Jalan Kubor Cemetery was comprised out of three burial grounds: the burial ground for the royalty and relatives of the
Johor Sultanate, a Malay Muslim burial ground, and an Indian Muslim burial ground, known as Tittacheri Muslim Cemetery. The land where the cemetery now stands was first recorded as the
Tombs of the Malayan Princes by
John Turnbull Thomson during his service as colonial prospector in Singapore, which was later noted and marked on an 1829 map by
George Drumgoole Coleman, a civil architect under
Raffles. The land was also listed as
Sultan Keramat or
Keramat Sultan on some early maps. Jalan Kubor Cemetery was officially closed in 1875 and no longer accepted new burials around that time.
Archaeological discoveries In 2004, the grave of Ngah Ibrahim, a warrior from
Perak who was complicit in the murder of
James W. W. Birch, was discovered in the cemetery; he had been buried there when he died after he was exiled to Singapore from Perak due to his role in Birch's murder. Ngah Ibrahim's remains were exhumed and returned to Perak to be reburied there, along with his father-in-law's remains that were exhumed from the still functioning Pusara Aman Cemetery at
Choa Chu Kang. Other archaeological research conducted at the cemetery shows that the tombstones had inscriptions in either the Arabic, Malay, Javanese Aksara, Bugis Aksara, Gujarati, as well as English and Chinese languages; indicating the racial harmony and multi-ethnic society in the areas around the cemetery. == Burials ==