 |
| Magdalen B. HUTCHINSON 1860 |
| P. S. F. (Reverend) HUXTABLE 1922 |
| James Junior IRRING 1856 |
| James IRRING 1855 |
| Davis JACKSON |
| Elisabeth JACKSON 1861 |
| Isabella (Anne Temperly) JACKSON 1876 |
| Rosalina Emily Annie JACKSON 1863 |
| Ester JAGO 1915 |
| George John JAGO 1900 |
| Isabella Grace Francis JAGO 1872 |
| Isabella JAGO 1848 |
| William Charles JAGO 1866 |
| Augustus Edward JESSUP 1925 |
| Thomas JEVONS 1855 |
| James Woods JOHNSTON 1844 |
| Day Rowlan JONES 1919 |
| Mariann Rossell JUDD 1868 |
| Thomas JULIAN 1931 |
| Caroline KAY |
| Elisabeth KELLING 1863 |
| William KERR 1842 |
| Edward KING |
| Seymour Stocker (Baron, Painter) KIRKUP 1880 |
| William Laurence KLEIN 1927 |
| Houpt George KNIGHT 1918 |
| James Charles LANE |
| Thomas Biggs LANE 1876 |
| Grace Mary LANGFORD 1857 |
| Elisa Neal Bottai LECKIE 1879 |
| Gould Francis LECKIE 1850 |
| Sara Somers LECKIE 1877 |
| Sophia LINDSAY 1840 |
| Aleyn Basil LLOYD |
| Ehris LLOYD 1877 |
| Elyn Margareth LLOYD 1876 |
| Evans LLOYD 1855 |
| Gwendolen LLOYD 1897 |
| Ideth LLOYD |
| Jane LLOYD 1842 |
| John LLOYD 1842 |
| Louisa LLOYD 1898 |
| Margareth LLOYD 1877 |
| Robert LLOYD 1923 |
| Roberta LLOYD 1944 |
| Thomas LLOYD 1857 |
| William LLOYD 1914 |
| Robert Manners LOCKWOOD 1865 |
| Anne Mary LOWE 1876 |
| Emily Ada Russel LOWE 1878 |
| John Thomas (Consul) LOWE 1879 |
| Mary Eleonor Charlotte LOWE 1844 |
| Alexander MAC BEAN 1883 |
| Alice Rosa MAC BEAN 1868 |
| Emily Irving MAC BEAN 1863 |
| Janet MAC BEAN 1867 |
| Janet MAC BEAN 1871 |
| John Fraser MAC BEAN 1866 |
| Margarth MAC BEAN 1893 |
| Matthew Fletcher MAC BEAN 1870 |
| Forlane James (Reverend) MAC CARTHY 1901 |
| George Edward MAC CARTHY 1862 |
| Leah Graham Campbell MAC CARTHY 1915 |
| Donald MACKINTOSH 1861 |
| James MARDOCK 1847 |
| Rose Melmont MARIS |
| Augusta MAROUSE 1876 |
| John MARSHALL 1911 |
| Charles and George? MARTIN 1904 |
| Emma? MARTIN 1904 |
| Laura Clinton MARTIN 1890 |
| Henry John MATTHEWS 1873 |
| Andrew Mc CLURE 1865 |
| Anne MENHENNET |
| Corrado MENICANTI |
| Steel Marion MERLI 1933 |
| Marian Rae MILLER 1853 |
| Cecil Cornewall MITCHELL 1870 |
| Mary Sophia MONEY |
| James MORE 1884 |
| Sarah Jane MORGAN 1918 |
| Allexande MORRISON 1905 |
| Robert MUDIE 1851 |
| Florence Lockart MULLER 1853 |
| Frances Sophia MULOCK 1863 |
| Francis NASH 1887 |
| Jamedon Blanche Violet NASMITH 1893 |
| Georgiana NEVILLE 1849 |
| Elisabeth Ann NICHOLSON |
| Joseph NICHOLSON 1905 |
| James More NIKMO 1875 |
| Ellen Louisa NOWELL 1847 |
| Samuel NOWELL 1848 |
| Emma Agnes ONSLOW 1862 |
| Henry Phillip ONSLOW 1862 |
| William ONSLOW 1845 |
| John Golpoys Mortimer O’SULLIVAN 1855 |
| William Samuel O’SULLIVAN 1857 |
| Mary Anne PAIN 1873 |
| Thomas PAPE 1845 |
| Edward Hastings PARKER 1885 |
| Margareth Dorothy PARKER 1866 |
| James Millar PARLANE 1852 |
| Henry Clayton PARROT 1854 |
| Anna Albert PASTOREL ne BERGDET 1888 |
| Beatrice PATE 1879 |
| Mabel Alice PATE 1863 |
| Peter PATE 1853 |
| Alexander PAUL 1848 |
| James Lockie PEAT 1852 |
| George PEEK 1844 |
| Enrico PETTI 1858 |
| Ester PETTI 1859 |
| Hannah PETTI 1842 |
| Archibald PIERCE 1860 |
| David Brown POLHILL 1867 |
| Hariet Fisher POLHILL 1895 |
| Robert William POLHILL 1894 |
| Heap Margaret PORTER 1891 |
| James PREVOST 1865 |
| John PRICE 1949 |
| Charles RAE 1843 |
| Ellen Amelia RAE 1882 |
| Hope Howard RAE 1931 |
| James RAE 1914 |
| Margaret RAE 1848 |
| Margaret RAE 1958 |
| Mary Anne RAE 1887 |
| Reginald Adam RAE 1907 |
| Samuel RAE 1870 |
| Wilfrid James RAE 1882 |
| William REES 1894 |
| Beatrice Meikle REID 1923 |
| Cumberland REID 1838 |
| Charles Lagloche RICARD 1880 |
| William Thomas RICE 1891 |
| Anne Elisabeth RICHARDSON 1849 |
| Mary Elisa RICHENDA 1842 |
| Ruth Lawrence RISING |
| Robert ROBERTSON 1878 |
| William Gorbei ROBERTSON 1907 |
| Adelaide Jane ROBLEY 1925 |
| Sarah Caroline ROBLEY 1900 |
| Costanza ROBSON 1866 |
| Maria Lloyd ROCCHI 1945 |
| Charles MacIver ROSE 1899 |
| Robert ROSS 1859 |
| Joseph SANDIFORD 1861 |
| Luisa SANTASILIA nei COVENTRI 1902 |
| Marys SARTORI |
| Victor A. SARTORI 1907 |
| Artur John SAUNDERSON 1855 |
| Marlett Sarah SCOTT 1862 |
| Catherine E. C. SMITH 1875 |
| Charles SMITH 1857 |
| Currel SMITH 1864 |
| Gertrude SMITH 1848 |
| Gertrude B. A. SMITH 1873 |
| Janet SMITH |
| John SMITH 1851 |
| John H. SMITH 1884 |
| Mary SMITH 1862 |
| Mary Frances SMITH 1884 |
| Elisabeth SNOW 1850 |
| Girolamo SPANNOCCHI 1861 |
| Benjamin Evans (Sculptor) SPENCE 1866 |
| Dorothy Maud SPRANGER 1924 |
| Mercy Page STEALEY 1936 |
| Edund STENENS 1890 |
| Margaret STEPHENSON 1859 |
| George Augustus STEVENS 1889 |
| John Henry STEVENS 1900 |
| Orlando STEVENS 1925 |
| Charles Francis STEWART 1847 |
| Robert STEWART 1849 |
| Robert Walter (Reverend) STEWART 1887 |
| Jane STRATFORD 1854 |
| Mason Gerard (Baron) STRATFORD 1849 |
| Marianna STRATTON 1901 |
| William (Cap.?) STURGES 1847 |
| Mary Elisabeth SUNDERLAND 1871 |
| Anna Massotti SUTAR 1843 |
| Henry SUTER 1885 |
| Eliza Chapman SWEENEY 1879 |
| Isaac William TAYLOR 1890 |
| Thomas TAYLOR 1840 |
| Elisabeth Jean TEALDI 1877 |
| Giulia Gabriella TEALDI 1885 |
| Jane Emily TEALDI 1850 |
| Ann TEMPERLEY |
| Thomas TENISON 1843 |
| Alice G. THOMAS |
| Cristmas (Cap.) THOMAS 1897 |
| G. E. (Gen.) THOMAS 1899 |
| George Edwarde THOMAS 1915 |
| David THOMSON 1858 |
| Charlotte THORNILL 1860 |
| Robert THORNILL 1858 |
| Clarice Anne Graeme THORPE 1876 |
| Hans TOLLISON 1886 |
| Susanna Colucci TULIN 1901 |
| UREN |
| nel Eglan (Baroness) VON WEIGELSPERS 1876 |
| Elisabeth WARD 1854 |
| Henry Clanville WAYMOUTH 1883 |
| Susan WAYMOUTH 1885 |
| Charles WEBB 1865 |
| John WEST 1856 |
| William WEST 1840 |
| Herry WILLIAMS 1850 |
| WILLIE |
| Alberth WINNIE 1869 |
| James WINNIE 1878 |
| Richard WINNIE 1869 |
| Elisabeth Jean WITBY TEALDI 1938 |
| Eliza ? WITTLE 1894 |
| George WOOD 1852 |
| Natnam James WOODS 1885 |
| Richard Giles WREN 1880 |
| Dr. Plowman (M.D.) YOUNG 1840 |
| Elisa Orsini YOUNG 1856 |
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Hi again Matteo,
Where did you get the information that Mason Gerard Stratford was a Baron? Is it from his headstone inscription? He was actually the Earl of Aldborough at the time of his death, 4 Oct 1849. I am interested in a photo of the headstone if there is an inscription. Thanks!
Write me privately please, thanks
Thanks. Oddly enough I can’t find your email address on this blog! Do I have to contact you via the Contact Form?
Matteo@livornogen.con
I’ve sent you an email but it bounced back.
I see the link was wrong (.con), I’ve sent you another email. Hope it works this time.
Interested in knowing more about Frederick Borcherdt (my great x5 grandfather)
Write me on matteo@livornogen.com if you wish more information, I’m a professional genealogist
Dear Matteo,
You have listed James Prevost, died 1865 in the New English Cemetery, Livorno. Is there any record of his wife or children? His second daughter Marguerite married Sir Ernest Clarke in 1880.
For any research questions please write me on my email. Thank you.
There seems to be one name missing. That is James McKnight, USMC, shot in a duel outside of Livorno. I coauthored a historical paper on the duel with Giovanni Malevolte of Livorno and you can contact him for the data. The Grave stone is pretty big
No name missing. There are two cemeteries in Livorno and the grave you refer to is in the Old one 😉
Dear Matteo,
Many congratulations for your work on this cemetery which is valuable and worthwhile. I am researching the live of my great grandfather Charles Plowden (1805 – 1884),a banker in Firenze and Rome, for a book about the English in Italy. I am interested in the burial of Michael Crooke 1841 on your l list of burials. Crooke was shot dead by Plowden in a duel in Bagni di Lucca in 1841. Crooke was a ” favourite” of the Duca di Lucca who was very upset by his death and undertook to finance a monument for him. Do you know if the monument exists or anything else about this story? Any information would be most helpful. I know more about the duel if that would be of interest to you.
Francis Plowden
Hello Francis, thank you! I wrote an email to you.
Dear Francis,
I wonder if you could help. I am researching a banker in Florence and Lucca called Allen Bogle who was a contemporary of Charles Plowden. The story of his duel with Michael Crooke is intriguing, I would very much appreciate a little detail about this episode.
Kind regards,
Andy Penman
London
Hi Matteo, Please consider keeping a list of others who may be buried at this cemetery, but awaiting some confirmation, such as “Giovanni” John Oke, who was listed on his original death certificate as a Protestant mariner from St John’s, Newfoundland that died in Livorno (Leghorn) on November 20, 1844. The declarant was the minister of the Anglican Church. We also have this news report of his burial location as “Leghorn cemetery”: The Times and General Commercial Gazette (pub date 22 Jan.1845): “Mr. John Oke of the brig. Gulnare of this place, died in hospital at Leghorn, a few days prior to departure of “Emma”. Succumbed to a blow on the head, received from one of his fellow seamen on board,”Gulnare”. The news was received by the “Emma”, Capt. Stevenson, 47 days from Leghorn. The remains interred at Leghorn cemetery. Mr. Oke was the eldest son of Robert Oke, H.M. lighthouse keeper in this bay.” Thanks!
Great idea.
Can I make a small correction? Your list has: BECK William Hindle1864. The name is BEEK
Dear Matteo,
This is a wonderful site and I greatly admire the work you’ve done in the cemeteries and archives.
In the last week I have identified the author of an 1816 travel diary that I’ve had for 20 years. The diary was written by a young Scotsman, Martin Lindsay (born 1794), while he took a holiday in the Scottish Highlands with his cousin.
Martin Lindsay eventually moved to Italy, having become an ‘evangelist’ of the Catholic Apostolic Church (a denomination that began in England and flourished in the 19th century). His first wife, Sophia Harrison, died in Pisa on 30 December 1840, not long after the birth of her second child. Her name is in your list above, and it was very nice to find her recorded! According to Lindsay family records published by the Clan Lindsay Society in 1993, she was the youngest daughter of Jonathan Harrison of Lewes, Sussex, a West India merchant, and his wife Sophia Bayford. Martin and Sophia Harrison had married in London on 11 November 1837.
Sadly, the child born in Italy on 5 Nov 1840, Alexander Balcarres Lindsay, died in Zurich the following May.
Martin remarried – to a cousin of his first wife, Clara Sophia Bayford – in London in 1846, and spent the rest of his life in Italy, dying (in Genoa, according to family records) on 7 Nov 1864. I presume he may be buried in the English cemetery at Staglieno.
I thought you might to know a little family history around one of your names! I’m looking up what I can about Martin Lindsay, purely because of his entertaining little travel diary, written long before these events. I expect that Sophia’s grave is modest and it may not have survived, as I suppose it is one of the oldest in the New Cemetery.
Thank you again, and best wishes,
Susannah
Dear Susannah,
Thank you very much for your message. I’d like to continue the conversation through email if you wish.
Hi Susannah, At long last you have solved a family puzzle and thanks to you and Matteo’s wonderful work our problem is solved! We always wondered where the Bayford came from in our family and now we know Yes! we go back to Jonathan I am fairly sure of that now. My great grandfather was Alfred Bayford Harrison, Clerk to the House of Lords and his father was George Harrison FRCS, (before anaesthetics!) son of Jonathan and now we know 3X great grandmother’s name too! A bit more history for Matteo too and thank you both.
Angela
Hello.
I am Charles Cooke, son of Dermot Terence Cooke who was buried in this cemetery in November 1989. I live in Southampton, England and my sister Ivana lives in the Marche. I am hoping to visit my father’s grave in the near future.
I am so pleased that you have taken the trouble to improve and tidy the cemetery.
My father was a prisoner of war in Italy and after the Italian armistice in 1943 he went on the run and was looked after by a beautiful family in the Marche and married the eldest daughter Giuseppina who was my mother. Dermot lived in England for a while and returned to Italy in 1968, eventually working as an English teacher at the Accademia Navale in Livorno, retiring in 1982.
I thought I would send you this note as I think it important that we are probably the only living close relatives of any of those interred at Via Pera.
Dear Charles,
thank you very much for your message. We would need some help from all families concerned with these cemeteries, they are in great danger.
Hi
Thank you for creating this site. My great grandfather Christmas Thomas is buried in this cemetery. He was a Master Mariner from South Wales and died on 25th February 1897 from a heart attack at sea while captain of his ship. I presume that Livorno was the nearest port. I believe that my cousin visited the grave many years ago and I would be very interested to know if it is still in tact so that I can visit one day.
Thanks
Dear reader,
thank you very much for your comment. Indeed, your great-grandfather is in the burial list of the new English cemetery of Livorno. I am writing you privately.
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Matteo
great site – Caroline Kay and Caroline Hoste are the same person. Caroline Hoste married Reverend David Kay who had been the Presbyterian minister at Genoa, Italy up to 1862 approximately.
Caroline Hoste is the daughter of Captain Sir William Hoste, who was a favourite of Horatio Nelson, the famous English seaman.
David Kay is buried in Dunedin New Zealand, died 1901
Rob McLaren
Leopold, Victoria, Australia
Thank you very much Rob for your comment. Yes I am aware that Caroline Hoste is Caroline Kay but I didn’t know that rev. Kay died and was buried in NZ, so thanks again for this bit of information. Please could you tell me the reason of your interest in these people? Is your family connected to them?
Are there any photos of the cemetery and tombs available ? I am looking for one of Charles Beamish, date of burial 1842.
Hello Marilyn, yes I can provide pictures , please write me at my email in the next days since I am abroad now for another 2 days. Thank you.
[…] Leghorn and died on 26 February 1850. He was interred in the same grave as his sister Emily [in the New English Cemetery of Livorno, […]
It is excellent news that something is being done about the cemetery in Via Pera. When we were last in Livorno we peered sadly through the locked gates and thought what a shame it was that it was inaccessible. Is there any prospect now of being able to visit it as one can visit the old cemetery opposite the Misericordia?
Diana Webb
We are trying to do as many things as possible for both the English Cemeteries but WE NEED HELP! Anyone interested in these cemeteries should contact me directly for information on visiting, and information about donating for our cultural association that will be taking care of the two cemeteries and more.
Both cemeteries are in the same status: they are apparently closed and lacking any sort of tourist information near their gates. Misericordia is the manager of both cemeteries and you will need an authorisation from them, then one of our members will be more than glad to open the gates to you unless there’s any danger or work in progress.
(The actual situation is depending on the physical presence of the caretaker since he lives there but he will not open the gates unless he has been notified by the Misericordia)
We are in the process of creating a specific cultural association and then we’ll need to set up a working organization for both cemeteries if Misericordia will agree with us.
Thank you.
Hello Matteo,
I was delighted to find the info which you have so kindly shared with us all. It is also wonderful to know that someone cares enough to clear the cemetery.
I have just been asked by a childhood friend to do her family tree. She is an Archer and William Spearman and Giovanna Archer are her direct ancestors, so finding your list of names is of great help to me! Thank you.
May I ask if the headstones had any dates on them and have you put the pictures you took, on the internet. I would be so grateful to see them, if you have.
Kind regards,
Penelope Tweeddale (UK)
Dear Matteo,
I find on your list of English burials at Livorno the name Anne Menhennet, without a date of burial. She is undoubtedly related in some way to the great Italian statesman Sidney Sonnino (1847-1922). I daresay Sonnino is the only former Prime Minister of Italy to have the first name Sidney and at the same time be of Jewish descent and to practice the Anglican faith.
Sidney Sonnino’s Parents, Isaac and Georgina (Isach & Giorgina in Italian) were married in Alexandria, Egypt,on 13th of April 1843 under the rites of the Anglican Church. In the marriage agreement Georgina (aged 19) is described as the daughter of Mrs Anne Menhennet and of Mr Sidney Terry, an English Merchant of Alexandria. Isaac Sonnino (aged 39) is described as a merchant and a man of property, resident in Alexandria. He was the son of Signor Moise and Signora Dolce Sonnino of Livorno.
At the time of the wedding Sidney Terry was married to Sara, nee Friend, from the English community at Alexandria; I am descended from them.
Isaac and Georgina stayed in Alexandria for some years before eventually returning to Livorno. From these facts it would seem that the Anne Menhennet buried at Livorno was Georgina’s mother, and Sidney Sonnino’s grandmother. We would have to conclude that Georgina was illegitimate. Unfortnately that is not the tradition as understood by either the Italian or the English side of the family. I can develop this story further if anyone is interested.
Dr Richard Rowlatt, Ulverston, Cumbria, England.
Dear Dr Richard,
I just found the information in your post above very interesting. It’s fascinating to peek into to life and people of this time and at this place.
My 3rd great grandfather was found on this list (JOUNG Dr. Plowman (M.D.) 1840) and to be able to have some insight into what went on around his life at the time would be a blessing to know.
I would be happy to read any information you might have about this place and the people of the time. If you prefer to write to my email that will be okay.
Thank you kindly
Litia Simpson
Dear Dr. Rowlatt, If you are still interested I have a number of items from the Sonnino correspondence, and would be happy to correspond further. I can also be reached via my website (semiph.piwigo.com). Regards, Ron
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Dear Matteo
I am related to several of the Hedersons you have listed above. I believe they lived in a large house in the City which is now the Natural History Museum.
The main ones I have so far are below:
HENDERSON Thomas 1854
HENDERSON Jemima Thomson 1847
HENDERSON James Thomson 1885
HENDERSON George Paterson 1891
I have some questions, are there inscriptions available from the headstones?
Is there any way of knowing if all the Hendersons listed above are related to each other in some way.
Great to hear that the cemetary is being looked after again.
Hello Simon, I replied privately to your email. Thanks for writing here.
Hi Giunti, I am also related to the Hendersons buried in the New English Cemetery who lived in Villa Henderson and if Simon is interested in getting in touch with me I may have more information that would be of interest to him. I am also curious what relation he is to me?! I am happy for him to be given my email. Nancy (Henderson) Gillies
Hello Nancy, we know each other, my name is Matteo… Feel free to get in touch with other blog readers but one “condition” is information sharing with me for the project and as well to reunite all people linked to the English cemeteries that I am trying to save together with my friends of the Livorno delle Nazioni association.
Re Sarah Joice Gandell died 24 June 1857 at Massa, Tuscany according to a death notice in the Liverpool Mercury on 1 July 1857. She was the first wife of John Haskins Gandell who was involved with railway construction between Lucca and Pistola. He returned to the UK in 1860 and re-married and died eventually in Mondovi, Piedmont about January 1886 aged 70
Hello Gerry, thank you much for these complements. There was no information on her before you wrote here!
Hi Gerry, just found her grave together with that of her father today!
Get in touch.
Many thanks for this – I’ve just found this site and discovered the burials of my wife’s great-grandparents William Spearman and Giovanna Archer. Constantine Tarney Archer was their son, as were Joseph and Thomas Archer, I think.
Giovanna was Giovanna Vorissi before her marriage and William Spearman was the Assistant Commissary General for the Ionian Islands.
Thank you again for this.
Hello John, THANK YOU for your reply. One of the main goals of collecting and publishing this information is to find people like you willing to share their information as well so I may be able to recreate the network of people linked to Livorno. Please write me on my e-mail if you can share more details of the descendancy and the ascendants of William Spearman ARCHER and his wife. Thanks again.
Thank you, Matteo.
I don’t know any more about Giovanna sadly, althogh she may well have been from Leghorn/Livorno. Family legend has it that Adelaide, daughter of William Spearman and Giovanna ARCHER, married Conte C. VERNAZZI and that they had two children – Francesco and Stephen – and that Stephen was killed in the Battle of Adonte, Abbysinia in 1895. I don’t know whether that’s true or not.
William’s father was Principal Clerk of the Treasury Commissariat Department from 1835-1854. William’s older brother Francis Bissett Archer was also in the Consular service and, again, family legend says that the oldest brother (Thomas Gordon Archer) was killed in the Carlist War in Spain.
William and Giovanna’s youngest son, William John, was the British consul in Bangkok and then worked in Alexandria. He was my wife’s great-grandfather – her grandmother Edith was born in Lakhon, Thailand when her father was consul in Chieng Mai.
Many thanks.
Hi John,
just found William Spearman ARCHER’s grave. Get in touch.
Thanks for this – I have now, thanks to you, found my ancestors (the de Normanns) graves. Do the stones show birth dates as well?
Thank you for sharing your finding. The goal of all this is to save these cemeteries and tell the stories behind them. Please contact me on my e-mail and tell me their story.
The data on this page is coming from a register. I visited the cemetery few times to start thinking about a clean-up project. At the moment almost no grave is accessible, nobody is aware of the condition of the stones. I will do something but we need help.
Hello,
I found my ancestor Dr. Plowman Young under the last name of Joung on your list. I could not believe it that he was on a list anywhere in a cemetery. Thank you. I suppose the next question is. Does it show anywhere where his grave is? This is my husband’s 3rd great grandfather. We want to come visit the cemetery in the near future so it would be wonderful to know somewhat the whereabouts of his grave. We do wonder what he was doing in there. We understand he moved there a few years before he died.
Thanks again,
Hera Toutai
Hello Hera, I wrote you sometime ago because I have seen on the internet that you were looking for your husband’s ancestor Dr. Plowman Young. I am happy you finally found my blog. Please can you write me privately on the mail address you can find on the homepage and tell me your husband’s ascendancy ?
I am trying to publish all data on Livorno’s cemeteries and documents to find relatives and interested people so that we may build a sort of community and contribute in restoring these old cemeteries and write articles on Livorno’s history. Your ancestor is in the “New English Cemetery” because he was buried in 1840, just after the old one was closed. His grave is there but it’s not easy to find it due to vegetation. I hope I can go there one day to clean it up and find it as I did already for another person.
Hear you soon.
Hi
I was researching online and I happen to stumble across Hera’s post regarding Dr. Plowman Young who is also my ancestor.
He is my 4th great grandfather. I’d love to keep in touch for further information.
Regards
Lillias Tohi
Hi Lilias, please get in touch with me at my e-mail (giunti.matteo@gmail.com): I’d like to understand your family line up to Mr Plowman Young, thanks.
Matteo
Dear Matteo and Hera,
Thank you for making your research accessible to all. Lilias and myself descent from Mr. Plowman Young through his son William Chambers Young who went to the pacific, married and died in Tonga. Please include me in your email exchange relating to this topic as I may be able to contribute. All the best.
Litia
Thank you Litia for writing here,
please subscribe as well to the blog if you haven’t done yet: just put your e-mail in the subscribe space on the left menu.
Vorrei avere notizie su Susanna Tulin Colucci. La data 1901 dovrebbe essere quella della traslazione, perchè mi risulta che sia morta a Bastia (Corsica) nel 1891. Il marito si chiamava Enrico Colucci (diplomatico) e i figli erano Carlo Waldemar Colucci (1875-1935, vice Prefetto di Siena) e Guido Colucci (1877-1949)che è stato pittore, incisore e ceramista.
Salve,
anzitutto complimenti per i suoi interessanti articoli che ho rintracciato sul web. La sua domanda è molto interessante ma purtroppo per adesso non sono in grado di fornirle informazioni succulente… La presenza di Susanna Tulin Colucci al cimitero inglese “nuovo” di Livorno aveva attratto anche la mia attenzione avendo fatto uno studio particolare sui TULIN a Tunisi anche andando in loco. La sola cosa che mi sento di poter dire in base alle mie ricerche è che Susanna Tulin faccia con tutta probabilità parte di questa famiglia consolare stabilita a Tunisi già nel ‘700.
La ringrazio delle brevi notizie sui Colucci che non conoscevo ma di cui avevo una traccia a Genova. Dopo il suo messaggio sono andato a cercare informazioni su Guido Colucci ed ho notato che era attivo a Firenze nello stesso periodo di un altro pittore di cui ci stiamo occupando proprio in questo periodo: Alfredo MULLER. Sa niente se vi fossero rapporti tra loro due?
Cordialmente
Buon giorno, per completezza aggiungo qualche informazione a questo commento anche se sono passati otto anni da quando è stato scritto e quindi forse nel frattempo sono informazioni che avrete già raccolto. Susanna Tulin era figlia di Margaret Porter Heap, che nell’elenco qui sopra è riportata due volte, la seconda come Heap Margaret Porter (ma il cognome è Heap). Heap è morta a Bastia nel 1891 e secondo un necrologio dell’epoca avrebbe dovuto essere sepolta a Genova. Non so perché sia poi finita a Livorno. A Bastia è molto probabile (ma non ho informazioni dirette) abbia vissuto in casa dei Colucci, una villa che era stata abitata in precedenza dallo scrittore livornese Guerrazzi.