6,291
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
*Times of India Calendar & Directory for 1888 page 441, transcribed by Sylvia Murphy. Note that by this date only one orphan belonged to the Military Asylum, funded by the Government, "the Government having prohibited new additions".<ref>Murphy, Sylvia [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255334436 Schools in Byculla] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 12 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2014.</ref>
remove/redirect broken links
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gjczAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA818 "Table of Mortality for ages from birth to twenty years framed from the Registers of the Lower Orphan School, Calcutta"] by H. T. Prinsep Esq. page 818 ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 7 1838'' Google Books. Includes the statement
:"…the volumes which show the name of every child, the date of his admission, and the manner of his having been disposed of, are deposited in the library of the Asiatic Society…"
:The Library of the [http://asiaticsocietycalwww.comasiaticsocietykolkata.org/ Asiatic Society of Kolkata] has not responded to email requests trying to clarify whether these records are still held. It seems that a personal visit to Kolkata, with recommendations sufficient to gain entry to the Library, would be necessary to attempt to clarify this matter, and perhaps then to view the records.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=4UNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA487 Rules and Regulations c 1851] concerning admission. (Scroll down page) ''Bengal Almanc for 1851'', page 487
*Removal of the Military Asylum to [[Poona]] was considered in this 1864 Report [http://books.google.com/books?id=vaQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA91 Google Books]
*With the foundation of the Bombay Volunteer Rifles in 1877, a Cadet Unit was established at the school, refer [http://www.archive.org/stream/firstannualrepor00indi#page/36/mode/2up ''First Annual Report Of The Bombay Volunteer Rifles For Season 1877-78''], page 36 Archive.org
*David King’s webpage states that in the early 1920’s a decision was made to move the Boarding part of the Schools away from Bombay to the cooler and healthier Deccan Plateau. In 1925 Barnes High School, named after the Venerable Archdeacon George Barnes, founder of the Bombay Education Society, was opened at Devlali. Much of the School land at Bycullah was sold . Christ Church School, Bycullah, with the parish church there, stand on part of the land given originally to the B.E.S. More details are in [http://home.the-wire.com/~raga/bhs.html David King’s webpage] about Barnes High School, Devlali.
*[http://www.bdtapvtltd.org/christ.htm Christ Church Byculla]
