Cemetery near Praia de Cabral

Baxter, David

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Description

A Jewish cemetery with the graves of the Ben'Oliel family and the daughter of Charles Pettingall, Julia Maria Pettingall. It is located near Praia de Cabral. Pettingall was an English diplomat who, along with his family fled Boa Vista during a yellow fever plague in the 1840s. They returned five years later believing the plague was over;sadly he was wrong and his daughter perished.

Details

Title

Cemetery near Praia de Cabral

Creator

Baxter, David

Date

1985

Other Identifiers

Local: MSS-0079-b10-f09-037

Keyword

cemetery ; tomb ; yellow fever ; Pettingall ; Ben'Oliel

Type

Image

In

David Baxter papers: Cape Verde photographs

Note

http://www.boavistaexperience.phpbbweb.com/boavistaexperience-post-393.html Retrieved 25 February 2013 Irwin, Aisling and Wilson, Colum. Cape Verde Islands: The Brandt Travel Guide. (Guilford, 2001) pp. 108

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