Hi I have been researching a Baptist family based in Calcutta and in Benares. The Benares family attended the Secrole Baptuist church, which was in a suburb of Benares - does anyone know wheree I might find a picture of this church and/or of the burial ground which would have been used by the members? Ceri Harris

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ceridwen Harris" I have been researching a Baptist family based in Calcutta and in Benares. The Benares family attended the Secrole Baptuist church, which was in a suburb of Benares - does anyone know wheree I might find a picture of this church and/or of the burial ground which would have been used by the members? =================================== IMO, if you could get in touch with the persons mentioned below, they might be able to guide you properly. (Varanasi and Benaras are one and the same place, and Varanasi Cant must be Secrole.) * Rev. Sam Joshua Singh, Presbyter Incharge, Lalgirja and St.Mary The Parsonage, 51 Cantonment, Varanasi Cant. U.P. * Rev. R.N.Lal, Dean and Presbyter Incharge, St.Paul's Church, Sigra, Varanasi 282 001 * Rev. Akliesh Kumar, Presbyter Incharge, Teliyabagh Church, Near Govt. Roadways, Varanasi, U.P. * Rev. Newton Steven, Teliyabagh Church, Church Compound, Near Govt Roadways, Varanasi. ( See: http://www.lucknowdiocesecni.org/minist.htm ) You might also like to read this old story from the NYT, dated March 12, 1882, Wednesday. [Page 6/ 2566 words] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950CE1D9163DE533A25751C1A9659C94639FD7CF And this book: Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24416 BTW, a little-known piece of information can be found in the great Hobson- Jobson Dictionary: ACHANOCK = Chanak and Achanak. The name by which the station of Barrackpore is commonly known to Sepoys and other natives. Some have connected the name with that of Job Charnock, or, as A. Hamilton calls him, Channock, the founder of Calcutta, and the quotations render this probable. Formerly the Cantonment of Secrole at Benares was also known, by a transfer no doubt, as Chhota (or 'Little') Achanak. http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:5.hobson ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India