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From: "STEVEN VEL" <>
Subject: Re: [SEYCHELLES] Re: BRAND Family
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:23:47 +0100
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Hello Clive,

Thanks for your help, I appreciate you visiting the archives for me.
I will have a look at the National Maritime Museum web site, if there is
anything relating to Seychelles, I will go along to Greenwhich.

I found this web site: http://www.biship.com/historical/routes.htm
There is a small photograph of the SS. Karanja on the opening page.

Thanks again Clive,

Steven.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Barker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [SEYCHELLES] Re: BRAND Family


> Hello Steven
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying but I have had computer problems and have
> been off line for a couple of weeks.
>
> I have no knowledge of the Brand family except for the birth record of
> Bertrand Charles Brand on 10th Dec 1875 at Pointe Larue. It is quite
> possible that Hubert Brand was from South Africa. The marriage certificate
> should give the birth place for Hubert Brand. I will check the marriage
> record at the archives on Monday to find out.
>
> Regarding British India shipping records I have not been able to find any
> in
> Seychelles. The British India company was actually owned by P & O even
> though the BI fleet was much larger. I contacted Stephen Rabson the P&O
> Historian & Archivist for information on available records and information
> on
> the ship I travelled on (SS Karanja). His reply is copied below:
>
> copy start
>
> Although the P&O Group archives held at the National Maritime Museum at
> Greenwich include a substantial quantity of material on the British India
> SNCo, they appear to include neither detailed photographs nor plans of
> either Karanja or Kampala. There are files of correspondence with the
> builder, Alexander Stephen & Sons, but these do not include visual
> material.
>
> I believe that the records of Alexander Stephen are held by the Business
> Records Centre at Glasgow University Archives and suggest you contact them
> to see if they have plans and/or photos. They may also be able to advise
> whether any photos survive in the archives of local photographers such as
> Ralston's which I believe are deposited in Scotland if not in Glasgow.
>
> As to links between BI and the Seychelles, you may be able to establish
> from
> the NMM website whether there are any BI documents which deal specifically
> with the Seychelles, but someone would have to come to Greenwich to check
> whether these and more general documents were likely to be of use..
>
> copy finish.
>
> Perhaps you could check at the National Maritime Museum to see what
> records
> they have. I would be interested in learning the extent of the records
> they
> hold regarding the BI and Seychelles.
>
> Clive
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "STEVEN VEL" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:39 AM
> Subject: [SEYCHELLES] Re: BRAND Family
>
>
>
>
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>
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