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In message <3.0.6.32.20030308104051.0090f2d0(a)pop.pacific.net.hk>, Ron
Clibborn-Dyer <roncd(a)despammed.com> writes
>Hello Roz,
>What a wonderful find you have there.
>We have a group of CLIBBORN family descendants who would all be
>very interested to read the contents of that manscript from John
>Clibborn on his time in India.
>We are spread all over the world from UK to USA, South America,
>China, Australia & New Zealand.
>It would be simply wonderful if we could transcribe it into a
>digital form to share amongst those who are interested in this
>period of Imperial and CLIBBORN family history.
>What do you plan to do with it?
Hello Ron and all other members of what looks to be quite an illustrious
family! I am glad to have made contact with you, as this manuscript is
indeed a delight and I look forward to being able to share it with you
all as soon as I have finished transcribing it.
I'll give you a little bit of background to myself first - I am a keen
collector of old manuscript journals, diaries and other similar ephemera
(hand written recipe books etc.), because along with my interest in
history, I also run journal and diary writing workshops and give talks
on old journals and journal writing for family historians.
As a book and print dealer, I have contacts in the book trade that know
of my interests in these sorts of items, and are kind enough to keep a
look out for anything that might interest me.
A couple of weeks ago, just such an item turned up, and turned out to be
the manuscript which I now know to have been written by John Clibborn.
It is 56 pages long, and his name only appears on the last few pages,
when he refers to himself in the third person - so I was immensely lucky
to find that reference, because I am fairly certain that I do not have
the whole document. I think that the latter part of it might have
disappeared some while ago though, because the back page of what I have
is very battered and grimy, suggesting that it had been the end paper
for quite some time. I wonder what has been lost - but never mind, there
are 56 pages here and I'll do my best to transcribe them for you all.
I will be making use of this manuscript along with some others to
hopefully make a TV documentary on how old diaries can help family
historians to discover more about their ancestors, with location work
and a number of readings and reconstructions if possible - so you never
know, I might one day ask some of you if you would care to help me a
little further with my research by appearing on screen with me!
I have already "featured" in one, five minute documentary over here in
the UK - I call it my "five minutes of fame", but it was great fun! If
anyone saw the first series of "Revealing Secrets" on Channel 4, there
was a little article on there about some letters (again from India) that
I found in a car boot sale some years ago. To read more about those
particular items and that programme, go to my website and click on
"Books, Prints and Ephemera".
http://www.autumncottage.co.uk
As a result of that programme, several other people connected with the
family involved have found new links in their own family history, so I'm
hoping that by making my own documentary, more people will connect up
even more links - and hopefully also start writing their own journals
for their own ancestors!
As far as this Clibborn document is concerned, I will certainly be able
to put it on CD, with a copy of the original also scanned, that I can
then pass on to anyone interested (for a nominal charge, to cover
materials, P&P and a fraction of my time!)
>
>I have briefly visited your web-site and I am most impressed.
>Congtratulations on a wonderful web-site.
Very kind of you to say so, Ron. Thank you!
>I see you have acquired a white porcelain figure of Kwan Yin
>[Kwun Yam] the Boddhisatva of Compassion more commonly known
>as the Goddess of Mercy.
>My wife Veronica and I are the Guardians of a Chinese Temple
>in the hills of South China in Hong Kong, the main temple hall
>of which is dedicated to Kwan Yin or Kwun Yam as the Cantonese
>and Hakka people call her.
>If you are interested inlearning more about her - the book to read
>is "Bodhisattva of Compassion - The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin"
>by John Blofeld ISBN 0-87773-126-8 (pbk) published in 1977 in USA
>by Shambala Publications.
>
Thank you very much for this information - she is one of my treasured
possessions. If you are in Hong Kong, my cousin no doubt knows the
temple of which you are Guardian. She also lives in Hong Kong, up on
the Peak, and takes a great interest in her cultural environment. I will
pass this information on to her, with your permission.
>I am copying this to the CLIBBORN list so that other subscribers
>will receive it too, as I am sure you will hear from more of us.
Greatly look forward to hearing from any one else on the list, and
possibly to meeting some of you in the future?
Kindest regards
Roz C.
--
Roz Cawley roz(a)autumncottage.co.uk
Autumn Cottage Diary http://www.autumncottage.co.uk
I have recently acquired a 56 page manuscript of a journal/memoir
written by Lieutenant (later Colonel) John CLIBBORN relating to the
years 1878/80, during which time he was engaged in building the Lower
Ganges Canal in India.
He describes using what he believed to be the first
telephone in India, recounts tiger hunting and conversations with
elderly women who had been through the Mutiny, and many of his
activities during the canal building.
He also recounts his furlough (of nearly a year) back to England and
Ireland, from where I believe his family originated. Hunting and country
house stays to Urquart on Loch Ness, Moate Castle in Ireland, and a
foray to Paris with all its temptations.
I believe he later married, and had four children, two boys and two
girls, both sons dying in the First World War.
I would be most interested to hear from anyone who had a knowledge of,
or interest in, this man or his family.
--
Roz Cawley
North Hampshire, England roz(a)autumncottage.co.uk
Autumn Cottage Diary http://www.autumncottage.co.uk