ETIENNE AUGUSTE ROUSSAC (Jnr)
The eldest son of Auguste Gabriel Roussac. He was born on Tuesday 31st January 1832 at Chowringhee, Calcutta.
Nothing is known about his early life but it seems he followed his father into business. At some point, he must have sailed to France for on 2nd March 1849, when he was seventeen, he applied for a passport at Bordeaux in order to rejoin his father in India. He is described as having a ‘bien fait’ nose, oval face, blue eyes, round chin and was 1.7m tall. He was then a Commis Négociant.
On Monday, 14th November 1859, he married Isabella MASSON at Darjeeling, where he was then living. She was the daughter of James Masson and Anne Blake who married 8th November 1832 in Mhow, India. She was the first of at least eight children and was born 26th September 1833 and baptised 27th October 1833 at Cawnpore. She died on 29th February 1916 of heart failure at Dehra Dun, Bengal, and was buried there on 1st March.
He appears to have left business some time before his 1859 marriage according the entry in the Marriage Register where his occupation is given as Inspecting Postmaster at Rashoye District.
1866 Inspecting Postmaster Railway and Burdwan Division.
The following year, when his first child is baptised, his occupation is given as Inspector Post Offices. In succeeding years, he rises up the Post Office grades while being posted to different districts around Bengal, including Ghazeepore, Etawah, Meerut, Assam and Calcutta.
In 1872 he was one of several ‘European day passengers’ travelling on
a local up Calcutta train when it collided with a pilot-engine at a bridge and they sustained severe injuries. The following year, two of the passengers, including Etienne, were awarded compensation by the Board of Agency. He received 2,000 rupees. (about £200)
On 6th November 1885, he was among the guests at the Levée at the Residency at Ajmere, about 270 miles south east of Delhi.
THE FOLLOWING is a submission he gave to the Sub-Committee of the Public Services Commission on behalf of the Postal Department of India. He was one of four senior postal officers invited to give their written views as well as in person. The Proceedings were published in 1887.
No. IV. E. A. Roussac, Esq., Deputy Postmaster General, Rajputa‘na.
1. I venture, as a postal officer over 30 years’ service, to submit a representation of my case, to show that promotion to the higher grades: of the Postal Department does not rest on good service - and merit.
2. I was appointed Inspector of Post Offices (present designation is Superintendent of Post Offices) in October 1885 on a salary of Rs. 225a month. I worked in Bengal and other provinces, and became Personal Assistant to the Postmaster General of Bengal, in which appointment I served for nearly two years, 1872 and 1873, under two young Covenanted Civil Servants, who held that appointment. Both these officers, though clever and able Joint Magistrates, were quite inexperienced in Post Office work. I was, therefore, for a long time their adviser and virtually the Postmaster-General, as I was consulted on everything, and my views invariably adopted.
3. At the end of 1873 I was appointed Chief Inspector of Post Offices of Assam, and vested with the powers of a Postmaster General; the present designation of the appointment is Deputy -Postmaster General. I remained there for five years. From Assam I went to Behar, a province containing a population of 23,000,000. I managed this postal Circle for nearly seven years, and now J am in charge of the Rajputa’na Circle, where I have to work with Native States, and where the greatest tact is required in dealing with Native officials, so as to render the Department popular, and induce the Darbárs to allow the British Post Office to be extended into their territories.
4. The repeated thanks I have received from the local authorities and the public, and the approval I have always met from the head of my Department, lead me to believe that my management of the three abovementioned Circles has been satisfactory; yet I have had no promotion, as I draw at present only Rs. 700 a month. The same pay I did in Assam; and now I am told that I have no promotion to expect, as all Postmaster-Generalships are to be held by Covenanted Civil Servants.
5. Young Covenanted Civil Servants, of the grade of Joint Magistrate, are appointed Postmasters General without training of any kind, and, as a natural consequence, they are for a long time entirely in the hands of their subordinates. The young Civilians, who accept these appointments, do so with the object of getting a large increase of pay and the hope of securing hereafter the Director-Generalship of the Department. To my knowledge, several of these young gentlemen, after working for a time, left the Post Office and reverted to the Judicial and Revenue line, because they found promotion less rapid than they expected, and their prospects not so good as elsewhere: the Department was thus made a convenience of, and its interests sacrificed.
6. The duties of Covenanted Postmasters General and Uncovenanted Deputy Postmasters General are precisely the same, and as their powers are alike, it is evident that an Uncovenanted Deputy Postmaster General, who can manage satisfactorily a Circle containing four or five hundred post offices, can work equally well a larger one, with a few hundred more post offices. The number of post offices, though increasing petty details, does not in the slightest degree add to difficulties, as questions of law are not more complicated in the larger Circles held by Postmasters General than in the smaller ones in charge of Deputy Postmasters General; as when a really difficult legal question arises, the Law officers of the Government are referred to a course which is followed throughout India both by Covenanted and Uncovenanted officers, so that in reality the legal training of Covenanted Civil Servants, though perhaps qualifying them for other branches of the service, does not in the slightest degree make them better postal officers than their Uncovenanted confréres.
7. To my knowledge, in no single instance has the Director General found any Deputy Postmaster General wanting, either in his knowledge of law or in his general administration; it is, therefore, a cruel hardship to deprive these officers of promotion, simply because they got their appointments in this country from the Director General, and are styled Uncovenanted.
8. Nowhere in the world, not even in England, are the prize appointments of the Post Office reserved for outsiders, I mean for persons who have not made their career in it; why should it be different in India ?
9. The controlling Staff of the Post Office, exclusive of the Account Branch, consists of:
1 Director General, who is the head of the Department; 1 Deputy Director General and 3 Assistant
Directors General. These officers are attached to the Director General’s Officers and are practically
Secretaries.
5 Postmasters General and 9 Deputy Postmasters General – each in charge of a separate Postal Circle; and 114 Superintendents. divided in the manner shown in the margin.*
*18 1st Grade Superintendents drawing Rs. 400 rising to Rs. 500; 28 2nd Grade Superintendents drawing
Rs.300 rising to Rs. 400; 30 3rd Grade Superintendents drawing Rs. 250; 38 4th Grade Superintendents drawing Rs. 200.
There are 2 Deputy Postmasters General on salaries of Rs. 750 rising to Rs. 1,000; and 7 on Rs. 700.
The Postmasters General are also in two grades, viz., 3 on salaries of Rs. 1,500 rising to Rs. 1,700; and 2 on Rs. 1,750 rising to Rs. 2,000.
The permanent Deputy Director General, now absent on leave, is a Covenanted Civil Servant of the 1st Grade of Postmaster General. Two of his predecessors were Uncovenanted officers, and the officiating Deputy Director General is also Uncovenanted.
The 3 Assistant Directors General are Uncovenanted, The First Assistant is in charge of the Railway Mail Service, and draws a salary of Rs. 1,000 rising to Rs. 1,400, and the other 2 Assistants rank with Deputy Postmasters General of the 2nd grade, and draw Rs. 700.
10. From this list it will be seen that the Uncovenanted controlling officers of the Post Office in India have only one appointment with a salary of more than a thousand rupees a month, which carries with it a pension of Rs. 5,000 a year after 30 years’ good service, and of the 11 officers of the grade of Deputy Postmaster General only 2 draw salaries of Rs. 750 rising to Rs. 1,000 a month, while the remaining 9 get Rs. 700 a month.
11. There is no department in India where the appointments are so unequally graded, and yet the Government will not only do nothing to improve the prospects of these officers, but have, within the last eighteen months or two years, taken away the Deputy Director-Generalship and the Postmasters-Generalship of Madras and North West Provinces — all three formerly held by Uncovenanted postal officers, and given them to Covenanted Civil Servants.
12. Of the 6 prize appointments in the Post Office (5 Postmasters-Generals and Deputy Director-Generals) 3 might with advantage be reserved for Uncovenanted officers of merit and good service; and the Department will, I am certain, benefit by it, as it is chiefly to these officers that the Post Office has done and is doing such excellent service.
13. So in conclusion, I beg to be permitted to say that I have nearly run through my career in the Department, and have little or no hope of promotion; this representation is, therefore, purely disinterested, as I do so in justice to my juniors, in hopes that it may help to show the Commission how unfairly deserving postal officers are treated, simply because they happen to be Uncovenanted.
On 20th June, 1892 he was initiated into the Dalhousie Lodge of Mussorie and Deyrah Masons.
At the time of his youngest son’s marriage, in 1896, the family was living at Narward Arneer Alley, Calcutta. By 1906 he had retired on a Post Office pension in Allahabad.
He died on Tuesday 22nd December, 1908 at Agra aged 76 and was buried in the Agra Cantonment Cemetery. Probate granted 8th January 1909 at 787/- to Isabella his wife. His grave is a slab monument with plinth and cross with an inscription that reads: ¨In loving memory of Etienne Auguste Roussac who died in Agra on Dec 22nd 1908 aged 76 years 10 months and 22 days. He that heareth my word and believeth in him that sent me hath everlasting life.”
There were nine children:
1. Etienne James Auguste Roussac
He was born on Monday, 3rd September 1860 at Darjeeling and baptised 9th October. He died of cholera on Tuesday, 7th September 1897 at Monghyr and was buried at the Choramba Road, Cemetery there.
2. Henri/Henry Colvin Roussac (1863-1937)
3. William Alfred Roussac (1866-1934)
4. John Augustus Roussac
He was born on Tuesday, 20th August 1867 at Mussourie - a twin to his sister Isabella Eleanor - and baptised jointly on 13th October 1867 at Ghazeepore along with his next older brother and next younger sister.
He attended the Jesuit College, Darjeeling, along with his younger brother Benjamin Thomas but was brought up as a Protestant.
Nothing else is known about him prior to his wedding, and little after it. He married Eva Maria CARTER on 10th December 1895 at Boitakhana Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Calcutta. She was born about 1864 and was the widow of Mr J. E. Carter. Records show that she was the daughter of Nawab Ameer Ali who died about 1879.
At the time of his marriage, he was living at 44 Pbool Bajan Lane, Entally and was a Mechanic. It is not known when or where he or his wife died. There are no known children.
The photo, above, taken between 1872 and 1876 in Darjeeling, is believed to show, right, Isabella Eleanor Roussac next to her twin brother, John Augustus Roussac. Henry Colvin Roussac is standing, rear, and William Alfred Roussac, at the front.
1. Etienne James Auguste Roussac
He was born on Monday, 3rd September 1860 at Darjeeling and baptised 9th October. He died of cholera on Tuesday, 7th September 1897 at Monghyr and was buried at the Choramba Road, Cemetery there.
2. Henri/Henry Colvin Roussac (1863-1937)
3. William Alfred Roussac (1866-1934)
4. John Augustus Roussac
He was born on Tuesday, 20th August 1867 at Mussourie - a twin to his sister Isabella Eleanor - and baptised jointly on 13th October 1867 at Ghazeepore along with his next older brother and next younger sister.
He attended the Jesuit College, Darjeeling, along with his younger brother Benjamin Thomas but was brought up as a Protestant.
Nothing else is known about him prior to his wedding, and little after it. He married Eva Maria CARTER on 10th December 1895 at Boitakhana Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Calcutta. She was born about 1864 and was the widow of Mr J. E. Carter. Records show that she was the daughter of Nawab Ameer Ali who died about 1879.
At the time of his marriage, he was living at 44 Pbool Bajan Lane, Entally and was a Mechanic. It is not known when or where he or his wife died. There are no known children.
The photo, above, taken between 1872 and 1876 in Darjeeling, is believed to show, right, Isabella Eleanor Roussac next to her twin brother, John Augustus Roussac. Henry Colvin Roussac is standing, rear, and William Alfred Roussac, at the front.
5. Isabella Eleanor Roussac
She was born on Tuesday, 20th August 1867 and, along with her two next older brothers, was baptised on 13th October 1867 at Ghazeepore.
She married William CROFTS L.R.C.S.E.* on 14th February 1895 at the church of St John the Baptist, Roorkee, Bengal. He was born 14th February 1856, the son of George Crofts, a Solicitor, and Elizabeth Anne Martin of Vernon Mount, Cork.
He qualified in 1879 at Edinburgh. They spent many years in Bandikui, Rajputana (present-day Rajasthan) where he worked as Medical Officer and Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. He was a paid-up member of the Bombay branch of the Anglo-India Evangelisation Society; he died suddenly of heart failure on 5th December 1919 at ‘Clonakilty’, Dehra Dun, India. At some point, presumably after her husband died, she sailed to England and she died in 1941 in Hastings, East Sussex.
* Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
6. Emile Charles Roussac
He was born on Saturday 3rd April 1869 at Toondla, West Bengal and baptised there 2nd March 1870.
He was educated at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and joined the Burma Police Department on 27th July 1897. On 27th July 1898, he was appointed Deputy Superintendent Burma Police at Thayetmyo, Burma. His appointments thereafter were: 1905 Sub Division Officer; 1906 Inspector of Police at Mingin, Upper Chidwin, Burma; 1908 Deputy Superintendent at Pyinmana and Yamethin; 1918-1921 Deputy Superintendent Grade 1 – as was his younger brother Benjamin Thomas Roussac. He retired on 3rd April 1924.
A year after joining the Police he married but there is some confusion about his wife’s name.
The relevant marriage register shows that he married the seventeen year old Mary Elizabeth FITZPATRICK on 29th August 1898 at Christ Church, Insein, Pegu, Burma. Nothing is known about Mary Elizabeth other than she was born in 1881, the daughter of Daniel Fitzpatrick.
However, only the first of his children has her name as the mother on the birth register. The other children have Molly Isabella (Mary) Mollen as their mother which means that there were either two separate mothers, or all had the same mother as the birthdate for both possible mothers is only a year apart and the marriage year is exactly the same.
In addition, one of his children has Molleen as a first name.
The Times of India published a death notice on 15th January 1934 to the effect that Molly, the dearly beloved wife of E. C. Roussac, died on 7th January after a short illness.
So it remains a mystery as to who the mothers were and also when he died.
Altogether there were five children:
1. Irene Cecilia Roussac
She was born on Wednesday 9th August 1899 at Mandalay, Burma. Nothing in known of her early years. She married Claude Baker HAMILTON on 20th August 1920 at Dera, Ismail Khan Rawalpindi. He was born 11th June 1894 in Bengal, the son of George Hamilton and Evelyn Blanche Baker.
Prior to marriage, he had been the Manager of the Amritsar Distillery when he enlisted at Lahore on 6th April 1916 in the 1st Battalion the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a Private. He also served in the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles. He was discharged 6the October 1918 on being appointed to a short service commission for the duration of the war.
In 1935 it was reported in the press that:
He was a Captain in the Indian Army Service Corps and Cantonment Executive Officer at Rangoon when he, his daughter Margaret and his son Malcolm, then aged 13 and 10 respectively, were burned to death on 6th February 1935 when their bungalow caught fire. At the inquest it was said that all his affairs were in order. It appears that he was shortly due to marry an (unnamed) Anglo-Indian before leaving for his new posting to Mandalay after being Cantonment Officer for eight years. The report points out that normally, escape from a bungalow would be easy which is why mystery surrounds these deaths though one report mentions that the night watchman padlocked the main entrance in error.
It is not known when or where she died.
2. Cyril Emile de Winton Roussac
The second child of Emile Charles Roussac.
He was born on Thursday 31th August 1905 and was baptised 15th October at Ootacamund, Madras.
His father wrote to his uncle, Henry Colvin Roussac, seeking help to get his son placed in work in Australia and it appears he left India in early 1923 for London where, on 2nd June 1923, aged 18, he embarked alone at London on the Mongolia bound for Melbourne. The pssenger list has “boxing” against his name but it is not known what this implies.
He travelled to Gippsland, Victoria, but didn’t stay very long as he found it too cold and wet so he returned to Melbourne and joined the Commonwealth Police and went all over the country with them and retired as a Senior Sergeant.
He enlisted as a Private in the Australian Army on 28th July 1941 in NSW and was discharged 30st October 1941. In the documentation he gave his birthplace as Madras. He re-enlisted the next day at Paddington, NSW, and was discharged on 26th August 1943 following a court martial on 3rd July 1943 on a charge of theft.
At this time, he was serving with the 2/12th Field Ambulance. The Argus newspaper reported on 24th October 1932 that:
Several prisoners were sentenced by the Acting Chief Justice (Sir Leo Cussen) yesterday on charges of theft, warehouse-breaking, and false pretences. “I have made inquiries into your case," said the Acting Chief Justice, to Cyril Roussac, a young man, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of theft. "The report which I have received is favourable, and in the hope that you will do better in the future, I propose not to sentence you now if you are willing to be entered into a bond to be of good behaviour for three years, and to come up for sentence when called upon." The bond was entered into.
In September 1940, he was elected a Patron of the Bowling Club, Culcairn.
He married Aileen BOYD in 1944 at Ryde, NSW. She was born in 1913 at Bowral, NSW, the daughter of Thomas S. Boyd and Kathleen Tyrrell. She died in 1974.
He wrote to his distant cousin Nancy Roussac (née Auchterlonie) in 1976 after seeing a newspaper report of the accidental drowning of her son. She and her husband, Neville, visited Cyril occasionally, the last time being in 1978.
He died on 13th November 1983 in Queensland.
3. Doreen Avis Roussac
She was born on Sunday 17th June 1906 at Mandalay, Burma, and baptised on 3rd October in Bengal.
She married Robert Rennie Leggatt on 7 July 1928 at Rangoon. He was born in 1898 in Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Leggatt, and was an indentured Merchant Seaman. By 1918 he was a 3rd Officer and had been awarded the Marine Medal on 23rd April 1925.
They divorced some time prior to 1936 when he married, secondly, Annie Seymour in Glasgow. He died in 1967.
On April 28th, 1936, aged 26, she arrived aboard SS California at Liverpool having sailed from Bombay, India. On the manifest, it states that her address-to-be was Canon Extension, Leicester.
She met William Edward Barrow MILNER in Bangalore in 1935 and the following year they married in Dartford, Kent. He was born in 1910 at Lunesdale, Lancashire, the son of Charles James Milner and Annie Duff.
At some point, they emigrated to Malawi, south east Africa, where she died about 1990.
4. Sheila Mary Roussac
She was born on Monday 23rd August 1909 at Bangalore and died of
influenza aged nineteen on 20th October 1918.
She was born on Tuesday, 20th August 1867 and, along with her two next older brothers, was baptised on 13th October 1867 at Ghazeepore.
She married William CROFTS L.R.C.S.E.* on 14th February 1895 at the church of St John the Baptist, Roorkee, Bengal. He was born 14th February 1856, the son of George Crofts, a Solicitor, and Elizabeth Anne Martin of Vernon Mount, Cork.
He qualified in 1879 at Edinburgh. They spent many years in Bandikui, Rajputana (present-day Rajasthan) where he worked as Medical Officer and Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. He was a paid-up member of the Bombay branch of the Anglo-India Evangelisation Society; he died suddenly of heart failure on 5th December 1919 at ‘Clonakilty’, Dehra Dun, India. At some point, presumably after her husband died, she sailed to England and she died in 1941 in Hastings, East Sussex.
* Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
6. Emile Charles Roussac
He was born on Saturday 3rd April 1869 at Toondla, West Bengal and baptised there 2nd March 1870.
He was educated at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and joined the Burma Police Department on 27th July 1897. On 27th July 1898, he was appointed Deputy Superintendent Burma Police at Thayetmyo, Burma. His appointments thereafter were: 1905 Sub Division Officer; 1906 Inspector of Police at Mingin, Upper Chidwin, Burma; 1908 Deputy Superintendent at Pyinmana and Yamethin; 1918-1921 Deputy Superintendent Grade 1 – as was his younger brother Benjamin Thomas Roussac. He retired on 3rd April 1924.
A year after joining the Police he married but there is some confusion about his wife’s name.
The relevant marriage register shows that he married the seventeen year old Mary Elizabeth FITZPATRICK on 29th August 1898 at Christ Church, Insein, Pegu, Burma. Nothing is known about Mary Elizabeth other than she was born in 1881, the daughter of Daniel Fitzpatrick.
However, only the first of his children has her name as the mother on the birth register. The other children have Molly Isabella (Mary) Mollen as their mother which means that there were either two separate mothers, or all had the same mother as the birthdate for both possible mothers is only a year apart and the marriage year is exactly the same.
In addition, one of his children has Molleen as a first name.
The Times of India published a death notice on 15th January 1934 to the effect that Molly, the dearly beloved wife of E. C. Roussac, died on 7th January after a short illness.
So it remains a mystery as to who the mothers were and also when he died.
Altogether there were five children:
1. Irene Cecilia Roussac
She was born on Wednesday 9th August 1899 at Mandalay, Burma. Nothing in known of her early years. She married Claude Baker HAMILTON on 20th August 1920 at Dera, Ismail Khan Rawalpindi. He was born 11th June 1894 in Bengal, the son of George Hamilton and Evelyn Blanche Baker.
Prior to marriage, he had been the Manager of the Amritsar Distillery when he enlisted at Lahore on 6th April 1916 in the 1st Battalion the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a Private. He also served in the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles. He was discharged 6the October 1918 on being appointed to a short service commission for the duration of the war.
In 1935 it was reported in the press that:
He was a Captain in the Indian Army Service Corps and Cantonment Executive Officer at Rangoon when he, his daughter Margaret and his son Malcolm, then aged 13 and 10 respectively, were burned to death on 6th February 1935 when their bungalow caught fire. At the inquest it was said that all his affairs were in order. It appears that he was shortly due to marry an (unnamed) Anglo-Indian before leaving for his new posting to Mandalay after being Cantonment Officer for eight years. The report points out that normally, escape from a bungalow would be easy which is why mystery surrounds these deaths though one report mentions that the night watchman padlocked the main entrance in error.
It is not known when or where she died.
2. Cyril Emile de Winton Roussac
The second child of Emile Charles Roussac.
He was born on Thursday 31th August 1905 and was baptised 15th October at Ootacamund, Madras.
His father wrote to his uncle, Henry Colvin Roussac, seeking help to get his son placed in work in Australia and it appears he left India in early 1923 for London where, on 2nd June 1923, aged 18, he embarked alone at London on the Mongolia bound for Melbourne. The pssenger list has “boxing” against his name but it is not known what this implies.
He travelled to Gippsland, Victoria, but didn’t stay very long as he found it too cold and wet so he returned to Melbourne and joined the Commonwealth Police and went all over the country with them and retired as a Senior Sergeant.
He enlisted as a Private in the Australian Army on 28th July 1941 in NSW and was discharged 30st October 1941. In the documentation he gave his birthplace as Madras. He re-enlisted the next day at Paddington, NSW, and was discharged on 26th August 1943 following a court martial on 3rd July 1943 on a charge of theft.
At this time, he was serving with the 2/12th Field Ambulance. The Argus newspaper reported on 24th October 1932 that:
Several prisoners were sentenced by the Acting Chief Justice (Sir Leo Cussen) yesterday on charges of theft, warehouse-breaking, and false pretences. “I have made inquiries into your case," said the Acting Chief Justice, to Cyril Roussac, a young man, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of theft. "The report which I have received is favourable, and in the hope that you will do better in the future, I propose not to sentence you now if you are willing to be entered into a bond to be of good behaviour for three years, and to come up for sentence when called upon." The bond was entered into.
In September 1940, he was elected a Patron of the Bowling Club, Culcairn.
He married Aileen BOYD in 1944 at Ryde, NSW. She was born in 1913 at Bowral, NSW, the daughter of Thomas S. Boyd and Kathleen Tyrrell. She died in 1974.
He wrote to his distant cousin Nancy Roussac (née Auchterlonie) in 1976 after seeing a newspaper report of the accidental drowning of her son. She and her husband, Neville, visited Cyril occasionally, the last time being in 1978.
He died on 13th November 1983 in Queensland.
3. Doreen Avis Roussac
She was born on Sunday 17th June 1906 at Mandalay, Burma, and baptised on 3rd October in Bengal.
She married Robert Rennie Leggatt on 7 July 1928 at Rangoon. He was born in 1898 in Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Leggatt, and was an indentured Merchant Seaman. By 1918 he was a 3rd Officer and had been awarded the Marine Medal on 23rd April 1925.
They divorced some time prior to 1936 when he married, secondly, Annie Seymour in Glasgow. He died in 1967.
On April 28th, 1936, aged 26, she arrived aboard SS California at Liverpool having sailed from Bombay, India. On the manifest, it states that her address-to-be was Canon Extension, Leicester.
She met William Edward Barrow MILNER in Bangalore in 1935 and the following year they married in Dartford, Kent. He was born in 1910 at Lunesdale, Lancashire, the son of Charles James Milner and Annie Duff.
At some point, they emigrated to Malawi, south east Africa, where she died about 1990.
4. Sheila Mary Roussac
She was born on Monday 23rd August 1909 at Bangalore and died of
influenza aged nineteen on 20th October 1918.
5. Molleen Isabella Mary Roussac
She was born on Friday 27th November 1914 at Thayetmayo, Burma.
She married Stuart Arthur Minkley on 19th June 1940 at St Stephen’s Church, Ootacamund, India, a Tea Planter at the New Hope Tea Estate, in the Nilgiris. He was born 28th April 1904 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the son of Arthur Frederick Minkley and Mary Ann Glazebrook.
He died in 1979 at Morningside, Edinburgh. She died in 1998, also in Edinburgh. There was one son.
7. Benjamin Thomas Roussac
8. Jessie Mary Roussac
She was born Sunday, 1872 and baptised 28th December 1873 at Calcutta. She died on Sunday 6th August 1911 of Enteric fever and was buried at St Nicholas and St Mary Church, Naini Tal.
9. Minnie Rose Roussac
She was born Tuesday, 17th July 1877 and baptised 6th January 1878 at Shillong. She died Monday 21st March 1921 of Tuberculosis and was buried at the Civil Cemetery, Lucknow.
She was born on Friday 27th November 1914 at Thayetmayo, Burma.
She married Stuart Arthur Minkley on 19th June 1940 at St Stephen’s Church, Ootacamund, India, a Tea Planter at the New Hope Tea Estate, in the Nilgiris. He was born 28th April 1904 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the son of Arthur Frederick Minkley and Mary Ann Glazebrook.
He died in 1979 at Morningside, Edinburgh. She died in 1998, also in Edinburgh. There was one son.
7. Benjamin Thomas Roussac
8. Jessie Mary Roussac
She was born Sunday, 1872 and baptised 28th December 1873 at Calcutta. She died on Sunday 6th August 1911 of Enteric fever and was buried at St Nicholas and St Mary Church, Naini Tal.
9. Minnie Rose Roussac
She was born Tuesday, 17th July 1877 and baptised 6th January 1878 at Shillong. She died Monday 21st March 1921 of Tuberculosis and was buried at the Civil Cemetery, Lucknow.
