How should I go about researching an Indian lineage?

[Millmoor]

There is a baptism in Kamptee Madras for a Catherine Ann Stuart 14 March 1872 - parents Chas and Eliza. Father is a staff sergt. ? dept(unsure of the word before dept.). Maybe the sister?

William

[ShaunJ]

Father is a staff sergt. ? dept(unsure of the word before dept)

Comt Dept = Commissariat Department

[Millmoor]

Thanks, Shaun. I thought it might be as there is this marriage in Kamptee

17 Sept 1871 Charles Stuart 35 widower Staff sergt. Commissariat Father Alex Stuart
 to Eliza Finigan 17 spinster Father Patrick Finnigan

Witnesses P Finnigan and Jas.John

It may, of course, be a coincidence but I note that one of the witnesses at the marriage of Katie Ann Stuart quoted above had the surname Finnigan.

William

[ghostnorris]

Thanks guys. I've found Charles in a public tree now, as being born in 1836, Leslie Aberdeenshire, to Alexander Stuart and Helen Cunningham. Mary Josephine is listed as his daughter. However, it seems to have put her as the daughter of what was presumably his first wife (named as Ellen Dargan). Eliza Finnigan is the mother, though, given the marriage date.