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Samuel Ashburner

1816–91

Indian-born American engineer. Son of Luke and Sarah Price Ashburner. Born in Bombay. Married Anne Mead Barstow in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1845. Lived in Boston, Massachusetts, 1870; Kensington, London, 1881 and 1891.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/29/56/56), 1891 (RG12/21/183/37)

India, select births and baptisms, 1786–1947 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 July 2021)

Massachusetts, town and vital records, 1620–1988 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 July 2021)

United States Federal Census 1870 (Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 1/239B) (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 July 2015)

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

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