Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)

[StephenFarnsworth]

Here's some more pages.  I'm going to print them at work next week on A3 paper so I can really read every word....


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[StephenFarnsworth]

Last page of the records for Private Peter Pickett....

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[StephenFarnsworth]

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....

[t mo]

histephen.
firstly don,t be surprised if the record gets lifted as it comes under copyright and shouldn,t be put up here , whoooooops  we,ve all done it i,ve been told off more than once for it    any how i,m still not getting  anywhere today , did have a look at military records for John pickett and 3 come up on FindMyPast one is for a john pickett born ireland and i believe married in canada but please don,t let that cloud your view as it may well be wrong .
also had a look in roots ireland but although 2 peter picketts show they were both for county meath none for county cork but i,m not sure if all irish counties are online as yet but do keep in mind until you prove otherwise that peters dad john may have been military as well but pickett does look like a quite strong irish name .
forgot to say yesterday but did you see in the record for peter a mention of the Crimean war where it states he received the crimea medal for sevastapol and alma also received the turkish medal , now again i looked in forces genealogy for him but nothing shows up for a peter pickett in the crimea which again adds to the mystery , i personally begin to wonder if he went under the name peter all the time as so many things don,t add up also with that surname it is wide open to phonetic mistranscription so do think outside the box all the time and make sure you double check everything just in case you get blindsided ,we,ve all been there .
i can,t find anything regarding a birth abroad for catherine even when using the variations option on all the sites .
regards
trevor

[StephenFarnsworth]

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...!

[t mo]

hi stephen
don,t get me wrong yes you,ve payed to view and download the record but they still belong to the national archives hence where it says crown copyright national archives ,also bright solid  ie FindMyPast have payed out a lot of money to digitise them and they would get humpy if they knew the world and his wife was spreading them around  , but no matter others will sort it out , now onwards the mention of crimea is on the second page you,ve posted where it says about his conduct and his one good conduct badge then goes on to say about the crimean part .
as to any more records these are the only official records to be had all others were destroyed about twenty years after a soldier left the service so only those who got to a pensionable position are what is left unfortunately for us now , you may be getting confused with ww2 records which have to be applied for and payed for .
the thing to bear in mind is that when we watch progs like who do you think you are is that they use researchers to find all there stuff we don,t necessarily have that option because of the cost and the distances and places we may have to go to to find the answers we seek so sometimes when a brick wall appears it,s a case of wait and hope that more transcribed records come online as time passes i,ve only been doing this for about 3 years but the amount of extra info that has become available in that time is enormous and being added to weekly at least this game is a marathon never a sprint the initial searches offer up lots but then the further back it gets more boggy .
sorry to ramble on but it,s what i do best  .
regards
trevor

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[StephenFarnsworth]

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...!!!!

[dawnsh]

My offer (reply #6) still stands.

Dawn