INVENTORY OF ETIENNE AUGUSTE ROUSSAC Snr
This is a small extract from his lengthy Inventory:
Shirts with frills, jackets, waistcoats, pantaloons, breeches, short drawers, stockings, ditto half, pocket handkerchiefs, Neck handkerchiefs, Neck cloth, Cravats, Banyan gowns, towels, coats, cloth pantaloon, ditto jackets, ditto waistcoats, shawl ditto, cloth breeches, cloth pantaloons, trousers, silk stocking, black ditto, hats – all given to his children.
Household furniture:
78 chairs, 5 couches, 1 Green Cleopatra ditto, 2 Cleopatra ditto, 1 Mahogany Dining Table containing 5 tables, 4 space planks with brass lion paws and castors etc.
1 pr mahogany card tables, 1 mahogany tea table with fleuted by lion brass, paws, castors etc.
1 round amboya wood table,
1 small amboya wood table,
4 tables, 1 child’s table,
1 Mahogany Pembroke table, 1 sopha ditto,
1 Mahogany side board with drawers, 10 foot stools, 6 Ratan ditto, 6 Almeiras, 1 bureau with glass Almeira on the top, 2 Glass Almeiras, 1 chest with drawers, 10 teaboys, 2 long painted teaboys, 1 small ditto.
1 meatsafe, 1 mahogany billiard table, balls etc, 6 trunks, 7 champhor China trunks.
6 Berally ditto, 2 cloth horse, 2 chests silvr plate etc, 3 book shelves, 1 Gold Clock with glass cover, 1 small ditto, 1 mahogany easy chair with Morocco backs seats.
5 Hanging punkahs, 2 small ditto, 1 large screen, 6 small ditto, 2 small Berrally boxes.
Roussac & Co. 1823
Outstanding Bonds, Notes & Bills due to the Estate £30, 850.0 + others of 73,567.12.0
House: A lower roomed house, No.1 Esplanade Row, with its out offices and godowns situated on the river side in Calcutta.
Signed by Mary Vrignon Roussac.
British Library Ref: L/AG/34/27/80
