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England). Their first child Nelly was born on 14 July 1856 in Calcutta 9 months after their wedding. They had six children: their infants Jane and later Rose were born in Calcutta and successively buried in the same grave in Circular Road. Born in Calcutta on 17 March 1860 was their son George.
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existed. Another constraint was the difficulty of moving enormous volumes of materials from
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which now has 23 platforms and the highest passenger and freight train-handling capacity of any station in India. The monsoon-ravaged Ganges tributaries, such as the wide
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British Library, London on compact disk since 2007
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had jointly developed bleachfields in
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learning Latin, Greek and mathematics. With one year for his father, he learned linen-manufacturing engineering and book-keeping.
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and other diseases killed hundreds of Indians and many of the over 100 English civil engineers.
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