John Anderson BARSTOW East India Company Bengal

[EdinburghandBorders]

Hello,

I am descended from John Anderson BARSTOW (1795-1863) and would like to get in contact with anyone who is also descended from John Anderson Barstow who was born in Kelso in the Borders region.  I know he had a brother Charles Murray Barstow who lived in Edinburgh.

Our branch of the family emigrated to Australia in the mid-1800s, and I am trying to find out more about who John Anderson Barstow was.  I know that he went to India as a cadet, and died there, but would like to fill in the picture a bit more.

Am happy to share what little information I have.  I am hoping that there is surviving family in Edinburgh or the Borders area who may know more about him.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[Neale1961]

Not sure if you want information about John or his brother, Charles Murray, or his sisters.
 Perhaps you could clarify?


There are various military records for John Anderson Barstow held at the British Library.

BARSTOW , John Anderson (1795-1863). Major General. Late 58th N.I.
b. 10 May 1795 Morpeth Northumberland. Son of Thomas Barstow.
Cadet 1811. Arrived in India Aug. 1812. Ensign 13 Aug. 1814. Lieut. 1 June 1817.
Capt. 31 Mar. 1831. Major 1 Jan. 1845. Lt. Col. 17 May 1851.
Col. 28 Nov. 1854. Maj. Gen. Oct. 1862. d. Murree 9 June 1863.

Services: Ensign d.d. 2/9th N.I. Attached for duty to Rangpur Local Bn. in Oct. 1813.
Posted to 2/18th N.I. 10 Oct. 1814, but did not j in until 1818. Nepal War 1814-6 ;
Ensign Rangpur Local Bn. Int r. & Q mr . 2/18th N.I. Oct. 1818 till May 1824.
Transfd. to 36th N.I. (late l/18th) May 1824 ; to 37th N.I. May 1825.
Adjt. 37th N.I. June 1825 till May 1831. Siege and capture of Bhurtpore ;
Lieut. 37th N.I. (India medal). First Afghan War 1839 ;
Bolan Pass 4 May 1839 (s.w.) ;
Capt. 37th N.I. (Medal). Fur. s.c. 8 Feb. 1841 till 23 Dec. 1844. Second Sikh War ; in garrison at Lahore ;
Major 37th N.I. (.Medal). Transfd. as Lt. Col. to 70th N.L in May 1851 ;
to 1th N.I.; to 57th N.I. in June 1852 ; to 58th N.I. in Apr. 1851.
He comdd. this Regt. (which was disarmed during the Mutiny) until it was disbanded in 1860.

[amondg]

If the Geneanet on ancestry is yours, there is another daughter

Ellen Harriet Rose Barstow who married Lt. Edwin Colnett Corbyn 1866 of the Bengal Staff Corps. 2nd daughter of the late Major General John Anderson Barstow
4 September 1866 at Trinity Church, Murree

Reported in the Limerick Chronicle dated 4 December 1866, Dublin Evening Mail 3 December 1866

[J.J.]

His Father Thomas, mother was Jane  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWWQ-VXZ
Jane Mitchelson...url was attached to a tree with family listed...The same baptism is also posted again - but as taking place in India. (Perhaps was only there within his military file.)
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MQ3M-ZVV
They don't have brother Charles Murray Barstow listed b 1804...Earldoms Gengfall,Roxburghshire.
& the Geni Tree hasn't got sistar Grace Barstow b. 1792
Ancestry tree-bit shows one child b. out of wedlock in India...and 5 others with Isabella Burn who is younger than his first child.
https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/john-anderson-barstow-24-1nj37g