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Rococo gravestone from the St Salvator cemetery |
As we remember Christian Tolkien and Anna Euphrosina Tolkien are buried in Gdańsk (former Danzig) in St Salvator Neuer Kirchof ("Newer Cemetery"). See here and see the following record from the St Salvator church book (SDL 362896, Ancestry.co.uk):

Another candidate is grave No. 17, grave of the Ziegenhagen and Jantzen families. The Jantzens were furriers in Gdańsk and Michael Tolkien, Christian's brother is buried in Daniel Jantzen's grave in St Katharinen (see here). Florentina Elisabeth Ziegenhagen was a patron of Renata Eleonora Tolkien's baptism on 10 Jule 1756 (see here). Martin Jantzen was a patron of Renata Eleonora's son, Johann Christian (1782–). The Jantzens and the Ziegenhagens were close to the Tolkiens from Petershagen:
My research is continued...
We know how the cemetery looked like, we know more or less the place where J. R. R. Tolkien's ancestors are buried in Gdańsk. After the Communist disaster, after German cemeteries were destroyed in the 1940s and 1950s it is time to commemorate the Tolkiens from Gdańsk. At least in this was:
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Jacob Kabrun is buried in the same cemetery as the Tolkiens |
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