India: looking for some Stricklands

[Eyesee]

If you go to http://pilot.familysearch.org, and search there you will find George and Harriet in the India records. They have had an update just recently.

Ian C

[Squirrel Nutkin]

Thanks Tony and Ian

I've now found quite a few extra relatives through this - most helpful.

What I can't find which I would love to is a record of George and Harriet's marriage. I have discovered that George was in fact William George (although he uses George on the children's birth records).

I've also discovered that Dunlop didn't exist until 1889, and since one of their children was born in 1880, I conclude he didn't go out there to work with Dunlop, but presumably did something else first and worked for them later.

I shall have to keep digging! Thanks for your help.

[Lynntony]

It seems Dunlop didn't open in India until 1926 according to the following company history -

http://www.dunlop.co.in/aboutus/aboutus.php

Hope that doesn't throw a spanner in the works!!

Tony

[Squirrel Nutkin]

Perplexing isn't it?! He would have been 70 by then even if he was still alive! Better get back to the relative who told me that and see if i can find out more.

Thanks for checking it out.

[Lynntony]

Just a thought - is it possible that he went out to work in some capacity on the rubber plantations being set up by the British planters.

 In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British Planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.

That would explain his presence in Calcutta!

Worth considering?

Tony

[Squirrel Nutkin]

Thanks for that reference Tony.

With thanks to Osprey who has been helping me on another thread about George's inauspicious beginnings, I have found George and Harriet's marriage record, and a whole load more ancestors for Cassily on Harriet's side! It looks like George was army after all, so I now have no idea where Dunlop fits into the picture, if indeed it does at all!! It seems like a somewhat random thing to invent, so perhaps a link will emerge eventually.

Thanks for all your help.

[corrigan50]

Hi Squirrel Nutkin
I'm wondering whether you are still active on this site? My wife is the great-granddaughter of George Strickland and granddaughter of Vincent and Mary Erina Strickland, and I've just found your postings from three years ago. It would be very interesting to hear from you.