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Other Countries / Re: research in Malaysia
« on: Monday 05 May 25 14:43 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately records may be hard to find but your best bet is to have a look at clan associations. These clans were set up to help Chinese immigrants when they arrived. They would record all male line members of the family in a lot of detail so it's worth taking a look at that.

My mother's family is Malaysian and it really helped me since we found out that her family first arrived in Malaysia roughly during the late 1600s.

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Other Countries / Re: John Henry Bond - India
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 04:50 GMT (UK)  »
Was Rosa Margaret Bond born as Rosa Margaret O'Douner in 1848?

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Other Countries / Re: John Henry Bond - India
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 04:39 GMT (UK)  »
If I'm correct it usually referred to people of English, Scottish, Irish etc  ancestry. Some records would be more accurate and specify what kind of European they were but some don't. Maybe someone else in your family tree was mixed race if you have Indian dna, because usually if they were mixed race Anglo-Indian would be recorded as their nationality when they died.

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Other Countries / Re: Name change? India
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 13:45 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, thank you.

I have seen that record before. We knew he was an engineer in 1918, but unfortunately most of my relatives who knew my 2x great grandfather have already past away. However it was interesting to see that Portugal was listed as the country he was a subject or citizen of, but he was from Goa which was a Portuguese colony at the time.

The only other things we know about him was that his mother was a Hindu convert to catholicism as we managed to track down people who remembered her family. His father's family were apparently Portuguese-Indians so I guess it all makes sense.

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Other Countries / Anglo Indian vs English etc: What's the difference?
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 13:38 GMT (UK)  »
Found a death record for my 3x great grandfather in Karachi in the 1930s. I noticed on the record it lists his nationality as Anglo Indian while the 3 other deaths recorded on the same page for other people are English, English and Scottish. What exactly would this have meant at the time?

I don't really know much about his father apart from a name and that he was born and died also in Karachi. I know his mother (she got married at 13 or 14 which is so crazy) was mixed race so is that why they recorded him as Anglo-Indian? Honestly sometimes these terms confuse me.


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Other Countries / Re: India: Looking for birth record of Audrey Strachan 1912
« on: Wednesday 12 March 25 08:11 GMT (UK)  »
Was her married name Maynard? I found a record which I think is correct.

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Other Countries / Re: Name change? India
« on: Wednesday 12 March 25 08:03 GMT (UK)  »
Unfortuantely I cannot find a marriage record. However I have my their children's baptism records which list them as the parents. The earliest is my great grandmother Joan Marie Paes who was born and baptised On Feb 20th 1922 in Bangalore.

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Other Countries / Name change? India
« on: Wednesday 12 March 25 02:46 GMT (UK)  »
I have been trying to find more about my 2x great grandmother Jane Edwards but I'm not even sure if that's her real name and it's a pretty common name. Is there any way to find whether someone may have converted to Catholicism and then changed their name? Also if anyone is able to find anything about her, that would be really helpful.

Name: Jane Edwards
DOB: 1893 (a guess)
Place of birth: Probably Kollam, India
Death: 1973
Spouse: Thomas Matthew Paes
Place of death: India

My family think that her family were probably Indigo planters. She also used to be a nurse. However, there is no information about her prior to her marriage.

The reason why I wonder whether Jane Edwards may not be her original name is that she is Catholic and recently I found that my 3x great grandmother changed her Hindu surname to a western one when she converted (she and Jane are not related).

I do have a photograph of her probably around the late 1920s with her husband my great grandmother, but I'm not sure if that would be much help.

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World War Two / Re: Need help finding information on WW2 RAF service man Dennis Houghton
« on: Monday 01 May 23 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Annette7 on Monday 24 April 23 20:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: steviebyday on Monday 24 April 23 19:30 BST (UK)
there's a Dennis A Houghton, b 11/7/1922,living in Lowestoft in 1939, apprentice printer
   address 56 stevens st with his mother, father, sister and a brother.

This was Dennis Albert Houghton and he is listed in UK London Gazettes World War II Military Notices on Ancestry - confirms his service number was indeed 1257998 - and has a date of 5/2/1945.   I thought these notices referred to people killed in the war but there is nothing shown for this person on CWGC casualty listings.    Nor can I find a likely death in UK for this person at any time so as he effectively 'disappears' after this 1945 listing perhaps it was indeed a notice of his death.   However, if so, why is he not listed as a casualty on CWGC? 

Annette

Thanks so much for the help. My dad and I found a record on a family tree for a Dennis Houghton (1922 -2015) who lived in Lowestoft and after more research are pretty certain it could be him. It's just a shame that it's difficult for me to get hold of records for him as I don't have the luxury of visiting the libraries as I don't live in the UK but hopefully I can find more about him.

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