The Newspaper
"Planters Mail" Malaya.
Is a very useful tool for the Colonian period, it was the expat jungle drums of the day, the National Library in Canberra, Australia have films, im not sure who else has them though.
Also, ...the " Singapore Straits Times"
These 2 papers helped / or sealed finally a long 70 year search for the burial place of my Grandmother,
Mary Helen Harris
Died in Europeon Hospital in Seremban in Aug 1931
She and my Grandfather Ernest Frederic Harris had been in Malaya and elswhere up there for many years from Australia when Mary died at a young age post surgery.
Thanks to the Planters Mail we found her obit with everything we needed, my Father and his brother were at school in Melbourne when she died and were never told of the "details" which seems incredible now, but in 1931 it seems that was the deal for kids.
She is buried in the Catholic section of the Seremban Cemetry but the grave is now not recognisable like many, and many were damaged n WW2, so we cant even fix the grave as they are just inable to be identified sadly.
Oh just saw your link to SST Superhoop.
I have searched almost every archive available for any record of her death, so did all the other family, no one ever found anything anywhere. Thats the only record we ever found.
