Hearsey/Salmon family Hon East India Co

[jajaja]

Found an old manuscript someone had submitted to the evening news about their ancestor Hyder Hearsey and his trip to Tibet with Moorcroft. Unfortunately there is no name and the piece is all about their trip, so possibly it was passed down in the family

[crystalight]

  Interesting! Any details?

Crystal

[petercarlyle]

Hi ! I grew up on a Hersey Ranch at Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri as my father Thomas Carlyle managed it. Yes Hersey lived in Lakhimpur Kheri and had properties in Sitapur. I am in possession of book signed by Hearsey, an HMV portable gramophone with records and his personal diary.
Please directly contact me at petercarlyle(at)rediffmail(dot)com i would love to hear from all the Hearses or anyone in possession of artifacts or information.

[Yasmina4]

 :)This is a very interesting thread.

Incidentally, my husband was brought up in Sitapur.  He left just after partition when he was 12 and cannot remember the Hearsey /Salmon family at all.  He is very puzzled because he can remember the grand houses and does not remember  seeing any "Ferenghis" there.

When did the family leave?

Does anyone have any photos of the family please?

Sandra

[petercarlyle]

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.

[Yasmina4]

Your Burmese Hearsey has a tale to tell.

Sandra

[petercarlyle]

...very interesting tale of death and survival.

[petercarlyle]

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.

[Yasmina4]

Would love to see your family on WDYTYA. 

Have started to read the book referred to.  A great tale of dering do.

Sandra