India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal

[chris2705]

What have you got? I have got an ancestry.co.uk sub but your link asks me for a .com subscription. Am I doing something wrong?

[hepburn]

Oh B*****
                 incoming passenger lists.

[chris2705]

Long shot this one......

The house in England where Helena ended her days down in Sussex was called "Malora". A hunt through Google shows a town in modern Afghanistan called Malora. The only other references on Google being the Italian word for "nun" which seems a bit far fetched. So, could it be that this is where Helena lived at some point?

With the amount of border and name changes that have gone on over the last 100+ years around this area, could it be that this town was where she spent some time either with her parents or later with William?

Is there an Afghanistan board on Rootschat??

[hepburn]

I don't think so.................I'll have nosy.

[hepburn]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,84254.msg353442.html#msg353442

Do you think this Rootschatter may help?

[chris2705]

I should have used the "wink" smiley as there was a touch of irony there, and as we have been just about everywhere else! The question though is where would that town have been listed under at the time as it seems that the areas that my lot seem to have been you could be in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, Bangladesh, Myanmar and probably a few other derivations as well.

Is there a good place to look up a place names and their modern equivalent or vice versa?

[hepburn]

Oh right 
                Chris,I don't know where to look for those place's ,we'll have to see if you can find anything at kew..we won't find them on a census ...                   

[chris2705]

I have posted something on your suggestion on the "2nd Afghan War thread" so hopefully something comes of that, otherwise it is Kew/British Library again as you say. We might get back to Stoke one day!

[hepburn]

Oh I hope so,I really hope so