My grandfather john Rodney clyde

[Evelynjobe]

I am searching for details of my grand father John Rodney Clyde who was a tea planter in Assam India

[*Sandra*]

Welcome to RootsChat

You need to give a few more details before people can help you.  Where and when was John Rodney Clyde born ? Do you know his parents ?  Any other details that could help ?

Sandra

[nanny jan]

Is he the one baptised in Bengal, born 1935?

[Evelynjobe]

No he came as an adult to india.

[nanny jan]

Do you know roughly when he was born and where?

[*Sandra*]

Welcome to RootsChat

You need to give a few more details before people can help you.  Where and when was John Rodney Clyde born ? Do you know his parents ?  Any other details that could help ?

Sandra

[Forfarian]

Without any more information to work on the words haystack and needle come to mind

There is no birth, marriage or death of a John Rodney Clyde in the indexes to statutory civil registrations in Scotland. There are several John R Clydes, but all of their second names are spelled out in full and none is Rodney.

Searching online, the only reference to anyone of that name is in a list of junior Civil Service appointments the Belfast Gazette in 1969, so that looks unlikely to be your grandfather.

There are four John R Clydes in the England and Wales index as transcribed on FreeCEN
- birth in Newcastle on Tyne in 1923
- marriages in Bridge (Kent) in 1845 and Croydon in 1959
- death in London in 1947, aged 75; there is no probate record of this person 1947-1957. Nor is there any way to tell what the 'R' stands for in any of these listings without buying a copy of the certificate.

There is no reference to a John Clyde or a Rodney Clyde in the online database on the Families in British India Society's web site.

What was your grandfather's connection to Scotland?

[Rosinish]

Would I be right in thinking his name was John Rodney & born somewhere near Firth of Clyde/River Clyde 

As stated previously, more info. needed on dates/areas.

Luckily, if Rodney is the surname there aren't a lot i.e. should be easy to locate.

Annie

[nanny jan]

In an earlier post Evelynjobe mentioned her father ....Harold Oswald Jobe.....(looking for his RASC record); perhaps some information can be found via him?