George Robert Boehm Berney senior

Son of Robert Berney, born Nov. 1785 in Hambledon Hants; died 13 May 1855 KingsTown Ireland. An East India Company Civil servant, in Bengal 1804-1836. He retired with the rank of Resident at Soonamooky. Had one child by 'a Bengal Lady', before marrying Charlotte Dawnay 12/06/1822. It is not clear what was his path to entitlement to compensation, but his name indicates a connection to his co-awardee Dorothy Boehm née Berney (q.v.). He was a Freemason and member of 'Star in the East' Lodge, Calcutta.

1. Will of George Robert Boehm Berney of Kennet Lodge Reading Berkshire proved 06/08/1855. His son and namesake G. R. B. Berney (q.v.) was an early settler in New Zealand.

2. Note that Kennet Lodge is also the name of a Masonic Lodge in Reading, Berkshire.

T71/895 Barbados claim nos. 631A&B.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/I/Andrew-N-BOLS/GENE19-0044.html unsourced and no longer available [accessed 03/03/2010, not available 20/09/2016].

Walter Kelly Firminger, The Early History of Freemasonry in Bengal and the Punjab (Calcutta, 1906), p. 129.

Families in British India Society database http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/

1. PROB 11/2217; e.g. http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3021/object/40693/Newspaper_clipping_Mrs_Laura_Rosina_Berney_nee_Logie [accessed 01/05/2011]. http://www.ngaiopress.com/all-a-f.htm [accessed 03/10/2012].

2. http://www.berkshire-masons.co.uk/ [accessed 20/09/2016].

We are grateful to Peter Schofield and Guy Grannum for their assistance with compiling this entry.