Graves at Malacca
Researching Armenian Family History in India
1600 - 1950

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Armenian Census Calcutta 1846
Armenian/Indian research publications
Armenians, Colonies & Churches in India
Armenian Graves In India
Armenian Graves in Hong Kong
Armenian Graves in the UK
Armenian Graves in Singapore and Malaysia
Armenian Graves in Australia
Graves at Lower Circular Road - Other Graves
Graves at the Roman Catholic Church, Calcutta
Historical Snippets
Surnames Directly Linked to my Family
My Direct Chater Ancestors
Chater's unrelated to my family
My Chater Family Bible
Part Index of the names at the IOR
The Andaman Island Photographs
Wills
Lady Chater
 

My Visit to Damascus

How armtown.com reported it

Article on Sir Paul Chater Hong Kong Standard May 2007.

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Aquy esta sepullado Tarcan filho de Ovanjan que falleceo em 3 de Janiero 1746  [Jacob Shamier]   Hail to thee who readest the epitaph on my tomb! Give me the news of my nation's freedom, for which I have passionately longed. [Tell me] if someone has risen among us, as deliverer and leader; which, while on earth, I earnestly desired. I, Yakobos, scion of respectable ancestors among the Ar­menians being their son,  I received the name Chamrchamian I was born in a foreign land, at Nor Tjoula, village of the Persians. On attaining twenty nine years of age, I came into my in­heritance, In this Malala (Malacca); the seventh of July, I ended my life, In the year of the Saviour 1774, I laid myself down to rest in this grave, which I myself acquired.( translated by M Macler, cited in  Mills J. V. (1936) ‘Note on the Armenian tombstones at Malacca’ in JMBRAS vol. 14 part 3 pp. 266)

Unknown showing funereal motifs including skull and crossbones, which does not mean the deceased was a pirate

Additional information added here May 2009. This translation below can be found in Mesrob Seth's book, Armenians in India" P.251. "Hail thou that readst the tablet of my tomb! wherein I now do sleep; Give me the news, the freedom of my countrymen, for them I did much weep; If there arose amongst them one good guardian to govern and to keep, Vainly I expected in the world to see a good shepherd come to look after the scattered sheep; I Jacob, the grandson* of Shameer, an Armenian of a respectable family whose name I keep, Was born in a foreign place in Persia, in New Julfa, where my parents now forever sleep;** Fortune brought me to this distant Malacca, which my remains in bondage doth keep; Separated from the world on the 7th July in the year of Lord 1774 at the aged of 29. And my mortal remains were deposited in this spot, in the ground which I had purchased." *In Seth's book P.592 it states that Jacob was actually the son of Shameer. **In Seth's book it states that his parents actually died in Madras. [Shameer Soolthanoomian and his wife Anna.  To see the graves in Madras click and follow this link]

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