Forename |
Surname |
Notes |
Page Number |
|
Burrell |
Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway,
commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where
it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war |
393-4 |
Captain |
Cilley |
an American who explored the Pilcomayo in 1873, after
four months of hardship his party reached Santa Cruz de la
Sierra, the nearest town in Bolivia |
395 |
Father |
Field |
Fathers Field and Ortega made the first Jesuit
settlement in 1557 along the Upper Uruguay |
397 |
|
Fleming |
with Robinson got up an expedition of
“Lincolnshire farmers” about 800 people of all
kinds; 160 died of privation and hardship at Itá and
Paraguay, 2 were murdered by natives and the rest were
removed to Buenos Aires at the expense and by the
charitable efforts of H M Chargé d’Affaires,
the St Patrick's Association and foreign bankers and
merchants of Buenos Aires |
400 |
|
Grant |
Messrs. Whitehead and Grant built the arsenal in the
city of Asunción for Lopez I in 1861 |
392 |
Mrs |
Lynch |
during the Lopez regime Mrs Lynch owned a summer palace
at the foot of the glorious peak of Ytaguá on lake
Ypacaray |
393 |
Commander |
Page |
registered a fall of thirteen and a quarter feet on the
Rio Paraguay at Asunción between October and
February; stated the dimensions of the stone church at
Itapica on the Argentine frontier as 320 feet long by 80
wide |
392 and 396 |
|
Robinson |
with Fleming got up an expedition of
“Lincolnshire farmers” about 800 people of all
kinds; 160 died of privation and hardship at Itá and
Paraguay, 2 were murdered by natives and the rest were
removed to Buenos Aires at the expense and by the
charitable efforts of H M Chargé d’Affaires,
the St Patrick's Association and foreign bankers and
merchants of Buenos Aires |
400 |
|
Thompson |
an American who explored the Pilcomaya with
Margariños in 1844 |
395 |
|
Thompson |
Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway,
commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where
it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war |
393-4 |
Colonel |
Thompson |
an Englishman; defender of Angostura |
395 and 399 |
|
Twite |
an eminent geologist who before the war found precious
metals in different places and iron in great abundance |
386 |
|
Valpy |
Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway,
commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where
it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war |
393-4 |
|
Whitehead |
Messrs. Whitehead and Grant built the arsenal in the
city of Asunción for Lopez I in 1861 |
392 |