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Hersey was an Anglo Indian and did not look very British in appearance. He was a simple and quite man who engaged in reading and preferred staying indoors most of the time.

It is sad that my Dad passed on in 2011 else you had a walking reference on the Hersey's. We left Palia in 1978 after willing the case against the Gola Sugar Mills which had set up a branch on 100 acres of his land owned then by the Mijitias. We kept a few books and artifacts presented to us. His lawyer Mt Tomson left Sitapur after selling Sitapur Plywood and went on to buy a small island in the Mediterranean or somewhere. My Dad never bothered to open the safe sized 3'x2'x about 2-3' deep stocked with gold which was revealed after we left and the house burned down down to a electrical short circuit. He lost his memory with time especially after a sever depression when a French woman he brought from France after returning from the war left him for an English Magistrate whom he beat up and and jailed for the incident. He was never the same after that. She was a good woman who looked after him well and the Ranch too. Also, he was gassed in a German prisoner of war camp in France. People used him as he was submerged in depression.
I recently met the Burmese Hersey's the last of whom is alive and resides in Dehradun-he has about 2-4 children. He walked from Burma to India when the Japanese invaded Burma.