Hi Barry, The Bengal Index of Marriages shows that they were married in 1904. The details are as follows: Year 1904, Volume 321 and Folio 42. This translates to the following LDS film No. 0527526 (Oct-Dec 1904). Regards, David K Bridgnell (North Cornwall) -----Original Message----- From: india-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:india-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barry Sent: 01 October 2010 22:58 To: india@rootsweb.com Subject: [INDIA] c1905 British subjects marriage in India Hello all, Could a lister advise how and where I might find the 1901-1906 marriage in India of Evelyn Raggett and Alexander Bowie? Evelyn M. Raggett was born at Newhaven, Sussex, England in the first quarter of 1880 and at the time of the 1901 census, was living at Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, her occupation "Student, University". Between 1901 and 1906, she met and married Alexander Bowie (b. 1878, Scotland?) who was a bank employee working in India (by 1925, a director of/the manager of the Allahabad Bank). Her marriage to Alexander Bowie is not recorded in the Marriage Index of England and Wales nor were they enumerated in the 1911 census for England and Wales. Her first child was born in Jan. 1907, at a nursing home in Bristol and her second child at the same place, in Feb. 1912. At that time, as birth informant, she is shown as "Evelyn Bowie, mother, Allahabad Bank, Calcutta". Any help and/or advice would be most gratefully received. Barry ===== India Mailing List ===== Families in British India Society: http://www.fibis.org Archives for this list can be found at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=INDIA and at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/INDIA ------------------------------- 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

Barry wrote: Could a lister advise how and where I might find the 1901-1906 marriage in India of Evelyn Raggett and Alexander Bowie? Hi Barry, The LDS (pilot) - Ref: M75039-1 Has Alexander BOWICE aged 27 (b: approx 1877) -m- Evelyn Minnie RAGGETT aged 23 (b approx 1881) on 10 December 1904 Calcutta, Bengal.  Both single at time of marriage. Parents: Alexander BOWICE & Eivenson RAGGETT. Cheryl.

Hello List Jonathan said: I have a relative who enlisted in the 7th Dragoon Guards for 12 years; at Liverpool in 1885. His service record states that he was discharged by purchase on 20 Dec 1890 at Umballa, India. The 1891 census shows that he was living with his Mother in Yorkshire. I do not find his arrival in the UK passenger arrival lists on Ancestry. Can anyone suggest how he could have returned so quickly. He may have returned in a group of British Army troops, perhaps with a returning regiment, via the Overland route. The FIBIS Fibiwiki page British Army, section "Historical books online" has links to an article called "The New Overland Troop Service to India" from Colburns's United Service Magazine 1867 Part 3, page 226. (Google Books) Cheers Maureen (Sydney)

Hello List David said: Could you please tell me if the European cemetery in Dacca still exists and if there is any record of memorial inscriptions? I am looking for an MI for my wife's grandmother, Grace Pauline Percival, who was buried there on 27 November 1903. I am a member of BACSA and sent an email to them asking this question about 6 weeks ago but I have not had a reply. The BACSA website has a reference to Dacca in the material available at the British Library in the BACSA Archive. http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/aps_detail.php?id=99740 Mss Eur F370/767 . There is no information about exactly what is available. The British Library catalogue reference says for Mss Eur F370 767 Dacca 1, Bangladesh 1726-1928, closed 768 Dacca 2, Bangladesh Registers 1832-1927 769 Dacca 3, Bangladesh Dacca Christian Cemetery Inventory of Graves (file) 1725-1981 To get to the BL catalogue click on http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/emsform.asp which brings you to a timeout screen. then Click on "Welcome Screen", then on "Private papers", then enter F370 as the "Number", click on "submit search", then "View Contents List" The FIBIS Fibiwiki page http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=British_Association_for_Cemeteries_in_ South_Asia has some brief details about the BACSA Archive at the British Library.(If the link doesn't copy, enter BACSA in the Fibiwiki search) Cheers Maureen (Sydney)

Hello List In another email which I just sent about WO 97 records, there is also mention of WO 96 (War Office: Militia Attestation Papers 1806-1915) records at the National Archives which are to be digitised next year. Possibly these could be relevant for Stephen Cheers Maureen

Hello List For those of you who are researching soldiers in the British Army, Find My Past have released another tranche of online British Army discharge records, also known as Chelsea Pensioner records (National Archives WO 97 Records). Records for the period 1760-1913 are now available online. The direct link is http://www.findmypast.co.uk/chelsea-pensioners-service-records-collection-se arch-start.action?utm_source=product_update <http://www.findmypast.co.uk/chelsea-pensioners-service-records-collection-s earch-start.action?utm_source=product_update&utm_medium=fmp_email&utm_term=r eg&utm_campaign=CHEP290910> &utm_medium=fmp_email&utm_term=reg&utm_campaign=CHEP290910 or http://tinyurl.com/2dclbmg or access through the Military section of Find My Past. This is the final tranche of the WO97 records, however WO 96 (War Office: Militia Attestation Papers 1806-1915) records are due to be released in September 2011 Details of WO 96 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CAT ID=13156 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CA TID=13156&CATLN=3&accessmethod=5> &CATLN=3&accessmethod=5 or http://tinyurl.com/2eesqlo Cheers Maureen (Sydney)

Caroline, Just brilliant - thanks so much! Barry In a message dated 01/10/2010 22:58:02 GMT Daylight Time, barry56@ozemail.com.au writes: Evelyn M. Raggett Barry Try this link, the spelling is incorrect but I believe this will be what you are looking for. caroline

Hello all, Could a lister advise how and where I might find the 1901-1906 marriage in India of Evelyn Raggett and Alexander Bowie? Evelyn M. Raggett was born at Newhaven, Sussex, England in the first quarter of 1880 and at the time of the 1901 census, was living at Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, her occupation "Student, University". Between 1901 and 1906, she met and married Alexander Bowie (b. 1878, Scotland?) who was a bank employee working in India (by 1925, a director of/the manager of the Allahabad Bank). Her marriage to Alexander Bowie is not recorded in the Marriage Index of England and Wales nor were they enumerated in the 1911 census for England and Wales. Her first child was born in Jan. 1907, at a nursing home in Bristol and her second child at the same place, in Feb. 1912. At that time, as birth informant, she is shown as "Evelyn Bowie, mother, Allahabad Bank, Calcutta". Any help and/or advice would be most gratefully received. Barry

Hello Edna, The orphaned children could have been sent "home" to England to a relative. They could have been accompanied on the voyage possibly by a clergyman with wife and family returning on furlough. Find out more about the family as a whole, the education could have been arranged by relatives. I speak from experience as both my father and grandfather (from the other side of the family) were sent back to England to relatives. Good luck, Mary

Hi Maureen, Sorry, I should have said what wo97 was. A year ago it was all gobbledygook to me and now I am throwing all of these numbers around as if everyone should know what they are! I have just had a look at the national archive catalogue and it would appear that there are no records in the records of service in the militia - wo96 for the 55th Foot. Thanks for the suggestion though, Stephen On 02/10/2010 01:20, Maureen Evers wrote: > > Hello List > In another email which I just sent about WO 97 records, there is also > mention of WO 96 (War Office: Militia Attestation Papers 1806-1915) records > at the National Archives which are to be digitised next year. Possibly these > could be relevant for Stephen > > Cheers > Maureen -- Stephen Cropp Stephen@Cropp.co.uk S.Cropp1@uni.brighton.ac.uk

Hi Everyone, I have been trying to track down a particular relative of mine for a while and was wondering if anyone here might be able to suggest where to look next. George Cropp Joined the 55th Foot around 1818 and spent the vast majority of his time with the regt. in the Madras region. He married Mary Cooper in 1834 and they had at least 4 children that I can find record of, Thomas, Benjamin, James and Joseph (my gg grandfather). In August 1843 he was killed fighting in Hong Kong. Most of the information I have has come from BMD records on findmypast, familysearch and the like, and the military details all come from the WO12 pay records for the 55th at the National Archive. I could not find any pension record in WO97, which was explained when I finally found the record of his death during the first opium war. The questions I am trying to answer are: 1: I know he was recruited while the 55th was stationed in the channel islands, and from the pay records we know that there were recruiters deployed along the south coast of england, but is there any way of finding out where he was recruited, and therefore where he was from? 2: I have a vague recollection of spotting a passport application record or something similar for a Mary Cooper travelling out with the 55th Foot but I was being useless and did not record it and cannot work out where I might have seen it. It would have been an online resource, and most probably a free one. Can anyone suggest where I might have seen this, or did I just dream it? 3: When George dies in Hong Kong, his family remain on in India, but as he does not retire from the army he does not have a record in WO97. Is there anywhere else I might find army records for him? 4: I want to know what happened to Mary his wife. All I have for her so far are the marriage certificate, and a birth certificate for their son Joseph Cropp. Neither of these offer any useful information about her other than her maiden name being Cooper. I have dreamt up this fantastic tale about Her being the daughter of another soldier in the regt. but I don't have any documentary evidence for this, other than my possibly imagined travel application. 5: What happened to Mary Cooper, her children certainly remain in India, and go on to have families there, but I cannot find any record of what happens to her. If anyone can shed any light on either of these two people I wild be most grateful. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen Cropp Stephen@Cropp.co.uk

Hi List, I have a relative who enlisted in the 7th Dragoon Guards for 12 years; at Liverpool in 1885. His service record states that he was discharged by purchase on 20 Dec 1890 at Umballa, India. The 1891 census shows that he was living with his Mother in Yorkshire. I do not find his arrival in the UK passenger arrival lists on Ancestry. Can anyone suggest how he could have returned so quickly. Cheers Jonathan in Toronto, Canada

Hello list, I have found one of my grandfathers brothers in a private school in St Helens Hampshire Ryde Isle of Wight Charles Lloyd born Calcutta India born 1872 was in the 1881 England Census along with many other children bon India I know the children were orphaned at an early age in India as I have found both parents Edward and Jane Lloyd deaths on familysearch site. How would it have been possible for the child to get back to England and in a Private school, would he have been in an Orphanage in India and where would the other family members have gone. Who would have set up the private education for this child Charles Lloyd had a middle name of Underwood Thank you for all the help I have had in the past Edna

Dear list This is asking a very big favour. Is there someone who would be willing as well as able to assist me. I have at last made a discovery about my father's cousin William Rice Lloyd-Jones. I have been notified that his record of service in the Indian Army is held at the British Library. It is however 131 pages and would cost me almost £65. I've been told that they also hold a microfilm of the document and one can obtain copies from it in the reading room for 20pence a page bringing it with postage to about half their quoted price, but it is self service. I'm looking for someone who would be able as well as willing to do this job for me - I have the document's reference number - hoping that the job could be accomplished in about an hour. I know this is asking a lot but if someone is willing to help me I would be extremely grateful. Thank you Angharad Williams

The following announcement appeared in the West Briton newspaper, Truro, Cornwall, UK on 5 December 1851 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 - 5 December 1851 Deaths At LUCKNOW, on the 23rd of September last, Major T. H. SCOTT, C. B., of the 38th B. N, I, formally of TREWARDREVA, in this county.

Hello List I'm looking for the above-named couple and hope someone might know who they were. Emmeline was born probably around 1870. I've found a BMD entry for an Emmeline Lyon born in Bridlington, North Riding Yorkshire in that year. Anyway... Someone of that name married Ernest Walrond Bryant 3 Sep 1897 in Alahabad, India and they had a daughter, Dorothy Walrond Bryant who was born 5 Jan 1905. Looking forward to hearing some good news on the subject. Best wishes Merilyn Pedrick Aldgate, South Australia 

Hello David, There was an interesting blog created by someone who was doing some restoration/research on the cemetery earlier this year. The link is http://zymaislam19.wordpress.com/. It contains a number of photographs of graves. Hope this helps. Best wishes Liz Researching Chater or Armenians in India and Hong Kong in 2010? Please go to www.chater-genealogy.com.

Could you please tell me if the European cemetery in Dacca still exists and if there is any record of memorial inscriptions? I am looking for an MI for my wife's grandmother, Grace Pauline Percival, who was buried there on 27 November 1903. I am a member of BACSA and sent an email to them asking this question about 6 weeks ago but I have not had a reply. David

Hi Ed - many thanks for your help - have spotted the three family trees in Ancestry.com - am following up - Thanks again Thelma.

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