Lapeyrouse Cemetery, Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago

Notes:
During Trinidad’s Spanish occupation, an area east of the present Lapeyrouse Cemetery was used as a burial ground and known as the “Old Cemetery”. The oldest headstone was that of Jean Creteau, dated 1745. The date that the Port of Spain’s Cabildo purchased the land containing the “New Cemetery” is not known. The new cemetery was thought to be part of the sugar estate owned by Picot de la Perouse. It can be assumed that the Lapeyrouse Cemetery, as it became known, officially came into being by 1813. As early as 1823, there were dedications of sections by different religious denominations

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was interred here upon his death at sea by yellow fever. His remains were removed in 1826 and re-interred in Newport, Rhode Island.