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*This British Raj List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301732351 thread] led to a British Raj list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301860937 post] with a transcription of a newspaper report about the Lillywhite family, poisoned by arsenic by the family cook in Mandalay, c 1899, resulting in three deaths. ''The Times of Burma'' is mentioned as a research resource.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-05/1306290994 post] is about the book ''The Autobiography of a Wanderer In England and Burma: Memoirs of a Former Mayor of Rangoon'' by Charles Haswell Campagnac, published 2011, with more details [http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-autobiography-of-a-wanderer-in-england-burma/15691800# here]. The author was a lawyer born 1886 in India, with a [[French]] Huguenot ancestor. Covers the period to World War 2, including the bombing by the Japanese and subsequent flight to India.
*[http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hu170911Leaving.asp Burmese Prince Moung Lat was a British state prisoner in India for 54 years] during which time he married the daughter of an Australian widow. Tehelka.com
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