Hi,
thank you very much, that was a very good advice, I'll try to go to the National Archives, (or perhaps call them, since I live in Liverpool).
This was very good service, from the University of Cambridge, I'm from Norway, and I write about this, with my ancestors, and more, on a Norwegian blog I have, and I'll mention there that your University, gave good advice, when I asked about questions about this.
That was very helpful of you!
Thank you very much for your help again!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, J.P. Slight <jps50@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear Erik, My PhD supervisor Dr. Harper forwarded your email to me.
I think you should visit the National Archives in person and explain to them the person you are looking for - the staff are very good and you may find something there.
In Egypt, and many parts of the British Empire, non-British Europeans often filled positions such as judges. The British were only concerned to exclude natives of the country they were ruling (at least until the later nineteenth century). Particularly in the Egyptian case there was a long precedent of Europeans holding positions of power (Egypt's ruler in the early nineteenth century Muhammad Ali was Albanian, and many Europeans were employed in the finance ministry, the judiciary, the police force, and especially the Army). I hope this answers your question.
With best wishes, John Slight
From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 October 2009 05:54
To: tnh1000@cam.ac.uk
Subject: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, judge in British imperial
Egypt
Hi,
I'm a Norwegian citizen, who's living in the UK, (due to
problems with my family etc., without that I've done anything wrong, that I
know of, at least, in Norway), and I have a late grandmoter from Denmark,
Ingeborg Ribsskog, who said that she was from the Danish noble-family Gjedde.
But I've later found out, on the internet, that they weren't noble after all,
so this was a lie, I think I have to say.
And, in her family, was eg. her grandfather, her mothers father, Anders Gjedde
Nyholm, who was Chief of the Generalkommando, that's the general with control
on all of Denmarks war-forces, in the 1920's.
And her grand-uncle, was Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, who
was a judge, for the British imperial courts, in Cairo, and then later a judge
in the International Court, in Hague, in the 1920's.
I wonder why they would lie about the noble backgroud.
Anders Gjedde Nyholm, only wrote A. Nyholm, I've seen, as a signature, on
official portrait-photographs in the Danish military-archives.
And their grandfather, was a farmers son, I've read on
Thisted Museum's, in Denmark's, website.
So they weren't noble, but they maybe used the Gjedde-name
to get prestige, because of the famous Admiral and colonisator
of Tharambangdi, in India, for Denmark-Norway, Ove Gjedde, was famous, and
maybe they pretended to be from the same family?
I've tried to serch the British National Archives online,
about this, but I got no result, so I didn't know how to try to find out about
this, other than contacting a good university.
I was wondering why the British Imperial Courts in Cairo,
would let a Dane, (my grandmothers grand-uncle), Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm,
be a judge, in the British Empire?
Isn't this a bit strange, weren't this positions normally given to people from
the British Empire?
I hope you have the chance to answer about this, or that you
know of someone who might know about this!
I hope it's alright to ask about this, and I apologise, if
it isn't.
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