Before my mother left for her studies overseas, her family and relatives gathered for the send-off in KL and in Penang. There were a few photos taken of her family and relatives. One photo was taken at the Maxwell home which had a big garden. Another photo was when the family gathered at the KL railway station. In another photo the family gathered at her aunt's house in Kg Sg Gelugor in Penang. In another photo, the family and relatives gathered on board a ship, the
Carthage, which possibly docked at Swettenham Pier in Penang. That's what I know from reading history. I think my mother and her family visited their Penang relatives before she sailed to Englad in 1952. My mother said, her father was newly married when she was about to sail overseas. She said she met them both as both came to see her off. Her step-mother is in one of the family photos at the KL railway station and on board the ship Carthage. She's from Bangsar.
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In a train coach at KL railway station
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| Daisy Catherine (left) and eldest daughter Tulip at the KL railway station 1952 |
Family members and relatives gathered at KL railway station 1952. From left: Frederick William Bulner, Daisy Yvette (youngest), Daisy Catherine de Coursey Bulner (Tulip's mother), Chinese girl, Tulip (eldest), Beatrice Rudge (Tulip's cousin), Che-cheh (Hakka maid), June (third), Philip (boy), Esther (second) and Chinese girl (Mary Chong Nyet Lin @ Mariah). Back row: Vincent White and Olive Metcalf.
Group photo at KL Railway Station in 1952
From left: Frederick William Bulner, Daisy Yvette, Daisy Catherine, Tulip's classmate, Tulip's cousin Beatrice Rudge, Hakka maid Cheh-cheh, June, Vincent White (rear), Philip (little boy in front), Esther, Daisy Catherine's cousin Olive Metcalf, and Mary Chong Nyet Lin @ Mariah.
Year: 1952
Venue: KL Railway Station
Occasion: Going north KL-Penang to visit relatives in Penang. Before Tulip's send-off to England.
Present: Dr MJ Che Lah's family members. Please help to ID them.
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Comments
Esther Schokman
I think you have ID them except for the ones standing behind. Might be Che Wantum, Zaiton and maybe Beatrice Rudge, not too sure.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
TQ. Who is Zaiton?
Faridah Abdul Rashid
There is a man behind Uncle Philip, and between Aunty June and Aunty Esther. Who is this man?
Esther Schokman
The man might be Vincent White. The lady might be Olive Metcalf. I'm not very sure. Olive was my mother's cousin.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
TQ. I have uploaded Olive's wedding photo at my blog.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Who is Vincent White?
Faridah Abdul Rashid
The man wearing a hat at far left looks too old to be my grandfather. Is he my grandfather?
Md Al-Jeffrey Schokman
Yes definately not our grandfather. Too old
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Md Al-Jeffrey Schokman: Could be his father Md Joonos bin Shaik Ahmad
Md Al-Jeffrey Schokman
Dont know. But if it was him wow. That would be interesting.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Need someone to ID the man at extreme left.
Md Joonos bin Shaik Ahmad was known as Tok Bogart. Does this man resemble Humphrey Bogart?
Esther Schokman
He might be my mother's father as he usually uses a hat when he goes out, a felt hat.
Md Al-Jeffrey Schokman
Mum said that man with the hat is her mums' (Daisy) father. Fredrick Bulner
Faridah Abdul Rashid
TQ. So that is Fredrick Bulner.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
He was born in 1872. That makes him 80 years old in 1952.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Who is the Chinese girl between my grandmother and my mother?
Faridah Abdul Rashid
I think the Chinese girl holding my mother's hand maybe her classmate?
Esther Schokman
He was my parents friend who lived in Taiping working in the tin mines.
Was good at hunting wild boars and my father and a few other male friends would go hunting with him.
There is one photo of me taken in Maxwell home holding his heavy revolver. Delphine Kalasrt may know as she is related to him.
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Sounds interesting!
Faridah Abdul Rashid
Aunty Esther Schokman, Who was the man in Taiping? Vincent White?
