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World War One / Re: British Army in India - WW1
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 22:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Tuesday 29 April 25 08:35 BST (UK)
Technically speaking there were very few elements of the British Army in India at that time.

These are the ones i am interested in. i thought being only a few would make It relatively easy, but in actuality they get swamped. Thanks for that Wikipedia link, it's good background, a lot i didn't know.

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World War One / British Army in India - WW1
« on: Tuesday 29 April 25 03:46 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for detail on what the British army was doing in India during WW1, and in particular which regiments were where & when.

As I understand it, there are two different "projects"; one is supporting the war in Mesopotamia (about which I have read a fairly detailed book - but inevitably simplified to fit into itself) and the other is dealing with opportunistic uprisings motivated more-or-less by the belief that the European war was a handy distraction. This is the topic I am most interested in but I am really struggling to get started. I spent a happy hour with a librarian in the BL when their computers weren't publicly available, but the two of us could find nothing in that time.

I feel somebody somewhere knows something about this...

I'm sure it's an enormous topic, but how to start?

thanks in anticipation

 

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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Monday 28 April 25 10:03 BST (UK)  »
thanks again - i'll start by assuming they are COI, but i thought i'd plan ahead in case not :)

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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Monday 28 April 25 05:20 BST (UK)  »
aghadowey - can i please ask you a couple of things: 1.) What is the PRONI reference for the 1874-1879 Valuation Book entry you mention, because I can't find it. And the other question is, if the Robbs turn out to be Presbyterian, does that mean checking with each church individually for extant registers, or will they be in the PRONI as well?

Cheers

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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Wednesday 23 April 25 00:23 BST (UK)  »
I'm not sure I date to post another question ever again! This is fantastic, thanks very much. I don't want to think how many hours that would have taken me. Your newspaper searching skills in particular are awe-inspiring; looking at your results I can see why my searches didn't turn up the same results - but you must have waded through a ton of results to cull these relevant ones.

The family will be pleased, I think.

I don't know how invested you get in the stories you research; did you find Thomas Robb's theft of his brother-im-law's cashbox just prior to his departure for Australia? (Belfast Morning News, 26 Oct 186, bankruptcy column) He was a complicated man, it seems.

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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Tuesday 22 April 25 21:48 BST (UK)  »
That is *absolutely* *amazing*. Thank you very much indeed. That is a tour de force.

The Smythesdale historical society has the police desk book for the 1860's and Thomas makes several appearances in it for d&d, on one occasion accompanied by Mary.

i'm interested in his father's career. i will have to look at the army records. Thanks again


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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Monday 21 April 25 22:40 BST (UK)  »
sharp questions!

A Thomas Robb died in Melbourne ('sanguineous apoplexy') in 1886; i think he is my man, but the inquest evidence is circumstantial. There was an Elizabeth Robb born in Smythesdale, parents Thomas & Mary. Thomas, Mary and John and Jane Anna came to Australia in 1861 and went home with Elizabeth in 1874. I have always assumed that Thomas came back to Australia post-1874 (but i can't find the ship). So far as i know Jane Anna married a Thomas Moore, but i only know that from the archives. The 'personal' knowledge the family has includes an 'Aunt Jane' but not her husband. John Robb talked about being in Australia, but no-one remembers him talking about his parents.

(There was at least one other Thomas Robb in Ballarat at the same time, but he tended to use his middle initial 'L')

i have DNA connecting my father (John Robb's grandson) to descendants of McNeights and Elizabeth Robb. In case you like pictures, attached is (we think) Thomas & Mary in Ballarat.

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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Monday 21 April 25 04:11 BST (UK)  »
Ah, well, now that's interesting. So it becomes a question of handwriting. "Painter" certainly makes good narrative sense since, assuming it's all the same Andrew Robb, three of his sons were unambiguously painters.

But in the attachment you can see the "r" in printer and contrast it with the "a" in Shaw, just below. And my bigger problem is whether he was a soldier between 1849-58.


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Antrim / Re: Robbs in & around Lisburn
« on: Monday 21 April 25 00:17 BST (UK)  »
thanks for all this; the William Robb m/c is intriguing indeed, because he is marrying a Cunningham, whose father is a cooper, exactly as was Thomas's first wife. it's interesting b/c of a new profession for the father Andrew Robb, carver/gilder. i think that fits quite will with printer (i don't think it's painter, despite the sons' professions, b/c there are 'a''s for comparison) but complicates the problem of 'soldier'.

On religion, Thomas Robb would have
married anyone who could buy him a drink… But I would guess Presbyterian.

i'll have to look into James & Richard too. cheers, thanks again

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