Col. Michael Finglas was a mercenary - the Irish adventurer known as Khoon-Khar Jung or the Falcon or Spiller of Blood a title given him by the then Nizam of Hyderabad Mahboob Ali Khan. He died 17 July 1800 aged only 37 and was late Capt. and Quarter master of HM 19th Dagoons and joined the Nizam's service when he left that Regt. The name Finglas appears as far back as 1338 and came from Westphalstown in Ireland. He was introduced into the Nizam's service as a counter poise to Raymond (Musaram). Michael had married in Dacca Louise Hessing the daughter of John Hessing a Dutch adventurer whose corps had been wiped out by Holkar at the battle of Ujjain in 1801. Sadly Michael was murdered over an auction of horses by infuriated sowars who dragged him from his palki . He is burieid in the RC cemetery in Narayanguda in Hyderabad and the archway to the entrance is erected in his memory. He was also the great grandfather of Norah Hope Finglas who married my granduncle Ossy Luschwitz. Norah's father was Capt. David Finglas who served in the Police Dept in HEH the Nizam's Dept. as Asst to the IG and died in 1939. When Aunty Norah arrived in Fremantle in the early 1950s with her *'masala pathar*' (spice grind stone), the dock workers all laughed and asked her if she brought her own tombstone with her! The Finglas family live on in Hyderabad and other parts of the world including Australia. Kind Regards Kerry > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >