Again here is some saved information which I thought at the time may have been useful to me....Some of the links may now be out of date..________________________________________________________________ The Honourable East India Company originally had its own army. After the Indian Mutiny of 1857, loyal elements, both European and Indian regiments, became the Indian Army. This was managed quite separately from the British Army in India. Most of the HEIC and Indian Army records, including records of births marriages and deaths, are in the India Office archives, but there are some military records in the PRO at Kew. The records of the Army of the HEIC to 1857, the Indian Army from 1857 to 1947 and the Indian Civil Service of the same period are archived in the British Library Oriental and India Office Collections. These are now found in the main British Library site at St Pancras. You can find out more about the Library and its collections on their website: http://www.bl.uk/ For information on East India Company army and Indian Army records at the British Library; see: http://www.bl.uk/collections/oriental/records/overview.html/and: http://www.bl.uk/collections/oriental/records/iorarrgt.html#LMILHead The British Library have published a very useful book "India Office Library and Records - A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources"' by Ian A Baxter, 2nd Edition published 1990; ISBN 0 7123 0637 4. There is also quite a good section of records relating to India, including the HEIC, in the Society of Genealogists Library. You may also find it useful to visit some of these HEIC and British in India Related Web Sites: a) Alex Glendinning's Home Page on http://user.itl.net/~glen/asianintro.html b) Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library on http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeast.html c) British Ancestors in India on http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/index.htmlAmong other things, it gives you a list of the LDS film numbers for BDM in the three presidencies in Colonial India. Also has links to information of some British Army regiments serving in India. d) The East India Company on http://www.theeastindiacompany.com/history.html e) National Archives of Singapore on http://www.museum.org.sg/nas/nas.html f) Barney Tyrwitt-Drake's home page on http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk/

Gay, I have recently been to the British Library a few times, looking for records of my great-great grandfather, who was in the Royal Irish Regiment in India (before the mutiny). also for his father, who was employed by the HEIC in London! I managed to find quite a lot of information. However, a lot of HEIC records were destroyed when they ceased to be, in 1860! The staff are very helpful. However, Ceylon was never part of the HEIC 'empire', it was 'ruled' by the Colonial office and all their records are at the National Archives at Kew! Chris Merry ----- Original Message ----- From: Gay Fielding <gayze@tpg.com.au> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:31 PM Subject: [SRILANKA] Honourable East India Company > Again here is some saved information which I thought at the time may have > been useful to me....Some of the links may now be out of > date..________________________________________________________________ The > Honourable East India Company originally had its own army. After the Indian > Mutiny of 1857, loyal elements, both European and Indian regiments, became > the Indian Army. This was managed quite separately from the British Army in > India. Most of the HEIC and Indian Army records, including records of > births marriages and deaths, are in the India Office archives, but there are > some military records in the PRO at Kew. The records of the Army of the HEIC > to 1857, the Indian Army from 1857 to 1947 and the Indian Civil Service of > the same period are archived in the British Library Oriental and India > Office Collections. These are now found in the main British Library site at > St Pancras. You can find out more about the Library and its collections on > their website: http://www.bl.uk/ For information on East India Company army > and Indian Army records at the British Library; see: > http://www.bl.uk/collections/oriental/records/overview.html/and: > http://www.bl.uk/collections/oriental/records/iorarrgt.html#LMILHead The > British Library have published a very useful book "India Office Library and > Records - A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources"' by Ian A Baxter, 2nd > Edition published 1990; ISBN 0 7123 0637 4. There is also quite a good > section of records relating to India, including the HEIC, in the Society of > Genealogists Library. You may also find it useful to visit some of these > HEIC and British in India Related Web Sites: a) Alex Glendinning's Home Page > on http://user.itl.net/~glen/asianintro.html b) Asian Studies WWW Virtual > Library on http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeast.html c) British > Ancestors in India on http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/index.htmlAmong other > things, it gives you a list of the LDS film numbers for BDM in the three > presidencies in Colonial India. Also has links to information of some > British Army regiments serving in India. d) The East India Company on > http://www.theeastindiacompany.com/history.html e) National Archives of > Singapore on http://www.museum.org.sg/nas/nas.html f) Barney Tyrwitt-Drake's > home page on http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message