Forum: India Genealogy

please can someone tell me if there is any information on this burial Edward Hodson 08 july 1821 kaira bombay india

Can anyone tell me how I can get a copy of my mother's birth certificate. I know she was born in Calcutta, in 1903, and I know her birth date, but when I contacted the British Library they have nothing there. My sister tells me she has never seen Mum's birth certificate. She was a Catholic so...

Good evening I do hope this is were I email you for help. I do not have access to the 1891, 1901 and 1911 India Census and need your assistance please, if you could look up the India Census for the below peoples. Names: 1. Ethel Victoria White. Ethel could have been born around the late...

Hi, Im in search of birth records for my dad we do have his baptism certificate which is registered in the General Register Office london. His name is Leslie Lionel Bousten Rockley...He was born in secunderabad, Hyderabad, India in 1931 I wrote to them this is the response I got: Dear Ms...

I'm pulling my hair out with this one! I'm researching one of my ancestors who was born in India as a British subject in 1826. I've searched on FIBIS, placed a message on Rootsweb India, searched on Findmypast overseas regs. and I've searched on FamilySearch with no luck. I'm unable to travel to...

Irene was my g'mother and born circa 1893/94. She married Bertrum Somerville Joseph in 1924 in Calcutta, India. She was a widow and previous married name was Skinner. Her father was William Sinclair. Does anyone have any information regarding how she came to be in India or more information...

HI desperately trying to locate a marriage in bombay in the mid 1850s where do i look? can't find it at the british library? where else is there? did all the records come back? the person i'm looking for was in the 3rd Bombay european regiment and his 1st child was born 1856. many thanks Helen

Hello My mother comes from a long and, in some cases well documented line. The Kiernanders can trace their family tree back to 15th Century Sweden and moved to Calcutta, India at the end of the 18th Century. The problem I have is finding any details about those who married into the family. In...

My family seems to have all originated in Europe but a lot of them went to India either in the army, the British Railways or as in the case of my Great Grandfather John Jessop as a Tea Planter in the Hazaribagh region of West Bengal, India. I am not having any luck tracing that branch of my...

Joseph family Bengal, EZEKIEL JOSEPH, his children Hannah Esther Joseph1845-? married William James Reed 1865 (my great g.mother) Ezekiel Joseph 1851-?, married Ellen Duff 1907, and Sammerville Arthur Joseph 1859-1930, married Anne Ursula Hackney Collett,1881, found on Family Search. anyone one...

I am trying to find out where my great grandfather Pierre Joseph Newville was married to Maria Eugenia. Their daughter Madeleine and eldest son George Alfred Pierre were born in India as per the copy attached (reference to George only as I could not find Madeleine's details either). No details on...

I am researching the Glassfield-Linnion Family, who were resident in Bangalore in the 1880's, possibly earlier. All I have until now are one marriage record and three baptism records. Charles Alfred Glassfield was a grenadier, but I have not been able to find out which regiment he was attached to...

Hi If I am in the wrong spot......I'm really sorry I am looking for Ann Cardwell (aka Mary Ann Cardwell). I know that she arrived in NSW on the Duchess of Kent on 3 Jan 1843. She was 16. That ship left Calcutta 24 Sep 1842, stopping in Madras 18 October 1842 on the way to Hobart and then Sydney....

I am researching a member of the Indian Army for a friend. The name of the soldier is Reginald Wildred Abroe who served in WWI and WW2. I am going through the process of ordering his medal card from the National Archives and his service record from the British Library, but would like to know if...

their daughter Violet was christened 19 Oct 1888 at the Old Mission Church , Fort William, Calcutta. She married my great uncle James William Coffey in Calcutta in 1911. James Cable was a Relieving Gunner Guard in the East Bengal State Railway. Is there anyone out there researching this family ?

Herbert James Thom b 1865 in Aberdeen joined the Indian Police about 1922, how do I track down his time spent in the Police Force. He may have also spent time in Burma.

Hi I’m new to family history. I am working on my family tree. I am looking for any of my ancestors from the 1900s to present with surnames Waka or Vaja. My father’s name is Mohammed Musa Waka, everyone knows him as Rustam Waka and also by the surname Patel. My Dad was born in 1948 in India, in...