Dear Listmembers I have posted so many messages, that it is easier just to copy a message Sue Mackay posted for me on a forum.  To be honest, I really battle to navigate my way through the British and East India Company records.  Can anyone please advise me where to look for the information?  And is there anyone else who is researching any part of this family? "To add some extra info, I have been helping Sunelia transcribe the will of Henry HEATH, who worked for the East India Company. His (seemingly) only son John Henry HEATH, who later became one of the 1820 settlers to the Cape, was born in Bencoolen, Sumatra in 1792, and was baptised in St.Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, London on 11 August 1799. His date of birth was given as 30 September 1792, son of Henry HEATH of Bencoolen, Sumatra. Mother Dead. So Henry HEATH's wife must have died between 30 September 1792 and 11 August 1799. The will lists the siblings and half siblings of Henry HEATH as listed above. It states that his brother Benjamin was living in Barnstaple, and on the 1851 I found a Benjamin who was an annuitant of about the right age to be a younger brother of Henry. The census said he was born in St.Dunstans, London, and I found a baptism from St.Dunstan's in the East for Benjamin, son of Henry and Elizabeth HEATH (Henry described as a cooper of St.Dunstan's Hill) born 2 March baptised 2 April 1782. I found a reference to his brother Matthew HEATH, who was an executor of the will, in Pigot's 1839 Directory as a solicitor of 12 Furnival's Inn (the address given for him in the will). As yet I have found no baptism for Matthew. The sister Mary Elizabeth HEATH was with Henry on the 1841 census in Northfleet, aged 50. Like Henry she is buried in St.Botolph's Church, Northfleet, and an online MI says that she died on 1 May 1872 aged 82, so we know she was born ca 1790 and was probably his youngest full sibling. The two half brothers mentioned in the will were Francis and William. I have now found a baptism in St.Giles Camberwell on 18th December 1812 for a Francis HEATH, son of Henry and Hannah HEATH, born 16th November. Now it was very inconsiderate to baptise Francis one month before January 1813, when printed baptism forms were introduced that had spaces for the father's address and occupation. However, Francis makes amends by getting married just after the start of civil registration. He married Mary Ann CAPON on 20 November 1837, aged 25 (he was a coach painter) and his father is listed as Henry Heath, wine cooper. This would seem to fit in nicely with Benjamin's father being Henry HEATH, cooper. It therefore seems that Henry HEATH Senior was a cooper, whose first wife was Elizabeth. Henry and Elizabeth had Henry, Matthew, Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth that we know of. Elizabeth the first wife died, and Henry re-married someone called Hannah, by whom he had two sons, Francis and William - hence they were half brothers to the Henry who wrote the will. I looked at the London marriage registers and there were two marriages between a Henry HEATH and a Hannah in the right time frame, but only one where Henry HEATH was described as a widower. The likely marriage would therefore seem to be Henry HEATH widower to Hannah DANCE on 18 March 1811 in St.Leonard's, Shoreditch, London This would fit in with Francis's birth in 1812. There is a baptism at St.Mary's Lambeth on 4 January 1815 which MAY be William. The parents are given as Henry and Hannah HEATH with Henry described as a flour factor. I suppose flour could come in barrels too! The address was Belmont Place. This was about as far as I could get Sunelia, so I suggested she let the B-G sleuths take over. Don't let me down now What she chiefly needs to know is who Elizabeth was who married Henry HEATH Senior and the date and place of birth/baptism of Henry HEATH Junior, who died 28 August 1843 aged 73 (MI from St.Botolph's Northfleet). She would also like to know the name of Henry Junior's wife, who was dead by the time their son John Henry was baptised. She may well have died in Sumatra."