Anglos, Italians, and more at Old Burying Ground Simon’s Town

The Old Burying Ground in Seaforth has many interesting gravestones that run from 1813 to 1911. These remembrance stones include those of Rear Admiral George Dundas (1757–1814) and William Froude, a ship engineer who died in 1879 while staying at Admiralty House.

The cemetery contains the names of 160 Boer soldiers who died in the POW camp at Simon’s Town from typhoid and measles, as well as the grave of Heinrich Pieter Hablutzel (1820–1902), a wealthy landowner who at one time owned Imhoff’s Gift.

In the Catholic section are the graves of the Italian workers employed by Sir John Jackson in the construction of the Selborne and East Dockyards, and in the west end of the cemetery is a large structure to remember Russian sailors from the early-mid 1800s.