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Bukit Brown Cemetery is named after George Henry Brown<\/a> who came to Singapore in 1840 to start a shipping business. He bought up an area of roughly 200 acres which covered rolling hills. The Malay word for hill is “bukit”\u00a0 and “sua” is hill in the\u00a0 Hokkien dialect.<\/p>\n

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Old map of Brown's landholdings superimposed with present day developments.<\/p><\/div>\n

After Brown’s death the\u00a0 land passed through the hands of Mootapa Chitty ( a Chettair ) and Lim Chu Yi ( a Chinese businessman).<\/p>\n

In 1872, it was bought by 3 clansman from the Ong Clan each paying $500. The land was donated to the Hokkien Clan Association without condition for dwelling, farming and burials. It was called “Seh Ong Sua”<\/p>\n

In 1918\/1919, the colonial government paid about $24.500 for a portion of the Ong burial site (97 acres)\u00a0\u00a0 to be used as a Chinese Municipal Cemetery opened to\u00a0 all Chinese, rich or poor.\u00a0 From a private cemetery for the Ong Clan and the Hokkien community, it became a public cemetery\u00a0 known as Bukit Brown Cemetery in 1923.<\/p>\n

Kopi Sua refers to the area near Mount Pleasant Road where\u00a0 Brown\u00a0 lived, which was originally named\u00a0 Brown’s Hill. One reason offered as to why it is called Kopi Sua – Hokkien for Coffee Hill – is that in the dialect there is no equivalent to the colour Brown. So “kopi” was the next best thing.\u00a0 The other reason is Brown attempted to grow coffee on the estate but it didn’t take.<\/p>\n

What is now known as the Bukit Brown Cemetery includes 50 acres known as Lau Sua\u00a0 (Old Hill) which was opened and managed by the Hokkien Huay Kuan as a cemetery in 1892. So the short answer is Kopi Sua is not Bukit Brown Cemetery and vice versa. The Bukit Brown Municipal Cemetery ceased operations in 1973<\/p>\n

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