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Date transcribed2016-04-22
Transcribed byPeter Evans
CommentNational Library of Wales - Death notices in Welsh publications of people with India connection

View all other items of "Surname" with value "Hughes" in "Calcutta Death notices" Surname  Hughes    
Given names  Josiah    
Rank/ Profession  Resident Chaplain to the East India Company    
View all other items of "Place" with value "Malacca" in "Calcutta Death notices" Place  Malacca    
Year  1840    
Month  November    
Day  25    
Entry  On the 25th of November, aged 38, at Malacca, from an attack of cholera, the Rev. Josiah Hughes, Resident Chaplain to the East India Company. Mr. Hughes was a native of Liverpool, and the eldest son of Mr. John Hughes, an Elder in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist connexion in that town. He went out to Malacca, in the year 1830, in the service of the London Missionary Society but in 1833, for reasons which it is unnecessary to state here, he accepted Episcopal ordination by Dr, Wilson, the excellent Bishop ot Calcutta, and continued to discharge the duties of his office, up to the period of his death, with great satisfaction.     
Publication  The Cambrian    
Edition Year  1841    
Edition date  May    
Day  15    
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Welsh Newspapers Online (1804-1919) (http://newspapers.library.wales/home). 700 english language entries transcribed from the Family Notices that have a reference to 'Madras'. Transcribed by Peter Evans with the cooperation of the National Library of Wales.
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