Family tree (mums)

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Hardit Udai Singh Sohanpal m rattan kaur
had three sons
*Niranjan Singh m Nirmal Kaur of Kot Badal Khan(Malaysia)
**Ranjit Kaur m Dhanwant Singh Bhogal(Ludhiana)(Mum And Dad)
***Aneetapreet (me)
****Mansharan Kaur m Akshat Seth(Lucknow)
****Gursimran Singh
***Parmeeta m Xavier Fernandez(Spain)
**** Naira
**** Mikil
*** Sunita m Anup Kapur(Delhi)
Uday
*** Vaneeta m Maneesh kaura(Germany)
**Balbir Singh m Hans Kaur (Malaysia)
***Hardeepak Singh
***Hardev Singh
**Rabinder(Puri) m Gomez (Malaysia)
***Rehan
***Danny
**Daljit Singh M Angela Ramkumari(Trinidad)
***Sumeet Sohanpal
***Simran Sohanpal
**Tejinder Singh m Rani (Malaysia)
***Jasdev singh
***Harveen Kaur
***Sandev Kaur
**Harbhajan Singh (Malaysia)
***Kirat
***Shashi
**Jasbinder m Surinder Singh Bhogal(Ludhiana)
***Rohanjeet Singh
***Randeep Singh m Simran Malhotra
**Surinder Kaur m Bhagwinder Singh(Malaysia)
***Harish
***Taswinder Kaur(tessie)
***Kishan
**Sachinder Kaur m Jasdev S. Aujla(Vancouver)
***Jaskiran Kaur
***Mankiran Kaur
***Navkiran Kaur
**Patwant Singh m Chris(Malaysia)
***Jaideep Singh
***Mandev Singh
***Jasleen Kaur
*Joga singh m Ajit Kaur of Baloki(England)
**Baby m
*** 2 sons
**Sajinder m Anil
*** 2 sons
**Kingy m Chris
** 2 sons and 1 daughter
*Harcharan Singh m Balwinder Kaur of Dakoha(England)
**Harinder Kaur m Rick
*** 1 daughter 1 son
**Meenu m Steven
*** 2 sons
**Sonia m Micky
** 1 son 1 daughter
Jagdeep m Harpreet

Grandmother Nirmal Kaur's side
Three brothers four sisters
*Sohan singh Birdi
*Gursharan S. Birdi
*Gyan Singh Birdi
*Nirmal Kaur m Niranjan S.Sohanpal
*Jamna m ?
*Harbans Kaur m Pritam Singh
*Dev Uncles's mother

More on Bapu ji

A poem in his diary(i won't try to translate)

ik din satguru passon main prem surahi peeti,
bhai asade likhi fakiri so mastak par leeti,
pichli umar gunahi beeti har ki bhagat na keeti,
aggon samajh chalo nand lala jo beeti so beeti!


Also the meaning of what he wrote in front of his book of accounts.

If somebody wrongs you, it is better to forget and forgive. if you don't do that you suffer otherwise it is bliss.

More on Bapu ji

His father's name was Hardit singh and he too was employed in Railways. They were posted at Nagpur and bapuji studied in King George school Nagpur. Later on he was posted at kharagpur.(Gyan singh Sohanpal the minister from kharagpur is a his cousin)
He was born in aprox(13-8-1889)acc. to diary and left for africa in 1911 acc. to one of his diaries. He reached Malaysia around or before 1918 to work in railways. and later on his wife rattan kaur and elder son Niranjan singh joined him in feb 1918.He took early retirement and came to settled in Sangatpur earlier named khusrapur.He used to write a lot not only to relations but govt., radio stations, and Gurudwara committee. And each letter was copied and documented. In the room on the first floor these letters filed a wire witha hook used to be hanging from the walls. All I did was look for stamps in these letters.Unfortunately we didn't realise what a treasure of history we were throwing away when we did away with most of the correspondence. All this information is from bits and pieces whioch we had kept. Also a lot of it was destroyed when the house was locked for a long time. More later..........

More from Bapu ji's diary

No friend like health abounding;
And like disease, no foe;
No love like love of children;
Like hunger pangs , no woe.

From Bapu ji's diary

Sow desire, reap action
Sow action, reap habit
Sow habit and reap character
Sow character and reap destiny

Pala Singh Bhogal

He was our paternal great grandfather. To continue the story of bicycle he imported, papa says when he used to come down to village in hoshiarpur during winters months, people used to come to watch him ride it. It was said a two wheeled thing has come and it doesn't fall.

village sangatpur

To santokh

My grandfather's name was hardit uday singh sohanpal also known as bauji in the village. as many villages in punjab have the same names , ours is near phillaur, on phillaur nurmahal road, the adjacent village being partapura, if i have the spellings right. my daughter tells me to check my spellings, but i am too lazy; also my english is not too perfect either , but i can be given a little leeway considering i studied in a hindi medium school(are u reading???). anyways to get back to the subject the railway station near our village was partapura, about 1 km away. when my mother was studying in phillaur, my great grandfather used to watch out for her coming home from a telescope which was installed on the roof of the house. In those times it was the only three storied pucca house in the village. I'll have to get back to my mother to find out about yours. By the way mostly people know her as matta

cycles on mall

found this post on hindustan.net where one can interact with atal ji.
Milestones Hero’s success saga contains the element of courage, great, determination, enterprises and perseverance coupled with vision and meticulous planning : 1956 Hero Cycles Ltd. is established. The lndian Cycle Industry Bicycle was seen in India in the year 1890. Import of cycles, however, started in 1905 and continued for more than 50 years. Complete ban on imports was announced by the Government in July, 1953, but cycle kept on simmering in the country till 1961. In 1890, selling price of an imported bicycle was arround Rs. 45/-; in 1917, during the First World War the price jumped to Rs. 500/- but dropped considerably, month by month and came down to Rs. 35/- or so (U. K. makes) and Rs. 15/- or so (Japanese models). It would be interesting to mention that in 1919, five persons in Punjab imported cycles and used them on The Mall, Simla. These included one Bishop, Two military men and two contractors including S. Pala Singh Bhogal (Grand Father of Mr. M.S. Bhogal of Ludhiana). Under special permission of the Governor, they were allowed to use cycles on 'The Mall' only for one hour in a day. They imported B.S.A. Cross Bar Cycle from U.K. and it used to be a kind of Mela at that particular hour on the Mall in Simla, the scene watched by hundreds of people everyday. Later, a firm was formed under the name of Singh & Co. with shops on Railway Road, Jalandhar and Bazar Vakillan, Hoshiarpur, which imported bicycles in the year 1930 onwards.

back again

Well, had a long break with papa being in hospital. He has a pacemaker maker now , which has been named milkha singh by him. he says now my heart will run at the pace set by him. Anyways today, saini uncle from patiala has come to visit so he is obviosuly feeling better.
more later.......................