Inner Thoughts
- she is a granddaughter of Frederick Bulner and Mavis Pereira
- email her at: Twinky_star78@hotmail.com
- date of her comment: 2 February 2018
- I replied: 21 February 2020
- reviewed 31 July 2023
Sungai Renggam Estate
Rubber trees
People who lived at Sg Renggam Estate
In 1916, Guy Everard Speldewinde lived at Sungai Renggam Estate, the same place where FW Bulner and family lived (in 1920). They might be friends or relatives.
- 1916: Guy Everard Speldewinde lived at Sungai Renggam Estate. He married Eulie at St Barnabas Church in Klang in 1916.
- 1920: FW Bulner & family lived at Sungai Renggam Estate. FW Bulner's daughter Isabel @ Sheila Bulner was born on 18 May 1920.
This area is hilly with rivers and jungle. The rivers have disappeared but the names have remained. This rubber estate has gone and is now replaced by a residential area comprising terraced single- and double-storeys and shop-houses. The roads are named Jalan Sungai Renggam 32/1,2,3, etc. It forms part of Shah Alam Seksyen 32.
To the north is Lebuhraya Shah Alam and beyond that is Seksyen 7.
To the north-east is Klang.
To the west is Port Klang and beyond that the Straits of Malacca.
To the east is Bukit Kemuning Golf & Country Resort and beyond that is Kota Kemuning.
To the south-east is Thugamalay Estate.
To the south are more residential areas - Kg Batu, Bandar Putera etc.
- Sg Klang cuts through Sungai Renggam
- Sungai Renggam Estate was a rubber and oil palm plantation owned by the British.
- Indian workers worked as rubber tappers on the estate while the Burghers worked as clerks.
- 1962: Sungai Renggam Estate's last year of existence.
- 1963: Sungai Renggam was renamed Shah Alam
External links
Development of Sg Renggam Estate
http://www.malaxi.com/about_shah_alam.html
https://twitter.com/TourismSelangor/status/62168955464335360
Location of Sg Renggam Estate
https://mapcarta.com/15830934
Humphrey @ Edward Kenneth Bulner
Humphrey @ Edward Kenneth Bulner was the youngest of 6 siblings. He married Marion (a German) and lived overseas in England. He came down to Malaysia to visit my aunt Esther. There is a photo of Jeffrey and Humphrey. I have never met my maternal granduncle Humphrey.
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| Granduncle Humphrey @ Edward Kenneth Bulner |
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Update from Danny Aruna Burns in Messenger, 15 March 2019.
I only replied on 24 March 2019 as I was away in Saudi Arabia for Umrah, 12-22 March 2019.
Aruna's parents are Edward Kenneth Bulner aka Humphrey and Marion.
Edward Kenneth Bulner was born on 7 February 1930 in Klang, Selangor, Malaya (now Malaysia). He is the youngest of 6 siblings l. He was the only one surviving in March 2019. He passed away on 11 June 2020.
His parents were from Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). His father (Aruna's grandfather, Mr F. W. Bulner) was manager of a rubber plantation in Malaya prior to World War 2. (This was the Sungai Renggam Estate in Selangor.) It is believed they were forced to leave for Singapore when World War 2 broke out in Malaya. They mostly probably left for Singapore in the post-war as Eurasians were all interned in Singapore.
The late Marion was German. She came to England at the same time as Humphrey.
They married and lived in the UK.
They have two children - a girl named Aruna (b.1970) and a boy named Karsten (b.1974).
They were still married and they all lived in the UK in March 2019.
Aruna sent a photo of her parents and her three children - Leila, Brandon and Leon. Leon turned 18 on 19 December 2020.
Aruna sent a recent photo of Edward Kenneth Bulner aged 89, but the photo did not get passed to me via Messenger.
Update from Danny Aruna Burns in Messenger, 15 March 2019.
I only replied on 24 March 2019 as I was away in Saudi Arabia for Umrah, 12-22 March 2019.
Aruna's parents are Edward Kenneth Bulner aka Humphrey and Marion.
Edward Kenneth Bulner was born on 7 February 1930 in Klang, Selangor, Malaya (now Malaysia). He is the youngest of 6 siblings l. He was the only one surviving in March 2019. He passed away on 11 June 2020.
His parents were from Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). His father (Aruna's grandfather, Mr F. W. Bulner) was manager of a rubber plantation in Malaya prior to World War 2. (This was the Sungai Renggam Estate in Selangor.) It is believed they were forced to leave for Singapore when World War 2 broke out in Malaya. They mostly probably left for Singapore in the post-war as Eurasians were all interned in Singapore.
The late Marion was German. She came to England at the same time as Humphrey.
They married and lived in the UK.
They have two children - a girl named Aruna (b.1970) and a boy named Karsten (b.1974).
They were still married and they all lived in the UK in March 2019.
Aruna sent a photo of her parents and her three children - Leila, Brandon and Leon. Leon turned 18 on 19 December 2020.
Aruna sent a recent photo of Edward Kenneth Bulner aged 89, but the photo did not get passed to me via Messenger.
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Update on Edward Kenneth Bulner.
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| Edward Bulner (7 February 1930-11 June 2020) |
Granduncle Humphrey passed away on 11 June 2020 at Rothsay Grange Nursing Home.
He was the beloved husband of the late Marion, his German wife.
He was a devoted and loving Dad to 2 children, Aruna and Karsten.
He was Grandad to grandchildren: Kia, Dj, Maya, Leila, Brandon and Leon.
