Thomas William BULLOCK
Notes:Named after his grandfather, Thomas William BULLOCK was
born in Cannanore, Kerala. Like most of his siblings, he was educated at the
Lawrence School Lovedale and after leaving school in 1884, received training in
the Indian Telegraph Service at the newly formed P&T Technical Training College
in Madras. He was employed as a Telegraph Engineer during the expansion of the
network into southern India. It is said that he met his first wife Ethelind
Barnett while working on the installation of the exchange at Ootacamund. They
were married there in the church of St. Stephen's in 1894. Sadly she died in
Bangalore shortly after the birth of their son Henry Verdyn in 1895. Thomas
William later married his sister-in-law Eleanor Kennet Barnett in Madras. The
family moved on posting to West Bengal very soon after the birth of their first
child Oswald William in 1903. They had four more children. After a number of
managerial appointments in the Indian Telegraph Service of West Bengal, he was
appointed Deputy Superintendant of Tegelgraph Services, Punjab in 1909, and
eventually was promoted Superintendent in December 1912. Events:1. He attended the Lawrence Schiool, Lovedale in 1876-1884 in Lovedale, (Ootacamund) Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India. 5 2. He worked as a Tel Manager Central Office Gov Tel Dept in 1909 in Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal, India. 6 3. He worked as a Deputy Superintendent of Telegraph in 1913 in Lahore, , Punjab, Pakistan. 7 Thomas married Ethelind Alice Kennet BARNETT, daughter of Edmund BARNETT and Charlotte KENNET, on 20 Jun 1894 in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India.1 2 (Ethelind Alice Kennet BARNETT was born in 1876 in <.. Tamil Nadu, India> and died on 29 Sep 1898 in Bengaluru, (Bangalore), Karnataka, India 8.) Thomas next married Eleanor Kennet BARNETT, daughter of Edmund BARNETT and Charlotte KENNET, circa 1900 in <Chennai, (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India>. (Eleanor Kennet BARNETT was born on 1 Jul 1877 in Blacktown, (Georgetown), Madras, India 9, christened on 13 Sep 1877 in Emmanuel Church, South Black Town, (Georgetown), Madras (Chennai) Tamil Nadu, India,9 died on 12 Aug 1913 in Lahore, , Punjab, Pakistan 10 and was buried on 13 Aug 1913 in Lahore, , Punjab, Pakistan 10.) |
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2 Extract from "Domestic Occurrences" reported in The Times of India newspaper published in Madurai, (Madras Presidency) (The Times Group, Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd). Rec. Date: 6 Dec 2010, Marriages - 26 June 1894. Cit. Date: 29 Mar 2001.
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6 Thackers Indian Directories 1864-1969 (Thackers, Spink and Co Publishers to the Government of India, Calcutta, West Bengal India). Rec. Date: 14 Feb 1999, Cit. Date: 14 Oct 2011.
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