military marriages in India?

[helenc]

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

[Mutley]

Family Search or FMP? Not sure?
Can you give us a name, it may be easier to search.

May find some help here
http://www.
movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/angloindians/angloindians.htm

I found a site with burials. Not quite the same though!
http://www.
indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=reg&regiment=3rd%20Bombay%2 0European%20Regiment

[Sandra Parker]

India Office Family History at British Library
The India Office Family History Search database contains 300,000 brief records for births, marriages, military and naval service, deaths, burials, baptisms, bonds, pensions, wills and brief biographies of Europeans in British India up to 1947.
The records include details for:
civil servants
military personnel
mariners
medical staff
chaplains
railway workers
law officers
non-official inhabitants such as merchants and planters, free mariners, and missionaries.

The British Library
Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
Email: apac-enquiries@bl.uk
I found them most helpful
Good Luck
Sandra

[Hugh Thompson]

Hello Helen, another very useful source is The Families In British India Society website (FIBIS) address below.
Good luck.
Hugh.

http://www.
new.fibis.org/

[Peter Goodey]

Have you searched for his service record? The date's a bit early for a specific reference to his marriage but it might help to pinpoint his movements. The 3rd Bombay European Regiment later became the 109th Regiment of Foot.

[helenc]

HI all his name was William Zincke b1821 surrey he went to India on the 'recovery' and we have his service records and the births of his children etc. As i said we have searched the british library (in person) without sucess. he married Maria Theresa ? and it is this info i am specifically seeking! i have checked out the FIBIS and googled his name etc with no luck :-( thanks for all the replies :-)

[Keefy]

Have you tried https://www.familysearch.org/ - I found out a lot of dates and persons in India.

Keefy