Can you help to solve an Indian mystery?

[nicdigby]

Secondly, am trying to find the cause of a young death in my direct family and have not been able to find a death record or reason on FindMyPast or Ancestry...again if anyone has any clues I'd be grateful:

Louis Walden Coley b 18 Jun 1894 in India. Son of Joseph Henry Coley.
He married Agnes Cristabel Coombs in 28 Feb 1922 in Gorukhpore, India.

He died in 1928 according to the type written notes left by my family tree predecessor who researched in the 1990s, but she didn't give a reason. He would only have been 34.  His wife remarried.

He was in the army and I can see that hundreds of men in the Indian Army died of Cholera (shocking to see the pages of them, all young men, all with cholera given as the cause of death) but I can't find anything about his death.

Can anyone find anything at all please?

There is this info about his army career, stolen from another Ancestry poster:

"He was a pre war regular (attested 1913) as he has the 14 Star with clasp & roses.
He applies for the clasp in 1923 giving an address of:
Eastern Bengal Coy.
AFI Dacca E. Bengal.
Info:
http://armenianchurchbangladesh.com/photo-gallery/dhaka-social-history/eastern-bengal-volunteers/
His WW1 service record didn't survive & his record post war is not held by the MOD.

Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps, Bengal Army
Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps was raised on 23rd January 1901 by the British Empire in India. It was later re-designated as the 41st Eastern Bengal Company and the Eastern Bengal Company."

[Forguette]

Query No.1 That baby would be by his wife Louisa, if she died in Aug 1841.
Perhaps Bearkats source will have something?

[mckha489]

Question 1

There is an index card on FindMyPast

That reads

COOMBS. Robert Smith
Died 1841 Jan 19
M.I. Buxar

Copyright Society of Genealogists
So it must be an entry in one of their card indexes

[mckha489]

Question 2
This entry in "British Armed Forces and overseas deaths and burials" also on FindMyPast

columns are age, station, year and page.

[nicdigby]

Question 2
This entry in "British Armed Forces and overseas deaths and burials" also on FindMyPast

columns are age, station, year and page.

Thank you. I can’t see any cause of death, can you see anything?

[nicdigby]

Question 1

There is an index card on FindMyPast

That reads

COOMBS. Robert Smith
Died 1841 Jan 19
M.I. Buxar

Copyright Society of Genealogists
So it must be an entry in one of their card indexes

Thank you very much. Do you have any ideas how I would find out more about this please? I can see the same record on Geni but I’m not a member so can’t see the details.

[mckha489]

no - you would have to order the certificate from the GRO. (hence my telling you the column headings)


added - relates to the COLEY death

[nicdigby]

no - you would have to order the certificate from the GRO. (hence my telling you the column headings)


added - relates to the COLEY death

Thank you. I didn’t know I would be able to order an Indian record from the GRO. I’ll have a look. Thank you

[mckha489]

Thank you very much. Do you have any ideas how I would find out more about this please? I can see the same record on Geni but I’m not a member so can’t see the details.

enquire from the Society of Genealogists. But they are in turmoil at the moment moving premises and updating their website. So you might have to wait awhile.

There isn't any indication of source on the card.  other than the fact it is an M.I. So perhaps you should be googling "Monumental Inscriptions of Buxar" or something.