I have a 4 cent stationery postcard, sent from (The handwriting is barely readable) what looks like: Bidi upper Sarawak, dated 17th of the 5th 1902, to Miss. E Byrde c/o Rev. R.A Byrde, Wideworthy Rectory, Honiton, Devon. Signed E W B?
Any information about him or "Upper Bidi" would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for anything you do.
Chris Long.
Answers
However, when I looked up "Bidi" in the index, I found, on page 151, the following:
"Pastoral visits were made to the Asian and European (C)hristians in the Upper Sarawak goldfield and antimony workings,
at Bau, Bidi, and Buso". This is in a section dealing with the church in the first decade of the 20th century.
From 1901 (if not before) to 1904, the Governor of Sarawak was E.W.Birch - perhaps those were his initials?
By 1903 Birch was married, but I can see no details of his wife's name.
As a p.s. to my earlier emails, I think I ought to make a correction: I have been going Brian Taylor's book again,
and I fear that I erred in suggesting that E.W. Birch was Governor of Sarawak: it would have been North Borneo.
This, of course, might well make it unlikely that the initials EWB were those of the Governor of North Borneo
(unless he was particularly interested in (a) gold, or (b) the lady to whom the postcard was addressed.
David Hubbard
Raymond Price
The references in question (which I should have checked) are 14/28, 20/20, 20/121, 40/111, 40/117.
Unfortunately I have none of these Journals.
Can someone else help?
John Morgan
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