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Cemetery NumberNT006
TownNEWPORT
Cemetery NameST MARY'S CEMETERY
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LocationWARNER ST
StateRI
DirectionN
Pole Number12
Distance15
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Size in Feet200
Size in Feet350
Burials500
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Last seen date?2021
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CommentThis church was built in the early 1850's when the congregation outgrew the previous Catholic church, St. Joseph's on Barney St. Victorian transcribers and descriptive writers appear to have ignored the cemetery. Robert Hayman's "Catholicism in Rhode Island" mentions the church in passing, gives further reference to the history privately printed in 1902: "Golden Jubilee of the Church of the Holy Name of Mary, Our Lady of the Isle, Newport, R.I., 1852-1902." The inscriptions were selectively transcribed by Alden G. Beaman (AGB) and published in the "RI Genealogical Register," 8:343-352 and 9:81-86. As usual he copied only husband-wife pairs born before 1850, with the addition of some widows whose husbands are named. When this cemetery ran out of room in the 1890s the church started using Columbia's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Middletown (MT004) to bury its parishioners.
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