File:Susana Anamaria’s Tomb.jpg
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English: Just outside the town of Chinsurah or Chuchura, on the Grand Trank Road (G T Rd.) is the temple styled grave of Susana Annmaria.
Susanna Annamaria was a Dutch Lady married to an Englishman named Mr Yeats. Although nothing much is known neither about the lady or her husband. Built in 1809 the Octagonal structure is an ideal example of Indo – Dutch architecture. The two storied octagonal structure, with arched gateways and slender columns is crowned with a dome. The tomb contains no epitaph but the name Susanna Annamaria is inscribed in the drum of the dome. The trip can be combined with the Hooghly Imambara, located in Hooghly, the sister town of Chinsurah or Chuchura. |
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SUSANNA ANNA MARIA YEATS, who surprisingly (or might be intentionally!) resembles a Dutch Lady of the same name of 18th century Chinsurah, a Dutch colony then. Susanna Anna Maria Verkerk was a Dutch Lady of 18th century Chinsurah. Her first husband was Pieter Brueys, a prominent merchant and a director of Dutch Administration. They had three children. Two daughters - Susanna Jacoba and Maria Anna de Brueys and a son - Louis Adrian de Brueys. After the death of Pieter Brueys in 1783, Susanna Anna Maria Brueys got married again, to Thomas Yeats, a well-established Englishman of Colonial Bengal.
In 1805, four years before her death, she made a will giving all her possessions to her son Louis Adrian. Being married to two such affluent man, she inherited vast properties which include two houses - one beside the river, adjacent to Dutch Factory building and another at Taldanga, present day G T Road with sixty bighas of land attached with it called Ayesh Baag. Through her will she bequeathed Rs.4000 as a trust, the interest of which was to be applied to repair her own tomb and that of her two husbands. She died in 1809 and was buried in Ayesh Baag. Later on, under British rule, the property along with the land was sold in 1833, leaving only her tomb as the solitary structure. Khadina More is a major 4 point in Chinsurah Town. It is the crossing of G T Road and Chinsurah Station Road. From Khadina more if you proceed towards Chandannagore along the G T Road, you will find the white temple like structure on your left, standing lonesome, within a vast field, surrounded by the walls - the MAUSOLEUM OF SUSANNA ANNA MARIA YEATS.
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