Hi ???? HEIC = Honourable East India Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > what is the HEIC? I'm looking for inoformation on my grandparents who > settled in George Village Tableland.
My name is Joy, I'm in South Dakota and very new to this.. I've been reading the exchange of emails for a couple of week now. I'm pleased to know that there are records of the Indentured. Any information that you want to share with me about how to start and so on will be welcome! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Indentured servants from India in Trinidad or Tobago > Hi ???? > > HEIC = Honourable East India Company > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > >> what is the HEIC? I'm looking for inoformation on my grandparents who >> settled in George Village Tableland. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Dear Joy, The information for the HEIC is proberbly located at the national archives in London (PRO?). The company had headquarters in Liverpool, Bristol and offices/agents in many of the seaports of England. Lloyds of London might also have information on the ships that departed and arrived at ports, as they were the insurance co. I have no personal information, though my ggm-paternal was indentured from India and remained to marry my ggf. I don't know how the contract was made. Was with it with the person and the company, or the Island govn't and the company? Was it diffrent for each island and each of two companies. My ggm was indentured in the Virgin Islands, which was administered by A Dutch company for the Danish Govn't. I am assuming that the VOC brought in the indentured to the islands they were associatedd with. Unfortunately, she died before my mother was born, so we just have the oral history of ggm's children and contempories. Maybe someone on the list that is in England can take it from here. One final note, don't give up, you can attack this from several angles, maybe the island census for the year, might list his place of birth. Ann "Sharing the information."Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: Indentured servants from India in Trinidad or Tobago> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:08:27 -0600> > My name is Joy, I'm in South Dakota and very new to this.. I've been reading > the exchange of emails for a couple of week now. I'm pleased to know that > there are records of the Indentured. Any information that you want to share > with me about how to start and so on will be welcome!> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]>> To: <[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:32 PM> Subject: Re: Indentured servants from India in Trinidad or Tobago> > > > Hi ????> >> > HEIC = Honourable East India Company> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company> >> > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK)> >> >> >> what is the HEIC? I'm looking for inoformation on my grandparents who> >> settled in George Village Tableland.> >> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message> > > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The East India Office archives are in the British Library. An online search in the Asia, Pacific and Africa collections using the keyword 'Trinidad' shows a great deal of correspondence but you would have to go through all the online references to see whether any of them might have lists of names - try http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/doclist.asp?nb=0&nbKey=2&com=1&keyword=Trinidad&properties=0601 which gives 28 references, each of which contains up to 25 hits - you would need to click on each one in turn. But much work has been done in Trinidad and Tobago on the subject, and most of the specialists who have researched the subject are there, either in the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies or working independently. Shamsu Dean in Trinidad specialises in East Indian genealogy - see his entry on http://www.candoo.com/genresources/ http://www.nalis.gov.tt/exhibits/arrival.htm has a list of books about East Indians in Trinidad, many of which would show starting points for individual family history. The following sites may also provide useful links or pointers: http://www.nriinternet.com/Trinidad/History/1_Hostory_East_Indians_in_Trinidad.htm http://www.everyculture.com/Middle-America-Caribbean/East-Indians-in-Trinidad.html http://www.hindunet.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=15,44&Number=1810&page=&view=&sb=5&o= John Weiss, London Ann Q wrote: > Dear Joy, > > The information for the HEIC is proberbly located at the national archives in London (PRO?).