PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE: Sardar (name unknown) Singh, present Head of House

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Also known as Ladhran. On the death of Charat Singh in 1816, his estate was divided into three equal shares, one for the children of each wife. Estate holders were....

• Sardar Jai Singh, Jagirdar of Lidhran and Khar, he was a Dharam Jat Sikh of the Manjha, and joined the Nishanwala confederacy about 1763, and fought in the battle of Sirhind; he obtained twenty-seven villages of Lidhran, and seven villages of Khar (three were lost shortly afterwards), married and had issue. He died 1773 or 1784.

  • Sardar Charat Singh (qv)

  • Rani Dyah Kaur, married (as his 1st wife), Raja Jaswant Singh, 2nd Raja of Nabha, and had issue, one son.

• Sardar Charat Singh, Jagirdar of Lidhran and Khar 1784/1816, he succeeded his father in his estates, he was one of the chiefs who accepted British protection in 1809, married three wives, and had issue. He died 1816.

  • Sardar Uttam Singh, married and had issue. He died 1841.

    • Sardar Sangat Singh, born 1820, married and had issue, two sons.

    • Rai Bahadur Sardar Albel Singh, born 1824, he joined Watson's Horse (later the 13th Lancer's) receiving the rank of Risaldar; the family did good service during the Mutiny, he took part in the Afghan War in 1879, and in the Egypt Expedition of 1882, he was conferred with the title of Rai Bahadur by Lord Northbrook in 1875; he was briefly an A.D.C. to His Excellency Lord Napier of Magdala, and was attached as an orderly officer to HRH the Prince of Wales in 1876; he was presented with the War Medal and with the rank of Risaldar-Major in his old regiment; he was a Provincial Darbari; married and had issue, three sons. He died 1902.

      • Sardar Chattar Singh, born 1843, a Risaldar in his father's regiment and later rose to be Risaldar-Major; he died 1889.

      • Sardar Khushal Singh, he served as Tahsildar in Patiala; married and had issue, one son. He died 1914.

        • Sardar Gurbakhsh Singh, a Risaldar in the Patiala State Regiment.

      • Sardar Bahardur Kartar Singh O.B.I., he joined the 12th Cavalry Regiment in 1888 and served till 1917; he saw active service in the relief of Chitral in 1896 and was awarded a medal with clasp; a Provincial Darbari from 1910; A.D.C. to General Remington at the Coronation Darbar in 1911 and was awarded the Coronation Medal; in 1915, he went with his regiment to Mesopotamia, but came down with an illness and was invalided home; he was awarded the O.B.I. and the added title of Bahadur; he had been awarded the Star Medal of 1914-15, the General Service Medal and the Victory Medal; married and had issue. He died 1918.

        • Sardar Harbans Singh, educated at the Punjab University, he succeeded his father to the title of Sardar and to his position as a Provincial Darbar; a nominated Extra Assistant Commissioner; married and had issue.

        • Captain Kanwar Gurbachan Singh, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; he was commissioned and posted to the 11th Hussar's at Meerut in 1923; he later joined the 7th Light Cavalry in 1924; married 1924, Maharajkumari Dorothy Kaur, the eldest daughter of Col. HH Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir Ranbir Singh Rajendra Bahadur, 7th Maharaja of Jind, and his 1st wife, Maharani Jaswant Kaur, and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

          • Kanwar Karambir Singh, educated at the Preparatory School, Bigsboth, Wokingham, Surrey.

          • HH Maharani Prithvi Bir Kaur, married (as his first wife), HH Maharaja Rajbir Singh, 8th Maharaja of Jind, and had issue. She died 7th May 2010

          • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, born about 1927, married and had issue.

            • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur (?aka Ghita Deer), married HH Maharaja Satbir Singh, 9th Maharaja of Jind.

    • Sardar Harnam Singh, born 1828, a Provincial Darbari; married and had issue. He died 1896.

      • Sardar Chhaja Singh

    • Sardar Bahadur Hari Singh, born 1847, a Provincial Darbari; he received the rank of Risaldar in 1862, and served in Afghanistan and Abyssinia, retiring in 1885; he was granted the title of Sardar Bahadur; married and had issue. He died 1907.

      • Sardar Mansa Singh, an Extra Assistant Commissioner; married and had issue, three sons.

        • Sardar Kuldip Singh, he succeeded to his father's jagir; he was enlisted in the 12th Cavalry in WWI; a Member of the District Board in Karnal;

        • Sardar Harchand Singh

        • Sardar Ram Narain Singh, educated at the Government College, Lahore.

  • Sardar Wazir Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Ram Singh, married and had issue. He died 1828.

    • Sardar Kishan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1884.

    • Sardar Sahib Singh, Jagirdar of Dayalgarh, born 1812, married and had issue, three sons. He died 1878.

      • Sardar Sher Singh

      • Sardar Shamsher Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Ranjor Singh, he enlisted in the 6th Duke of Connaught's Lancers and was promoted to Risaldar, he was sent with his regiment to Mesopotamia where he died.

      • Sardar Kehar Singh

  • Sardar Raja Singh C.S.S., married and had issue. He died 1847.

    • Sardar Shyam Singh, born 1837, a Provincial Darbari; married and had issue.

    • Sardar Nadhan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1887.

  • Sardar Attar Singh, he died 1831.

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Sardar Jai Singh Attariwala, he was killed at Dilassah in Bhannu in 1834. She died 1883.

• Sardar Wazir Singh, Jagirdar of Lidhran and Khar 1816/1827, married and had issue. He died 1827.

  • Sardar Budh Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Chaman Singh, married and had issue. He died 1871.

    • Sardar Shivnarayan singh, born about 1838.

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, she married Sardar Sardar Kirpal Singh Mann of Malwai, and had issue. She died 1859.

    • Sardar Sarup Singh Mann, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1904.

• Sardar Budh Singh, Jagirdar of Lidhran and Khar and Head of the Family 1827/1877, enjoying as his share of the jagir, Rs4,571 p.a., married and had issue. He died 1877.

  • Sardar Mehtab Singh (qv)

• Sardar Mehtab Singh, Head of the Family 1877/1904, born 1847, a Provincial Darbari; married and had issue. He died 1904.

  • Sardar Bahadur Sardar Raghbir Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Thakur Singh, born 1875, married and had issue. He died 1918.

  • Sardar Sarpat Singh, born 1876 or 1887.

  • Sardar Brijchand Singh, he died 1917.

  • Sardar Garja Singh, born 1894, married and had issue, five sons.

  • Sardar Baldev Singh, born 1897, married and had issue, three sons.

• Sardar Bahadur Sardar Raghbir Singh, Head of the Family 1904/1930, born 1870, he succeeded to his father's position as Head of Family and Provincial Darbari; he served as Chief Judge at Nabha, and subsequently he was appointed Sub-Registrar and Honorary Magistrate at Samrala; for his services during WWI he was granted the title of Sardar Bahadur; married and had issue. He died 1930.

  • Captain Sardar Jagpal Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Lal Singh, he died 1908.

  • Sardar Bhagwant Singh alias Jamadar Ram Pal Singh, born 1903, married and had issue, five sons.

• Captain Sardar Jagpal Singh, Head of the Family 1930/-; born 1894, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; he was enlisted as a sowar and fought at Mesopotamia in the 12th Cavalry in 1916; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal; he also saw action during the Afghan War in 1919, earning several medals; he was appointed an Honorary Magistrate at Samrala; he served as Captain in the Indian Army Reserve Force; a Provincial Darbari; married and had issue, three sons.

  • Sardar Hari Pal Singh, born 1919.

  • Sardar Anand Pal Singh, died 1931.

  • Sardar Bir Pal Singh, born 1932.