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
https://www.
movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/angloindians/angloindians.htm

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

[Sandra Parker]

India Office Family History at British Library
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The records include details for:
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chaplains
railway workers
law officers
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The British Library
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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.

https://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 :-)

[Bertie]

There are various births on familysearch [which you may have but I include in case it helps someone else to add anything for you]: for example...

name: William Christian Zincke
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 31 May 1863
baptism/christening place: Bombay, Bombay, India
birth date: 25 Nov 1862
father's name: William Zincke
mother's name: Maria Thereza
indexing project (batch) number: C00172-2
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 523922

name: Frederick Arthur Zinke
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 10 Dec 1856
baptism/christening place: Poona, Bombay, India
birth date: 27 Nov 1856
father's name: William Zinke
mother's name: Maria Theresa
indexing project (batch) number: C00154-6
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 523915



What about this too? Is it connected to your family at all?

groom's name: William Charles Whitten
bride's name: Eliza Maria Zincke
bride's birth date: 1861
bride's age: 17
marriage date: 07 Mar 1878
marriage place: Bombay, Bombay, India
groom's father's name: James Whitten
bride's father's name: William Christian Zincke
indexing project (batch) number: M74851-6
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 523854

name: Walter Yettie Zinche
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 25 May 1888
baptism/christening place: Byculla, Bombay, India
birth date: 11 May 1888
father's name: Frederick Arthur Zinche
mother's name: Mary Elizabeth
indexing project (batch) number: C58354-2
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 523862

All in all it suggest that the name may be both recorded and transcribed in a variety of ways so some creative searching may be necessary

[linz]

Hi I am Linda Zincke. William and Maria are my great great grand parents. There first born is Frederick Walter Zincke born 1856. I have been researching the Zinck history for 13 years. Like you came to a dead end.

[geneius]

Deaths as reported in 'Domestic Occurrences' in the Times of India 1870 Editions
August 21st at Mazagon William Christian son of the late William Zincke of the Bombay City Mission aged 7 years and 9 months after a long and very painful illness

Deaths as reported in 'Domestic Occurrences' in the Times of India 1891 Editions
1891 Nov 16th at Nagpore Central Provinces of diphtheria Winifred Eliza [Freeda] the beloved daughter of AF Zincke aged 7 years & 2 months

Elizabeth Catherine, infant daughter of Mr. W. Zincke, aged 10 months. & this
At Bombay on the 14th May Elizabeth Catherine the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs W Zincke aged 10 months

At Fort George, Mr. William Zincke, Bombay City Mission, aged 48 years.
B 1821 died 04/03/1864 ( 43)

Marriage
Eliza Maria ZINCKE aged 17 father William Christian ZINCKE married William Charles WHITTEN 07/03/1878 Bombay


Couple of thoughts

1) William ZINCKE b 1821 became a Missionary , google Bombay City Mission

2) Could he be related to the artist Christian Friederick ZINCKE 1707 - 1792

[chris-ruislip]

hi helen
i checked with kew but British libarary holds the east india company records
the east inda company army was eventually taken over by the proper uk army circa 1858
about the time of his first child

i dont know if the same rules applied to the EI army but the uk army had a limit as to how many of it men could marry
6 as i recall to a company so you probably had to make sargeant before you could marry
are you reseachging for Bryan Zincke or another of the Docaster line

chris