Thursday, November 09, 2006

The start of a settlement - Singapore's European Pioneers



Clues about the early European settlers can be found in the former Christian burial grounds. Here from the tombstones , we can tell that the early Europeans were clergymen, engineers , military personnel , merchant ship captains . law-makers and doctors. Many of the professions which were needed for the social , economic , military & political development of a settlement.

Many of the settlers also passed on at a rather young age probably due to the lack of sanitation, fresh drinking water and vector borne diseases.

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