The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist, located in the centre of Buenos Aires, has been the focal point for English immigrants since 1831. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church has served the Scots community for a similar period of time.
The British in Argentina, from the earliest days of the nation's independence, have negotiated with the government for certain freedoms. One of the first of these was the privilege of being able to bury their dead according to the religious rites and customs they brought with them from Great Britain.
In a country predominantly Roman Catholic, many people arriving from the British Isles found themselves to be in a minority as members of churches belonging to the reformed tradition of Christianity.
So in 1821, a group of influential settlers obtained the necessary permission to acquire a small parcel of land, 18 by 75 yards (68.55 by 16.45 m.) for what was to be the first Protestant cemetery in the City of Buenos Aires. It was located in Calle del Socorro (now the calle Juncal) at the side of the Socorro Parish churchyard.
Between the years 1821 and 1833, a total of 584 persons were buried in this cemetery. Subsequently the British community acquired the Victoria Cemetery for burying their dead, and this in 1892 was superseded by the British Cemetery in Chacarita.

The register of burials in the Socorro Protestant Cemetery forms part of the archives of St John's Cathedral (as it now is). The Rector and Cathedral Council have given their kind permission to reproduce here the list of the people buried in it.
There is an excellent recent history written about this cemetery by Maxine Hanon and Jorge Alfonsin: El Pequeño Cementerio Protestante de la Calle del Socorro en la Ciudad de Buenos Ayres, 1821-1833, 111 pages, published in 1998 in Buenos Aires. In it the authors give a detailed account of the foundation of the cemetery and of the principal people buried there.

A new transcription of the burial register follows on the following four web pages. Any further information for clarification has been added in italics. People searching for particular names should bear in mind that the spelling in the burial register was sometimes phonetic. For example 'McClymont', a well-known name among the earliest Scots settlers in Argentina, is found here as 'McLimont'.

What information was recorded in the burials register changed over the years. There was a major alteration at the beginning of 1829, which is reflected in the column headings in these tables. For the purposes of containing the display of this data within the width of the monitor screen, certain categories of data in the burial register have not been reproduced here. In the period 1821 to 1828, they are Burial Number, Grave Number, Sex and Colour. In the following period to 1833, only the Burial Number and Grave Number are omitted. Should any one wish to have a complete transcription of any particular entry, contact me, Jeremy Howat.