looking for my Grand dad

[eddyj]

Looking for my Grand father who was scottish and fought in India here is all the information
My Grand dad -- Scottish who fought in India name was Thomas Waddel
My grand mother --- was french ..don't know her name
My fathers half brother --- was english Thomas Waddel..i do remember him vaguely
My father Earnest louis Waddel fought in the second world war and married in India
so i only know my fathers birthday ,, the rest i don't know.

[CaroleW]

Hi and welcome to Rootschat

Without knowing birthyears - it's difficult to give info

Where was your father born?  If he was born in Scotland in or before 1914,  you can download a copy of his birth cert from Scotlands People.  If he was born 1915 onwards you would have to buy a copy.  His birth cert will give you his mothers name and maiden name.

If your grandparents married in Scotland - the same site can be used to find their marriage.  Marriages up to 1939 can be downloaded.  If they married in England or Wales you can look for the marriage here  www.freebmd.org.uk  or on https://familysearch.org/search

Scotlands People is a pay per view site via purchase of credits
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

[ancestorsnoop]

Welcome to Rootschat!

Here is a Thomas Waddel in India.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/iofhs.shtml
Thomas Waddel, buried 9 Aug 1942, Calcutta, age 60

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG7J-N8S
Thomas Waddel, born 16 Nov 1881, bapt. 21 Dec 1881, Calcutta, India,
parents Hugh Ernest Waddel & Amelia Jemima

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJG-3SY
Thomas Waddel's 1908 marriage Marie Blanche Desbruslais

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJ2-89C
Thomas Waddel's 1915 marriage to Fanny Augusta Waddel

http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/
I see some Waddel information also here

(Oops, copied too quickly and got the wrong marriage year for Thomas & Fanny.  It is corrected now.)

[ancestorsnoop]

There is a Louis Earnest Waddel baptism in India with parents Thomas Waddel & Marie Blanche.

[ancestorsnoop]

There was a Thomas Clarence Waddel, born 1 Nov 1922, and died Jan-Mar 1989, in Croydon, Surrey, England.  There was someone by the same name (but with first name and middle name switched) born the same year in Calcutta.  Is this your father's half brother?

[ancestorsnoop]

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGKJ-F87
A possible half sister that died as a baby, Jessie Elizabeth Waddel.

[Forfarian]

IGI has four children of Hugh/Hew E(a)rnest and Amelia Jemima
Mary bap 21 Dec 1881
Thomas born 16 Nov 1881 bap 21 Dec 1881
Jessie bap 14 Nov 1884
Benjamin Freeman bap 8 Jan 1886

Hugh Ernest Waddel married Amelia Horrox 8 September 1877, West Bengal.

I wonder if Hugh could have been one of the Irish Waddells? There were quite a lot of them named Hugh. If he was, I probably have some information about his family.

[eddyj]

I do believe this is my grand father's, father my grandfather was named Thomas waddel, who married  Marie Blanche Desbruslais
 father was Louie Ernest Waddel

I am desperately trying to find his birth certificate..to be with my wife in the UK or get an ancestry Visa.


Name:   Thomas Waddel
Gender:   Male
Christening Date:   21 Dec 1881
Christening Place:   Calcutta, Bengal, India
Birth Date:   16 Nov 1881
Birthplace:   
Death Date:   
Name Note:   
Race:   
Father's Name:   Hugh Ernest Waddel
Father's Birthplace:   
Father's Age:   
Mother's Name:   Amelia Jemima
Mother's Birthplace:   
Mother's Age:   
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:   C75028-6
System Origin:   India-EASy
GS Film number:   510866
Reference ID:   v 178 p 16



Citing this Record:
"India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG7J-N8S : accessed 4 April 2016), Hugh Ernest Waddel in entry for Thomas Waddel, 21 Dec 1881; citing , reference v 178 p 16; FHL microfilm 510,866.

[dawnsh]

the records are held at the British Library at St Pancras, London.

Information on obtaining a baptism certificate (not a birth certificate, they don't exist) is here

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/familyresearch.html#search

you need to fill out the application for this and send the £18

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/ecclesiasticapplication2010.pdf

the reference for the entry you mention is

N1/178/16

but I notice that the names don't match, you said you are looking for.....

Louis Earnest Waddell baptised 1 October 1911 at St Teresa, Bengal, his date of birth is given as 20 September and his parents are Thomas & Marie Blanche. The reference is N1/376/118