Thayetmyo

Thayetmyo
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	19.325°N 95.183056°E
Altitude:	52 m (171 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Thayetmyo
State/Province:	Magway Division
Country:	Burma
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Thayetmyo, a port on the right (western) bank of the Irrawaddy River, was the headquarters of Thayetmyo District in the Minbu Division of Burma during the British period. A cantonment was built in 1854.

A brief comment that in 1877-8 Thayetmyo was a Frontier Station

Allanmyo situated on the opposite (left) bank of the river, about half an hour upstream by boat, contained extra barrack accommodation for European troops, in case of an epidemic breaking out at Thayetmyo.

Spelling variants

Modern name: Thayetmyo
It is likely that Thayetingo, where British troops were based, is the same place as Thayetmyo, possibly even a incorrect transcription of the name. If not, it seems Thayetingo would be located somewhere in the Thayet District.

Churches

• Christ Church, Thayetmyo 1860. Church of England.

External links

Historical books on-line

• Map of the Irrawaddy River, July 1952 showing Thayetmyo, facing page 43 Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section), published July 1952 or later. Archive.org
• Thayetmyo Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23 page 354
  
• "Thayet District" , page 728 The British Burma Gazetteer Volume 2, A-Z (1879) Archive.org
• "Thayet-myo", page 770 The British Burma Gazetteer Volume 2, A-Z (1879) Archive.org
• "Annual Sanitary Report of the Station of Thayet Myo, for 1858-59" by J. L. Ranking, Esq., Ex-Officio Sanitary Officer, page 114 Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science Volume 2 1861 Google Books
• "Report of an Epidemic of Cholera at Thayetmyo, British Burmah in 1869, especially with reference to its appearance in the head-quarters and right wing of Her Majesty’s 76th Regiment" by Surgeon WA Thomson, M.B. 76th Regiment, page 392 Army Medical Department Report for the year 1869 Google Books
• The cantonment at Thayetmyo, stationed on the very frontier [1871-1872] page 81 The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia. A Personal Narrative of Travel and Adventure in Farther India by Frank Vincent Jnr 1874 Archive.org.
• Thayetmyo page 12 The Ficus elastica in Burma proper or a narrative of my journey in search of it : a descriptive account of its habits of growth and the process followed by the Kakhyens in the preparation of caoutchouc by G. W. Strettell. 1876 Archive.org [Natural rubber, or India rubber]
• Thayetmyo page 252 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897 “South East Asia Visions” Cornell University