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 Inscriptions Volume 2

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Date transcribed2013-04-15
Transcribed byRobert Charnock

View all other items of "Surname" with value "PALMER" in "Inscriptions Volume 2" Surname  PALMER    
Given Names  William    
Death Date  20 November (May) 1867    
Age  86 yrs    
Inscription  This monument contains the remains of William Palmer, who died 20 November (May) 1867, in his 87th year. He had been a resident of Hyderabad for nearly 70 years, where he was prominently known and his Memory requires no record. But he desires anxiuosly that the goodness of Hester Palmer his wife, towards him, should be known by this record drawn up on his deathbed. She was his comfort for the last 20 years of his life, which was involved generally in difficulties and distress. Her strong mind and good sense supported him during his sickness, and contributed in prolong his life, and her private means were employed to maintain him in ease and comfort when he was penniless, as indeed they were subsequently to educate some of his grandchildren, by whom she has loved, though not connected by blood, as though they were her own, and which she continues to do. May the blessings of Almighty and most merciful God be with her and her grandchildren and with us all    
View all other items of "Church/ Cemetery" with value "St George's Cemetery, Hyderabad, Deccan" in "Inscriptions Volume 2" Church/ Cemetery  St George's Cemetery, Hyderabad, Deccan    
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The data reproduced here was accumulated over many years by the late genealogists Lt.-Col Hubert Kendall Percy-Smith, FSG, and Brigadier Humphry Bullock, CIE, OBE, who realized the need to gather records of persons who served in British India as gravestone inscriptions were already subject to damage and erosion. They gathered them from a variety of sources published about the sub-continent, from church records, by transcribing records of gravestones, etc. The co-operation between these two gentlemen was very close and it is difficult, on many occasions, to determine which of them was responsible for the differing details of their work.

On his death, Lt.-Col. Percy-Smith bequeathed his work to the National Army Museum who subsequently made a gift of it to BACSA, the 'British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia'. BACSA have most kindly licensed us to reproduce their holdings here. Brigadier Bullock's daughter, Mrs Anne Macdonald, has generously given us to permission to publish his work.

It may be pointed out that Percy-Smith and Bullock endeavoured to compile service histories and even pedigrees using their source material. Their data in this respect is included in our transcriptions but it should be understood that it represents deductions made by these two gentlemen.

It should also be pointed out that some of their data may have been obtained directly, or otherwise, from the same sources that we present elsewhere. This may, of course, result in duplication which we trust will be acceptable to researchers
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