Grandfather: Rehmatullah
Grandmother: Abeer
Brother of grandfather: Fazal Ahmad
Wife: Jannat
They had no children.
Rehmatullah, My grandfather had four sons and three daughters
My father, his brothers and sisters
Barkat Ali (of Basti Danishmandan), My father
Barkat Ali son of Rehmatullah, married to Hussain Bibi daughter of Badar Din & Bakhtawar of Basti Danishmandan.
His brothers
Ahmad Shah of Basti Danishmandan (owner of "Zeenat" sewing machine business), married Fatima , daughter of Ghulam Nabiof Mohallah Qarar Khan, Jalandhar City. After partition settled in Lahore Pakistan.
Irshad Ahmad (ex-army)
and
Habib Ahmad, before partition relocated in New Delhi- Buland Shehr and then moved to Ferozeabad and married Anwari Begum. Had children and settled with family at Ferozeabad (before partition of India). Visited Pakistan to meet with family and gone back.
His sisters
Zainab(married to Mohammad Islam at Lahore. He was ofrice superintendent in Public Works Department)before partition. Had one son M. Ikram, and daughters: Nazeer begum, Iqbal begum and Asifa.
Fatima married to Abdul Ghafoor at Kapurthala (India). Had two sons Rafique and Sardar; and two daughters Rehmat and Jamila. Jamila was married to Imdad son of my grandfather Badar Din.
Zohra (married to Sheikh Abdul Hameed son of Sh. Abdul Aziz and mother Hamida Begum,at Lahore. Had four sons.
Barkat Ali, my father:
He worked at Sukkur Barrage in Sind - and therefore, perhaps, some people called him Barkat Ali Sindhu. He worked as manager with Bombay Brass Works (Adampur or Adampur Road) Jalandhar. He worked as accountant/also called munshi. Was a neat tracer and people got their building plans drawn by him. He was fond of music; had a harmonium on a folding table and I heard him rehearsing some poetry.
He was a kind father. Coming back from job, every day, he used to bring some fruit / sweets. He got ill children treated as soon as possible. For eyes and ear treatment he took us to a hindu (Lal Chand?) running grocery store and for cough etc. to another hindu (Ram Chand?) running grocery store and also selling his own produced syrups and arqs (medicinal extracts drawn by steam).
My father produced some medicinal things also; like silver powder?, almond oil. He published a booklet "Ramuz-i-Zindgi" For some medicines had manufactured.
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