Saint Mary's Cemetery (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Location: 15 ft north of WARNER ST at TEL pole # 12
500 burials
Owner: St. Mary's Cemetery, 80 Memorial Blvd, Newport RI 02840 (401) 846-4926
NOTE: This 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.
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Prior to the establishment of Our Lady of the Isle (now St. Mary) Church in 1853, Roman Catholics worshipped and buried their dead on property located at the corner of Barney and Mount Vernon streets. St. Mary Cemetery, the second Roman Catholic cemetery in Newport, was established by the beginning of the Civil War. The cemetery, now closed for burial but maintained by the Diocese, is an incomparable resource for the genealogy of Newport’s Irish American community. Next-of-kin frequently chose inscriptions referring to the county and parish of the decedent’s birth in Ireland.

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