John Melville BOUSTEAD [11490]
- Born: 31 Mar 1854, Walthamstow ESS
- Marriage (1): Leila Eleanor MONEY [11489] on 11 Jun 1881 in Calcutta India
- Died: 13 May 1920, Westfield Wimbledon Common LND aged 66
- Buried: Putney Vale Cemetery LND
 General Notes:
A McLachlan writes, 2011:
I've found Leila's uncle John Melvill Boustead (mentioned in the 1916 letter) he turned the family fortune around after his father had his coffee plantation ruined with coffee rust in 1879. John Melvill (the son of the coffee merchant) was a tea merchant.
Singapore and Free Press Mercantile Advertiser 23 December 1920 page 394
Death of Mr J M Boustead
Messrs Boustead Bros, Colombo on December 5 received a cablegram from London annoucing the death of Mr J M Boustead, partner and Managing Director of the firm which he founded in Ceylon. Mr Boustead, who was born in 1853, was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, and rowed for the Oxford eight in 1877, 1878 and 1879 including the dead heat year.
In 1879 he came out to Ceylon to Messrs Lee Hedges and Co with whom he was till 1885. In 1886 he founded the firm of Boustead Bros. In conjunction with Mr Edgar Money, he started the Colombo Electric Tramways about 25 years ago. The late Mr Boustead left Ceylon in 1890 but paid several visits to the island subsequently. He was last there in 1917. His eldest son predeased him in 1905. His other sons are Mr Guy Boustead who is at present in England, Mr Cedric Boustead of Colombo, while another son, Lieut H. A. R. Boustead of the Middlesex and Flying Corps died of wounds in 1917.
Still to establish link with Norah Money and Edgar Money. A McL.
Research Notes:
More than merchants: A History of the German Speaking Community in Penang 1800's - 1940's.
Nasution, Khoo Salma (2006). Areca Books Penang. ISBN: 983423415
Page 43 Mentions Boustead and Co and the Jewish Cloth Merchants of Sykes Schwabe and Co originally migrated from Germany to England via Hamburg.
John married Leila Eleanor MONEY [11489] [MRIN: 3858], daughter of Lt. Col. Edward James Thrayle D'Oyley de Bourbel MONEY [14589] and Georgina Mary RUSSELL [14590], on 11 Jun 1881 in Calcutta India. (Leila Eleanor MONEY [11489] was born on 24 Jun 1865 in Almorah Himalayas India, died on 13 Oct 1936 in Arizona USA and was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery LND.)
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