Birth in India

[JBF]

Hello
How is it possible to find a person born in India?
She is in the 1891 British census but it says that the birth place is Calcutta. How could i find the birth record?
Thank you

[Jones the Search]

Have you tried this site 
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/
If you do find details you should be able to order the certificate through the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/asiapacificafrica.html
Good Luck
                      Patricia 

[Valda]

The British Library holds baptisms from Indian churches and many records besides (follow the links already given) but it doesn't hold birth certificates.
For army births (as in certificates) or for births registered with consuls (and not all were) you need the overseas section at the Family Records Centre (you can find the index at 1837online).

Regards

Valda

[Jones the Search]

Thank you for that info Valda,
I must admit it was a marriage certificate I obtained. 
                           Patricia 

[Valda]

I think you would have obtained a copy of the marriage from a parish register or a copy of an Indian registrar marriage. If the marriage was in the overseas section of the GRO index (and if it was not a marriage conducted by an army chaplain or registered with a consul it wouldn't be) then the GRO marriage certificate, knowing the British Library charges, would I expect be the cheaper copy.
The same follows for deaths in India. If the death was registered (army or consul) the death certificate will be with the GRO, but for the burial you would need to search in the British Library indexes. Having said that from the second half of the C19th onwards the information for burials in India almost always included the cause of death and the date.

Regards

Valda

[Wendi]

Hi JBF

If they were a British Subject born in India their birth should be registered with The General Registry Office in England & Wales. 

If it's helpful - and they should do a 5 or so year search either way for you - the link is

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0gn/

Wendi

[Valda]

Or cheaper (if you can't visit the Family Records Centre) check through the overseas index at 1837online and if you find the birth order the certificate through the GRO rather than pay more for them to search for you

http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/HomeServlet

As I previously stated, British subject or not, not all births that I hold baptisms for (found in the British Library's Indian churches index of baptisms) have corresponding birth entries in the overseas section of the GRO (or the various overseas, but less well known, birth indexes held at The National Archives).

Regards

Valda