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British in India
I have some Indian blood in me due to some of my Dad's line moving to India and reproducing. Some men remained with their wives, some should hang their heads in shame at their behaviour towards their woman and children.
It has taken me some time to work out where the Indian connection is in some places. The new batch of records released on FMP have meant I have found the surname of my 4g grandma Elizabeth. I'm not going to tell the story here but she had to give an affidavit in which she stated that she thought the noise she could hear was the natives celebrating a holy day. Would this mean that she was English? I'm just thinking that if she was Indian or part Indian she would know when the holy days were.
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It would mean she wasn't brought up in the religion which was celebrating the holy day (if it was a holy celebration and not a wedding or a riot!).
Do you know which part of India it would be? There are many religions in India and someone who was English would probably not know about the intricacies of all of them.
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It was a riot Nell but when she first heard the noise she didn't know that.
The place I have in my notes is Bhungowangloah. I'm not sure where that is, but FMP has the presidency as Bengal for the births of the children. Not sure if that helps.
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Googling that place name Bhungowangloah brought me just one hit which I'm sure you must have seen too, Toni. It does reinforce the location as Bengal though.
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/research/co...r_cases_india/ Minor cases IndiaThen I got curious about "Hurkaru" and found some indications that the Bengal Hurkaru was a Calcutta newspaper. If you Google just Bengal Hurkaru, you'll see what I mean. There seems to be a lot of material there from Trove, the British Library and our Library of Congress among others. I suppose you might already have mined these digitized newspapers for your surnames? |
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Yes, I've seen this Janet. The Mr Clark is mine.
I've not looked at Trove as I thought it had only aussie papers but I'll double check. I've just been googling names and places or occupations so far. I haven't yet found out what happened at the trial.
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