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whose brother worked as a clerk in the docks of London. Together the couple had a number of children, the first of which, Lowjee Annie, was born in Bombay in
December 1853. Her second child, Gustasp Ardaseer, was born in Bombay in 1856. The couple subsequently returned to UK as the Parsi community in
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English woman named Marian Barber. While the couple did not marry, they had children and their lineage continues to live in the United Kingdom to date. One of his descendants Blair
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examination and stayed with his grandfather in
Richmond. There, he met Lowjee Annie, his aunt and the daughter of Ardaseer and Marian. He married her in 1880. While their three children were all born in India, their father returned to England soon after retirement in 1911. He died in
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and devoted to scientific pursuits." It credits him with both the introduction of gas lighting to Bombay, as well as having "built a vessel of 60 tons to which he adapted a Steam Engine." In 1855 he was elected a
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557:"Obituary of Ardaseer Cursetjee",
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733:"Case study – Ardaseer Cursetjee"
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