Travellers
Its been quite a while since my last post. I seem to have come to a halt with my search for information regarding my ancestors. Other Alarakias though have made the news in various ways. There is the aforementioned Ebraim Alarakia who travelled frequently back and forth from Galle to Sidney. He seems to have been born in Kutch(Cutch) in 1847 making him four years younger than 2nd Great Grandfather Sewjee. I still wonder but do not yet know if he was a sibling. According to the Indian Statesman newspaper Ebraim appeared in Insolvency Court in may 1872. By 1881 he was a Lascar(Sailor) travelling the Galle to Sidney route. Then in 1887 he purchased a horse from the British Army Stables in the Bombay region after which his trail goes cold. Jonas Alarakia was listed as an Indian merchant in 1858 Mauritius. It is not stated what he traded in but a report in the West Somerset Free Press dated 30 Oct 1869 and also the Englishmans Overland Mail of West Bengal dated 28 Sept 1869...