Krishnarao Jatar is the last known ancestor of the Jatar family and probably lived (or was born) around 1700 in Kanhe, Maharashtra. As was the practice in those days only the male members of the family are represented here.
This is an image of the family tree drawn by hand by Bapurao in 1935. This is a photograph of the original document provided to me by Brig. R.V. Jatar.
This tree is not the complete one (I will be posting the full tree by and by) but it gives a good picture of the ancestors of the Jatar family to about three generations above Bapurao. Please click on the document to see it better.
Written summary of the family tree: Krishnarao Jatar had five sons: Ramchandra, Keshav, Mahadaji, Narayan and Anant. We do not know happened to the descendents of the different brothers but we do know about Mahadaji Jatar as he is our direct ancestor.
Mahadaji Jatar had two sons, around the year 1740: Balwant and Vishnu. Although Balwant is not our direct ancestor (Vishnu is) we do know that Balwant had two sons: Gangadhar and Rajaram. Gangadhar had one son, but his name is not clear from the chart. Then came Vishnu Jatar who had three sons: Bapudada, Bjikaji (our direct ancestor) and Jassukaka.
Bapudada (not our direct ancestor) had two sons: Appakaka and Pandurangbaba and Pandurangbaba had a son called Shridhar. Not much else is known about this branch of the family. Jassukaka had three sons: Narayan, Raghunath and Chintu and nothing more is known about them.
Bhikaji (our direct ancestor) had six sons: Sadashiv, Ramakrishna and Shambhu from his first wife and Shriram (our direct ancestor) from his second wife. We do know something about Bhikaji. He left his ancestral village of Kanhe for better prospects and started to work in a place called Wai, another village in Maharashtra. It is believed that he went to work for Sardar Vinchurkar.
Shriram Bhikaji Jatar (whose photograph is on the header of this blog) left Wai and came to study in Pune where he got a job. If you click on the link of his name you will get more information about him. It was Shriram’s eldest son Bapurao who penned down this tree. If you notice he has penned down the names of the Jatar women as well like Autai, Goputai, Ambutai who were his sisters. His brothers were: Ranganath, Nilkanth, and Vishnu.
(Written by Nita Jatar Kulkarni)
