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The surname Wemyss in India
« on: Tuesday 25 August 15 19:23 BST (UK) »
Hi

Can anyone tell me if the Wemyss family were actually Indian or English?

I would be very interested in any photos.

Many thanks
Dawn

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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 August 15 19:30 BST (UK) »
Hi

Which Wemyss family?  The English 1911 index has 220 entries for that surname - 7 of whom were born in India
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Carlin (Ireland & Liverpool) Doughty & Wright (Liverpool) Dick & Park (Scotland & Liverpool)

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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 August 15 19:52 BST (UK) »
From the website of the British India Society. Type in Wemyss. In Default Search select "Exact Matches Only"


http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_person_search.php

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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 25 August 15 20:10 BST (UK) »
HI

Thank you

My tree started with Caroline Charlotte Binfield married James Weymss, born 1778,

Thanks
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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 08:55 BST (UK) »
Where in England did your Wemyss family live?

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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 09:02 BST (UK) »
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 16:49 BST (UK) »
Was there any special reason you know of for thinking they might have been English rather than Scottish?

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 17:30 BST (UK) »
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Re: The surname Wemyss in India
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 17:37 BST (UK) »
A tantalising snippet of an MI at Dehra Dun

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES WEMYSS BORN 4TH MAY 1776. DIED 22ND AUGUST 1849 ENTERED BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE IN 1796. COLLECTOR AT CAWNPORE. APPOINTED INTERPRETER AND ..."

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