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| In loving memory of my dear mother MARY HARRIET MÖWIS. Who Departed this Life July 13th 1911 Also of my dear father PAUL EMIL CARL MÖWIS, of India died June 9th 1915 (remainder obscured) Paul was born about 1842, in Berlin, the son of Karl Möwis. In 1866, while resident in Scarborough, he married Mary Harriet Higginbotham, at Christ Church, Bridlington. He lived in India from about 1872. He is buried in Darjeeling. Paul was an authority on Indian butterflies, and had papers published in scientific journals. He made three expeditions into Tibet, where he collected ethnographic artefacts, some of which are now in the Weltmuseum, Vienna. There is some information about his life in India in Wilhelm Habbe-Schleiden's Indian Journal 1894-1896. Paul and Mary's daughter, Amy Annie Elizabeth Möwis, married Fred Walkington in 1896, at Holy Trinty Church, Bridlington. |  |
| Photograph Number 0161 Click on the image to get the full size image. | |