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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: HughC on Wednesday 25 June 25 18:27 BST (UK)
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Edward was the eldest son of George Maunsell Shield and his wife Sarah née Fabian; he was baptized in Bromley, Kent, on 22 June 1815.
He was in the Bengal civil service.
I think his wife Anne may have had the maiden surname Macklin as they had a son Henry John Macklin Shield, born on 22 Dec. 1855 and baptized at Fatehgarh.
I know no more about them. Could it be that they were killed in the Indian mutiny?
Nothing relevant on the FiBIS web site, as far as I can see. Can anyone help?
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Findmypast has a database of British casualties in the Indian Uprising and there is a record of a schoolmaster with the name of Shiels who was killed in Futtehghur, his family were also killed.
On the 1856 baptism, Edward was noted as chaplain's clerk.
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transcription of memorial here, mentions 2 Shiels children
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237015322/shiels
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possible baptism for other child
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG8V-K8T?lang=en
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You can also see the Inscriptions and some relevant information here:
https://archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft/page/90/mode/2up
As well as Mr and Mrs SHIELS, schoolmaster and 2 children, there is also Mr and Mrs MACKLIN, head clerk.
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Thank you both for all that info. I find it strange that the name would be corrupted to Shiels, and with a different occupation.
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FindMyPast has a couple of prison register records (1833/34) for an Edward Fabian Shield - occ mariner, age 18, born Bromley. The Old Bailey Trials site has a brief (very) item re. his appearance.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18340102-16?text=shield
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Thank you. I'd found that, and wonder whether he was packed off to India to keep him out of further trouble at home.
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Another child? Edward Shield, born 15 December 1852, was baptized at Mean Meer on 7 April 1853, son of Edward & Ann, Sergeant 39th Native Infantry.
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Thank you. This is getting confusing! I thought he was in the Indian Civil Service, not the army.
And how does it square with him being a chaplain's clerk, and possibly a schoolmaster?
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Thank you. I'd found that, and wonder whether he was packed off to India to keep him out of further trouble at home.
Indeed. Judgement respited and under column headed "How Disposed of" it reads "To sea 28 Jan (1834)"
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I think the schoolmaster was Moses Sheels/Sheils
"Moses Sheels was the Line Sahib , and like many warrant officers he became an old resident . Mr. Sheels or Sheils kept a School for European children ."
(Fatehgarh Camp, 1777-1857 - Page 15) per Google Books
See also https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_East_India_Company_s_Arsenals_Manufa/XE8MAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=moses+sheels+fatehgarh&pg=PA177&printsec=frontcover
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Thank you, Shaun. That does explain the mystery of how Shield supposedly became Sheils,
but we still don't know what happened to Edward and family.
I think I'm just going to have to learn to talk to the dead!
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This explains the family's fate - I screen searched for "shiels"
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81088/2015.81088.Fatehgarh-And-The-Mutiny_djvu.txt
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Moses Sheels was in his sixties and unlikely to have young children. I wonder if those reporting casualties confused him with Edward Shield.
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Do you consider the "Mr Shiels" at reply 13 to be "Moses"?