Location: Naples

Type: Grave

Date of death: 19 December 1819
Place of death: Naples

Where buried: Naples, on 23 December, with full military honours. The site of the grave was unknown until January 2005 when Cdr Charles Fremantle discovered in Buckinghamshire Record Office, Aylesbury, a note of the funeral expenses which describes the location ‘nel giardino del Dott Sigr Carlo Califano fuori Porta S Gennaro’ [in the garden of the Don Carlo Califano outside the gate of San Gennaro.] This area has been identified as the garden of the monastery of San Carlo all’Arena which had been used as a non-Catholic burial ground since 1529, on payment of a fee to the monks, as City ordinances prohibited the burial of non-Catholics within the city walls. The site of the monastery was immediately outside the walls of the city in front of the Porta San Gennaro, and next to the church of San Carlo all’Arena which is still standing today on via Foria. In 1799 Califano bought the garden and continued to run the cemetery as a business for non-Catholic burials, until in 1826 the Consul, Sir Henry Lushington, established the ‘English Cemetery’ at Santa Maria delle Fede.

There is now nothing left of the garden, and four schools occupy the area.

Thanks are due to the resent British Consul, Michael Burgoyne, and to Carlo Knight, for much of the above information.