Henry Laidlow

Last Name:

Laidlow

First Name:

Henry

Grave Plot No.:

263

Spatial:

Date of birth:

1817

year of death:

1845

date of death:

17.04.1845

Age at death:

Gender:

Male

Full Epitaph:

IN THE MEMORY OF HENRY LAIDLAW OF THE FORT GLOSTER MILL DIED 17TH APRIL 1845 AGED 28 YEARS

Occupation:

Worked at Fort Gloster Mill

Places mentioned 1:

Fort Gloster Mill

Place of death:

Calcutta

Tomb architecture:

Headstone

Detailed information:

Fort Gloster Mill company started as Bowreah Cotton Mill in the year 1820 at Fort Gloster, a location 15 miles south of Calcutta in the district of Howrah. The Bowreah Cotton mill closed down in 1837 and reopened in 1837 as New Fort Gloster Mills Company. In this company, Dwarkanath Tagore was a major share holder. By 1840 it was the heart of a large industrial complex that included a cotton twist yarn factory, a rum distillery. a foundry, an oil mill and a paper mill. It also had five steam engines. (See https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pknpTdmRg0EC&pg=PA96&dq=fort+gloster... ).
Fort Gloster Mill became one of the largest mills in Bengal by 1919 with the coming of Jute.

Henry Laidlow declared intestate in the Wills and Administration records.

Buried by:

James Charles, Senior Minister, St. Andrew's Church

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