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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: Squirrel Nutkin on Sunday 23 May 10 19:50 BST (UK)
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Hello
I am wondering if anyone can help. My great-grandfather was born and lived in India and Burma. A family member has a copy of his baptismal certificate which states that he was bptd Cassily Lionel Strickland at St James' Church, Delhi, 8th March 1884, son of George and Harriet Strickland.
It is possible he attended St joseph's school in Calcutta. As an adult he worked as a Post Office Inspector, and moved to Burma, having married Susan Edith Beauchamp, possibly in Calcutta. They had four children, Joan, Jean, Paul and Ruth.
I think George came to India with the Dunlop rubber company as a pattern maker.
This is everything I know and I would dearly love to find out more. Can anyone put me in the right direction for either verifying these details, or better still finding out more!
Thanks.
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The only thing I can add to what you already know is that a Vincent Norman Strickland was born to a George and Harriet Strickland at Dalhousie*, India on the 22nd Feb 1880.
* Dalhousie is located approx 446 kms from Delhi.
Tony
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Thanks Tony! That's great! I'll dig around and see if I can make any links.
Thanks for your help.
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That's great! I'll dig around and see if I can make any links.
We have gathered some useful links for researching in India here:
Topic: INDIA: Resources for Ancestors in British India
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,30580.0.html
good luck,
Bob
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You've probably got this from FIBIS already - re the Calcutta marriage
http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=233359
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Thanks Bob - I did find this reference yesterday after I posted, thanks to your handy list! Haven't found anything else yet.
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Oops - I mean thanks Bob and ShaunJ!
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Tony - do you mind me asking where you found reference to Vincent? I'm a bit stumped how to get any further.
Thanks
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Tony - do you mind me asking where you found reference to Vincent? I'm a bit stumped how to get any further.
Thanks
The record came up on FamilySearch. I just put in the surname and did a search through the Asia section of the results!
Tony
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If you go to http://pilot.familysearch.org, and search there you will find George and Harriet in the India records. They have had an update just recently.
Ian C
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Thanks Tony and Ian
I've now found quite a few extra relatives through this - most helpful.
What I can't find which I would love to is a record of George and Harriet's marriage. I have discovered that George was in fact William George (although he uses George on the children's birth records).
I've also discovered that Dunlop didn't exist until 1889, and since one of their children was born in 1880, I conclude he didn't go out there to work with Dunlop, but presumably did something else first and worked for them later.
I shall have to keep digging! Thanks for your help.
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It seems Dunlop didn't open in India until 1926 according to the following company history -
http://www.dunlop.co.in/aboutus/aboutus.php
Hope that doesn't throw a spanner in the works!!
Tony
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Perplexing isn't it?! He would have been 70 by then even if he was still alive! Better get back to the relative who told me that and see if i can find out more.
Thanks for checking it out.
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Just a thought - is it possible that he went out to work in some capacity on the rubber plantations being set up by the British planters.
In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British Planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.
That would explain his presence in Calcutta!
Worth considering?
Tony
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Thanks for that reference Tony.
With thanks to Osprey who has been helping me on another thread about George's inauspicious beginnings, I have found George and Harriet's marriage record, and a whole load more ancestors for Cassily on Harriet's side! It looks like George was army after all, so I now have no idea where Dunlop fits into the picture, if indeed it does at all!! It seems like a somewhat random thing to invent, so perhaps a link will emerge eventually.
Thanks for all your help.
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Hi Squirrel Nutkin
I'm wondering whether you are still active on this site? My wife is the great-granddaughter of George Strickland and granddaughter of Vincent and Mary Erina Strickland, and I've just found your postings from three years ago. It would be very interesting to hear from you.