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Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India DUNIH 408.6

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Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India

Photograph album, featuring black and white photographs of graves of Jute Mill managers and their wives buried in India. This black leather bound album with a gold trim contains forty photographs in total, twenty five at the Scottish Cemetery in Calcutta, fourteen at Barrackpore Cemetery and one of Tollygunge Cemetery. Graves date from 1881 to 1951, covering workers at the four of the major Indian mills - Titaghur, Samnuggur, Angus and Victoria. It is assumed most of the people were from the Dundee and Angus area but only two graves give home town locations - Dundee and Pitlessie, Fife. People went out to work in India for a better standard of living with greater chance of promotion however faced tropical diseases such as Malaria and Dysentery and quite alot of people in theses graves died at a young age. The people listed were:
Catherine Amelia Hean, wife of WM. Smith, Samnuggur. Died 24thJuly 1881.
Alexander Watson, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 26th November 1888.
William Milne, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 28th November 1888.
Robert Keddie, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 11th May 1892.
William Davidson, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 25th August 1893.
James Young Strachan, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 12th October 1893.
Alexander G. Ogilvie, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 8th April 1895.
William Laird, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 15th January 1896.
David MacDonald, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 22nd February, 1896.
James C. Cameron, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 18th November, 1897.
John Fraser, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 7th January 1898.
James Nicol, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 5th May, 1898.
George Duncan, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 7th November, 1898.
James C. Jack, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 21st September, 1899.
Joseph S. Fettes. The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 17th September, 1901.
Mrs. John Nicol. Died 21st March, 1902.
Robert Gibson, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 12th August , 1902.
John F. Marnie, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 10th December, 1902.
Thomas S. Glen, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 22nd November, 1905.
George Millar, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 9th January, 1907.
John Chalmers, The Victoria Jute Co., Ltd. Died 12th August, 1907.
John A. Mathers, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 15th August, 1907.
George Ogilvie Young, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 23rd April, 1908.
David Cooper, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 21st October, 1913.
John D. Mitchell, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 11th July, 1914.
John M. Patrick, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co., Ltd. Died 3rd June, 1915.
William Anderson Mitchell, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 15th May, 1917.
John Melville Niven, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 4th November, 1917.
Reginald Dow, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 22nd May, 1919.
Thomas M. Prain, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 14th October, 1919.
James Mc Intosh, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 23rd July, 1920.
Mrs. A. J. Band, Died 18th March, 1921.
William MacKenzie, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 19th November, 1921.
Charles Mitchell, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 13th August, 1922.
George Ferrier Robertson, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 26th October, 1922.
James Shepherd, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 19th January, 1925.
Allan Sturrock, The Victoria Jute Co. Ltd. Died 6th June, 1931.
Duncan Neill, The Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 2nd Feburary, 1939.
James Burnett, The Angus Co. Ltd. Died 28th May, 1942.
William James Robb, The Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Ltd. Died 28th May, 1951.

Number: DUNIH 408.6
Name: Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India
Date: Not Specified
Maker: Not Specified
Location: In Store