Jacob LaltooAge: 36 years1893–1929
- Name
- Jacob Laltoo
- Given names
- Jacob
- Surname
- Laltoo
| Birth | 1893 16 16 |
| Birth of a sister | Clara Laltoo 1896 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Frederick Laltoo 1901 (Age 8 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Reginald Horace Laltoo 1904 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a mother | Charlotte Ragoonath 1910 (Age 17 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Ralph Clarence Laltoo September 28, 1915 (Age 22 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Laura Winnifred Laltoo 1917 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Sybil Emily Laltoo 1919 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Sylvia Evelyn Laltoo 1923 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Joseph McCrorie Laltoo October 18, 1926 (Age 33 years) |
| Death | 1929 (Age 36 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Birth: May 1876 — Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Death: 1958 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| mother |
Charlotte Ragoonath Birth: 1877 — Trinidad Death: 1910 — Trinidad |
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9 years younger brother |
Frederick Laltoo Birth: 1901 24 24 — South Naparima, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1933 |
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-4 years younger sister |
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9 years younger brother |
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| Father’s family with Ethel Maude McCrorie |
| father |
Birth: May 1876 — Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Death: 1958 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| step-mother |
Birth: December 18, 1890 28 — Arima, Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago Death: March 28, 1972 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| half-brother |
Birth: September 28, 1915 39 24 — Diamond Village, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: August 26, 2004 — Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada |
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3 years half-sister |
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5 years half-sister |
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4 years half-brother |
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| Note |
Name: Jacob LALTOO
Age: 24
Gender: M
Year of Departure: 1917
Port of Departure: London
Destination: Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies |
| Note | 1913 - Jacob Laltoo wins a Colonial Scholarship!
At Naparima in 1909, at age 16, Jacob passed the Cambridge Exams for Junior Students with the highest standing (Dr. Coffin, acting principal). In 1910, Jacob passed the corresponding exam for senior students. (Dr. Scrimgeoeur, acting principal).
The principals both felt that Jacob could succeed in the British Colonial Scholarship competition - and that he could best do this at QRC. Upon their recommendation, he was admitted to the senior form at Queen's Royal College in January 1911. He passed the Senior Cambridge examinations with First Class Honours in December 1911 and wrote the same examinations the next year as a scholarship candidate.
In those days, it took months for the examination papers to travel to Cambridge University in England, and be marked.
In June of 1913, QRC Principal Mr. Burslem was sitting in the shade of one of the huge samaan trees bordering the QRC playing fields, at the school's Annual Sports Day, when he was summoned to the telephone at his house nearby. The newspaper office had called to inform him unofficially that QRC had won two of the three island-wide Colonial Scholarships! The names might be Laltoo and Weatherhead!
As it was Saturday, the suspense prevailed all weekend, until confirmed on Monday morning.
Great was the rejoicing at QRC, at fledgling Naparima College - and at Jacob's remote home in Diamond Village!
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| Note | "...Henry’s son with Charlotte, Jacob Laltoo, who served as a doctor on the European Front in World War I. He came home with shrapnel in his head and eventually died from it (there was no way to treat him properly in Trinidad). I have the crest of his army hat in my jewellery box."
Correspondence between Heather Ferguson and Kyle Shea Ring |
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