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Subject: Intro:Welsh missionaries and others
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:44:45 +1000

Herewith a very brief summary of my Indian interests:

My g-g-grandfather, the Rev. Thomas JONES, Welsh missionary in the Khasi
Hills (1840s), who died in Calcutta in 1849.

His wife Emma Jane CATTELL, who remarried a Charles MACKAY in
Cherrapoongi in 1850.

His son Dr Thomas CATTELL-JONES (b.1850) who I have recorded as a
medical officer on various tea estates in Cachar in the 1880s, who
corresponded with the Russian-born bacteriologist Haffkine (pioneer of
cholera research in India), and who in fact died of cholera himself at Sylhet in
1898.

Thomas CATTELL-JONES married Jean Margaret JONES, daughter of another
Rev. Thomas JONES (1828-1874), also a Welsh Presbyterian missionary in the
1850s in Sylhet, Shillong, and Khasi Hills.

Other related surnames include BROWNLOW, HALFORD, TYDD, and
SHAWE.

A. Brown-May

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