Please see the note below from Dusty Hoff. If anyone can help please email him direct on [log in to unmask]
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Dear John, if you can help at all...
I was looking at our family history as we settled in India mid 18th Century,
and see that one of my ancestors laid the foundation stone to the Masonic
Hall in Simla (he also had a big involvement in the lodge in Park St ,
Calcutta, where his oil painting hung).
Name of Johann Jacob Hoff after his Father who came over from Holland. He
was "Founder of Benevolent Widows Fund also District Charitable Society"
whatever that is!
Is there any way of finding out more on the subject - most of my ancestors
are buried in Chinsura, I was born in Calcutta but we all emigrated to UK in
the 60's.
Any information would be interesting!
Kind regards,
Dusty Hoff. (yes that is a surname name coming from the Dutch East Indies
Company!)
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