Looking for property in the late 60s

Her dreams shattered; Judy returned with the children to Victoria in 1967.  Myrtle, her mother, found her a flat in Huntingdale behind a local chemist in the same street as the local primary school, not far from where Myrtle lived.

“[I] returned to Melbourne to live in a rental flat. It was unsatisfactory as there was little play room for the children who were 3,4, & 5 at that time.”

Figure 1 Photographer unknown, Front view of house, circa 1968, 27 Fourth Avenue, Chelsea Heights, Victoria, Australia, Sandra Williamson’s Private Photo Collection [JW001]

Searching for a better future, Judy purchased a new home for her family in Chelsea Heights. The cost of the house was $10,600 and she obtained a mortgage of $7000. She raised the deposit with a loan from her mother. The house was fairly new but without paving, a garage or front fence.  The new suburb had not long been developed and was surrounded by wet lands and farms.

Then… “I bought a house in an outer suburb where I was able to provide a home & playing area for the children it was also near state schools for them”

Figure 2 Photographer unknown, Three children working in the back yard, circa 1968, 27 Fourth Avenue, Chelsea Heights, Victoria, Australia, Sandra Williamson’s Private Photo Collection [JW002]

Over the next few years, Judy and a few select friends and family spent their weekends working on the property. A garage was built, and a brick front fence and a gate were installed across the driveway to enclose the backyard. Judy sewed what seemed like miles of curtaining fabric for the interior, including elaborate pinch pleated drapes for the lounge room.

Figure 3 Photographer unknown, Judy digging in the front yard, circa 1968, 27 Fourth Avenue, Chelsea Heights, Victoria, Australia, Sandra Williamson’s Private Photo Collection [JW003]

During this time Judy remarried. Her new husband, Russell manicured the front lawn to create a perfectly flat surface, and he regularly trimmed and rolled the grass, as though he were an actual greenkeeper rather than a security guard at a local university. Occasionally he would play also grass bowls on it. 

Figure 4 Photographer unknown, House for Sale, circa 1973, 27 Fourth Avenue, Chelsea Heights, Victoria, Australia, Sandra Williamson’s Private Photo Collection [JW004]

“[B]ut Russell couldn’t adjust to the young children and eventually continually found fault with them. This caused friction between us and [we] eventually agreed to separate.”

Judy decided it was time to sell her Chelsea Heights home, as her eldest child was finishing her last year in primary school and there was no high school close by. She bought a new place in a good area within walking distance of both a high and a primary school, and not too far from her work.

Inspiration for the Post - 

Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections - Prompt 522

An Interesting Headstone in Eaglehawk Cemetery

“EAGLEHAWK.

A tombstone of unique design has recently been erected in the Eaglehawk cemetery, over the graves of the late Mr. John Thomas and Mrs. Margaret Thomas, two old residents of California Gully, who died in 1879 and 1897 respectively. Deceased were the parents of Messrs. Michael and Robert Thomas and Mesdames Jas. Taylor, R. Williams and Stevens, and the former gentleman, whilst in England, some 10 years ago, visited a niece who was very skilful in the work of painting on porcelain tiles.  He arranged with her to have tiles suitably painted for his father's grave, and since the death of Mrs. Thomas the work of erecting the tombstone and railing has been carried out. The stone is of Scotch granite, and surrounding the inscription is an appropriate design of a chain with broken link. The inscription itself is done on the tiles, which are inlaid on the face of the granite. A wreath of flowers, nicely painted, and surrounding a cross of gilt, forms the upper portion, and on the tiles, underneath are the usual inscription and a suitable verse. The work on the tiles, which is painted before they are baked, is quite unique. The grave is surrounded by a railing, and the whole forms a very suitable, whilst very novel, form of tombstone.”[i]

Figure 1 Photographer Sandra Williamson, Headstone of John & Margaret Thomas,  2003, Grave 307, Section K in Eaglehawk Cemetery, Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia [Ebb179].

John died in 1879, his death certificate reveals he had been suffering from disease of the brain for two years. [ii][iii]

“DEATH. On the 21st of May, at California Gully, after a long illness, John Thomas, late of Par, Cornwall, England, aged 70 years. Home papers please copy.” [iv]

“THE Friends of the late Mr. JOHN THOMAS are respectfully invited to Follow his Remains from his late residence, next Johnson’s Reef Hotel, California Fully, to the Eaglehawk Cemetery. Funeral to move This Day (Thursday), at four o’clock.

JOSEPH SKUES, Undertaker,

1661                                                                                                    California Gully.”[v]

His wife, Margaret died 18 years later.[vi] [vii]

“Obituary. —The news of the death of Mrs. Margaret Thomas, of California Gully, will be learned with regret by her many friends. It occurred at her residence on Monday. She was a native of Wales, and had resided in Victoria for over 30 years. She was highly respected by all who knew her. She leaves a large family of two sons and five daughters Messrs. Michael and Robert Thomas, and Mesdames R. Williams, E. Stephens, D. Pellow, J. Taylor and J. Ebbott. The interment takes place this afternoon to the Eaglehawk cemetery.”[viii]

Husband and wife, John and Margaret Thomas are buried together in grave number 307, in the Monumental Section of Eaglehawk Cemetery, Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia in row K.

The headstone has three sections

The tile section reads: In / loving memory / of / John Thomas / aged 70 years, / born in Devonshire, / Died at Sandhurst / May 22nd 1879 / The faith the conquers all, / And doth the mountains move, / And saves who'er on Jesus call, / And perfects them in love.

The section carved into the granite below the tiled section: Also / Margaret Thomas / [unable to read next four lines that are engraved into the granite under the tiled decorative section of the headstone] 

Bottom section an attached cement plaque: Greatly beloved / by their children

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Sources

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[i] 1900 'EAGLEHAWK.', Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), 4 August, p. 3. , viewed 26 Apr 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89615460

[ii] Victoria, Australia Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, Death certificate of John Thomas died aged 86, 21 May 1879 California Gully, Eaglehawk, Reference 4501/18777

[iii] Remembrance Parks Central Victoria, "Deceased search," database (http://rpcv.com.au/  : accessed 26 Apr 2020), entry for John Thomas buried May 22 1879, Eaglehawk Cemetery section Mon K, grave 307, interment number 2266.  

[iv] 1879 'Family Notices', Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), 22 May, p. 2. , viewed 26 Apr 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88212642

[v] 1879 'Advertising', Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), 22 May, p. 3. , viewed 28 Apr 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88212636

[vi] Remembrance Parks Central Victoria, "Deceased search," database (http://rpcv.com.au/  : accessed 26 Apr 2020), Margaret Thomas buried October 6 1897, Eaglehawk Cemetery section Mon K, grave 307, interment number 5311.   

[vii]Victoria, Australia Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages; Death certificate of Margaret Smith died aged 90  Eaglehawk, 4 October 1897 Reference 12420/1897

[viii] 1897 'No title', The Bendigo Independent (Vic. : 1891 - 1918), 6 October, p. 2. , viewed 28 Apr 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article183751077

Trophies are Reminders of feats

Photographer Sandra Williamson, Judith Williamson's horse-riding trophies & ribbons, 7 January 2016, Patterson Lakes, Victoria, Australia [JudithKS0002]

As Judy held the bucket, she watched the horse shake its head from side to side, throwing the chaff off that was tickling its nose. Horses and riding had been a passion for her as long as she could remember. In her teens, she borrowed a horse to compete in the local Camperdown Country Show, but when she left home to do her nurse training there hadn't been any time or place to ride. Then her kids were born and she didn’t have the time nor the freedom to do as she pleased.

Photographer unknown, Judith Todman after riding at the Camperdown show, 1948, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia [b138]

Occasionally as the kids got older, she’d take them to a country rodeo. They never really shared her passion. Where she saw the musculature beauty of a finely tuned horse, they saw blowflies. Where she smelled the sweet scent of saddles warmed by horse’s sweat, they smelled horse dung and damp hay. She could feel the energy in the air as beast fought to dismount man. But all the children heard was the course language, the yelling and the cheering.  They couldn’t see over the jostling crowds of spectators.

Judy met Jenny through work. Like Judy she as an Occupation Health & Safety nurse, and also a single working mum with an interest in horses. But Jenny had a benefactor who supported her interest and she spent her weekends at her benefactor’s farm, often inviting Judy to join her so that they could train and ride the horses together.

Ironically it was Judy’s eldest child that truly rekindled her passion for horses and paved the way for new possibilities. Sandra had enrolled herself in a cross-country riding course with the “Council of Adult Education” in 1981 but had to relinquish her participation halfway through after being thrown from the stallion she had been riding. With Sandra recuperating and unable to ride, Judy stepped into the breach. 

The weekly ride was through the natural untamed beauty of the Strzelecki Ranges on unmade roads and through the bush. It was fast and furious both up and down the hillside. It was stuff that had made the movie “Man from Snowy River” famous. Scenes of mountain ponies galloping down steep ravines, riders leaning back in their saddles their backs almost touching the horse’s rump as their legs stretched forward stiffly in the stirrups to balance.

Judy was exhilarated. The course finished but Judy had rekindled a passion that she had almost forgotten. Inspired, she returned to the horse farm and negotiated to buy the horse she had ridden. As her children began to have their own families Judy became preoccupied with her new hobby, working fulltime during the week and spending her weekends riding. She joined the local horse-riding club and began training in dressage, winning her first trophy in 1984 for ‘most improved’.

Photographer Sandra Williamson, Judith Williamson’s Trophy For Most Improved Rider 1984, 7 Jan 2016, Patterson Lakes, Victoria, Australia [JudithKS0001-3]

Dressage seemed so confining after her experience in the Strzeleckis. Meg, her new horse, was not really well adapted for such rigor. Meg was a bit too stiff and not able to lead on the inside leg as required by this style of riding. It was then that Judy met Gay. Gay offered her the use of her own big handsome trotter “Santa”. Judy began riding with Gay and eventually sold Meg and purchased Santa from her. Together Gay and Judy joined a new riding club “Harkaway Riding Club” that focused on bush and navigational riding. Some rides took all day, others required camping for several nights. In 1993, Judy won her second trophy, for dressage, a very proud moment.

Photographer Sandra Williamson, Judith Williamson’s The Cattle Persons Cup Trophy 1995, 7 Jan 2016, Patterson Lakes, Victoria, Australia [JudithKS0001-4]

“I was the first lady rider to win the Cattleman s cup, so they had to change the title to Cattlepersons cup after that”

Judy has a slew of ribbons that speak to her enjoyment of horse riding and many happy shared memories.

Photographer unknown, Judy riding at the beach, circa 1988, Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia [T349]

Sepia Saturday: Using Old Images As Prompt for New Reflections - Prompt 521

Memory & Story

My mother recently moved into a nursing home, or, as we like to refer to it, “the most expensive serviced apartment she could afford”. She purchased the room by selling her independent living apartment in a retirement village, where independence had been translated into “we won’t intrude other than once a week to send in a cleaner as long as you follow the rules”. 

In her new place meals were prepaid and served in a common dining area with an optional glass of wine. Residents were careful not to ‘visit’ each other too often and cross the line of being intrusive. During the day residents were out and about leaving the village and doing what most people do in retirement enjoy life. Liberated from the worries of property maintenance and utility bills, life was grand.

Over time, however, things began to change for Judy. Subtly at first, the nights seemed to get longer. The hip pain that she’d ignored for so long seemed to escalate. Ambulances were called several times in the wee hours of the morning for tummy pain, and each time an uncomfortable night was spent in Emergency on an ambulance trolley for observation. The nurses were racing round tending injuries and the illnesses of others while popping their heads around the makeshift curtain every so often to check that she was okay.

After each episode, Judy would return to the Village, with a new normal just slightly altered in an almost imperceptible way but enough that the world seemed to be slowly shrinking around her. Words began to slip out of sight or not leave the tongue quite so easily as they had before.

Judy has always been a person of decisive action; she knew something had to be done and now. Within a week of her suddenly reaching this inexplicable decision she booked herself into hospital for a hip operation. The X-rays had revealed her hip joint had died, possibly from a fall from a horse around 20 years ago. Instead of the X-rays showing calcification of the joint, there was a black patch where the joint should have been. “Delirium” or, as laypeople would call it, “confusion” postoperatively was to be expected but it should settle within a couple of weeks. Judy decided it was worth the risk, better than having someone “wipe your arse” in later life because you couldn’t move around.

Judy came through with flying colours although rehab was proving a little difficult. Wasn’t there a pill for that? Judy returned to her former self but it became evident that perhaps something else was happening that had been masked by her belief that somehow everything would be okay. Support was put in place to allow her continued independence, and she won the hearts of those assisting her, everyone loved her winning smile and gracious attitude. Only those one or two who were in her inner circle realised that something wasn’t quite right.

Finally, the General Practitioner agreed to write a referral for Judy to access the local memory clinic. Working the system again and accessing something for “free” appealed to Judy. After extensive tests and follow-up, the results showed that Judy was in the very beginning phase of Alzheimers.

That was eighteen months ago. When I visit now, she talks with wonder about the luxury she now lives in, being able to stay in bed until lunchtime and only getting up after breakfast to go to the dining room. During one of my weekly visits, she tells me she wants for nothing. She can’t understand how for the first time in her life she doesn’t have to rush or worry, and how everything has now been taken care of. She is safe from the COVID 19 plague.

Sometimes she forgets that this is her new home although it is not with displeasure. The frame that hangs on the wall in her room depicts a potted history of her nursing career. It reminds her of her accomplishments during her life, evoking memories and topics of conversation.  It “Thanks her for her Service” during a time when health care workers mostly women were unseen. It reminds those around her that she too was as busy as they are now. It enshrines her nursing badges and her nursing diploma that were at risk of being separated and misunderstood. The frame gives context to her accomplishments and reveals aspects of her professional life that might have become lost in time and broken into fragments of her larger story.

George Jennings employed by the East India Company

Kalbadevie Road around 1890 in Mumbai, India. Photo by Public Domain. Photo via Good Free Photos

George was born in 1803.[i]

He Joined the East India Company Army in 1822 arriving in India on 26 May 1823 on the company’s ship the Farquharson.[ii]

He held the rank of Gunner when he married Catherine Jacob on 16 July 1827 in Saint Andrew Church, Bombay, India.[iii]

The couple began their married life in Matoonga, Bombay, India and moved to Ahmednuggur, after the death of their son George.

Together the couple had seven children:

1. Sarah Jennings born 7 July & baptised 10 August 1828 in Matoonga, Bombay, India.[iv]
2. George Jennings born 20 July & baptised 23 August 1829, Matoonga, Bombay, India.[v] George died at the age of 2 months on 17 September 1829, before the family left Matoonga.[vi]
3. Mary Ann Jennings born 3 July & baptised 27 July 1831, Ahmednuggur, Bombay, India.[vii]
4. James Jennings born 25 January and baptised 24 February 1833 in Ahmednuggur, Bombay, India.[viii]
5. Caroline Jennings born 3 July and baptised 2 August 1835 in Ahmednuggur, Bombay, India[ix] Caroline died at the age of 11 on 10 September 1847 in Bycullah, Bombay, India.[x]
6. Isabella Jennings was born 26 Dec 1837 and baptised 14 January 1838 in Ahmednuggur, Bombay, India.[xi]
7. Catherine Jennings born 10 August and baptised 13 August 1840 in, Bombay, India.[xii]

George’s career flourished as he rose to the rank of Sergeant Depot Instructor on 31 October 1832 and then Sub-Conductor in the Ordnance Department of Ahmednuggur Arsenal in 1833. He was seconded to Ordnance Assistant's Department on 6 August 1833 and discharged 8 April 1836. He was transferred to the Town Major's List as Sub-Conductor on 18 May 1841, reaching the level of conductor by the time of his death in 1844.

“There are numerous comfortable situations open in the Company’s service for deserving soldiers, and such, too, as suit them better commissions. The first of these are warrant officers, estimated at about 200, and styled sub-conductors, conductors, and deputy assistant commissaries; and all are promoted from the ranks. Their duties are to superintend in ordnance and commissariat stores. They take the name conductor from being frequently employed in conducting stores from one station to another.”[xiii]

While residing in Ahmednuggur, George also joined the Freemason’s Lodge of Hope in Ahmednuggur which met in the Barrack Rooms, The Fort, Ahmednuggur (Aurungabad), Bombay, India where he was working.[xiv] [xv]

George died on 15 September 1844, [location yet to be determined].[xvi] [xvii] He left his wife with six children between the ages of sixteen and four years of age. Unfortunately for the children their mother passed away a year later at the age of 30 and was buried in Back Bay Burial Ground on 21 February 1845, leaving them orphans.[xviii]

My second great-grandmother would have only been eight years of age at the demise of her mother.

WikiTree profile for George Jennings

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[i] Ancestry.com. England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Membership 15th unnumbered entry on page 802  in the United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers  for Lodge of Hope, Ahmednuger for George Jennings who joined on 2 February 1835 at the age of 32; Original data: Membership registers 1751-1921 from the collection of the United Grand Lodge of England held by the Library and Museum of Freemasonry. Images reproduced by courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London. Rights reserved.

[ii] FIBIS website, “Registers of Bombay Army European Soldiers”(index without images) Entry for George Jennings enlisted 1822,  Registers of Bombay Army European Soldiers 1793-1839 A-K   (https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=2290703  accessed 16 April 2020) citing IOR Reference L/MIL/12/109   

[iii] Findmypast, British India Office Marriages, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948, Entry for the Marriage of George Jennings(Gunner in the Honourble Company’s Regiment of Artillery) & Catherine Jacob married by banns on 18 July 1827, from the offical copy of the Register of Marriages for the Chaplaincy of Matoonga in the Archdeaconry of Bombay between 31 December 1827-1 January 1828, entry 65, page 193 citing IOR Reference   Z/N/3, Volume Number   8, Folio 193).

[iv] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948, Baptism of Sarah  Jennings born 7 July 1828 and baptised 10 August 1829, daughter of George(Gunner) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Matoonga, Register for the baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Matooya, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July to the 31 December 1828, entry 90,  p. 267; FindmyPast British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns (database with images); citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-8 folio 267

[v] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of George Jennings born 7 July 1829 and baptised 2 August 1829, son of George(N.C Arty.) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Matoonga, the Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July to the 31 December 1829, entry 100, p.225; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-9 folio 225

[vi] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Death of George Jennings died 17 September 1829 at the age of 2 months, while residing in Matoonga, Register for burials for the Chaplaincy of Matoonga, Archdeanery of Bombay, 5^th unnumbered entry page 335 citing British India Office Deaths & Burials N-3-9 page 355

[vii] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of Mary Ann Jennings born 3 July 1831 and baptised 27 July 1831, daughter of George(Serjearnt Artillery) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Ahmednuggur, Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July 1832 to the 1 July 1833, entry 19, page 186; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-10 folio 186

[viii] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of James Jennings born 25 January 1833 and baptised 24 February 1833, son of George(Draftsman Artillery Depot) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Ahmednuggur, Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July 1832 to the 1 July 1833, entry 5, page 4; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-11 folio 4

[ix] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of Caroline Jennings born 3 July 1835 and baptised 2 August 1835, daughter of George(sub Conductor, Ordinance) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Ahmednuggur, Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July to the 31 December 1835 entry 14, page 3; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-12 folio 3

[x] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Death of Caroline Jennings died 10 September 1847 at the age of eleven years, two months twenty-eight days, Daughter of the late Sub Conductor Jennings of the Ordinance Department,  Register for burials for the Chaplaincy of Matoonga, Archdeanery of Bombay, 3rd unnumbered entry page 335; citing British India Office Deaths & Burials N-3-9 page 355

[xi] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of Isabella Jennings born 26 Dec 1837 and baptised 14 January 1838, daughter of George(Gunner, Artillery) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Ahmednuggur, Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, Archdeanery of Bombay from 1 July to the 31 December 1838, entry 1, page 271; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-13 folio 271

[xii] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images), Baptism of Catherine Jennings born 10 August 1840 and baptised 13 August 1840, daughter of George(actg [unable to read] sub Conductor artillery Rep7[?]) & Catherine Jennings, residing in Ahmednuggur, Register for baptisms in the Chaplaincy of Ahmednuggur, in the service of Bombay from 1 July to the 31 December 1840, entry 24, page 257; citing British India Office Births & Baptisms N-3-14 folio 257

[xiii] Quinney, Thomas. 1853. Sketches of a soldier's life in India. Glasgow: D. Robertson. http://books.google.com/books?id=q9xGAAAAIAAJ. Page 89 (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vTsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 17 April 2020)

[xiv] Ancestry.com. England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Membership 15th unnumbered entry on page 802  in the United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers  for Lodge of Hope, Ahmednuger for George Jennings who joined on 2 February 1835 at the age of 32; Original data: Membership registers 1751-1921 from the collection of the United Grand Lodge of England held by the Library and Museum of Freemasonry. Images reproduced by courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London. Rights reserved.

[xv] According to Lane’s Masonic Records the Lodge of Hope, Ahmednuger met in the  Barrack Rooms, The Fort, Ahmednagar (Aurungabad), Bombay, India [https://www.dhi.ac.uk/lane/record.php?ID=1756#]

[xvi] Findmypast, “British India Office Wills & Probate” (database with images); Entry for the Inventory of G. Jennings, Conductor, Bombay , 2nd unnumbered entry on page 315 & 316 deposited on 4 October 1841; citing Treasury deposits, Bombay vol 1 L-AG-34-33-22

[xvii] FIBIS website, “Registers of Bombay Army European Soldiers”(index without images) Reference to data contained in the Entry for George Jennings enlisted 1822 giving his death date as 15 September 1844,  Registers of Bombay Army European Soldiers 1793-1839 A-K   (https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=2290703  accessed 16 April 2020) citing IOR Reference L/MIL/12/109   

[xviii] Findmypast, Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948(database with images); Burial of Catherine  Jennings(relic of the late Mr Conductor Jennings) buried 21 February 1845, Back Bay Burial ground, 4th unnumbed entry for Burials at Bycullah, Bombay page 57 1845; citing British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns, British India Office Deaths & Burials N-3-19