(none) TeelucksinghAge: 52 years1845–1897
- Name
- (none) Teelucksingh
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- Teelucksingh
Tilak Singh
- Name
- Tilak Singh
- Given names
- Tilak
- Surname
- Singh
Note: Anthony Victor Teelucksingh suggested that Tilak Singh might have originally been Teelucksingh's name (see note below) and Pearl Ramcharan Crowley agreed that was likely.
| Birth | 1839 Citation details: Tombstone transcribed by Angelo Bissessarsingh Text: Ramadheen was son of Teelocksingh (1839-97) of India |
| Birth | 1845 Note: In Arrah. |
| Immigration | |
| Birth of a son #1 | Ramadheen (Robert) Teelucksingh July 18, 1872 (Age 27 years) Citation details: Tombstone transcribed by Angelo Bissessarsingh Text: IN LOVING MEMORY OF RAMADHEEN TEELUCKSINGH BORN JULY 18TH 1872 DIED MARCH 27TH 1914. |
| Emigration | 1875 (Age 30 years) |
| Marriage | Jumni (Christine) Ramdialsingh — View this family 1875 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Bachwanti (Eleanora) “Batchi” Teelucksingh 1878 (Age 33 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Ramadheen (Robert) Teelucksingh July 18, 1882 (Age 37 years) |
| Birth of a son #4 | Ramharrack (Henry) “Harrack” Teelucksingh January 14, 1885 (Age 40 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | Jagwanti (Agnes) “Margie Nani” Teelucksingh 1887 (Age 42 years) |
| Birth of a son #6 | Hon. Ramsaran (Lionel) “Sarran” Teelucksingh 1889 (Age 44 years) Note: Place of birth from Indian Centenary Review. |
| Birth of a daughter #7 | Rajwanti (Virginia) “Rajie Auntie” Teelucksingh 1891 (Age 46 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #8 | Baswanti (Eugenia) Teelucksingh 1893 (Age 48 years) |
| Occupation | Shopkeeper and Importer Corporation: General Merchandise Store Publication: Read at the XIth International Congress of Folk Narrative Research, Mysore, India, Jan. 6-12, 1995. Text: They now broadened their scope, dealing in many other things such as groceries, hardware, and imported goods. But what is rarely mentioned is that they also ran a rumshop, or that they were money-lenders, and often foreclosed on property on which they had lent money. Soon they owned substantial cacao, coconut, and sugar estates, and had their own barges to bring imported products from the Port of Spain wharves to Monkey Point, where their teams of horses transported the goods to their general merchandise store in the village of California, south of Chaguanas. |
| Occupation | Proprietor and Landowner Corporation: family cocoa, coconut, and sugar estates |
| Occupation | Indentured Servant |
| Residence | 1897 (Age 52 years) Address: on the corner of Southern Main Road & Teelucksingh Street. Text: She lived with Teelucksingh until the day he died in May 16, 1897, on the corner of Southern Main Road & Teelucksingh Street. |
| Death | May 13, 1897 (Age 52 years) Note: Mrs E. Baggoo has a document that lists the date of Teelucksingh's death as May 16, 1897. |
| Burial | Address: St. Andrews Anglican Church Cemetery: Couva Anglican Text: Teelucksingh (his tombstone in Couva Anglican cemetery spells it Teelocksingh)... Publication: http://wikimapia.org/10510524/Historic-Tomb Text: Historic Tomb (Couva)
Trinidad and Tobago / Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo / Couva
Grave of the Teelucksingh family. Earliest burial is dated to 1897. It contains some magnificnet Italian marble statuary, the like of which exists nowhere else in Trinidad. It also contains a huge memorial mausoleum dating from 1909.
Coordinates: 10°25'22"N 61°28'18"W |
| Caste | Chutri (Kshatriya ) Note: Kshatriya - warrior / landowner / administrator caste (varna)
Chutri - Trinidadian name for Kshatriya |
| Family with Jumni (Christine) Ramdialsingh |
| himself |
(none) Teelucksingh Birth: 1845 — Zillah, Bhojpur, Bihar, India Death: May 13, 1897 — California, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago |
| wife |
Jumni (Christine) Ramdialsingh Birth: 1863 — Sum Sum Hill, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1926 |
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Marriage: 1875 — |
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4 years daughter |
Bachwanti (Eleanora) “Batchi” Teelucksingh Birth: 1878 33 15 |
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-5 years son |
Birth: July 18, 1882 37 19 — California, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago Death: May 27, 1914 — Villa Windermere, Balmain, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago |
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13 years son |
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3 years daughter |
Birth: 1887 42 24 Death: 1950 — San Fernando, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago |
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3 years son |
Birth: 1889 44 26 — California Village, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1945 — Trinidad and Tobago |
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3 years daughter |
Rajwanti (Virginia) “Rajie Auntie” Teelucksingh Birth: 1891 46 28 Death: 1940 |
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3 years daughter |
Baswanti (Eugenia) Teelucksingh Birth: 1893 48 30 |
| Joseph Sellier + Jumni (Christine) Ramdialsingh |
| wife’s husband |
Joseph Sellier Birth: 1880 — Martinique Death: 1963 |
| wife |
Jumni (Christine) Ramdialsingh Birth: 1863 — Sum Sum Hill, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1926 |
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Marriage: 1902 — |
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2 years step-son |
Paul “Pauly” Sellier Birth: 1903 23 40 |
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2 years step-son |
Luke Sellier Birth: 1904 24 41 Death: 1934 |
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3 years step-son |
James “Hutch” Sellier Birth: 1906 26 43 Death: 1934 |
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3 years step-daughter |
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| step-son |
| Birth | Website: Flickr, Angelo Bissessarsingh Citation details: Tombstone transcribed by Angelo Bissessarsingh Text: Ramadheen was son of Teelocksingh (1839-97) of India |
| Occupation | Chronicle: Memorats of Migration: Stories of an East Indian Family in Trinidad Publication: Read at the XIth International Congress of Folk Narrative Research, Mysore, India, Jan. 6-12, 1995. Text: They now broadened their scope, dealing in many other things such as groceries, hardware, and imported goods. But what is rarely mentioned is that they also ran a rumshop, or that they were money-lenders, and often foreclosed on property on which they had lent money. Soon they owned substantial cacao, coconut, and sugar estates, and had their own barges to bring imported products from the Port of Spain wharves to Monkey Point, where their teams of horses transported the goods to their general merchandise store in the village of California, south of Chaguanas. |
| Residence | Correspondence between Mrs. E. Baggoo and Magdalene Crowley Text: She lived with Teelucksingh until the day he died in May 16, 1897, on the corner of Southern Main Road & Teelucksingh Street. |
| Name | Genealogy of Anthony Victor Teelucksingh |
| Burial | Chronicle: The Teelucksingh Family Text: Teelucksingh (his tombstone in Couva Anglican cemetery spells it Teelocksingh)... |
| Burial | Website: Wikimapia.org, Historic Tomb (Couva) Publication: http://wikimapia.org/10510524/Historic-Tomb Text: Historic Tomb (Couva)
Trinidad and Tobago / Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo / Couva
Grave of the Teelucksingh family. Earliest burial is dated to 1897. It contains some magnificnet Italian marble statuary, the like of which exists nowhere else in Trinidad. It also contains a huge memorial mausoleum dating from 1909.
Coordinates: 10°25'22"N 61°28'18"W |
| Caste | Genealogy of Pearl Ramcharan-Crowley |
| Note | Correspondence from Anthony Victor Teelucksingh to Magdalene Crowley |
| Source | Genealogy of Pearl Ramcharan-Crowley Text: Teelucksingh: b. 1845 near Arrah on the border of United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar about 50 miles north of Varanasi (Benares); a member of the Kshatriya "Chutri" warrior/landowner caste; d. May 13, 1897, California, T&T. |
| Source | Chronicle: Memorats of Migration: Stories of an East Indian Family in Trinidad Publication: Read at the XIth International Congress of Folk Narrative Research, Mysore, India, Jan. 6-12, 1995. Text: As a child, Jumni was married to a Kshatriya indenture named Teelucksingh, from Arrah, west of Patna and north of Varanasi, an eldest son who had chosen indenture for the adventure of seeing "the golden streets" of Trinidad. He was astute in business, and so was she, so they soon prospered, and decided to return to India with their two young children. But in India they were unhappy because his family considered his overseas-born wife "outcast," especially when the non-vegetarian little girl kept calling for chicken to eat, so they returned to Trinidad.
This decision committed them to Trinidad. They now broadened their scope, dealing in many other things such as groceries, hardware, and imported goods. But what is rarely mentioned is that they also ran a rumshop, or that they were money-lenders, and often foreclosed on property on which they had lent money. Soon they owned substantial cacao, coconut, and sugar estates, and had their own barges to bring imported products from the Port of Spain wharves to Monkey Point, where their teams of horses transported the goods to their general merchandise store in the village of California, south of Chaguanas. They had a fine home, lived well but worked hard, and had seven children. Then in 1897 at age 52, Teelucksingh died. |
| Birth | In Arrah. |
| Name | Anthony Victor Teelucksingh suggested that Tilak Singh might have originally been Teelucksingh's name (see note below) and Pearl Ramcharan Crowley agreed that was likely. |
| Death | Mrs E. Baggoo has a document that lists the date of Teelucksingh's death as May 16, 1897. |
| Caste | Kshatriya - warrior / landowner / administrator caste (varna)
Chutri - Trinidadian name for Kshatriya |
| Note | I have a theory on the name Teelucksingh that you've probably already thought of. Is is possible that the man's name was Tilak Singh? I'm told that to Indian ears, "Teelucksingh" sounds a bit like saying "Johnsmith". Since Tilak is a common nort h Indian given name, perhaps his name was something like Tilak Singh "X" where "X" would have been a caste or village name. I've had Indians insist that I'm missing part of my name!
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Interestingly, both my grandfather Horace (I'm told by my dad that his father's name was actually Victor Russell Teelucksingh, and Horace was a nickname) and my father signed their surname with a capital "S", like this -- TeeluckSingh. Some of my father's brothers and sisters sign their name the same way. |
| Burial | Format: image/jpeg Image dimensions: 1,024 × 768 pixels File size: 514 KB Type: Photo Citation details: Photo by Angelo Bissessarsingh Date of entry in original source: August 9, 2010 Text:
Teelucksingh Family Tomb, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church , Couva.
A magnificent if neglected enclosure containing some early 20th century tombs belonging to a rich Christian Indian family of the Couva district. This family produced many luminaries, including pioneering Indian politician , Sarran Teelucksingh and former Speaker of the House of Representatives , Barendra Sinnanan. The wrought iron enclosure fences a huge central monument, with castle-like turrets and constructed of blue limestone blocks from the Laventille quarries . Similar blocks were used in the erection of the old Police Headquarters in Port-of-Spain (1890) and the San Fernando Police Station (1873). The enclosure also includes two of the most magnificent marble statues to be seen in any cemetery in Trinidad, including Lapeyrouse. These monuments are executed in fine Italian style and must have cost a fortune when they were installed in the early 20th century. The plot however, is sadly in need of maintenance and one of the statues has been vandalized.
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