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seated left front is Thomas Coenrad Drysdale surrounded by his family . It seems the Indonesian government had renamed all the streets so Theresiakerkwek - Dutch for Theresia church road is now Jl. Gereja Theresia

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Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 29, 2021 at 22:42

https://javapost.nl/2010/10/05/weeshuizen-in-oorlogstijd-%c2%b4orde...

[Dutch]

Another interesting article , set in the Japanese occupation references a Miss Drijsdale .

https://www.facebook.com/notes/267203754616556

[Copy of the same article in English]

 read the comments 

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 29, 2021 at 22:08

                  photos courtesy of Michael Pringle 

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 29, 2021 at 20:50

William ,

I have been in contact with Micheal Pringle , the Author of  '' lives of my ancestors '' for quite some time -I think 2 of Michaels  photos are credited to him in this album . He provided a view into this story that Ben and Irene weren't aware of . This is a nugget that's just too good to be true. Sad to say what Pringle has written down is all the information he had .

Comment by William Douglas on November 29, 2021 at 19:49

More family details here:  https://livesofmyancestors.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/charles-mainwar...

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 29, 2021 at 17:05

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 29, 2021 at 16:59

The Dutch link was the lady [Nettije nee Haazart Drysdale] who sat for Thomas Baines portrait - In my understanding , Her grandfather had been employed by the Dutch as Governor .

Mr Murray  writes about Thomas C. Drysdale ...

  ''An interesting Scot was Drysdale. Ex Navy, he’d been booted for alleged pro Irish sympathies and found his way to Portuguese Timor, where he became a beeswax trader, moved to Dutch Timor and seemingly rehabilitated, became the Hon.Brit Consul. He married a Dutch mestizo woman, daughter of the Dutch Governor who’d resisted the Brit invasion. Perhaps a reader with time to spare could find out more about Drysdale’s alleged pro Irish sympathies in the Admiralty archives." 

 He goes on to say ...   

  ''the Dutch inhabitants have not entertained any very friendly feeling towards the English, although, strange to say, to a Scotchman they will evince the kindest attention…This Club was established almost entirely through the instrumentality of Mr. Drysdale, a Scotch merchant, and one of the oldest inhabitants of Koepang, who spared neither trouble nor expense in carrying out his object."...
I have been thru the Admiralty Archives records at great length , and have found nothing in regards to ''Irish sympathies'' concerning TCD or for that matter Thomas Cochrane Drysdale at all , as Mr. Murray suggests in this article .
A bit of critical thought here , if Thomas C. Drysdale got the boot , why would the British  make him Consul ?  Mr. Murray's credibility goes out the window here .
The Australian GS Walters was apparently  the one to put Thomas C. Drysdales name in the hat for Consul . Not Thomas .
18th July 1864  Volume 2 page 85-Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia:
   ...''All who are concerned in the Northern Territory Settlement are anxiously waiting for your communications Timor Koepang seems to me the point through which these communications must come It does not appear to me that the Dutch Government care to expedite them . At Timor Koepang there is I understand a British subject Thomas Cochrane Drysdale represented to me as a gentle man long resident there and naturalized as a Dutchman Whether he can be made serviceable or whether you will be able to select a person more competent for your requirements must be a matter for your determination''....
 G.S. WALTERS Agent General
The only links back to Sir William are Mr. John Murray [ he and Elizabeth Rigby had a friendship ]
and
Nettije's Obituary where it states 
...'' her sister-in-law (Miss A. Drysdale) settled near Melbourne, receiving large Imperial land grants. Some of the roads and a town are named after her.''...  I know that is slim .
Not a pretty bow to wrap this one up with ... at least as of yet. 

     

Comment by William Douglas on November 28, 2021 at 15:59

Have you worked out how this family link back to the Drysdale family in Scotland?
It seems there was a Dutch link?

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 28, 2021 at 14:04

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on November 23, 2020 at 1:34

The street in yellow below the church is the street the above photo was taken .


Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on December 28, 2019 at 16:13

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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