Acknowledgements, sources used and thanks....

I am grateful to George Monk for giving me valuable information on the MV Arinia, MV Torinia and general information regarding my uncle Henry Walter John CHATER who died aged 17 in WW II.

To a nice chap named Wim, a student (in 2003) in Armenian History in India at the University of Amsterdam for filling in a lot of information on the early history on the Armenian community in Calcutta - thank you.

To Dorothy Wheeler (nee Maugey) for providing such detailed information and photographs of the Maugey family.

Sources used for the research into those with the name CHATER, including my research on Sir Catchick Paul Chater and his life are listed below and are all acknowledged in the strongest terms. Should I have missed anyone, it is unintentional, please let me know and I shall be more than happy to add you to my acknowledgements

An Assemblage of Indian Army Soldiers and Uniforms by Chater Paul Chater
Family Business A History of Grosvenor Chater 1690-1977 by Michael Chater
This is Hong Kong: The Story of Government House by Katherine Mattock
Hong Kong Cavalcade by John Luff - 1968
Armenians in Australia and New Zealand compiled and arranged by Father Aramais Mirzaian - Sydney 1966
Armenians: A Pilgrim People in "Tierra Australia" compiled and arranged by Father Aramais Mirzaian - Sydney 1975
Baxter's Guide - Biographical Sources in the India Office Records by Ian A. Baxter
Hong Kong 1862-1919 by Geoffrey Robley Sayer
In The Web by Peter Hall
The Chater Collection by James Orange
Bizen-Ware by James Orange
A Mountain of Light by Austin Coates
China Races by Austin Coates
Whampoa Ships on the Shore by Austin Coates
The Gazetteer of Manipur compiled by Captain E.W. Dun 1886
The Quest for Noel Croucher by Vaudine England
The Taipans Hong Kong's Merchant Princes by Colin N. Crisswell
New Julfa The Armenian Churches and Other Buildings by John Carswell
City of Victoria by the Hong Kong Museum of History
Passing Shadows Hong Kong by Peter Moss
Old Hongkong Volume two 1901-1945 by Trea Wiltshire
National Geographic June 1978 article by Robert Paul Jordan "The Proud Armenians"
The Royal Asiatic Society of Hong Kong - in particular Peter Stuckey
Armenians in India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Mesrovb Jacob Seth

Chater-Cosmo Transactions Masonic Research in the Far East Vol. 4 for 1982 Paul Chater Lodge Jubilee Year Published jointly by The Paul Chater Lodge of Installed Masters No. 5391 EC and Lodge Cosmopolitan No. 428 SC Hong Kong

Respected Citizens: The History of Armenians in Singapore and Malaysia by Nadia H. Wright
http://www.amassia.com.au

Article by Peter Wesley-Smith on Marble Hall

Extracts from the minutes of the Hong Kong Legislative Council 1935

Hong Kong Public Records Office website
http://www.grs.gov.hk/

The National Archives at Kew, London – website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

The British Library, India Office Records, London
http://www.bl.uk/

The British Museum

Families in British India (FIBIS) based in the UK
www.fibis.org

The Armenian Church in Kolkata, and in particular the Pastor Very Rev. Father Oshagan Gulgulian who has been very supportive and enthusiastic about my ongoing project to photograph and display as many of the Armenian graves in India as I can. Fr. Oshagan Gulgulian has indeed furnished me with photographs of some of the more distant locations that I have not been able to travel to yet, such as Saidabad and Madras as well as some early photographs of the Armenian graves in Chinsurah. Without his invaluable help in supplying such material I would find it even more difficult to be able to get this information, and so I fully acknowledge his generosity and time he has given me. Thank you.
armenianchurch@sify.com

David Arathoon for contributing photographs of Sir Paul Chater and for helping edit pictures and graphics as well as assisting and advising me on the layout and design of my website.
http://www.davidarathoonstudio.com/

www.Rootsweb.com

Hong-Kong - mailing list and message board
India – mailing list and message board
Armenia – mailing list and message board
Chater – mailing list and message board

Also new cuz Steve Rac without his assistance, I would never have been able to get copies of the Chater Family Bible on my website and fill in so many gaps - thanks Cuz!

Richard and Beryl for taking the first pictures of Sir Paul’s grave whilst on holiday in Hong Kong in January 2005, many more where to follow, by many other people, but their's was the first.

Denis Way from Hong Kong for his invaluable help with research in Hong Kong at the records office there

Dr Dan Waters ISO BBS

Past President and Honorary Fellow Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch

I am indeed very grateful to Dan for his help and encouragement in putting the information together on this site and for assisting me and advising me with historical facts and information. Dan has very kindly called my work on this site "splendid", but what is splendid for me is that Dan has taken an interest in what I am doing! Thank you Dan.

To the various living relatives of Sir Catchick Paul Chater, such as Liz and Peter Lumsdon, and the Goldsworthy family, who have help me with dates, places and names and who have also supplied precious photographs of their families, thank you very much indeed. My thanks particularly to Desmond Chater (aka Jim) and his daughter Michele for giving me copies of family photographs and the family bible.

More thanks, this time to the late Paul Jordan and his family for information and photographs relating to their links to Sir Catchick Paul Chater.

A huge thank you to James Jordan and his wife Sumita for allowing me to use and print copies of their family photographs and in particular of Sir Catchick Paul Chater's home in Hong Kong, Marble Hall. Also for their time, effort, contribution and wonderful enthusiasm for this whole project. Their generosity with their family archive material has been terrific.

To my very good and long standing friend and confidant, Janet Gallacher for her advice on layout of content and general encouragement of this project.

To the Armenian College & Philanthropic Academy in Kolkata, but in particular, Fr. Oshagan Gulgulian, Manager of the ACPA, for their helpfulness and co-operation with my on-going research and for always allowing some desk space somewhere at the school for me to work.
www.armeniancollege.in

To Colleen Blanche, who without a doubt has made my many trips to Kolkata an absolute joy by her unwavering and fantastic support and hospitality in her home. Without Colleen my trips just wouldn't happen and the research wouldn't be half as detailed as it is. Thank you Colleen.

If I've missed anyone sorry! Let me know and I'll add you on here!

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