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Charles Boulnois & Family, p.2

INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915./ Who Was Who - 1920

BOULNOIS, Charles, barrister; b. 1832; s. of late William Boulnois and Elizabeth, d. of late E. Allen of Ballingdon, Essex ; m. 1864, Emmeline, e. d. of late Joseph Goodeve, Master in Equity in the former Supreme Court, Bengal ; two d. Educ. : King's Coll. London ; LL.B. Lond. Univ., Advocate of the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1855 ; Prof, of Law, Calcutta Presidency Coll. 1858 ; First Judge, Calcutta Court of Small Causes, 1861 ; officiating Secretary, Legislative Department, Government of Bengal, 1863 ; officiating Deputy Secretary, Legislative Department, Government of India, 1864 ; Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab, 1866 ; Senior Judge,  1867-77 ; reporter of Indian Appeals in England for the authorised Indian Law Reports,  1879-1901 ; joint author of Notes on Punjab Customary Law, Lahore, 1876 ; Retired 1877.  [The India List and India Office List] Fellow of the Punjab University. 1882. [Died 12 Apr. 1912]

Also author: Notes on customary law as administered in the courts of the Punjab by Charles Boulnois (1878)

Census – 1881
Boulnois Charles 1832 St Giles In Fields Kensington, Kensington Town

Boulnois Emimeline[sic] 1837 St Georges Bloomsbury Kensington, Kensington Town

Boulnois Emimeline[sic] L 1869 India Kensington, Kensington Town

Boulnois Helen M 1872 India Kensington, Kensington Town

Census – 1891
Boulnois Charles 1832 St Giles In The Fields Portsea Island, Landport

Boulnois Emmaline[sic] 1837 St Giles In The Fields Portsea Island, Landport

Boulnois Emmaline[sic] L 1869 India British Subject Portsea Island, Landport

Boulnois Helen M 1872 India British Subject Portsea Island, Landport


Emmeline Louisa married in 1899.


The 1911 cenus records only –Boulnois,Charles, living in Hastings

Of Charles Louis we have little information, apart from the correction to the Obituary - :

THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 17, 1893

The following Acting Sub lieutenants have been confirmed as Sub - Lieutenants -in. Her. Majesty's Fleet:—. - . . -Charles Louis Boulnois. ..' ,. Dated 24th April


THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 27, 1894.

Sub-Lieutenant Charles Louis Boulnois has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in Her. Majesty's Fleet. Dated 24th April, 1894. War Office, 27th April,1894.

Charles Louis Boulnois - DEATH: 1897 – location - OTHER: [Bombay]

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