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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Monday 26 August 13 09:31 BST (UK)  »
The one thing I have in my favour is the Service Medical Papers and Discharge for Peter Pickett which pretty much lists everywhere he went over his 20+ years service - so his ranks, battalions, court martials!!  With that I can pretty much pin down where and when he was in India and with Catherine Pickett's declarations on Census forms and death certificate I can pretty much establish the year she was born - so I'm hoping that between the two I can 'magic' a birth record from somewhere deep inside the MODs vaults..!!

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Sunday 25 August 13 17:26 BST (UK)  »
2 years on and I'm no closer.  Everything suggests that she was born in India but without a record of her birth I can't find out who her mother was and so my trail runs cold.  I think my final option will be writing to the MOD and see if they can help.... I'm sure the Army must have somebody who specialises on my ancestors battalion etc.  Let's see.  Fingers crossed....

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Saturday 24 December 11 13:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I've some more to add to the mystery - having now read the 1911 census it once again gives the place of birth as Barrackpore, India and states "British Subject by Parentage" - so does that mean that her mother was probably a local Indian woman?  Or does it simply mean that she was born outside of the UK and her parents were British?

Thanks for any advice/suggestions

Stephen

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Monday 14 November 11 09:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

That sounds promising....  I have a tree over on Ancestry.  Do you have an account?  I'll try one of these private message things - but to honest, I'm a complete newbie on here - let's see what happens.  If it doesn't work or you can't see it - we'll have to try something else.  I've a feeling that if I put my own email address on here it will be taken down immediately for infringing my own rights or something!

SF

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 22:18 BST (UK)  »
Dawn - that would be marvellous if it's not too much of an inconvenience.  I live/work in Manchester and get to London occasionally with work - but never have the free time to indulge myself other than take the odd photograph.  I must admit though that I'm not massively hopeful at this stage....

Cheers

Stephen




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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 17:40 BST (UK)  »
I do have a second plan - I have a 5-year old daughter - so hopefully in about 25-30 years when she's an established Hollywood star - she too can go on Who Do You Think You Are - and they can take her out to India to find Catherine's birth certificate....  Until then - I continue to struggle....

This all started as a project for my wife when she was recovering from an op - I stuck my nose in and got hooked....

As for copying records - the rules are the rules I guess - but I find it all ridiculous.  I think all records should be made open and available.  Why should some company profit from selling my great, great, great, great grandparents birth certificate - or mine come to think about it.  I would mind so much if it were the Government - and least the national debt would be coming down.  When I buy my certificates I buy them from a .gov domain - so presumably our national debt reduces by £9.00 each time...!!!!

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 15:49 BST (UK)  »
Nope  - I didn't realise.  A rookie mistake - I assumed that I had paid for it, I could do with it what I liked.  That's bad news - you should see my Ancestry.com pages - or maybe you shouldn't..!!!!!

I can understand authors not wanting their work copied and passed around willy-nilly - but these are just public record - especially census records.  I wanted all of my work to be available for the future generations so that they don't have to go through everything I'm going through - it's costing a small fortune in certificates!!

Back to Private Pickett though - NO - I've missed the Crimea reference - where is it?

Also, can't I call up his official army records from somewhere - I seem to recall that there is a website where you can pay and get a full record sent to you detailing where they served, the battles they fought in etc.

Maybe Catherine's true identity is destined to remain unresolved.....Damnation...!

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 14:31 BST (UK)  »
If he had married a local would the British Army have recorded it?  I'm just wondering if Catherine's mother was Indian whether it would have been frowned upon and not recognised?  That said though - there's not the slightest hint of being Indian through the family ancestors - we look more like we're descended from Vikings than from the sub continent...!!!  I'd have welcomed a warmer complexion....

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The Common Room / Re: Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 14:15 BST (UK)  »
Last page of the records for Private Peter Pickett....

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