Mary in Massachusetts Married to Andy Mom to 8: Anastasia 17, Rose 16, Andrew 14, Nathaniel 12, Tim 10, Stephen 5, Edmund 3, Rebekah 2 "The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood. So the Faith was planted: So it must be restored." Edmund Campion from "Campion's Brag" ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Duff <chris.duff3@sympatico.ca> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com; HONG-KONG@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:22:58 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Revisiting memorials of 1857-58 I'm relatively new to this list and this is my first posting. I have, however, been reading Mr Nimkhedkar's sundry postings with great interest. His knowledge is positively encyclopedic! I would like to bounce the following off him. Please note I'm sharing it with the HONG-Kong list. My step-father's grandfather was Benjamin Wilson HALLIFAX, born in Islington, London and he became a tea planter in Dha Jea, Bengal. He married Mary Anne Cox, a young Devon girl, in West Bengal in 1860. We have yet to find out how she got there! Anyway, they had nine children and all were born in Darjeeling. They were all sent back to Devon to be educated and the boys went to Blundells. Five of the boys went on to Balliol College, Oxford. The youngest, Benjamin William HALLIFAX, went to London University and then returned to India, where he married Jessie McCrae and it is believed went into tea planting in Assam. Charles Joseph HALLIFAX went back to India after Balliol and joined the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in 1888. He retired as Financial Advisor to the Kaihairpur State, Bombay. Arthur George HALLIFAX went back to India after Balliol and joined the ICS in Bengal in 1890. He married Eleanor Jenkins and later retired as a District Magistrate. Henry Francis HALLIFAX joined ICS Central Provinces in 1893 after Balliol and eventually became a Judge of the Chief Court. He married Grace Doyle. Herbert Witten HALLIFAX left Balliol and became a mining engineer,working at a manganese mine at Ramlik, Central Province. He then joined the Province Water Department, and became Executive Engineer at Kamtree. The fifth ex-Balliol boy was my step-father's father, Edwin Richard HALLIFAX. He bucked the trend by going to Hong Kong, where he joined the Civil Service as Colonial Cadet in 1897. He became Transvaal-Chinese Emigration Agent in Chinwongtao in 1905; District Officer North Territory in 1907; Secretary for Chinese Affairs from 1912; Private Secretary to the Governor; and acted as Colonial Secretary on many occasions. Those of us familiar with the county of Derbyshire will know Peveril as a mini-mountain in the Peak District. There's a castle there which goes back to William the Conquerer's time and named for William Peveril, William's illegitimate son. Sir Walter Scott's novel "Peveril of the Peak" takes place during Cromwell's time. It would be interesting to know the connection between Peveril Peak, Hong Kong and Peveril Peak, Derbyshire. Chris Duff in a very cold Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Revisiting memorials of 1857-58 > First, to bring this on line. P G Wodehouse had had a strong family > connexion with India, as some of you might recall. His father was a > British-Raj civil servant/judge and was posted to Hong Kong in late > 1870s. PG's elder brother Peveril (named after a peak in HK) became > a big-shot in Hong Kong police force. PG's other elder brother Armine > was a lecturer in Bombay, Poona, and Benares between 1911 and 1925. > He was actively associated with Annie Besant. PG's wife Ethel was in > India with her first husband L Rowley, from 1905 to 1909. Rowley died > near Kolar GF, and the young widow then went back to England and > subsequently remarried PGW. Finally, PG's second cousin twice-removed > was Sir Philip Wodehouse - he served as Governor, not only of the Bombay > Presidency, but also of the Malay Federated States. > ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > Nagpur, India ------------------------------- 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping