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From: "Asprey, David" <>
Subject: [SOUTH-AM-EMI-L] Some Brits in Brazil 1900
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:26:03 -0000

Some gleanings from Consular files FO 13/811-814 at the PRO:

Ernest C A NICOLINI was consul in Bahia (previously vice-consul in Rio de
Janeiro 1884), but with deteriorating health he sought a better climate and
was appointed in Sep 1900 as Consul-General in Rio de Janeiro. However his
health got worse and he was advised to return immediately to Europe. He
booked an early passage but the following night 20-21 Dec he committed
suicide. He was buried on 22 Dec in the Gamboa cemetery [details of his
illness and suicide are on the file but not repeated here]. Nicolini was a
British citizen and unmarried - he supported two sisters still living at
Bardighera, Italy.

Those present at Nicolini's interment included Rev John D'ARCY (from
Petropolis), Sir Brooke BOOTHBY (British Chargé d'Affaires), C B RHIND
(vice-consul), F PALM and C N ATLEE (Consular Officer).

Consular Chaplains included Rev R W GOOSE at Bahia (died or resigned 1899?)
and Rev William Edward MACRAY at Pernambuco (died 7 Nov of yellow fever
leaving a widow).

Charles Lindsay TEMPLE of Pará was appointed vice-consul in Manáos.
Meanwhile the post was filled temporarily by R C SANCEAU, manager of Booth
Steamship Co at Manáos (and previously at Iquitos, Peru) - his co-manager
was Mr PRENTICE.

H R L VINEN was a British merchant at Pará, and Norwegian Consul.

Reference by Pernambuco Consul to birth of Sydney FELLOWS during 1900.

William James COLES, employed by Porto Alegre & New Hamburg Railway Co at
Canoas RS. In 1899 he married (wife was c18 years and of German parentage).
In Jan 1900 his wife was found dead with suspicion of foul play. Coles was
arrested, found guilty of her murder on 20 Apr at Aldea, and sentenced to 30
years imprisonment. The case was controversial as all the evidence was
circumstantial and there was considerable anti-British feeling in the
German-dominated area (and on the jury). An appeal was planned - presumably
in later files. William TWEEDIE was Superintendent of the Railway Company.

Edward COMPTON was a consulting civil engineer in Maranham (he applied to be
vice-consul to replace Henry AIRLIE, who had died in 1899).

Henry ROSSITER of Manchester claimed to have been born in Rio de Janeiro of
British parentage on 5 Oct 1860.

On 14 Oct 1900 William R SOUTER, steward of the steamer "Chollerton", was
brutally murdered in Bahia while returning alone to his ship after a Masonic
meeting.

John Henry JOHNSTONE was a banker's clerk in Bahia

Other Brits holding consular positions in 1900, mostly local merchants,
included:

Arthur L G WILLIAMS - V/C Pernambuco
Charles GOBLE - V/C Maceio
Henry B COX - Consular Agent Penedo
Albert T CONNOR - V/C Parnahyba
Dr William STUDART - V/C Ceará
Ambrose ARCHER - V/C Porto Alegre
William Bertram CHAPLIN - V/C Rio Grande do Sul (Brazilian, but British-born
at RGS)
Percy Charles Parmenter LUPTON - V/C São Paulo
John Fergusson MURRAY - V/C Curityba

David Asprey
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