Purvis Farquhar » (1819-1856)

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First birth registered in Singapore

Agnes accompanied her grandfather, Wm Farquhar, when he left Singapore in 1824. She would have been only 5 years old at the time and was, presumably, bein
g sent back to Scotland for her education.

She was still in Scotland in 1831 (Letter from Esther Bernard to her father, William Farquhar, 11.2.1831. Refers to Agnes sending her a letter, dated N
ovember 1929, which took 14 months to reach her mother in Singapore. The letter was enclosed in a bundle with old clothes belonging to Elizabeth Caroline Farquhar's children from her first marriage to
John Campbell Burton. The parcel also contained "a few presents of Needlework" with which Esther was "highly pleased" as they were "all very sweetly & prettily worked" and showed "her great taste as
well as much improvement made in this branch of her Education".

Agnes was back in Singapore by 1834:

"Agnes, thank God enjoys her health in [this?] Country very well. She is growing very
tall and stout & will I think be an immense woman." 27.1.2.1834 Esther Bernard writing to her daughter Emma Bernard, in Scotland for her education. Transcribed by Andrewe Dlugolecki, February 2009.p>

By September 1837. Agnes and her husband, George Maryat Gumm were in Madras, India. Letter dated 17.9.1837 William Farquhar to his granddaughter, Emma Bernard, sister to Agnes.

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    Birthday July 25, 1819

    • The temperature on July 25, 1819 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1819: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 6 » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
      • February 17 » The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
      • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
      • June 16 » A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6m high, 6km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
      • August 7 » Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
      • December 17 » Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
    

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