Elford Cottle wrote 08/06/03: "There was a mention in a will, for James Cottle, dated 31May, 1920, recorded as otherwise known as Gobrudhun, a shopkeeper of Layou. He also indicated - that should his son Adolphus die before coming of age, his whatever remained of his belongings were to be sent to India to Dealshand Cottle., an Indian connection. These are all findings that are very puzzling to me, that is why it is so important for me to identify these people to see where they fit into my genealogical findings." My Reply: Hi Elford, I have not forgotten your query. I have found Cottles in India. There was an Alfred and Mary Cottle, who Christened a daughter, Alice Maria in Bengal on the 17th of Aug. 1870. Source: India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency, Misc., India. I found this record on the LDS website "family search.org". So there were Cottles in India. Could Dealshand Cottle instead of a person be a company name such as Deals and Cottle? with Deals being another person's name? I did not find any Deals in India but I did find some in Barbados for 1848 and 1858, a marriage and a Christening respectively. You can also search the familysearch.org site for those. But a more promising line of research might be to reconsider the speling of the name Dealshand. It could be that the name was Deelchand, pronounced and written as Deal + Shand. Since we have seen that there were Cottles in Bengal in 1870, it might be worth your while to follow up on the Cottle family above. On a related matter, the name Gobrudhun can be Anglicised and Creolised to Goberdan. Could Gobrudun have also been of the Indian Cottles? If they were Indian quite likely. If they were missionaries then he might have been giving his estate to charity or to the family of European Cottles who might be expected to know Gobrudhun's kin. It also seems that he knew that they were still in India, and might have been in continuous contact, although the will did not say where exactly. I hope this helps. Richard