This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: graysonmch Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2483.5.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Cynthia Thank you for coming back to me. I am the daughter of Richard Shortland - his father was Norman Shortland I believe Ralph's brother ? the information I have is that Norman Shortland was married to Irene D' Silva and had three children - my father Richard, his brother Joseph and sister Audrey. I have just begun to take an interest in his ancestry and family tree and would love to see any photos and learn any more information you have. Many thanks Michelle Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

Hi Michelle The Rodrigues are part of my husband’s family tree, his mother was a Rodrigues, part of a very large family. If you email me off list rftaylor40@gmail.com we can correspond further. Rosemary Sent from Windows Mail From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎24‎ ‎February‎ ‎2015 ‎20‎:‎51 To: INDIA-L@rootsweb.com This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: graysonmch Surnames: Shortlant Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2483.5/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi I am not sure if you are still on this site as the dates are quite old. However, my father was Richard Shortland and I would be interested to find out more about his family and could give you further details if you would like. thanks Michelle Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA] INDIA Digest, Vol 10,Issue 32: Information on Lady Dufferin Hospital for Women in Nagpur ===================================== Many thanks, Mark O'Sullivan, Joyce Munro, Mark O'Sullivan, Susan Conto, Noel Clark, and of course Maureen Evers the ever helpful, for your input on this topic. Much appreciated. The Mayo Hospital suggestion sounds quite a plausibility, so I'm going to pursue that lead. Regards to all. ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: graysonmch Surnames: Shortlant Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2483.5/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi I am not sure if you are still on this site as the dates are quite old. However, my father was Richard Shortland and I would be interested to find out more about his family and could give you further details if you would like. thanks Michelle Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

Hello List Hilary, if he was still in the British Army in 1921,(he appears to be still in the Army in 1920) his service record would be with the Ministry of Defence As he was born pre 1901, there is a finding aid which will tell you whether the Ministry of Defence holds his records. Read about it in the FIBIS Fibbiwiki page British Army, section Records,Army personnel serving after January 1921 http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/British_Army#Army_personnel_serving_after_January_1921 or http://tinyurl.com/ktrwbx3 If his name is listed as being with the MOD, you can then apply to the MOD for a record. Cheers Maureen On 24/02/2015, at 4:47 AM, Hilary Williams via <india@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi > I have found a marriage between Bertie John French and Lena Catherine Doyle 28 September 1917 in Mhow - he was a Private in the SW Borderers. According to the record Lena Catherine Doyle was born about 1899 - father Jack Doyle - and I am thinking she was maybe born in Ireland as the marriage is also recorded under Irish Marriages in Find My Past. However, I have been unable to find any further information about either of these people; I know they had a daughter (Bessie) in Mhow in 1920 but they then fall off the radar. Bertie was possibly from Finchingfield in Essex, down as an Ag Lab in 1911 so maybe the Army sounded better!! > Many thanks for any help, Hilary >

Hi I have found a marriage between Bertie John French and Lena Catherine Doyle 28 September 1917 in Mhow - he was a Private in the SW Borderers. According to the record Lena Catherine Doyle was born about 1899 - father Jack Doyle - and I am thinking she was maybe born in Ireland as the marriage is also recorded under Irish Marriages in Find My Past. However, I have been unable to find any further information about either of these people; I know they had a daughter (Bessie) in Mhow in 1920 but they then fall off the radar. Bertie was possibly from Finchingfield in Essex, down as an Ag Lab in 1911 so maybe the Army sounded better!! Many thanks for any help, Hilary

I have been working on some HALL ancestors; specifically Augusta Matilda who married Henry Chapman in Madras in 1810. She is peripherally related, but it would be interesting to hear from others who are working on the same family. I have not found out anything else about her family. Ed of Falcon -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 4:24 PM To: INDIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [INDIA] Hall - Madras Forestry & Telegraph Departments 1850-1948 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: infosending1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2900.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lindahall957 Surnames: HALL / HOGG Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2914.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi there, many thanks for taking the time to look for us; yes, our Grandparents married twice, the Hall side is RC and the Hogg side Protestant, hence they married in both churches, which I've found happened quite frequently - like the social club, I have been unable to find anything concrete on his occupation, we do however, know they lived in Egmore - Hall is such a common surname in the records yet, remarkably I only found one other person who is researching them in Madras, in the late 40s they were in Lahore. I believe because they were RC there are few records kept at the B/L; my thinking was perhaps the social club (which I have sent an email to and not received a response some weeks back) may have archived records to other family members that may also have belonged to it, namely our Great Grandfather - the search continues... Cheers & thanks again Linda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sylcec Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2914.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't know about the AI Social Club, but could this possibly be his marriage:? First name(s) James Gerald Last name Hall Marriage year 1915 Marriage date 9 Jun 1915 Spouse's first name Adelaide Margaret Spouse's last name Hogg Place Madras Presidency Madras Groom's age 25 Bride's age 24 Groom's father's first name James E Groom's father's last name Hall Bride's father's first name S M Bride's father's last name Hogg Catalogue description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Madras, : 1698-1948 Archive reference N-2-117 Folio number 168 Residence at time of marriage was Egmore for both; James Gerald Hall's occupation was "Signaller, P O" and they were Roman Catholic as got married at the Sacred Heart Church in Madras. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

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1895 Thacker's for Nagpur shows just the Mayo Hospital. House Surgeon: Asst. Surgeon Nitya Lall Bysack Assts: Radhika P. Banerjee, Girma Zingoo and S imati Lakhi (there is a letter missing between the "S" and the "i"). The Civil Surgeon in Nagpur was Surgeon-Major G.F.A. Harris (on furlough) and the Surgeon-lt.-col. H.K. Mackay offg. (presumably "officiating"). The latter gentleman was the Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum. The above are the only entries under "Medical."

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A Google search reveals a photograph such as that described on the Christie’s website, sold in 2001 for £705 (http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LotDetailsPrintable.aspx?intObjectID=2534764); and a number of colour photographs, apparently of the hospital.

With his permission I am forwarding some information/correction provided by a Chelsea Pensioner regarding the Madras Engineer Group. It was wrongly described as "Madras engineers" in a West Briton marriage announcement that appeared on the CORNISH-GEN List and which I forwarded to the INDIA List. Tom Thompson, St Agnes. ---0--- May I take the liberty of a very small correction, supplemented by some additional information: Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_Corps_of_Engineers> of the Indian Army<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army>. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Army> of the British Raj <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj>. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengaluru>. The Madras Sappers are the oldest of the three groups of the Corps of Engineers. The Madras Sappers were the only regiment of the Madras Presidency Army<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Army> to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Engineer_Group#cite_note-Mason-1> The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako> have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years ---0---

Hello List Harshawardhan, I think it is very likely the Lady Dufferin Hospital has been incorporated into the Mayo Hospital "The medical institutions comprise the Mayo and Dufferin Hospitals for males and females respectively…. Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 18, p. 321 http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_327.gif or http://tinyurl.com/kt3qv63 "Immediately behind the Mayo buildings stand those of the Dufferin Hospital for women". http://nagpur.nic.in/gazetteer/gaz1908/appendix_n.html#. 1908 Nagpur District Gazetteer (transcription) Regarding the names of the doctors, if you can locate a copy of Thacker's Indian Directory for the relevant period, this may well list the information you are seeking, under the Mofussil entry for Nagpur. The doctors may have been associated with the Mayo Hospital. The closest online edition appears to be for 1897, however sometimes people stayed in their jobs for many years. See the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Directories online http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Directories_online#Thacker.27s_Indian_Directory or http://tinyurl.com/k2vdu6x Cheers Maureen On 21/02/2015, at 4:57 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar via <india@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Somebody recently sent me the scan of an image dated > 1888 taken at the time of the opening of the Lady > Dufferin Hospital for Women in Nagpur (Central India). > It shows a European man (could be the in-charge doctor) > along with an Indian man (may be one of the two native > philanthropists who had donated large sums of money for > the hospital) and a group of Indian women who I presume > were the midwives/nurses working there. No details are given. > > I am trying to establish the identity of the two gentlemen. > Are there any records available showing the names of the > European medical practitioners in Nagpur around that time > or specifically of those who were working for the Dufferin > Hospital? Can any other details be obtained? I am not sure > whether the hospital still exists - but even if it does, it has > been renamed since then, as there is no Lady Dufferin Hospital > in present-day Nagpur. > > Thanks and regards, > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > > >

The following announcement appeared in the West Briton newspaper, Truro, Cornwall, UK on 10 December 1858 and is forwarded from the CORNISH-GEN List. I have no further information, nor any interest in the family. I purely forward it to the List in the hope that it's of use to someone. Best wishes, Tom Thompson, St Agnes, Cornwall. ---0--- West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser - 10 December 1858 At the Cathedral, Madras, by the venerable, the Arch-deacon, on the 16th of October, Captain Richard Hieram SANKEY, Madras engineers, to Sophia Mary, only daughter of William Henry BENSON, Esq., retired list, Bengal Civil Service.

The following announcement appeared in the West Briton newspaper, Truro, Cornwall, UK on 10 December 1858 and is forwarded from the CORNISH-GEN List. I have no further information, nor any interest in the family. I purely forward it to the List in the hope that it's of use to someone. Best wishes, Tom Thompson, St Agnes, Cornwall. ---0--- West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser - 10 December 1858 Births At Bombay, on the 25th of October, the lady of Wm. MENNIE, Esq., Civil Engineer, E.I.C., of a daughter.

The following announcement appeared in the West Briton newspaper, Truro, Cornwall, UK on 10 December 1858 and is forwarded from the CORNISH-GEN List. I have no further information, nor any interest in the family. I purely forward it to the List in the hope that it's of use to someone. Best wishes, Tom Thompson, St Agnes, Cornwall. ---0--- West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser - 10 December 1858 Births At Cuddapah, on the 16th of October, the lady of John RATCLIFF, Esq. Madras C.S., of a daughter.

Lady Dufferin Hospital is still where it always has been Saddar Town, Karachi, Pakistan My Granny was a midwife there between 1925 and 1934. I still have her handwritten birth record books. If you google the hospital name you can get all sorts of information. -----Original Message----- From: Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar via Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 1:57 AM To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com ; 1IL Subject: [INDIA] Information on Lady Dufferin Hospital for Women in Nagpur,1888 Somebody recently sent me the scan of an image dated 1888 taken at the time of the opening of the Lady Dufferin Hospital for Women in Nagpur (Central India). It shows a European man (could be the in-charge doctor) along with an Indian man (may be one of the two native philanthropists who had donated large sums of money for the hospital) and a group of Indian women who I presume were the midwives/nurses working there. No details are given. I am trying to establish the identity of the two gentlemen. Are there any records available showing the names of the European medical practitioners in Nagpur around that time or specifically of those who were working for the Dufferin Hospital? Can any other details be obtained? I am not sure whether the hospital still exists - but even if it does, it has been renamed since then, as there is no Lady Dufferin Hospital in present-day Nagpur. Thanks and regards, ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lindahall957 Surnames: HALL Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2914/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Grandfather James Gerald HALL was a member of the Anglo Indian Social Club in Madras around mid 1900s or so; we have been unable to find any information BMD on him, nor his parents, and wondered if the social club records of any description could hold clues to perhaps help us find him. Does anyone out there know how we could find and access the social club records? Any help would great. Thank you, Linda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>