Here at the Armenian Heritage Project Bangladesh we feel exceptionally fortunate to be able to share the photographs and memories of our contributors. They have very generously opened up their family archives for the Project. We are immensely grateful for their donations.
If you have any photographs, documents or memories of your family’s time in Bangladesh that you’d like to share, please do get in touch by using the contact form. Be part of this unique and exciting project, help preserve the Armenian presence and history in Asia.
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Mary Apcar’s (No. 15) 1st birthday party at Naraingunj. Standing directly behind (No. 4) is Ruben David, whom she would go on to marry in 1948.
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Armenian Christmas in Dhaka 6th January 1952.
1. Leo Gregory (Marjory’s brother)
2. Marguerite Martin (Lucy and Larry’s daughter)
3. Anita Martin (Lucy and Larry’s daughter)
4. Unknown
5. Unknown
6. Doris Stephen
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. Unknown
10. Noreen Martin (sister of Joyce Thaddeus)
11. Unknown
12. Unknown
13. Unknown
14. Unknown
15. Hasmik Gregory (Marjory’s uncle’s wife)
16. Unknown
17. Unknown
18. Arsene Thaddeus
19. Annie Isaiah
20. Arax Isaiah
21. Lucy Martin (wife of Larry)
22. Marion Gregory (Hasmik and John’s daughter)
23. Unknown
24. Mac Agabeg
25. Father Bagrat David
26. Unknown
27. Unknown
28. Joyce Thaddeus
29. Victoria Gregory (Marjory’s mother known as Jill)
30. Marjory Gregory (daughter of Apcar and Jill Gregory)
31. Sophie Galstaun
32. Stepan Manook Stephen
33. Helen Sookias
34. Peter Gregory (son of Arratoon Gregory)
35. Unknown
36. Unknown
37. Unknown
38. Unknown
39. Micky Martin
40. Unknown
41. Yessai Carapiet
42. Larry Martin (husband of Lucy)
43. George Mansur
44. Unknown
45. Unknown
46. Apcar Gregory (Marjory’s father)
47. Ingrid Thaddeus
48. Unknown
49. Unknown
50. Unknown
51. Unknown
52. Unknown
53. Leo Thaddeus
54. Unknown
55. Raffi Mackertich
56. Unknown
57. Hambarstoom Isaiah
58. Malcolm Aidinyantz
59. John Gregory (Marjory’s uncle)
60. Unknown
61. Unknown
62. Unknown
63 . Mac Pachaian
64. Haik Thaddeus
65. Unknown
66. Unknown
67. Armen Isaiah
68. Unknown
69. Unknown
70. Unknown
71. Unknown
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So far we have been able to identify just these people. If you think you know any more names, please get in touch.
10. Terouhi/Mrs Davidian (Wife of Ter (Fr.) Nerses Davidian)
11. Ter (Fr.) Nerses Davidian
33. Vardouhi Mackertich
35. Carapiet Chater Apcar
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Lunch party at Mr. Michael’s house, Dhaka
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Can you spot the Armenian Church? The top of it can just be seen on the left hand side. This photograph shows just how close the Armenian houses were to the church property.
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Carapiet Chater Apcar was always behind the lens of his camera. A keen photographer, he took many relaxed community photos in Dhaka during the late 1930s. Emily was his wife, Mary was his daugther, Ruben was his future son-in-law.
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Doris Lucas by some flowers
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Sisters Doris and Mary Lucas, thought to be taken at Naraingunj.
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Apcar and Gregory families. This was taken on a picnic in Shillong which is in Assam state, India, in about 1939/40 when Mary would have been 8 or 9 years old.
1. Chater Malcolm Apcar (My mother’s brother / My uncle)
2. Yvonne Gregory
3. Mary Apcar (My mother)
4. Marian Gregory
5. Emily Apcar (My Mum’s mother / My maternal grandmother)
6. Anna Apcarian (My mother’s aunt / Her father’s sister)
7. Carapiet Chater Apcar (My Mum’s father / My maternal grandfather)
8. Hasmik Gregory (Mother of Yvonne and Marian Gregory)
9. Hasmik Gregory’s mother (Name not known)
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Although Mack Stephen’s wedding to Laila Walker took place in Calcutta, Mack was a regular part of the Dhaka community.
Mack Stephen was also a cousin of Mr. Michael Martin.
Jeannette notes: As to Mack Stephen, he was very close to my grandfather (who he would call “CC”) and he was one of grandfather’s best friends. My mother tells me that Mack was a kind and generous man. He never remarried after a very civilised end to his marriage and he eventually settled in London where he ran a hotel (more a B & B) in Barkston Gardens, Kensington, close to Earls Court Tube Station. As a young child growing up in Calcutta in the 1950s – 1960s, I also have good memories of him because he would come and stay with us in Calcutta, usually every January – February to get away from the cold winters in the UK. Yes, he did buy a new Jaguar car from the French Motor Car Company in Calcutta. You have a scan of his car from the photos in one of the albums
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Mack Stephen and Laila Walker
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Mack Stephen’s wedding to Laila Walker.
Left bridesmaid: Noreen Martin. Right bridesmaid: Marie Khachatur
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Armenian Community Dhaka 1960s