Documentary on Footsteps of Nikitin. Afanasy Nikitin, a 15th century trader, made a historic and fascinating journey from Tver near Moscow to India by way of the Caspian region and Iran, and stayed in India for 3 years before going back to Russia. He visited India even before Vasco Da Gama came and wrote an account of his travels in his 'Voyage over the Three Seas'. 'Footsteps of Nikitin' is the journey of a team comprising of an eclectic mix of historians, economists and trade analysts, explorers, journalists, photographers and the film crew, who travelled through the routes Nikitin followed from Tver to India (North Karnataka). Traversing Nikitin's route, the expedition tries to find out what attracted Nikitin to India and how his journey influenced other countries in the region. Directed by: Rajesh S. Jala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1zujxAhmg8&feature=g-all-u ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Thanks Harsh, Just the type of book I enjoy: http://tangentialia.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/afanasii-nikitins-journey-across-three-seas/ I have all but one of the 19 rather grand facsimile reproduction series 'Classics of Exploration' (TimeLife) and it is a pity 'Journey across the Three Seas' is not included. It would also be a great project for the Project Gutenberg free classic ebooks www.gutenberg.org Chris On 5 Sep 2012, at 07:06, "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > Documentary on Footsteps of Nikitin. > > Afanasy Nikitin, a 15th century trader, made a historic and > fascinating journey from Tver near Moscow to India by way > of the Caspian region and Iran, and stayed in India for 3 years > before going back to Russia. He visited India even before > Vasco Da Gama came and wrote an account of his travels > in his 'Voyage over the Three Seas'. > > 'Footsteps of Nikitin' is the journey of a team comprising of an > eclectic mix of historians, economists and trade analysts, explorers, > journalists, photographers and the film crew, who travelled through > the routes Nikitin followed from Tver to India (North Karnataka). > Traversing Nikitin's route, the expedition tries to find out what > attracted Nikitin to India and how his journey influenced other > countries in the region. Directed by: Rajesh S. Jala > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1zujxAhmg8&feature=g-all-u > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Samantha, Please write to the Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Church at the following address giving him, the full name of the person, the date of birth and date or year of Baptism. The certificate will be mailed to you. Sacred Heart Church Andrew's Road Keamari Karachi-75620 Pakistan Tel No 0092-21-3285-2031 Warm regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: samantha bryant <bryantsamantha3@gmail.com> To: INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-L <INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 9:14 am Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Raj church of secret hart kamari Karachi Hi,im looking for a bit of information my nan was baptized in this church in 1945 we looking to find a copy of her Baptist certificat as both my nans parents died when she was a young child. Is there any way you can help as in finding a way of getting a copy of the certifacate. Thanks s.Bryant ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi,im looking for a bit of information my nan was baptized in this church in 1945 we looking to find a copy of her Baptist certificat as both my nans parents died when she was a young child. Is there any way you can help as in finding a way of getting a copy of the certifacate. Thanks s.Bryant

It does indeed. I must find myself a copy. Thanks David Wishes Sally Stewart Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Fishing Fleet This looks like an interesting book about the 'Fishing Fleet'/husband hunting in India: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9429264/The-Fishing-Fle et-Husband-Hunting-in-the-Raj-by-Anne-de-Courcy-review.html David

It is with sadness that we realise that Claire's emails and input will be missing from this List but - perhaps one can look back instead with pleasure, that she become known to others via this India British List in which erstwhile 'strangers' become acquainted in a free exchange of opinions and views cultivated around our lives in the land of our beginnings. RIP Claire. With sincere sympathy to Rosemary and friends. Sally Stewart -----Original Message----- From: india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Richard Rozario Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012 10:32 AM To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com; bosham@gmail.com Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend OMG! My heartfelt condolences to Rosemary and family ( I think Claire had family in Toronto too). I had the privilege to have engaged in some quality correspondence with Claire. An absolutely gem of a person who was always willing to help and offer sound advice. We had a lot to discuss ( including her cat), as I was familiar with the area in New York that she called home. Her very 'little' India in Jackson Heights. I echo what Harsh has to say, that India could never leave Claire. I  have this feeling of a personal loss. That is the impact Clare made on me. RIP Claire! Richard Rozario ( Toronto) From: sandra carney <sandracarney@nc.rr.com> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com; bosham@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:15:32 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Rosemary Taylor, I was deeply saddened to hear of Claire's passing from Harshoo. Please know that we are thinking of your during this hurtful hour and though there is little anyone can say to take that pain away, perhaps knowing how highly we thought of your sister may help a little. With sympathy, Sandra Carney -----Original Message----- From: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:10 pm Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Friends : It is my sad and painful duty to inform you that one of our senior and esteemed members Claire Bradley passed away in New York on Sunday evening, 26th August 2012, at the age of 70. She was ailing for about two weeks prior to her to death and her condition worsened day by day. Finally the inevitable happened - in spite of the prayers and best wishes of all her relatives and friends. Claire and I became friends through India List. Later she joined our India British Raj List and became one of its frequent correspondents and loyal supporters. It's difficult to express in words your feeling for someone you have never met in person: yet for whom you feel a strong affection and affinity. We used to exchange all types of news and gossip and opinions on all sorts of subjects almost every day. Through her words and ideas I could visualise her as a jolly, fun loving person, very open-minded and liberal and yet quite determined on certain issues. She never minced her words and was not averse to saying them aloud. But she was gentle; she never hurt anybody deliberately. Her sense of humour was exceptionally strong and she saw and fully enjoyed the funny side of life. When she got tired of the pigeons dirtying the windowsills and glass panes of her apartment every day, she photographed them and dashed off several letters to her local councillor. Her description of that scene was very graphic and droll. Over the years, I increasingly came to look upon her as a very close family friend - a favourite aunt, may be! Claire left India in late1950s for good - but India could never leave her. She remembered forever the sights and sounds and smells and smiles and silliness of India and was highly nostalgic about the fun-filled, ecstatic days she had spent in Poona (now Pune) and Bombay (now Mumbai). The taste of some of her favourite Indian dishes - such as ''gulab jamun'' (sweet) and ''Pani-Puri'' (spicy, hot) lingered on her lips till the end. Just a few days before her last hospitalisation, she wrote to me on the fifth of August 2012 << This is a good comprehensive list (of 40 popular Bombay) food dishes but sticking out like a sore thumb by its absence: PANI PURI!  How could they forget that? The most exquisite explosion of flavours in the mouth, and I could easily make myself sick eating too many of them -- mmm-hmmm! How I'd love to walk over to Chowpatty and scoff some of these goodies. >> And then came the thunderbolt - email from Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor (who is also our List member), informing me of Claire's illness - and then came the dreaded news three days ago - Claire was no more. I know she was reconciled to the inevitable but had never sounded bitter about her debilitating illness. So as a matter of fact, death has come as a blessed release to her from her pain and suffering. How does one weep for someone whom one has never met, yet who is almost a part of one's family? I am not ashamed to admit that when I read about Claire's passing, my eyes became moist and I was haunted by her thoughts for a long, long time. She was a superb human being. We all will miss her. We'll miss her smile, her energy, her ebullience, her cheerful spirit, her love for life, her humour. Rest in Peace, Claire - my old friend, my fellow P G Wodehouse- fan, and my British India History comrade. -- Harshawardhan (Harshoo) [Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar] I am grateful to Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor for this input on her life: << Claire Amy Bradley b. 16 September 1938, d. 26 August 2012. Claire was born in Quetta, Baluchistan, then part of British India, on 16 Sept 1938. Her parents were Aubrey Richard Bradley, known to his friends as Dick, and Heather Agnes Lillian nee Hibbert, known to her friends as Dolly. Her father, who was born in Springfield, Idle, Bradford, served in the Army Ordnance Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Maymyo, Burma. With the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese, the family were evacuated to India, where her mother received the news of the death of her husband in May 1942. Dick Bradley is interred at Gauhati War Graves Cemetery. Claire and her siblings grew up in Poona. They originally attended the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris, then the Convent of Jesus and Mary Poona, from where she passed her senior Cambridge exams in 1954. She then went on to secretarial school, and started working, first in Poona and then in Bombay. The firm sent her to Karachi to work for their branch there, and from then on she had an eventful life, working in Teheran, Rome, Greece, and Nigeria. Claire came to the USA in the early 60's; first to Washington DC and then to San Francisco. In 1966 she applied for US Citizenship, and made her home in New York. She worked for Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, where she excelled as a legal secretary. Her increasing deafness forced her to retire, and her subsequent emphysema made life increasingly difficult. But she retained an active and lively correspondence with her family, many friends and acquaintances, via her computer, which became her main form of communication. Her little dog, Nellie was her constant and faithful companion, whose piercing bark alerted Claire to any activity outside her front door! Claire will be sadly missed by all those who came to know and love her for her wit, humour and sheer tenacity. Rest In Peace, my dearest sister, you were one in a million. >> Claire's friend (and our member) Sandra Carney has this to add: << I remember her as an Anglo-Indian woman who loved her adopted country America and was a true Patriot. She loved her little Nellie and told me that she did not know what she would do without her beloved pet. I know she would not have wanted to leave this world without making proper preparations for dear Nellie. She wanted to attend Anglo-Indian functions around the world, but her illness limited her and she regretted this greatly. >> ============================ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This looks like an interesting book about the 'Fishing Fleet'/husband hunting in India: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9429264/The-Fishing-Fle et-Husband-Hunting-in-the-Raj-by-Anne-de-Courcy-review.html David

(Caroline) Mary Ridding, Sanskrit and Pali scholar in ODNB To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2012-08-30 Ridding, (Caroline) Mary (1862-1941), Sanskrit and Pali scholar, was born on 30 August 1862 in Meriden, Warwickshire, the daughter of William Ridding (1830-1900), vicar of Meriden, who had been a notable cricketer, and his wife, Caroline Selina Caldecott. Mary Ridding attended Bishopsgate Training College and in 1883 won a higher local scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge. She was placed in the second division of the second class in part one of the classical tripos, specializing in philology and Sanskrit, in 1886. An extremely erudite scholar, Ridding knew Sanskrit, Pali, and some Bengali and Hindi. One of her first scholarly endeavours was to translate the Sanskrit romance Kadambari (Oriental Translation Fund publications, new ser., 11, 1896). She was particularly interested in Tibet, reviewing Tibetan books for the Journal of Asiatic Studies for many years. An Indian research student wrote of her, 'I had known of Miss Ridding's great reputation as an Orientalist in India, where her translation of the Sanskrit story Bana's Kadambari was justly famous ... She loved India, and her appreciation of its philosophy touched me deeply' (Girton Review). (SNIP) ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

On 30/8/12 12:11, "Nick Johnson" <nick@nickj.demon.co.uk> wrote: Hello Nick, You may like to contact Rev. Saw Shwe Done <revshwe@gmail.com> of the Baptist Church located there. Could be a possible help. No.1, Paung Daw Oo Zedi Road. Bago Town, Myanmar(Burma). Asia. Bago, Bago - Burma 05221782 Don't know these folk personally, however do know that there is Baptist Church at that address. Happy Hunting. Geoffrey. > Hi All, > I'm planning a trip to Burma this December and want to search for my > great grandmother's burial place. > > The burial record says that she (Georgina Anthony, nee Litster) died > and was buried in 1901 at Pegu Cemetery. Pegu is now known as Bago. > > Does anyone know if the cemetery still exists or where I might find any > more information about it? > > Thanks > Nick Johnson > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Friends : It is my sad and painful duty to inform you that one of our senior and esteemed members Claire Bradley passed away in New York on Sunday evening, 26th August 2012, at the age of 70. She was ailing for about two weeks prior to her to death and her condition worsened day by day. Finally the inevitable happened - in spite of the prayers and best wishes of all her relatives and friends. Claire and I became friends through India List. Later she joined our India British Raj List and became one of its frequent correspondents and loyal supporters. It's difficult to express in words your feeling for someone you have never met in person: yet for whom you feel a strong affection and affinity. We used to exchange all types of news and gossip and opinions on all sorts of subjects almost every day. Through her words and ideas I could visualise her as a jolly, fun loving person, very open-minded and liberal and yet quite determined on certain issues. She never minced her words and was not averse to saying them aloud. But she was gentle; she never hurt anybody deliberately. Her sense of humour was exceptionally strong and she saw and fully enjoyed the funny side of life. When she got tired of the pigeons dirtying the windowsills and glass panes of her apartment every day, she photographed them and dashed off several letters to her local councillor. Her description of that scene was very graphic and droll. Over the years, I increasingly came to look upon her as a very close family friend - a favourite aunt, may be! Claire left India in late1950s for good - but India could never leave her. She remembered forever the sights and sounds and smells and smiles and silliness of India and was highly nostalgic about the fun-filled, ecstatic days she had spent in Poona (now Pune) and Bombay (now Mumbai). The taste of some of her favourite Indian dishes - such as ''gulab jamun'' (sweet) and ''Pani-Puri'' (spicy, hot) lingered on her lips till the end. Just a few days before her last hospitalisation, she wrote to me on the fifth of August 2012 << This is a good comprehensive list (of 40 popular Bombay) food dishes but sticking out like a sore thumb by its absence: PANI PURI! How could they forget that? The most exquisite explosion of flavours in the mouth, and I could easily make myself sick eating too many of them -- mmm-hmmm! How I'd love to walk over to Chowpatty and scoff some of these goodies. >> And then came the thunderbolt - email from Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor (who is also our List member), informing me of Claire's illness - and then came the dreaded news three days ago - Claire was no more. I know she was reconciled to the inevitable but had never sounded bitter about her debilitating illness. So as a matter of fact, death has come as a blessed release to her from her pain and suffering. How does one weep for someone whom one has never met, yet who is almost a part of one's family? I am not ashamed to admit that when I read about Claire's passing, my eyes became moist and I was haunted by her thoughts for a long, long time. She was a superb human being. We all will miss her. We'll miss her smile, her energy, her ebullience, her cheerful spirit, her love for life, her humour. Rest in Peace, Claire - my old friend, my fellow P G Wodehouse- fan, and my British India History comrade. -- Harshawardhan (Harshoo) [Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar] I am grateful to Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor for this input on her life: << Claire Amy Bradley b. 16 September 1938, d. 26 August 2012. Claire was born in Quetta, Baluchistan, then part of British India, on 16 Sept 1938. Her parents were Aubrey Richard Bradley, known to his friends as Dick, and Heather Agnes Lillian nee Hibbert, known to her friends as Dolly. Her father, who was born in Springfield, Idle, Bradford, served in the Army Ordnance Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Maymyo, Burma. With the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese, the family were evacuated to India, where her mother received the news of the death of her husband in May 1942. Dick Bradley is interred at Gauhati War Graves Cemetery. Claire and her siblings grew up in Poona. They originally attended the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris, then the Convent of Jesus and Mary Poona, from where she passed her senior Cambridge exams in 1954. She then went on to secretarial school, and started working, first in Poona and then in Bombay. The firm sent her to Karachi to work for their branch there, and from then on she had an eventful life, working in Teheran, Rome, Greece, and Nigeria. Claire came to the USA in the early 60's; first to Washington DC and then to San Francisco. In 1966 she applied for US Citizenship, and made her home in New York. She worked for Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, where she excelled as a legal secretary. Her increasing deafness forced her to retire, and her subsequent emphysema made life increasingly difficult. But she retained an active and lively correspondence with her family, many friends and acquaintances, via her computer, which became her main form of communication. Her little dog, Nellie was her constant and faithful companion, whose piercing bark alerted Claire to any activity outside her front door! Claire will be sadly missed by all those who came to know and love her for her wit, humour and sheer tenacity. Rest In Peace, my dearest sister, you were one in a million. >> Claire's friend (and our member) Sandra Carney has this to add: << I remember her as an Anglo-Indian woman who loved her adopted country America and was a true Patriot. She loved her little Nellie and told me that she did not know what she would do without her beloved pet. I know she would not have wanted to leave this world without making proper preparations for dear Nellie. She wanted to attend Anglo-Indian functions around the world, but her illness limited her and she regretted this greatly. >> ============================

OMG! My heartfelt condolences to Rosemary and family ( I think Claire had family in Toronto too). I had the privilege to have engaged in some quality correspondence with Claire. An absolutely gem of a person who was always willing to help and offer sound advice. We had a lot to discuss ( including her cat), as I was familiar with the area in New York that she called home. Her very 'little' India in Jackson Heights. I echo what Harsh has to say, that India could never leave Claire. I  have this feeling of a personal loss. That is the impact Clare made on me. RIP Claire! Richard Rozario ( Toronto) From: sandra carney <sandracarney@nc.rr.com> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com; bosham@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:15:32 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Rosemary Taylor, I was deeply saddened to hear of Claire's passing from Harshoo. Please know that we are thinking of your during this hurtful hour and though there is little anyone can say to take that pain away, perhaps knowing how highly we thought of your sister may help a little. With sympathy, Sandra Carney -----Original Message----- From: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:10 pm Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Friends : It is my sad and painful duty to inform you that one of our senior and esteemed members Claire Bradley passed away in New York on Sunday evening, 26th August 2012, at the age of 70. She was ailing for about two weeks prior to her to death and her condition worsened day by day. Finally the inevitable happened - in spite of the prayers and best wishes of all her relatives and friends. Claire and I became friends through India List. Later she joined our India British Raj List and became one of its frequent correspondents and loyal supporters. It's difficult to express in words your feeling for someone you have never met in person: yet for whom you feel a strong affection and affinity. We used to exchange all types of news and gossip and opinions on all sorts of subjects almost every day. Through her words and ideas I could visualise her as a jolly, fun loving person, very open-minded and liberal and yet quite determined on certain issues. She never minced her words and was not averse to saying them aloud. But she was gentle; she never hurt anybody deliberately. Her sense of humour was exceptionally strong and she saw and fully enjoyed the funny side of life. When she got tired of the pigeons dirtying the windowsills and glass panes of her apartment every day, she photographed them and dashed off several letters to her local councillor. Her description of that scene was very graphic and droll. Over the years, I increasingly came to look upon her as a very close family friend - a favourite aunt, may be! Claire left India in late1950s for good - but India could never leave her. She remembered forever the sights and sounds and smells and smiles and silliness of India and was highly nostalgic about the fun-filled, ecstatic days she had spent in Poona (now Pune) and Bombay (now Mumbai). The taste of some of her favourite Indian dishes - such as ''gulab jamun'' (sweet) and ''Pani-Puri'' (spicy, hot) lingered on her lips till the end. Just a few days before her last hospitalisation, she wrote to me on the fifth of August 2012 << This is a good comprehensive list (of 40 popular Bombay) food dishes but sticking out like a sore thumb by its absence: PANI PURI!  How could they forget that? The most exquisite explosion of flavours in the mouth, and I could easily make myself sick eating too many of them -- mmm-hmmm! How I'd love to walk over to Chowpatty and scoff some of these goodies. >> And then came the thunderbolt - email from Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor (who is also our List member), informing me of Claire's illness - and then came the dreaded news three days ago - Claire was no more. I know she was reconciled to the inevitable but had never sounded bitter about her debilitating illness. So as a matter of fact, death has come as a blessed release to her from her pain and suffering. How does one weep for someone whom one has never met, yet who is almost a part of one's family? I am not ashamed to admit that when I read about Claire's passing, my eyes became moist and I was haunted by her thoughts for a long, long time. She was a superb human being. We all will miss her. We'll miss her smile, her energy, her ebullience, her cheerful spirit, her love for life, her humour. Rest in Peace, Claire - my old friend, my fellow P G Wodehouse- fan, and my British India History comrade. -- Harshawardhan (Harshoo) [Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar] I am grateful to Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor for this input on her life: << Claire Amy Bradley b. 16 September 1938, d. 26 August 2012. Claire was born in Quetta, Baluchistan, then part of British India, on 16 Sept 1938. Her parents were Aubrey Richard Bradley, known to his friends as Dick, and Heather Agnes Lillian nee Hibbert, known to her friends as Dolly. Her father, who was born in Springfield, Idle, Bradford, served in the Army Ordnance Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Maymyo, Burma. With the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese, the family were evacuated to India, where her mother received the news of the death of her husband in May 1942. Dick Bradley is interred at Gauhati War Graves Cemetery. Claire and her siblings grew up in Poona. They originally attended the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris, then the Convent of Jesus and Mary Poona, from where she passed her senior Cambridge exams in 1954. She then went on to secretarial school, and started working, first in Poona and then in Bombay. The firm sent her to Karachi to work for their branch there, and from then on she had an eventful life, working in Teheran, Rome, Greece, and Nigeria. Claire came to the USA in the early 60's; first to Washington DC and then to San Francisco. In 1966 she applied for US Citizenship, and made her home in New York. She worked for Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, where she excelled as a legal secretary. Her increasing deafness forced her to retire, and her subsequent emphysema made life increasingly difficult. But she retained an active and lively correspondence with her family, many friends and acquaintances, via her computer, which became her main form of communication. Her little dog, Nellie was her constant and faithful companion, whose piercing bark alerted Claire to any activity outside her front door! Claire will be sadly missed by all those who came to know and love her for her wit, humour and sheer tenacity. Rest In Peace, my dearest sister, you were one in a million. >> Claire's friend (and our member) Sandra Carney has this to add: << I remember her as an Anglo-Indian woman who loved her adopted country America and was a true Patriot. She loved her little Nellie and told me that she did not know what she would do without her beloved pet. I know she would not have wanted to leave this world without making proper preparations for dear Nellie. She wanted to attend Anglo-Indian functions around the world, but her illness limited her and she regretted this greatly. >> ============================ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Rosemary Taylor, I was deeply saddened to hear of Claire's passing from Harshoo. Please know that we are thinking of your during this hurtful hour and though there is little anyone can say to take that pain away, perhaps knowing how highly we thought of your sister may help a little. With sympathy, Sandra Carney -----Original Message----- From: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:10 pm Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Friends : It is my sad and painful duty to inform you that one of our senior and esteemed members Claire Bradley passed away in New York on Sunday evening, 26th August 2012, at the age of 70. She was ailing for about two weeks prior to her to death and her condition worsened day by day. Finally the inevitable happened - in spite of the prayers and best wishes of all her relatives and friends. Claire and I became friends through India List. Later she joined our India British Raj List and became one of its frequent correspondents and loyal supporters. It's difficult to express in words your feeling for someone you have never met in person: yet for whom you feel a strong affection and affinity. We used to exchange all types of news and gossip and opinions on all sorts of subjects almost every day. Through her words and ideas I could visualise her as a jolly, fun loving person, very open-minded and liberal and yet quite determined on certain issues. She never minced her words and was not averse to saying them aloud. But she was gentle; she never hurt anybody deliberately. Her sense of humour was exceptionally strong and she saw and fully enjoyed the funny side of life. When she got tired of the pigeons dirtying the windowsills and glass panes of her apartment every day, she photographed them and dashed off several letters to her local councillor. Her description of that scene was very graphic and droll. Over the years, I increasingly came to look upon her as a very close family friend - a favourite aunt, may be! Claire left India in late1950s for good - but India could never leave her. She remembered forever the sights and sounds and smells and smiles and silliness of India and was highly nostalgic about the fun-filled, ecstatic days she had spent in Poona (now Pune) and Bombay (now Mumbai). The taste of some of her favourite Indian dishes - such as ''gulab jamun'' (sweet) and ''Pani-Puri'' (spicy, hot) lingered on her lips till the end. Just a few days before her last hospitalisation, she wrote to me on the fifth of August 2012 << This is a good comprehensive list (of 40 popular Bombay) food dishes but sticking out like a sore thumb by its absence: PANI PURI! How could they forget that? The most exquisite explosion of flavours in the mouth, and I could easily make myself sick eating too many of them -- mmm-hmmm! How I'd love to walk over to Chowpatty and scoff some of these goodies. >> And then came the thunderbolt - email from Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor (who is also our List member), informing me of Claire's illness - and then came the dreaded news three days ago - Claire was no more. I know she was reconciled to the inevitable but had never sounded bitter about her debilitating illness. So as a matter of fact, death has come as a blessed release to her from her pain and suffering. How does one weep for someone whom one has never met, yet who is almost a part of one's family? I am not ashamed to admit that when I read about Claire's passing, my eyes became moist and I was haunted by her thoughts for a long, long time. She was a superb human being. We all will miss her. We'll miss her smile, her energy, her ebullience, her cheerful spirit, her love for life, her humour. Rest in Peace, Claire - my old friend, my fellow P G Wodehouse- fan, and my British India History comrade. -- Harshawardhan (Harshoo) [Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar] I am grateful to Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor for this input on her life: << Claire Amy Bradley b. 16 September 1938, d. 26 August 2012. Claire was born in Quetta, Baluchistan, then part of British India, on 16 Sept 1938. Her parents were Aubrey Richard Bradley, known to his friends as Dick, and Heather Agnes Lillian nee Hibbert, known to her friends as Dolly. Her father, who was born in Springfield, Idle, Bradford, served in the Army Ordnance Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Maymyo, Burma. With the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese, the family were evacuated to India, where her mother received the news of the death of her husband in May 1942. Dick Bradley is interred at Gauhati War Graves Cemetery. Claire and her siblings grew up in Poona. They originally attended the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris, then the Convent of Jesus and Mary Poona, from where she passed her senior Cambridge exams in 1954. She then went on to secretarial school, and started working, first in Poona and then in Bombay. The firm sent her to Karachi to work for their branch there, and from then on she had an eventful life, working in Teheran, Rome, Greece, and Nigeria. Claire came to the USA in the early 60's; first to Washington DC and then to San Francisco. In 1966 she applied for US Citizenship, and made her home in New York. She worked for Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, where she excelled as a legal secretary. Her increasing deafness forced her to retire, and her subsequent emphysema made life increasingly difficult. But she retained an active and lively correspondence with her family, many friends and acquaintances, via her computer, which became her main form of communication. Her little dog, Nellie was her constant and faithful companion, whose piercing bark alerted Claire to any activity outside her front door! Claire will be sadly missed by all those who came to know and love her for her wit, humour and sheer tenacity. Rest In Peace, my dearest sister, you were one in a million. >> Claire's friend (and our member) Sandra Carney has this to add: << I remember her as an Anglo-Indian woman who loved her adopted country America and was a true Patriot. She loved her little Nellie and told me that she did not know what she would do without her beloved pet. I know she would not have wanted to leave this world without making proper preparations for dear Nellie. She wanted to attend Anglo-Indian functions around the world, but her illness limited her and she regretted this greatly. >> ============================ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi All, I'm planning a trip to Burma this December and want to search for my great grandmother's burial place. The burial record says that she (Georgina Anthony, nee Litster) died and was buried in 1901 at Pegu Cemetery. Pegu is now known as Bago. Does anyone know if the cemetery still exists or where I might find any more information about it? Thanks Nick Johnson

Dear Harsh, I have become so friendly with so many people on the Internet over the past 10 or so years that it seems that they live next door and have become almost family. So one is really saddened if one passes on. The pain is real and heartfelt. I was in contact with Claire...especially, after I migrated to the US and settled in White Plains, NY. I will remember her in my prayers. May her soul rest in peace. Amen. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> To: india-british-raj <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:10 pm Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Claire Amy Bradley - my friend Dear Friends : It is my sad and painful duty to inform you that one of our senior and esteemed members Claire Bradley passed away in New York on Sunday evening, 26th August 2012, at the age of 70. She was ailing for about two weeks prior to her to death and her condition worsened day by day. Finally the inevitable happened - in spite of the prayers and best wishes of all her relatives and friends. Claire and I became friends through India List. Later she joined our India British Raj List and became one of its frequent correspondents and loyal supporters. It's difficult to express in words your feeling for someone you have never met in person: yet for whom you feel a strong affection and affinity. We used to exchange all types of news and gossip and opinions on all sorts of subjects almost every day. Through her words and ideas I could visualise her as a jolly, fun loving person, very open-minded and liberal and yet quite determined on certain issues. She never minced her words and was not averse to saying them aloud. But she was gentle; she never hurt anybody deliberately. Her sense of humour was exceptionally strong and she saw and fully enjoyed the funny side of life. When she got tired of the pigeons dirtying the windowsills and glass panes of her apartment every day, she photographed them and dashed off several letters to her local councillor. Her description of that scene was very graphic and droll. Over the years, I increasingly came to look upon her as a very close family friend - a favourite aunt, may be! Claire left India in late1950s for good - but India could never leave her. She remembered forever the sights and sounds and smells and smiles and silliness of India and was highly nostalgic about the fun-filled, ecstatic days she had spent in Poona (now Pune) and Bombay (now Mumbai). The taste of some of her favourite Indian dishes - such as ''gulab jamun'' (sweet) and ''Pani-Puri'' (spicy, hot) lingered on her lips till the end. Just a few days before her last hospitalisation, she wrote to me on the fifth of August 2012 << This is a good comprehensive list (of 40 popular Bombay) food dishes but sticking out like a sore thumb by its absence: PANI PURI! How could they forget that? The most exquisite explosion of flavours in the mouth, and I could easily make myself sick eating too many of them -- mmm-hmmm! How I'd love to walk over to Chowpatty and scoff some of these goodies. >> And then came the thunderbolt - email from Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor (who is also our List member), informing me of Claire's illness - and then came the dreaded news three days ago - Claire was no more. I know she was reconciled to the inevitable but had never sounded bitter about her debilitating illness. So as a matter of fact, death has come as a blessed release to her from her pain and suffering. How does one weep for someone whom one has never met, yet who is almost a part of one's family? I am not ashamed to admit that when I read about Claire's passing, my eyes became moist and I was haunted by her thoughts for a long, long time. She was a superb human being. We all will miss her. We'll miss her smile, her energy, her ebullience, her cheerful spirit, her love for life, her humour. Rest in Peace, Claire - my old friend, my fellow P G Wodehouse- fan, and my British India History comrade. -- Harshawardhan (Harshoo) [Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar] I am grateful to Claire's sister Rosemary Taylor for this input on her life: << Claire Amy Bradley b. 16 September 1938, d. 26 August 2012. Claire was born in Quetta, Baluchistan, then part of British India, on 16 Sept 1938. Her parents were Aubrey Richard Bradley, known to his friends as Dick, and Heather Agnes Lillian nee Hibbert, known to her friends as Dolly. Her father, who was born in Springfield, Idle, Bradford, served in the Army Ordnance Corps, and in 1941 was posted to Maymyo, Burma. With the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese, the family were evacuated to India, where her mother received the news of the death of her husband in May 1942. Dick Bradley is interred at Gauhati War Graves Cemetery. Claire and her siblings grew up in Poona. They originally attended the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris, then the Convent of Jesus and Mary Poona, from where she passed her senior Cambridge exams in 1954. She then went on to secretarial school, and started working, first in Poona and then in Bombay. The firm sent her to Karachi to work for their branch there, and from then on she had an eventful life, working in Teheran, Rome, Greece, and Nigeria. Claire came to the USA in the early 60's; first to Washington DC and then to San Francisco. In 1966 she applied for US Citizenship, and made her home in New York. She worked for Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, where she excelled as a legal secretary. Her increasing deafness forced her to retire, and her subsequent emphysema made life increasingly difficult. But she retained an active and lively correspondence with her family, many friends and acquaintances, via her computer, which became her main form of communication. Her little dog, Nellie was her constant and faithful companion, whose piercing bark alerted Claire to any activity outside her front door! Claire will be sadly missed by all those who came to know and love her for her wit, humour and sheer tenacity. Rest In Peace, my dearest sister, you were one in a million. >> Claire's friend (and our member) Sandra Carney has this to add: << I remember her as an Anglo-Indian woman who loved her adopted country America and was a true Patriot. She loved her little Nellie and told me that she did not know what she would do without her beloved pet. I know she would not have wanted to leave this world without making proper preparations for dear Nellie. She wanted to attend Anglo-Indian functions around the world, but her illness limited her and she regretted this greatly. >> ============================ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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FIBIS comes to the North of England. This is to inform you that FIBIS is holding an 'out-of-town' meeting in Manchester on Saturday, 22nd September 2012. It is to be held at the "Museum of Science & Industry" in Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP, and the programme includes: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. A Morning Surgery at which our 'experts' will try to answer your 'brick-wall' questions on researching your ancestry in British India 1.30 - 2.30 p.m. "How to research your ancestors in British India" - Peter Bailey, FIBIS Chairman 2.30 - 3.15 p.m. "From Boarhurst to Bangalore: The story of James Bradbury, Woollen Cloth Dresser who Sought Fortune in India" - Geraldine Charles, FIBIS Trustee 3.45 - 4.30 p.m. "Researching Armies in British India" - Peter Bailey, FIBIS Chairman 4.30 - 4.50 p.m. A general Question & Answer Session. 5.00 p.m. Meeting Closes. Further details are on our website: http://www.new.fibis.org/archives/617 and 'How to Get There' on http://www.mosi.org.uk/visiting-us/where-are-we.aspx Attendance is FREE of charge to anyone, Members and non-Members - although those intending to come must please inform our Membership Secretary, Emma Sullivan, that they are coming on Membership@fibis.org We hope that this will appeal to those unable to attend our London Meetings. (Note that the museum itself will appeal to Railway Buffs, including the Pakistani Locomotive!) Good Hunting! Peter Bailey Chairman Families in British India Society www.fibis.org

Hi Listers, Am looking for family of a Jack Staples who was in Hyderabad around the 1930s-1950s and possibly 60s. If anyone who on this list is related please contact me. Kind Regards Kerry

Hi Guys, The very best news!! Blair & Ellen Williams' charity, CTR, has registered with MissionFish so that one can now auction goods on eBay and direct the proceeds of the sale to the charity. Please, please, please guys....next time you are having a clear-out at home, consider auctioning the things you no longer need on eBay for the benefit of this fantabulous charity? The amount of fees you pay depend on what percentage you intend to donate to the charity, e.g. donate 50%...pay 50% in seller's fees, and so on. Remember, every little helps...a tiny amount may not seem to be of any help, but trust me, guys...it can make a hell of a difference to the people who CTR help. It's a pretty straightforward process...first just do a search for CTR in the list of charities on eBay and add them to your list of charities you support. Please get behind this charity. Cheers, Lynne.