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Hi Margaret,
What I have is frustratingly vague. I've been searching re a family of Gearys who lived mostly in Singapore during the late 1800s (and perhaps for much of the 19th century; I just don't know). Those Gearys supposedly hailed from County Cork, though I don't know when. The name "Eugene" was prominent among them, mostly as a common middle name. FWIW.
I happened across a mention of a 285-tonne (or thereabouts) square-rigged ship registered in Bombay to John Eugene Geary sometime around 1881. I think the ship's registered name was Bhownugger. I know that a John Eugene Geary was a ship captain in Singapore ca. 1880-1900. His son Leopold worked for the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank in the early 1900s. Another son, Edward Eugene, died at the age of 19 in Singapore in 1900. A grandson and a granddaugther were youthful charter members of the Kipling Society in London in the 1920s
There's also the question of the intriguing Grattan Geary, a writer, who was editor of the Times of India and then editor and proprietor of the Bombay Gazette from 1880 to 1900 (he died in September 1900). He's said to have been Irish but I can't find anything out about his roots, though I did read that a John O'Neill, writer, was a brother-in-law of his.
It's hard to get information about the Far East and I'm just scraping it together as I can.
Patricia
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