Hello Melanie, It is probably Hotgi (Bombay Presidency) - which is located 9 miles SE of Sholapur at the junction of the GIPR and Hotgi-Gadag sectrion of the Southern Mahratta railway line. My GGrandfather was an engine driver in the SMR located there in 1887 - so last year when my wife and I were grave hunting in Sholapur we also visited Hotgi. Regards Graeme Simpson >Any ideas where Holgi was or is?

If anyone has access to Farrington's catalogue of EIC ships, could you please let me have this information? (I returned my copy some time ago and it will take ages to get it again through inter-library loan). >From reading a 1793 letter now at the National Library of Scotland and connecting some other dots, I know that George Cumming sailed to India sometime after June 1793 when he was appointed to EIC service and before September of that year, as that was when he arrived. The letter mentions that the captain of the ship on which he sailed was William Simpson and one of the officers was Adam Cumine. I transcribed the name of the ship as the "Forst" but I think that is a mistake. The boat might be a "Fort" something or the other. So--if somebody is able to look up the book (or tell me how to find this information online), could I get the day on which the boat sailed, where it stopped en route, and when it reached Calcutta. Thanks so much. Frances

Frances Asked If anyone has access to Farrington's catalogue of EIC ships, could you please let me have this information? (I returned my copy some time ago and it will take ages to get it again through inter-library loan). The ship was the 'Fort William', its captain was George Simpson, Adam Cumine was 2nd lieut, it left Portsmouth on 22 May 1793, its voyage was Coast and Bay (meaning the Coromandel Coast [the south eastern coast of India, from the southern tip, up past Madras, to the delta of the Krishna River in the north] and the Bay of Bengal) and it returned to Moorings on 10 Sept 1794. This info is available free on Google Books: A register of ships, employed in the service of the Honorable the United ... By Charles Hardy http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=aaoBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT132&lpg=PT132&dq=J+Gerr ard+East+India+Company&source=web&ots=QZwU1AwOlT&sig=ZESnKkCfd6NhemG7UrtDdi- Iu7k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#v=snippet&q=Cumine&f=false For more details of the trip you will need to go to Fort William: Journal IOR/L/MAR/B/91D 25 Feb 1793-15 Dec 1794 held by British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections All the best Peter Auckland