Birth in India

[deniroc]

Hi deniroc !

I believe one of your relatives  worked for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ... I found out that contracts of employment ... apparently can be found at the India Office - which may give you the information you're looking for !
You might also try the relevant Thackers Indian directories ... and also the India Railway board records  - you may get some ideas of where to look here !

http://www.rmhh.org.uk/india.html

Annie  

Hi, Annie thank you.. I'm intouch with them too.. they have records of my gg dad and his employment in G.I.P Railway but nothing on his kids.

and then they have records of my dad and his siblings.. one generation is missing???

[emmsthheight]

Hi Demiroc

Thank you for all your detailed feed back.

What date was the trip back to London?

Emms

[deniroc]

Frank and Ellen left of london in 1953..

Ellen too has been going back an forth as Frank.

[deniroc]

Hi Emms,

I have found this on Frank Rockley.

Description Medal card of Rockley, F
Corps Regiment No Rank
Indian Defence Force 172 Sapper
 
Date 1914-1925
Catalogue reference WO 372/28 

[emmsthheight]

Hi

That's interesting.

The ones on Ancestry - supposedly the same - only have Frank Rockleys in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Army Service Corp[s.  I,know they're still adding but there are loads of Rockleys.

Maybe they aren't doing the regiments from overseas.  My grandad is on in India but that was an Irish regiment.

A pity.  You get his service number without having to pay £3.50 to the National Archives - and occasionally , like two of mine, extra information such as an address... Most of our libraries and loads of us have got Ancestry now.

Another thought, if any of them were "Gazetted", ie had a promotion etc announced in the London (and Regional) Gazette, these are online now.

I'll see if I can find the link.

Sorry for the delay, I just found about a dozen replies on the Rootsweb list .  My emails not working so I looked on there instead.

Best wishes

Emms

[deniroc]

Ok Emms thank you x I'll be waiting.

[emmsthheight]

Hi

I'm sorry.

There's been a lot going on here.  I forgot I never finished this one.

I had to look for it and found the list of links on the other page I've given and thought it might be useful.  You never know.  Brothers and sisters did all sorts of things you don't know about and I've had good clues from seaches I to things I didn't know about.

I hope it works.

I haven't used it for a bit, but you had to jump between two pages, for results from the list when |I tried.

Good luck.

Best wishes.

Emms


http://www.pals.org.uk/wwilinks.htm


http://www.rootschat.com/links/02xt/

[emmsthheight]

Hi again

I was just looking for some other links and found this.  It's their page about holdings for birth records overseas including outside their own collections and it's a useful read.

They reckon that the collection for India and Packistan Bengladash and Burma [n the India Office Collection at the British Library which someone has already mentioned is virtually complete, so it sounds as if it's worth getting in touch, but streess it's possibly an area now in Packistan.

They also say that some records were only passed on years - up to thirty? later.

I hope you get somewhere.

By the way, if it's relevant to anyone reading this, the page covers other countries too, so it's well worth a read for missing overseas records.

Best wishes

Emms



http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/overseas.htm

[deniroc]

Hi Emms,

Thank you for the links, will check them out.