Hi Ruth Have you tried the H E I C (Honourable East India Company) website? Just google it. I found a distant relative there amongst the births, deaths and marriages... Regards Elizabeth from Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tabbitha Blackwood" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] A plea to paleographers and researchers of the EastIndies. Hi Ruth if you can send me your email adress I may have some info on her husbands details.I have found a possible marriage to a Thomas Llewellyn and would like to invite you to the tree I have set up On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am having difficulty reading the name of a place of birth in the 1861 > Census. Charlotte LLEWELLYN was born in the East Indies – all the censuses > she lived through say this and sometimes add (British Subject). But in the > 1861 a place name is added. > The RG number is RG09 Piece 3500 Folio 32 Page 6 > The address is 7 Chapel Street, Attercliffe cum Darnall, Sheffield > Ancestry transcribe the name as ‘Resolfen’ but I doubt that very much. > FindmyPast transcribe it as ‘…’ Very helpful that! I asked them whether > someone would try again to transcribe it. They replied with ‘”’. Even more > helpful! > It looks like ‘Besempor’ to me but my world atlas doesn’t list such a > name and Google leads me a merry dance. But no real answer. > Charlotte b. 1830, her brother Arthur b. 1834 and her mother Charlotte > QUEEN b.1801 were born in the East Indies. Charlotte QUEEN is listed in > 1851 > as a widow and an annuitant. They had two servants, a cook and a > housemaid. I have checked military records but can’t find the name QUEEN > connected > with the East Indies. Does anyone have experience of researching the East > India Co. records? A2A hasn’t revealed anything yet. I don’t have CQ’s > husband’s name which doesn’t help either. > I’m putting this request on 3 Rootsweb lists. Ever hopeful and will be > grateful for any help offered. > Ruth > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > PLEASE and THANK YOU -- Don't cost a thing and mean so much. > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ PLEASE and THANK YOU -- Don't cost a thing and mean so much. ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ ------------------------------- 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