Old Protestant Cemetery

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To the east of the Casa Garden is the final resting place of many early non-Portuguese residents of Macau. As Church law forbade the burial of non-Catholics on hallowed ground, there was nowhere to inter Protestants who died here, and they were often buried clandestinely in the nearby hills. The governor finally allowed the British East India Company to establish the cemetery in 1821. A number of old graves were then transferred to the cemetery, which explains the earlier dates on some of the tombstones.

Among the better-known people interred in this well-kept cemetery are the artist George Chinnery (see the boxed text, ) and Robert Morrison (1782-1834), the first Protestant missionary to China and author of the first Chinese-English dictionary.