PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Miru, a Jat of the Gill Clan, founded the village of Chinah some 13 kilometres from Raja Sansi around 1600. His eldest son, Dadu, founded a village of the same name, near Jastarwal, where his descendants have resided to the present time (1900). In 1846, Raja Lal Singh, reduced the value of the jagir to Rs21,600 and subject to the service of 25 horsemen. In 1848, most members of the family joined the rebels under Sher Singh, and fought in their ranks throughout the war. As a result, after annexation, the shares of Jai Singh, Mohr Singh, Hari Singh, Hardit Singh, Amar Singh, Attar Singh and Fateh Singh were resumed and each received an allowance of Rs240 for life. Only Badhan Singh and Maha Singh, were allowed to retain their shares as they had remained loyal. Members were....

• Milkhu [aka Milkhi], he joined the misl of Tara Singh Shahid, married and had issue.

  • Hira Singh

  • Gurdit Singh

  • Gyana, married and had issue.

    • Sardar Karam Singh (qv)

  • Uttam Singh

  • Bhup Singh

• Sardar Karam Singh, Jagirdar of Chhina; born in Village Chhina, Amritsar, he was adopted by Sardar Tara Singh Shahid, but after his death he joined the Bhangi misl, and took possession of Firozki, Kaleki, Rurki and Bajra in Sialkot district, as well as Chinah and neighbouring villages in Amritsar district; he experienced the same fate as other Bhangi sirdars in losing his estates to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, but shortly afterwards he received back in jagir, Chinah, Nagran and Firozki worth Rs 50,000 and subject to the service of 70 horsemen; he served in many campaigns with his sons, in Multan, Kashmir and Peshawar, and on his death, his jagir was inherited by both his sons in equal shares; married and had issue.

  • Sardar Sudh Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Budh Singh, married and had issue. He died 1827.

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Lahore.

• Sardar Sudh Singh, Head of the Family, married and had issue.

  • Risaldar Sardar Jai Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Hari Singh, married and had issue. He died 1880.

    • Natha Singh, born 1862, married and had issue, three sons.

  • Sardar Badan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1877.

    • Kehar Singh, born 1850, married and had issue.

    • Sardar Bishan Singh (qv)

    • Pratap Singh, married and had issue, three sons. He died 1894.

    • Randhir Singh, born 1868.

    • Ram Singh, married and had issue.

      • Dhyan Singh, born 1897, married and had issue, two sons.

      • Gyan Singh, born 1899.

    • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, born 1840, married to Sardar Kirpal Singh Chichahwala (Sidhu), Jagirdar of Harrah, born 1837, and had issue.

  • Sardar Maha Singh

  • Sardar Amar Singh, he joined Hodsons Horse in 1857 and served till February 1859 when he obtained a discharge and received a grant of 40 ghumaons of land free of revenue, married and had issue. He died 1897.

    • Sardar Sant Singh, married and had issue.

  • Risaldar-Major Sardar Bahadur Sardar Hardit Singh (qv)

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married (as his 1st wife), Sardar Lehna Singh Sandhanwalia of Raja Sansi, died 16th September 1843, and had issue.

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married to Sardar Shamsher Singh Sandhanwalia from Raja Sansi, born 1816, died 1871, and had adoptive issue. She died sp.

• Risaldar Sardar Jai Singh, Head of the Family -/1876; he joined Hodsons Horse in 1857 as Risaldar and served till February 1859 when he obtained a discharge, he received a grant of a life jagir worth Rs300; married Sardarni (name unknown) Kaur, died 1888, and had issue. He died 1876.

  • Kirpal Singh

  • Gopal Singh

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married (as his 1st wife), Sardar Jiwan Singh Attariwala.

• Risaldar-Major Sardar Bahadur Sardar Hardit Singh, Head of the Family 1876/1892, he joined Hodsons Horse in 1857 as Jamadar, then served as Risaldar-Major of 9th Bengal Lancers, with the title of Sardar Bahadur; Provincial Darbari in succession to his brother in 1876; he was recognized as the Head of the Family; married and had issue, one son. He died 1892.

  • Risaldar-Major Sardar Bahadur Sardar Mahtab Singh, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; he was appointed as A.D.C. with the rank of Captain, to HH the Maharaja of Patiala; State Excise Commissioner; he served as Risaldar-Major of 6th Bengal Cavalry, and was granted the title of Sardar Bahadur for his services in the Egyptian Campaign in 1882; married and had issue. He died 1911.

    • Jagdish Singh, died 1908.

    • Major Harbans Singh, born 1893, married and had issue.

      • Hardev Singh, born 1920, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore;

    • Dalip Singh, born 1898, Superintendent of Police in Patiala State.

  • Partab Singh (same as above?)

• Sardar Bishan Singh, Head of the Family 1892/- , born 1856, he married into the family of the Ghanauli Sardars of Bharatgarh, and had issue.

  • Indar Singh

  • Lachhman Singh, a Subedar in the 26th Punjabees, married and had issue.

  • Balwant Singh, a Jamadar in the 45th Sikhs, married and had issue.