Chris Yes, my grandfather was probably born in India because I don't qualify for a full British passport (I'm just a British Subject) since neither my parents or grandparents were born in England (my grandfather on my mother's side was Danish). And I've never heard a mention within the family that we have any connection with America, but lots about 'being English' (although we were Anglo-Indian by then). Peter In a message dated 01/03/2009 23:10:04 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Peter Sackett wrote: > Chris Thanks for this lead. I see that this online site has only > about 10% of the Indian records available at the British Library, > although more info. will be added soon, so maybe I will need to > make a visit there to get much further. Even so, I've discovered > my grandfather, who is the Bertram Edward Sackett you refer to > below, and 4 of his children (my uncles and aunts) - Dennis, > Dulcie, Ivan, and Mavis. Peter, Thanks for confirming the identity of your grandfather, Bertram Edward Sackett. Based on the birth dates of his children, he would have been born in about 1885. I do not find a birth record for him in the GRO records in England, so it appears likely that he was also born in India. I was interested to note that the "Aldridge" name in Dennis George Aldridge Sackett, b. in about 1910, also appears in the marriage of Lyman Beecher Sackett and Caroline Lydia Aldridge sometime between 1866 and 1870. Might be a clue? I have no records anywhere in the UK of the name "Lyman" - just does not sound like a British name. There were however quite a few Lymans in the US. Do you think it at all possible that your Indian Sacketts got there by way of the US? Although I have not yet posted a sketch of Rev Frank Colyer Sackett he is well known to us and is close to my Sackett line. His father Jeremiah is at http://www.sackettfamily.info/p13582.htm and there is also a picture of Frank Colyer on that page. As far as I know, you would not be connected to Frank Colyer's line. Regards, Chris SACKETT is a Discussion list for Sackett/Sacket Family Genealogy. Associated URL's for this surname: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett/ and http://www.sackettfamily.info/ If you need any help, email the List Admin at: [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message