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Steel family monuments

Our family history is recorded on similar solid granite monuments in the St Kilda cemetery in Melbourne and The Necropolis in Glasgow.

There is also the grave of John Steel and Mary Smith in Greenock.
The bridges and public buildings of Marvellous Melbourne bear a similarity to those of Glasgow, reminding us of William Heron Steel's connections.
In Calcutta, the Steel gates still exist at No. 14 Old Court House Street in Calcutta, home of Octavius Steel & Co..
The Steel Memorial Hospital at Dr Graham's Homes in Kalimpong, West Bengal was opened in February 1908 by Miss Elizabeth Steel.
Both Steel & Bennie and Octavius Steel & Co. published centenary booklets of their history.
John Steel's letters written on a visit to Calcutta and Cachar in 1875 have been kept and transcribed.
Photo albums belonging to Isabella Steel and made by John Steel jnr on a visit to Australia in 1889-90 have also survived, along with James Steel's original reminiscence written for his infant son in 1828.
Mary Steel age 5 was buried in the Horsham cemetery in Victoria.
John Steel's granddaughters are buried beside their Hart relatives at Troon in Scotland.
I do not know if the lonely grave by the sea at Galle in Sri Lanka has survived.

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