5th generation Oswald. 1897

Oswald - seemed to his parents as being at a loose end when he married Mary Andrews in 1918 in Bangalore, he is described as a Banksman (signal man) and she is described as a spinster from Bangalore, she was born in Guntakal, Madras, he was 22 she was 16. The marriage was arranged by his parents and the convent authorities as Mary was living in a Bangalore convent home, the reason for her being there is unknown, but most likely her father Tom Andrews; who was an only parent could not look after her.





                                                                



The entries on the marriage record show her father as Tom Andrews born in 1882 in Madras, his father was called William Andrews nothing is known of his mother or wife. At some stage Oswald and Mary move to the KGF, ( Kolar Gold Fields ) they had 7 Children Arthur (Norman) born 1922,  Olive, Denzil,  Gladys born 1929, Sydney, Kenneth, & Albert born 1941. Mary died in 1943 age 41.
Oswald was at this time working in the gold mines in KGF.




                        

     


Arthur ( Norman ) married Victoria (Cecelia) Sequeira in 1947 in KGF, prior to this they both served in the forces during the war - Norman in the Navy, Cecelia in the Army.

Olive married Oscar Vanderputt, I am unsure of their following life only that in the 1960's they moved to the UK  had six children, Heather, Gordon, Charlotte, Bonny, Hazel and Neville. In KGF she was a nurse at the Hospital. They both died between 1980 & 1990 and are buried in Essex.

Denzil married Gladys DeMonte in Madras, they had two children, Charlotte and Clayton (Billy), Charlotte died in 2015 of cancer. Denzil also worked in the mines in KGF in the early years, in later life he became a Jehovah's Witness lay preacher, he died sometime in the 1990's.

Sydney married Valerie Cruz Bothwick and later divorced, they had two children. Sydney was a bandsman in the Navy, he died between 1980 & 1990 and is buried in Madras.

Gladys married Arthur Bruce and lived in Bombay, they moved for a while to the UK in the 1960's, after a few years left and re-settled in Sydney Australia where they are both buried. They had 4 children, Jeffrey, Glenda, Derek and Paul.

Kenny never settled down or married, nothing else is know of his life. He died in the 1990's and is buried in Madras.

Albert married Patricia Staunton and lived their earlier lives in Imphal northern India where Albert spent his school days and youth at the Christian Mission. They had Four children Lloyd, Gordon, Keith and Olive. Albert ran an English school in northern India, eventually going back south and re-settling in Bangalore with the family.

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