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English Church at Thalassery (Tellicherry), India

For today's Murray descendants this picture is tantalising. It is possible that in this church Lt/Col Matthew Murray and Contetty were married - about 1784! The old English Church still stands in Tellicherry, India. What we do know is that the baptisms of their 3 children were recorded here, and that they were married while Matthew served here in the Indian Army. Though abandoned today, it was the only English Church in the area, and this old church has not lost its English beauty. Its unique stained glass windows were originally manufactured in England. The lichen-covered headstones in the cemetery are mute testimony to a distant past. Is it possible that Contetty's grave can still be located in this cemetery? We await a researcher in the family who will venture there yet again.

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