Thanks Chris, > 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! That is interesting to know... I know very little about the army in Ceylon...I thought the information I sent may help Georgina...so if you can explain anything else, it would be helpful please.. Cheers Gay Research Names: http://www.perthdps.com/research/fie01.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "christopher.merry" <christopher.merry@ntlworld.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 4:40 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Honourable East India Company > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >