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The location of the cemetery today within a children’s play area.
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M. Marechal Blache (1836-1878)
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Clementina Parma (born Constantinople -1888, aged 28)
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Marie Falkeisen ( -1886, aged 65)
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Annette Parma - nee Marcena (born Constantinople 1826-1907) - she was also the custodian of this cemetery.
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Catherine Hermes (1842-1909)
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Otto von Shoenberg
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Marie Vas..?, born Austria (Laibach = today’s Ljubljana, Slovenia), died 1890, aged 74.
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Marie Louise Poirie (1847-1918)
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Alexander Peillard (1830-1904) & Virginie Peillar (nee ?..irier, 1845-1918)
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Caroline Crass of Smyrna (1894-1902)
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Louis Napoleon Gamet, born in Bursa...
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Antoine Lacaze (1878-1912)
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Emma Gamet ( -1877)
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Jules Lacaze (1869-1917)
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Andrea Parma, born Genova 1817, died Bursa 1887
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Emilif ...? (1825-1895)
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Marie Blanch (1815-1895)
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Emile ? Gamet ?
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Antonio Parma (died Bursa 1883, aged 27)
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Ernest Marechal (died 1877, aged 10)
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Claire Roche, nee Fournillier (182?-1888)
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Francois Antoine Os? Edwards (1839-1910)
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-? -?, Consul of France in Bursa, born Lyon 1830, died Bursa 188?
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Rudi Sonntag (1901-1927)
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Giudizio Spettanti, born 1791
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Henri Pirjantz (1850-19??) & Henriette Romangalle (-1913)
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Emile Bounaud, surgeon, born France 1836, died Bursa 1875
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Vincent Bossy, surgeon, died Bursa 1887, aged 63
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General views of the cemetery / play-ground.
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The ‘French’ Catholic Cemetery of Bursa is in the Çamlıca district of the city. In times past it neighboured the Armenian cemetery and it was more extensive. The area is now fully built up and is in the Piremir neighbourhood, within a park opening up to Atak Sokak. The cemetery has 3 cypress trees and around 40 tomb-stones. The dates point to burials from the early 1800s to 1927. Amongst the names recorded here are various prominent Levantine families of the past, none of whose descendants live here, including the Brotte, Bay and Parma families. In times past the cemetery included its own chapel and this building together with the cemetery was still active till the 1940s. The last family to act as the custodians of this cemetery were the Romangal family. Till the 1940s the cemetery had its own guard, it was bigger then and since then some of the tombstones have been removed to be used in local buildings’ thresholds etc. - information source the elderly local residents.