Located on the right hand side of Herder Street.

GPS Coordinates:
048 05′.236 N
052 59′.777 W

Located on the right hand side of Blow-Me-Down Drive as you enter Old Perlican.

GPS Coordinates:
048 04′.470 N
052 59′.943 W

Located between Blow-Me-Down Drive and Forge Hill by the Municipal Building. Also referred to as the Forge Hill Cemetery.

GPS Coordinates:
048 04′.850 N
053 00′.350 W

Located on the South side of Circular Avenue.

GPS Coordinates:
048  05′.398 N
053  00′.236 W

Located on the water side of Main Street at the bottom of Burn Cove Hill, overlooking the harbour and Old Perlican Island.

Reported to have been the site of three graves of people who died at sea.

GPS Coordinates:
048 04′.801 N
053 00′.818 W

The Silas Gravesite is located in a small enbankment on the South side of Main Street.

Nathaniel Silas died 16 Nov 1741. Member of Christ Church, Hampshire, England.

GPS Coordinates:
048 04′.855 N
053 00′.539 W

Located just South of the Old Roman Catholic Cemetery off Circular Avenue.

GPS Coordinates:
048 05′.388 N
053 00′.231 W

The Lenenton Gravesite was located on the West side of Marine Drive, opposite yet backwards from the general vicinity of the current Post Office.

GPS Coordinates:
048 04′.948 N
053 00′.400 W

The surviving headstone, now in storage, has the following inscription:

“Here lyeth the bodys of the
sons of Thomas Lenenton an
Mary his wife who departed this
life in the year of our Lord 1739.”

“God made his babies for his own choys(?)
and when his will and pleaser his bodys
returns to dust with Christ on high
with everlasting bleffs(?)”

The Becket Gravesite is located in a garden, owned by Alex Beckett, on the South side of Circular Avenue just off Main Street.

GPS Coordinates:
048 05′.364 N
053 00′.275 W

The inscription on the one remaining headstone reads:

“Here lieth the body of Mary Becket
Daughter of Tho’s &
Elizth Becket
Who departed this life
the 25th of Dec.1781
Aged 11 Months”

“To the dark and silent tomb
Soon I Hastened from the womb
Ear the dawn of life began
But time fond out my span
Joyles sojourned was I
Only born to weep and die.”

John Parot’s Grave Municipal Heritage Site is an 18th century gravesite located within a fenced area in a field at 478 Main Street, off the water side of the street, in the east end of the Town of Old Perlican, NL. The designation includes the land area containing the grave as delineated by the fence.

John Parot’s Grave has been designated a municipal heritage site by the Town of Old Perlican due to its historic value. John Parot’s headstone indicates that he died in 1714 at the age of 60. It reads: “Here Lieth in Hope of a Glorius Resurrection the Body of John Parot Who Departed This Life 29 May Anno Dom 1714 Age 60 Years, Who’ere thou art with tender heart, Come read and think of me. As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, Thou soon shalt be.”

Headstones such as this would most likely have been made in England and shipped to Newfoundland. This would not have been an easy task and is an indication of the status of the person being remembered on the stone. In 2005 John Parot’s original weathered sandstone gravemarker – one of the oldest extant gravemarkers in the province – was removed from the gravesite and stored, pending conservation work.

GPS Coordinates:
048 05′.309 N
053 00′.259 W