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Name Martha AVENAL, 6300
Birth ca 1813
Death 1891 Age: 78
Spouses:
1 Godlieb M VAN SOMEREN, 6298
Birth 8 10 1790, Negapatam, Tanjore District, Tamil Nadu
Death 10 1853, Madras Age: 62
Burial 1853, LMS cemetery, Purusawaulkam, Madras Age: 62
Occupation General Merchant, East India Company
Father Pieter William VAN SOMEREN, 6351 (-1797)
Mother Catherina Dorothea MAR_VAN SOMEREN, 6365
Marriage abt 1838
Children: Catherine Antoinette, 6312 (1839-1925)
Emma Jane, 6314 (1841-)
Godlieb James, 6315 (1842-1915)
John Smith (Died as Child), 6317 (1844-1845)
Helen Rowena (Died as Child), 6318 (1845-1855)
Lucy Priscilla, 6319 (1849-)
Notes for Martha AVENAL
Vansom.ged201208. Glaser-Köngeter : "It was so lovely when Mother (a daughter of Hetta née Wolff) left the heat of the plains to go up to the Blue Mountains, the Nilgherries. She visited her grandmother there a few times; she was Great-grandfather's (Godlieb va n S) second wife, outliving him by 38 years (she died in 1891 aged 78), and spent her widowhood in "Kelso Villa" in Ootacamund in the Blue Mountains. Before Mother came to Tanjore she had been with her grandmother for six months
Notes for Godlieb M (Spouse 1)
Vansom.ged201208. Merchant in Royapuram, Madras. At one time a member of the East India Company. Lived in 'Marble Hall'

On the Madras Religious Tract Society Committe as Asst. Sec. (Madras Almanac 1834) & a member of the L.M.S. Auxiliary Society's committee (Madras Almanac 1846).

Probably became involved with the London Missionary Society through the marriage of his sister Emilia Antoinette in 1814 to Rev. Joseph Taylor, an LMS missionary.
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