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Individual Record for: John Lawrence O'Hara (male)

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Spouse Children
Christiana Martha Heiden
  (Family Record)
Pamella-Elizabeth
  (Family Record)		 John William Lawrence O'Hara
Edward Richard O'Hara
Mary Anne O'Hara
Alice Elizabeth O'Hara
Edward Richard O'Hara
Robert Arthur O'Hara

Event Date Details
Birth 30 JUL 1830 Place: Madras, India Source: IOR/N2/23/1120
Notes:
Officiating Minister: Rev. Henry Harper (Junior Chaplain)
Death ABT 1892 Place: Madras, India

Attribute Details Date
Residence 1 Issack, John Pereiras, Black Town, Madras Source: Madras Almanack (1858) - pp 667 1857
Occupation Acting Manager, The Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department 1886
Occupation Deputy Manager, The Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department 1884
Occupation Manager, The Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department 1883
Occupation Clerk, The Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department 1872
Occupation Examiner, The Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department 1861
Notes:
Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department
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His career in the Madras Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department is recorded in the Madras Almanacs from 1862 to 1887. Where he advanced from Examiner to Acting Manager, as recorded above, it is likely that he retired in 1887 as there is no record of him in the Almanac after that date.

The (British) Government of India in all its manifestations and public projects were paid for by taxes levied in the Indian Civil Service districts in the Presidencies. The District Officers, with the help of and through the Revenue, Survey and Settlement Department, were responsible for assessing the rateable value of land, fixing the boundaries, settling disputes and collecting the revenue.

Allen's Indian Mail, Register of Intelligence for British and Foreign India, China, and All Parts of the East By W. H. Allen (1849) September 27 1849.
Per barque Rachel to Penang and Singapore. Mr O'Hara and Mr Anderson and 3 natives Mr JF Anderson was at this time the Vepery Church Clerk, who had taken over from his father.

In 1859 the native priest Aralooppen was given 50 Rs by a Mr J O (The History and Diaries of an India Christian by GH Lang)

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Union School, John Pereiras
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In 1871, 1872, 1874 and 1880 he is one of the Directors of the Union School (known in 1880 as the Union Mixed School, John Pereiras).

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Friends in Need Society
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From 1872 to 1874 he is on the John Pereiras Local Committee of the Friends in Need Society

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Trustee of Church Mission Chapel, Black Town
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In 1879 and 1880 he was a lay trustee of the Church Mission Chapel, Black Town.

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Methodist Episcopal Church
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In 1881 he is recorded as being one of two preachers for the Methodist Episcopal Church. The entry in the Madras Almanac 1882 reads:
Madras Episcopal Church. Madras District. Vepery. Rev. Isaac F Row (Pastor). JL O'Hara and LA Bowden : Local Preachers. Services at Methodist Church, Vepery, Sabbath 8am and 6-30pm, Sunday School 7am, Preaching Wednesday 6-30pm.

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Madras Total Abstinence League
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Between 1882 and 1891 he was on the Executive Committee of the Madras Total Abstinence League. Since the League was established in 1882, it is safe to assume he was involved in its establishment. (Source Madras Almanac 1883-92).

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Record last updated: 18 MAY 2009