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Researching Armenian Family History in India
1600 - 1950

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Sir Catchick Paul Chater

 

 

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Liz Chater

 
1722-1977
By Liz Chater
 
And Other Residenc...
By Liz Chater
Unique and for the first time NEW ARMENIAN GENEALOGY in Dacca
with full colour photographs of the Armenian Graves, supplemented
with MANY family tree charts.
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this website was last updated on
21 May 2012:

*NEW PAGE*
*COMING SOON*
Armenian Graves at Surat
These graves have never been translated into English before.

Armenian Church Inventory (this is a list of items that includes donations from various members of the Armenian community over the years).

  Previous updates

*NEW PAGE*Armenian graves at Bushire

*NEW PAGE* Article: Armenians of Iraq

Armenian/Indian Research Publications *UPDATED April2012*

Anyone searching for their Indian Armenian ancestors must watch this - an award winning film by Tiran Karapetyan based on Julfa, where the deceased inhabitants tell you even more about their ancestors' glory than those alive..*NEW LINK*
 

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An unrelated grave memorial I cannot walk on by

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Top: Liz Chater, left to right: my father, Cyril Alexander Chater circ.1930 on the beach front at Weymouth, Cyril's father, Herbert Alfred Henry Chater taken in 1922 and Cyril's brother, Henry Walter John Chater also on the beach front at Weymouth, Dorset.

Family History research

Hello, my name is Liz Chater, my interest in tracing my family stems from not knowing anything about its origins! My site is steadily growing, and what started as a hobby has turned into a labour of love and a quest for knowledge. 

My research has also highlighted to me that there is very little information for the Armenian family history research with ancestors who were based in India.  To that end, I have chosen to try and help the many Armenian family history researchers in investigating this area with as much information as I am able to provide and to make it all available free of charge.  I have become passionate about Indian Armenian history and about the Armenian people and their lives generally, and hope that in some small way I can help to highlight this unique and remarkably robust, small but sturdy and determined group of exceptional people, and the chequered pattern of their complex history.  I am no historian, merely an enthusiastic amateur researcher who feels strongly about her ancestors and their early beginnings.  I hope I am able to help you find some answers too. 

Many hours of work have been put into the research and documentation of these ancestors. I hope you will benefit from the information I present here. There are also a number of CHATER names that are not related to me, but I have placed here to assist others with their research.

If you are looking for a specific name, I suggest you scroll down and use the Pico Search Engine.

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This website is completely unfunded and has no financial support whatsoever.  If you have found the information listed here useful, perhaps you would be good enough to consider making a small donation which would go directly towards helping of the running costs.


If you are a serious family history researcher and are looking for information that might help you with your Armenian ancestors/investigations you might like to consider these

Copyright: Nadia Wright 2005-2012

A well researched and written historical account of Armenians in Singapore and Malaysia.  Many Armenian families are mentioned in various geographical locations around the world.  If you are researching Armenian family history in Asia this book is a must for your library.  Enquiries and copies can be obtained from

 http://www.amassia.com.au

 

Copyright: Liz Chater 2005-2012

Sir Catchick Paul Chater, a maverick, cut-throat, wholly focused business man? Or perhaps a man deeply affected by his early traumatic childhood that made him always remember what it was like to have nothing? This Brief Personal Biography written by me, Liz Chater, and published by the Armenian Church in Kolkata, offers personal family history and details, that until now have never been in the public arena.   Enquiries and copies can be obtained from liz at chater-genealogy.com. (please use the @ sign)

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Send mail to me as above but because of excessive spam you will have to replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with the usual.


This is a site listing all the CHATER's found through birth, marriage and death research, as well as the indexed family file for my direct CHATER's, starting with Abraham Martyrose CHATER, compiled from research notes and birth, marriage and death records held at the Oriental and India Office at the British Library in London, as well a the Chater Family Bible which dates back to 1831, copies of which you can see on the Chater Family Bible page .

I strongly recommend you independently verify any of the information you are interested in from this website.

Privacy Filtering has been used to protect the living. However, if you find yourself on this site and wish to be removed, please email me immediately.

 


All material is copyrighted to ME - Liz Chater - (unless otherwise stated), but a small amount maybe used for personal research and not for monetary gain or other publications. Anything other than stipulated, requires written permission  from the author.

© 2000-2011 Liz Chater.  The author asserts her moral rights in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000  All rights reserved.  No part of this website may be reproduced by any process, without written permission from the author.  email: liz at chater-genealogy.com (replace the at with an @)