Non molte persone conoscono l’esistenza di questo piccolo angolo di paradiso nel bel mezzo della Medina di Tunisi.
La Chiesa venne eretta nel 1899-1901 ma il cimitero era stato in funzione fin dal 1645 e rimase aperto fino al 1885 quando una nuova sezione evangelica per gli Europei venne aperta nel cimitero municipale a Bab al-Khadra.
I visited it in May 2007 to search for traces of Consul James Traill (1723-1787) who had employed Amelia Evans as a maid for his daughters. Indeed I found Consul Traill among the graves and also many others. I was also looking for Traill’s house, in Carthage, once called “Sweet Retreat” but nothing has been found for now…
In 2008 Denys Pringle published a book about the cemetery’s inscriptions and an extract of it is available in the new website of St-George’s Church.
I collected pictures of the graves and of the Chaplain’s Registers and here are the people buried there that I researched:
Arthur Gordon Selim BARKER (1871-1884)
Angelina CAPRIATA (1781-1825)
Christine Thérèse Léonie CHAPELIE’ (1867-1868)
Jacques Henri CHAPELIE’ (1762-1844)
Louis Antoine CHAPELIE’ (1790-1854)
Marie Thérèse CHAPELIE’ (1795-1879)
Marie Thérèse Léonie CHAPELIE’ (1863-1866)
Robert Antoine Edouard CHAPELIE’ (1866-1873)
Jean FUZIER (1776-1823)
Anne GIBSON (1820-1850)
Eliza Ann GIBSON (1808-1858)
John GIBSON (1780-1833)
John Knapp GIBSON (1810-1843)
Charles GORDON (?-1775)
George Robert GORDON (1799-1799)
Margaret GORDON (1757-1831)
Susanna GORDON (1760-1836)
Ludvic (Lewis) HAMMEKEN (1739-1793)
Ludolf Johansen HAMMEKEN (1696-1759)
Gwinn Harris HEAP (1867-1874)
Samuel Davies HEAP (1781-1853)
Samuel Harris HEAP (1845-1845)
Susanna Angelina Mathilda HEAP (1828-1848)
Elizabeth KNAPP (1782-1855)
Elizabeth LAWRENCE (c.1672-1732)
Richard LAWRENCE (1668-1750)
Thomas LAWRENCE (c.1686-1717)
Margaret PORTER (1791-1857)
Marie SZCZEPANOWSKI (1847-1849)
James TRAILL (1723-1787)
Charles Jr. TULIN (1790-1832)
Charles Sr. TULIN (1748-1808)
Matilda TULIN (1800-1835)
Richard Alexander TULIIN (1843-1847)
Margaret WING (1736-1776)
Other people researched died in Tunis but I still don’t know where they are buried
Angèle Céleste BALIT (1820-1852)
Gaspard BOURGUET (c.1675-1741)
Andrea CURRY (1781-1813)
Laurent GAY (c.1763-1823)
Louisa MALTASS (?-1942)
Arnold Heinrich NYSSEN (c.1730-1792)
François Auguste SAUTTER (1826-1885)
Arnoldo SOLER (1779-1816)
Henri André TERRISSE (1856-1898)
Jules Henri Frédéric TERRISSE (1865-1891)
Stefano TRAVERSO (1807-1861)
Herbert Octavius WHITTALL (1858-1929)
Reti Mercantili Livornesi 