If you're looking
for the Armenian Graves in India page, click on the
dancing skeletons below to go straight there
Top: Liz
Chater, left to right: my father, Cyril Alexander Chater
circ.1930 on the beach front at Weymouth, Cyril's
father, Herbert Alfred Henry Chater taken in 1922 and
Cyril's brother, Henry Walter John Chater also on the
beach front at Weymouth, Dorset.
Family History research
Hello, my name is
Liz Chater, my interest in tracing my family stems from not knowing anything
about its origins! My site is steadily growing, and what started as a hobby has
turned into a labour of love and a quest for knowledge.
My research has
also highlighted to me that there is very little information for the Armenian
family history research with ancestors who were based in India. To that
end, I have chosen to try and help the many Armenian family history researchers
in investigating this area with as much information as I am able to provide and
to make it all available free of charge. I have become passionate about
Indian Armenian history and about the Armenian people and their lives generally,
and hope that in some small way I can help to highlight this unique and
remarkably robust, small but sturdy and determined group of exceptional people,
and the chequered pattern of their complex history. I am no historian,
merely an enthusiastic amateur researcher who feels strongly about her ancestors
and their early beginnings. I hope I am able to help you find some answers
too.
Many hours of work
have been put into the research and documentation of these ancestors. I hope you
will benefit from the information I present here. There are also a number of
CHATER names that are not related to me, but I have placed here to assist others
with their research.
If you are looking
for a specific name, I suggest you scroll down and use the Pico Search Engine.
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This
website is
completely unfunded and has no financial support
whatsoever. If you have found the information
listed here useful, perhaps you would be good enough to consider making a small donation which
would go directly towards helping of the running costs.
If you are a
serious family history researcher and are looking for
information that might help you with your Armenian
ancestors/investigations you might like to consider these
Copyright: Nadia
Wright 2005-2008.
A well researched and written
historical account of Armenians in Singapore and Malaysia.
Many Armenian families are mentioned in various geographical
locations around the world. If you are researching
Armenian family history in Asia this book is a must for your
library. Enquiries and copies can be obtained from
Sir Catchick Paul Chater, a
maverick, cut-throat, wholly focused business man? Or
perhaps a man deeply affected by his early traumatic
childhood that made him always remember what it was like to
have nothing? This Brief Personal Biography written by me,
Liz Chater, and published by the Armenian Church in Kolkata,
offers personal family history and details, that until now
have never been in the public arena. Enquiries
and copies can be obtained from liz at chater-genealogy.com.
(please use the @ sign)
Has my
website been helpful in your research?
Would you consider making a donation to the upkeep and maintenance please?
Click
on the following SECURE link
Contact Information
send email to liz at chater-genealogy dot com
Send mail to me as above but because of excessive spam you will have to
replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with the usual.
This is a site listing all the CHATER's found through birth, marriage and
death research, as well as the indexed family file for my direct CHATER's,
starting with Abraham Martyrose CHATER, compiled from research notes and
birth, marriage and death records held at the Oriental and India Office at
the British Library in London, as well a the Chater Family Bible which dates
back to 1831, copies of which you can see on the
Chater Family Bible page .
I strongly recommend you independently verify any of the information you are
interested in from this website.
Privacy Filtering has been used to protect the living. However, if you find
yourself on this site and wish to be removed, please email me immediately.
this website last updated on
08 April 2008
All material is copyrighted to ME - Liz Chater - (unless otherwise stated),
but a small amount maybe used for personal research and
not for monetary gain or other publications. Anything
other than stipulated, requires written permission from the author.