How do you go about researching a marriage and birth in India?

[Josephine]

The websites for the  British Newspaper Archive, and therefore FindMyPast as well, have issues of a publication called "Homeward Mail from India, China and the East." It's indexed as "Homeward Mail."

I'm not on my home computer, so I can't check the years that are available, but it might be worth checking that publication, just in case. They printed info on births, marriages, deaths, travel, work, etc.

Good luck in your search!

Regards,
Josephine

[Stanwix England]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say thank you for all the help. You've given me a lot of great info and great leads. What an interesting life this man led, must have been quite a contrast coming back to Yorkshire.

[BumbleB]

Albert Edward's service papers are on FindMyPast.  He was a "Billiard Marker" on enlistment.

[Stanwix England]

Oh cool, thank you. 

[andrewalston]

The marriage index also has a Bertha Dovey, on Ambala page 121 in 1910.

A good candidate.

No likely matching birth registration for Bertha, so this was likely not her first marriage.

[Stanwix England]

Thank you andrewalston, I couldn't find her either so that must be the reason.

[BumbleB]

The marriage index also has a Bertha Dovey, on Ambala page 121 in 1910.

A good candidate.

No likely matching birth registration for Bertha, so this was likely not her first marriage.

BUT Bertha was a SPINSTER when she married in 1910

[andrewalston]

It looks like Bertha may have been a bit loose with her age.

A Bertha Dovey was baptised at St. Chad, Pattingham in 1873:
Dec. 18, Bertha daughter of, William and Mary, Dovey, Pattingham, Blacksmith, W.G. Gunstreet Vicar

Records are on FindMyPast. She's the only Bertha Dovey in their Staffordshire Baptisms.

[Christine53]

GRO Regimental Birth Indices :

Mary E Harrison 1910 Umballa , India ; Regiment 33rd Foot ( = First Yorks West Riding )
v 822 p 180

You can order a certificate from GRO in the usual way.