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Title: Historical tombstones of Malacca, mostly of Portuguese origin, with the inscriptions in detail and illustrated by numerous photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Bland, Robert Norman
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments
Publisher: London : Elliot Stock
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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IN THE OLD CEMETERY AT FOOT OF ST. PAULS HILL, MALACCA. ( 61 ) Journal S.B.R.A.S. No. 33. Page 9, No. 12. Three to whom Nature gave one house and joint dwellingnow lie here together enclosed in this tomb. Obiit 164729th December,25th February,19th March, 1660 The Gaffel-boyer is our grandfathers first discovery.Our fathers first house now closes our mouths. ( Gaffel-boyer —an old-fashioned Dutch vessel.) ( 62 )

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ST. PAULS CHURCH, MALACCA. ( 63 ) Journal S.B.R.A.S. No. 33. Page ii, No. 18. Here lies buried MARIA QUEVELFERIUS, the distinguished wife of Johannes Riebeck, first Commander and Founder of the Fort and Colony of the Cape of Good Hope in Africa under the rule of the East India Company, now Commander and Governor of the City and Province of Malacca. Born at Rotterdam, 20th October, 1629 ; died 2nd November, 1664. She to whom Rotterdam gave the light and Leyden education, whose wedding was celebrated in Schiedam, here lies now in this tomb. (Johan van Riebeck was Commander and President of Malacca, 1662-1665.) ( 64 )

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