Cemitério dos Estrangeiros, Setúbal

Author:

Ninna Taylor, Carel Heringa, John Pead, Andrew Shepherd and Edward Godfrey

Report:

Newsletter 26

Year:

2025

Subject Matter:

British in Portugal

Excerpt:

Estrangeiros, strangers or foreigners, was a word commonly used in the old days to describe people who came not just from foreign lands but also from outside the town they were living in or visiting. Thus, it was no surprise that Setúbal, an important agricultural, fishing, fish processing and trading community, established a cemetery for estrangeiros as a result of legislation regarding where burials could take place. The monuments in that cemetery were first reported on by the Rev. Fulford Williams (Lisbon Chaplain, 1937-45) in 1943 but he subsequently noted that it had been demolished. Through the efforts of Carel Heringa, who was already seeking to identify the last resting place of some early Dutch traders in Setúbal, it was possible to track down the present location of the monuments. The article discusses the history of the two cemeteries and what is known about the people memorialised.

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