I was shocked when I came across this image in the Trove archive. I wondered how the tombstones had become so broken, scattered and neglected?
The worn inscription on a related image proved difficult to read, but I could make out Von Lintzgy. I then discovered that these broken and scattered tombstones, that belonged to one family, were located in the Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata, India
An incomplete timeline of the Von Lintzgy family
1801, D. C. Von Lintzgy: a Russian emigrant working for the East India Company seems to have been the first of the family in India:
8 August 1827, Bombay Gazette. C. F. Von Lintzgy, son of above, becomes a father:
17 October 1828, Bombay Gazette: within days of each other two Von Lintzgy children die [limbus infantum]:
18 November 1829, Calcutta Morning Herald: The following year, the mother, Mrs Lintzgy dies:
16 April 1851, Calcutta and Bombay Gazette:
18 March 1858, Friend of India and Statesman: the death of the second wife of Dr C F. Von Lintzgy:
26 December 1861, Thackers Overland News for India:
4 September 1866, the son of C. F. Von Lintzgy, becomes a doctor himself; Allens Indian Mail:
30 October 1866, Allens Indian Mail: the following month the death of Dr W. J Von Lintzgy is announced:
23 February 1877, Calcutta-Friend of India and Statesman: The death of Dr C. F. Von Lintzgy who has experienced so much mortality in his family: two wives and multiple children:
9 May 1896, Notes from India, Cornish-Echo: This was another son of Dr C F Lintzgy [he had carried on his father’s business at Bow Street, Bazar, Kolkata]
11 June 1905, Civil Military Gazette:
2 June 1920, Times of India:
Bow Street Bazar, Kolkata [where the Von Lintzgy’s surgery operated for generations]:
Charles Valentine Von Lintzgy, 1896-1951. A grandson of Dr C. F Von Lintzgy:
Footnote: I intend to write a poem titled about the Von Lintzgy scattered and broken tombstones.