DUNCAN Family Tree

with links to British India

info from Joy Celia  jaycelia@yahoo.com

 

MARGARET DUNCAN (GOOD SHEPHERD CONVENT, BANGALORE) (b OCTOBER 19, 1923) AT ST MARY'S CHURCH, KOTAGIRI, married John HARRISON (b JULY 5, 1913). CHILDREN :

  1. GEOFFERY OTTO ANTHONY HARRISON (b 5TH FEBRUARY, 1939)

  2. JACQUELINE DOROTHY HARRISON (b 7TH APRIL, 1940)

  3. GEORGINA PHYLLIS HARRISON (b 10TH NOVEMBER, 1941)

  4. COLLEEN HARRISON (b 21ST NOVEMBER, 1943)

  5. DAPHNE EMILDA HARRISON (b 20TH MAY 1945)

  6. FRANCIS CHURCHILL HARRISON (b 25TH NOVEMBER, 1947)

  7. JOY CELIA HARRISON (b 22ND JANUARY, 1951)

  8. MARGARET MAY HARRISON (b 13TH MAY, 1954)

  9. JUNE PETUNIA HARRISON (b 24TH JUNE, 1954)

  10. SYLVIA HARRISON (b 19TH AUGUST, 1960, d 26/6/1987) .

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info from mjfonceca@aol.com
 

Sim DUNCAN married ??, children:

  1. Isis Yvonne DUNCAN (b 1/6/1917 India , d 25/11/1980 Canada)

Studied at St Kevin's Middle School & Bishop Currie's, Madras, India. Isis & Douglas migrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1973. Worked for many years as a telephone operator for The Indian Bank, Madras. Though she was tremendously happy to be with her children and grandchildren, she detested the bitter winters experienced in Western Canada. She had so much to look forward to, but regrettably she succumbed to cancer.
 

Next Generation

Isis Yvonne DUNCAN (b 1/6/1917 India , d 25/11/1980 Canada) on 4 Jan 1941 in Royapuram married Douglas Robert FONCECA (b 1916, India, d 13/11/1980, Canada, son of Robert Edwin and Daisy Ethel Fonceca), children:

  1. Jean Fonceca

  2. Colleen Fonceca

  3. Greer Fonceca

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Info supplied by Stan Blackford blackford@chariot.net.au author of  "One Hell of a Life"

 

? DUNCAN (Scottish ex-soldier who became a guard on the East Indian Railway at Asansol) married Millicent ? (Doris was the fifth child from a family of eight children): Children:

  1. Rhoda Doris Duncan

Next Generation

Rhoda Doris DUNCAN (known as Doris) married Edward George BLACKFORD (b 21 Sep 1885, and baptised eleven days later into the Church of England at St Stephen's Church, 3 Diamond Harbour Road, Kidderpore.) Edward carried on the family tradition by following his grandfather, father and numerous uncles and brothers into marine engineering. He served his King and country during the first World War, surviving three ships torpedoed under him. He was Church of England and a Freemason, as were all the 'best' people in India at the time. He belonged to the establishment. He and his family were the salt of the earth, the stuff of which the British Empire was built. When he decided to forsake the sea-faring life, he went to England, sat for the entrance examination for the Bengal Provincial Service, and was appointed to the Bengal Government Factory Boilers Commission. . Edward and Doris set up house at 17/1 Bedford Lane in Calcutta, where they started their family. Children:

  1. Harry Tridon Blackford, (b 1919, d after two weeks.

  2. Stanley Tridon Blackford, (b 26th May, 1920,)

  3. Frank Tridon Blackford, (b 2nd Dec, 1922.) became a marine engineer, and retired at Whyalla in South Australia.

 

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