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The Joseph Family of British Ceylon: Service to Mankind across the Oceans-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Joe Simpson. reproducing his article in http://www.worldgenweb.org/lkawgw/sid.html This dashing military-style portrait is of Sidney Percival Joseph (1873- 934) who was one of 15 children of Arthur Francis Joseph’s younger brother Eugene (1839-1915) and his wife, Georgiana Jemima (nee Ohlmus) (1848-1906). Sidney would thus have been a nephew of Arthur Francis Joseph (“AFJ”) and Eugenia, and a first cousin of Lawrence Joseph and his brothers. As the two cousins were almost exactly the same age, Sidney and Lawrence were probably childhood friends and remained so after Lawrence Joseph (later Joseph Lawrence) moved permanently to Scotland in the early 1890s.   This photograph has been with the Canadian branch of the Lawrence family for several generations – Hugh Lawrence’s brother Brian, who lives in Kelowna, south-central British Columbia, Canada, recently unearthed it in his collection. Still visible in ...