* Notably the Greenways, the leading mercantile family of Cawnpore, headed by the formidable matriarch Rose Greenway. She, her son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were kept alive in Savada House on condition that they paid a huge ransom. Mrs Jacobi, the wife of a Swiss watchmaker, and her two children were also incarcerated in Savada House after she had shamed Nana Sahib into sparing them on the ground that they were not British.

Civil officers, missionaries, planters, merchants and their families.