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James Cunningham - the unluckiest botanist in Asia
James Cunningham was a Scottish surgeon active in China and South East Asia, c.1698-1705. He is best remembered for dispatching over 600 Chinese botanical specimens to Britain while employed as a surgeon by the English East India Company for their settlement at Zhou Shan. In 1703, the settlemen...
Not yet! Dorota did a lot of delving in the India Office Records and everything she found has been published on the blog. Maybe there is related material at The National Archives to be uncovered?
The Great Escape – Part 3
After writing about Iwan Bazylewski, Bronislaw Boguszewicz and Tatiana Czynnowa in earlier posts on Untold Lives, I came by chance across documents relating to ‘Aliens’ containing lists of names from various internment camps including Dehra Dun, Satara, and Purandhar. Here is what I have discove...
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Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India
You may be surprised to learn that there are documents about Italians in the India Office Records. Family, military, and social historians will find much of interest in the records of Italian prisoners and internees held in India during the Second World War. A two-volume alphabetical list of It...
No I haven’t anything to add to this yet. I’m still hoping that a family member may contact me with more details.
Whatever happened to Eliza Armstrong?
One hundred years ago William Thomas Stead died in the Titanic disaster aged 62. He had enjoyed a long career as a journalist and newspaper editor, campaigning on political and social issues. W T Stead © UIG/The British Library Board BL Images Online In November 1885 Stead was senten...
Rosangela - Please send your contact details to apac-enquiries@bl.uk and we'll see if we can help.
Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India
You may be surprised to learn that there are documents about Italians in the India Office Records. Family, military, and social historians will find much of interest in the records of Italian prisoners and internees held in India during the Second World War. A two-volume alphabetical list of It...
The records aren’t available online but please send your grandfather’s name to apac-enquiries@bl.uk for further advice.
Italian Prisoners of War and Internees in India
You may be surprised to learn that there are documents about Italians in the India Office Records. Family, military, and social historians will find much of interest in the records of Italian prisoners and internees held in India during the Second World War. A two-volume alphabetical list of It...
If you have further information about Salim Rashid Suri and his family, please send a message to ior@bl.uk.
The Singing Sailor - Salim Rashid Suri
Salim Rashid Suri (1910-1979) was an Omani Sowt singer and ‘ūd player who became famous as the ‘Singing Sailor’. He developed a truly unique style which took influence from musical sources across the Middle East and India. Suri’s passion for music was anathema to his family: his elder brother t...
A reply from Adrian Edwards: Thank you for your interest in this blog story. The book itself is part of a major British Library digitisation programme, which is just getting underway. By next year, images of the entire book should be freely available through a link from the relevant record in the British Library catalogue. In the meantime, the test images of some pages can already be seen on Google Books at http://books.google.co.uk/books.
Aw! how I ded long for a tatie pasty!
Poverty forced nearly one in five of the Cornish population to emigrate in the second half of the 19th century. Some of the earliest to leave were the tin miners who headed for California’s Sierra Nevada, where rich seams of gold had recently been found. Some made their fortune and returned to C...
Another example in 'Our Mutual Friend' - the Greenwich pensioner at Bella’s wedding walks on two wooden legs.
Without a Leg to Stand On – Victorian Prosthetics
On 18 June 1815, Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, was struck in the right leg by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo. Immediate amputation above the knee was required. Paget exclaimed “By God, sir, I’ve lost my leg!”, to which Wellington responded “By God, sir, so you have!” before turning...
Thanks to Historical Recipes @historecipes for the suggestion that ‘Rockem Bowl’ is rocambole (wild onion or shallot).
Cooking with worm-eaten mushrooms
In a previous post we dipped into a scrapbook belonging to Sir Charles Marsh (1735-1805) to show a programme from the Reading Music Festival of 1787. Here we are featuring a booklet found in the scrapbook - ‘Receipts on sundry occasions which belonged to Miss Addams’. There are recipes for pot...
From Bob Milburn - Lucy and George Imeson had four children; William Edwin, Lucy, George and Lucy Elizabeth. William would have been 22 when she asked for financial assistance for him. He seems to have survived the rebuttal as the census records show him to have developed as a businessman via groceries and agricultural machinery into the owner of a property portfolio. He is finally recorded in 1891 living close to Crystal Palace in Streatham, a fashionable area of London in that period. Lucy appears to have died in childhood at about 14 months. Lucy Elizabeth grew up and married William Tanner Raine. They are both recorded as school teachers in 1861.
Whilst researching the Imesons in the church records I accidentally found records to other families, on the same pages, who are recorded as living in East India House. Joseph and Elizabeth Frances Dart are recorded with eight children between1817 and 1827; Joseph Henry, Elizabeth Mary, Frederick, Frances Maria, Philip Francis, Ellen, Mary Harriet and Charles Lewis. I believe that Joseph Dart was the Secretary to the East India Company. Joseph Henry went to Exeter College, Oxford and after graduation became a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. He had a successful career in Law and became a Verderer of the New Forest.
Peter and Mary Jane Auber had a daughter Mary Jane in 1823. I suspect that Peter Auber was another Secretary to the East India Company.
Finally William and Charlotte Pixley had a son Stewart in 1824. William Pixley is recorded as a Captain in Trinity House in 1861. He is also recorded as an Elder Brother of Trinity House, a significant Merchant Marine Appointment. His reason for Living in East India House is as yet unknown.
This would suggest that there could have been up to 14 children in East India House during the 1820’s. There may be more - I have not yet followed up these discoveries.
Children in the corridors of power
It is 1825. Imagine you are walking down Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Before you stands the magnificent East India House. East India House - Joseph C. Stadler (1817) Images Online You go through the main entrance. This is the bustling headquarters of the East India Compa...
From John Conibear -
Robbie James was noted for his explosive bursts and when in the mood was almost impossible to dispossess.
He hardly ever had an off-day and you could guarantee that he would be fighting to the end , no matter how the game had gone.
Robbie was in the Bradford City team against the Swans at Valley Parade in November 1991 when the Swans won 6-4. I think this is the Swans highest away score.
My wettest ever day at the Vetch Field was in February 1936 when the Swans beat Bradford City 8-1 to equal their highest League score.
I don't think there is many more I could say about Robbie than you have already he said. He was universally admired.
‘King’ Robbie James (1957-1998)
Untold Lives tries to maintain impartiality, especially in important matters such as football! So to follow John Watmough’s story of Bradford City's Jimmy Speirs, we have a guest blog by Huw Bowen about Robbie James of Swansea City. Searching for connections between Swansea City Football Club an...
Kieron - High resolution images of First World War India Office Records are now available from the Europeana website - I have added the link to the blog post. If you would like an easier-to-read copy of the images used in the blog, please contact me via ior@bl.uk.
The Indian Sepoy in the trenches
Many peoples from across the globe fought in the trenches during the First World War, and one of the largest groups were South Asians of the British Indian Army. Some 1.5 million soldiers and non-combatants from the subcontinent served alongside the British on the Western Front in Northern Franc...
Thanks very much for pointing this out - we have corrected the entry.
Queens of the Silver Screen
As promised in the Untold Lives posting of 21 May featuring Engelbert Humperdinck and Cliff Richard, here are more revelations about celebrities from the world of entertainment. It is a curious fact that during the second decade of the twentieth century no fewer than four baby girls were born in...
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