This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: maureenr5 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2546.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In addition to my reply above, the FIBIS Fibiwiki "General Register Office" covers the period after 1947. http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=General_Register_Office Cheers Maureen 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: maureenr5 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2546.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi There are some Church Records after Independence, the originals in the India Office Records at the British Library, as detailed in the FIBIS Fibiwki page "LDS Microfilms for Church Records outside of the usual Presidencies" http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=LDS_Microfilms_for_Church_Records_outside_of_the_usual_Presidencies For information generally about researching in India, including links about LDS microfilms, read the FIBIS Fibiwiki Brginners' Guide, http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Beginners'_Guide Cheers Maureen 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.

Thanks Maureen, I'll check it out later. Cheers Ainslie.

Hello List Frances said: On another matter, could you please tell me how to access the work you cite, Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Journals? I have access to ECCO but didn't see it there. Also she asked: Recently, (I think) a lister mentioned that he had found a baptismal record for an 18th century ancestor in the IOR archives. I was wondering what the shelf mark of those records might be. The FIBIS Fibiwiki has the page "Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories" <http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Subscription_websites-online_newspape rs,_journals_and_directories> http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Subscription_websites-online_newspaper s,_journals_and_directories or <http://tinyurl.com/263csrn> http://tinyurl.com/263csrn Frances should look on the website of her participating library which provides access to ECCO to see whether access to Eighteenth Century Journals is provided. If not she could perhaps request that her library becomes a subscriber In respect to Frances' second query, Cadets and Writers were two classes of employees who provided baptismal evidence with their application forms. There may be others. The British Library "Help for researchers" gives the following links <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamily history/occupations/europeanofficers/euroofficers.html> http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyh istory/occupations/europeanofficers/euroofficers.html or http://tinyurl.com/25z6qqz <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamily history/occupations/civilservice/civilservice.html> http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyh istory/occupations/civilservice/civilservice.html or <http://tinyurl.com/22qxqrz> http://tinyurl.com/22qxqrz Cheers Maureen (Sydney)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: nickthomas68 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2543.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks Maureen. This is the closest match to date, but probably not the one, as his father was Samuel Ball. Thanks again, Nick. 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.

Hello List Ainslie said: I was reading a message on the NZ genealogy list about census taking and wondered if a similar census was taken in India? ie of the British-born citizens living/working in India at any given time? and if so is the information online? The FIBIS Fibiwiki has a page Census <http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Census> http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Census but it says there are very few census records available to help you trace your ancestors that lived in India Cheers Maureen (Sydney)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: davepend Surnames: Rencontre, Brockman, Curtis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2457.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Just stumbled upon this post! Helping a friend with her family history - her g-g-grandmother was Virginia Rencontre, and we have some info regarding her siblings, including her brother Frederick, who married Julia Herry, and their family. Has anyone got a Rencontre-Brockman-Curtis connection? Regards, Dave 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pippachilderhouse Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2546/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Can anyone please advise on the best place to find the above records, preferably online? It seems that before 1947 is not too much of a problem but I am searching for records in the 1949-69 bracket and am struggling at the moment. 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.

Cathy barber wrote: > I would be very grateful if somebody could look up the following > marriage for me on their next visit to the British Library - > I am very eager to know what Henry was doing in India > Many thanks > Cathy > N Devon > > > > Presidency of Marriage BENGAL > Marriage Year 1867 > Husband First Names Henry > Husband Surname Barber > Wife First Names Charlotte E. > Wife Surname Ventura Did you notice Henry Barber's death in 1872 on FIBIS? It says that he was:- "of the firm of Messrs Dunn and Co aged 45 years". This may be of some help in discovering what he was doing in India. Regards ............ Ros.

Thanks Ros Yes we had seen it but don't know if it is our man Hope marriage cert tells us! Cathy

Hi folks, I was reading a message on the NZ genealogy list about census taking and wondered if a similar census was taken in India? ie of the British-born citizens living/working in India at any given time? and if so is the information online? I'm still trying to track down my grandmother's movements prior to her trip to India shortly before she married my grandfather in Colaba, Bombay in 1906. It appears that she arrived only a few days prior to their wedding and that he travelled from Simla to Bombay for the occasion as he gave as his residence at the time of the marriage as 'West End Hotel, Simla' and yes! There was such a hotel in Simla as some keen detective work produced recently! Regards, Ainslie.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pippachilderhouse Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2544.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ooops, should read that she was born and christened in Bombay, although a lot of the families records are in Calcutta. Confusingly I have also come across an entry for a Una Maude Willoughby LEVS. http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#year=1890&placeId=1927063&surname=willoughby&p=recordResults&alivePlaceLoc1=India&searchType=exact&toYear=1909 Levs could conceivably be a mispelt Laws, parents christian names are identical, in Bombay but same birth year as Ann Maude but 2 days earlier and christened 18 months later. Curious! No connection and just a coincidence? (My mother is a Una and would be a niece of this one if she is indeed Una Maude Laws) Maybe the same child and errors in recording or could she maybe have even been a twin sister? I still can find no more records for Una Maude than I can Ann Maude. I'm really hoping one of you can suggest some leads. 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.

http://www.indianetzone.com/50/mutinies_indian_army.htm This site has basic info on Indian armies under British rule ....may be of interest to some Links to other pages bottom right hand side of page Cheers De in Aus Searching for RAYMOND, HARDIE, BURNS, WALLIS, DAVIDSON, WHITE, ALLEN, OWEN/S, LARENGO, PATHE, SCOTT, WICKENS, MAYBERY, WILKINS.

Frances Have you checked for any newspaper reports of shipping 'intelligence' about the right time? Was the Anna on her way to India or from it, and do you have an exact date when George died? "The Bombay Courier" is available digitised for the right time period, as part of this set "Eighteenth Century Journals: Newspapers and Periodicals 1685 - 1815" by Adam Matthews. Looking at an issue for 27 December 1800, I see a brief note of Cape Intelligence copied from the Cape Town Gazette of August 16. This suggests that any mention of the Anna and Danish ship incident will be reported at least 4 months later. There were Danish factories at Tranquebar and at Frederiksnagore (Serampore), so the Danish ship could have been making its way to either of those places. Sylvia > -----Original Message----- > From: fbsingh1947@aol.com [mailto:fbsingh1947@aol.com] > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:09 AM > To: INDIA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [INDIA] East India Company Ship Question > > > Hello, > > I continue to investigate the life of George Cumming. He > died in December 1800 on board the Anna, somewhere around the > Cape of Good Hope. The ship's journal states that his > effects were transferred to a Danish ship. The captain's > handwriting and syntax are both problematic so I can't tell > if his body was,too.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pippachilderhouse Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2544/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Is there anyone who can please help me find a missing grand aunt? Found on Pilot Family Search, Ann Maud(e) Laws was born in Calcutta on 11th September 1909 to William Willoughby Laws and Maud Louisa. She was christened on 28th September also in Calcutta. As it was only a fortnight after her birth, was she very poorly and maybe died as a baby? However I cannot find any further records for her, either in India or England. I have found her siblings, Duncan, Maurice, Rodney and half siblings, Hugh and Patricia. Maurice is still proving a little tricky but Ann is a real headache. 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.

Hi I would be very grateful if somebody could look up the following marriage for me on their next visit to the British Library - I am very eager to know what Henry was doing in India Many thanks Cathy N Devon Presidency of Marriage BENGAL Marriage Year 1867 Husband First Names Henry Husband Surname Barber Wife First Names Charlotte E. Wife Surname Ventura Prefix N1 Source Year 1867 Volume Number 120 Folio 76 LDS Film Reference 499026

Diane The reference for the marriage of Susannah PARISH to James RICHARDSON which you quote: N/2/7/312 is a reference to the India Office Records, Madras Church Records: IOR, series N = Returns of Baptisms, Marriages, Burials etc /2 = Madras Presidency /7 = the Volume number in Madras Presidency records /312 = the page number within volume 7. Madras vol.7 covers 1818-1821 and is to be found on LDS film number 521880 Sylvia > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Hansen [mailto:mhansen@it.net.au] > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 5:37 PM > To: India@rootsweb.com > Subject: [INDIA] RICHARDSON-PARISH Source Details > > Hello Listers, > > I have been carefully making sure that I have references for > the information in my tree. I have my 4th x Great > Grandfather, James RICHARDSON arriving in India in 1808 on > the William Pitt, and that he was a Gunner in the Right Wing > Carnatic European Veteran, Battalion. > Also his marriage to Susannah PARISH on the 21 Feb 1820 with > the reference N/2/7/312. > > For the life of me I cannot find where I obtained this > reference,

Hi list, for those with ancestors in England, the Yesterdays site has been updated with hundreds more records of persons from throughout the British Isles. There is also a small Miscellany section for records with an Indian connection. Link below, if it fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hello Listers, I have been carefully making sure that I have references for the information in my tree. I have my 4th x Great Grandfather, James RICHARDSON arriving in India in 1808 on the William Pitt, and that he was a Gunner in the Right Wing Carnatic European Veteran, Battalion. Also his marriage to Susannah PARISH on the 21 Feb 1820 with the reference N/2/7/312. For the life of me I cannot find where I obtained this reference, it doesn't appear to be the usual haunts such as the National Archives, FIBIS or the India Office Family History Search, the reference on the beta search site is an LDS film no. and doesn't give any other info. I know James died sometime before 1829 as his wife was a widow then and that he was apparently born around 1790ish. in Barnett Middlesex, I am presuming I have this information as well as his arrival date from the same source, but it could be two different sources I am missing. Does anyone have any clue which website I would have trawled to find James' military info and the British Library reference? Diane Hansen Perth, Western Australia Surname Interests in India and Burma- REYNOLDS, SAVAGE, DUCKWORTH, ANDREWS, RICHARDSON, GASKELL, PARISH, MOUNG, ETCHES, CARPENTER, RESLEY, PERRY

Thank you, Sylvia, for the promising lead. I am not writing from home at the moment so cannot give you the exact date of George's death, but it was in the last week of December 1800. The captain of the ship on which he died was Patrick Clark; he died off the Cape of Good Hope. The ship was on its way back to England. I am not sure whether he wanted to disembark at the Cape or in England. In his last extant letter, he talks of looking for a promotion either in Bombay or at the Cape. On another matter, could you please tell me how to access the work you cite, Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Journals? I have access to ECCO but didn't see it there. I would be thrilled if the Cape Intelligencer or some other periodical carried news of the transfer of effects. His death was announced in the Gentleman's Magazine and such like periodicals. Recently, (I think) a lister mentioned that he had found a baptismal record for an 18th century ancestor in the IOR archives. I was wondering what the shelf mark of those records might be. Thanks. Frances