Born out in India (Barrackpore, Allahabad)

[Valda]

Hi


The marriage may not have occurred in India but in a place Peter was stationed before he arrived in India. Have you accessed Peter's military record? 

Information on the British Army and wives

http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html

'As British females began arriving in British India in large numbers around the early to mid-19th century, mostly as family members of British officers and soldiers, intermarriage became increasingly uncommon among the British in India and was later despised after the events of the Indian Rebellion of 1857'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian

If Catherine was baptised a Catholic she would not have been baptised by an Anglican army chaplain so would not appear in the chaplain returns held by the GRO. Ditto a local Anglican Indian church if the baptism occurred there.


Regards

Valda

[StephenFarnsworth]

2 years on and I'm no closer.  Everything suggests that she was born in India but without a record of her birth I can't find out who her mother was and so my trail runs cold.  I think my final option will be writing to the MOD and see if they can help.... I'm sure the Army must have somebody who specialises on my ancestors battalion etc.  Let's see.  Fingers crossed....

[rich23434565]

I too have drawn in a blank when it comes to tracing people in India. In my case it was my gtx3 grandmother, Amelia Margaret Padam, an Indian girl who married my gtx3 grandfather, William Lacey, who was in the British Army. I know they married at a Church Mission Station in or near Benares on 05 January 1864. They had three children in India, including my gtx2 grandfather Christopher Lacey, but I've not found anything relating to a marriage certificate or a birth certificate for any of them, not even William Lacey's service papers. I've been to the British Library and the National Archives and got nowhere. It's really frustrating so you have my sympathy.

[StephenFarnsworth]

The one thing I have in my favour is the Service Medical Papers and Discharge for Peter Pickett which pretty much lists everywhere he went over his 20+ years service - so his ranks, battalions, court martials!!  With that I can pretty much pin down where and when he was in India and with Catherine Pickett's declarations on Census forms and death certificate I can pretty much establish the year she was born - so I'm hoping that between the two I can 'magic' a birth record from somewhere deep inside the MODs vaults..!!

[clematised]

I too have a person born India but no registration or Baptism for him though his two siblings have baptisms in India, I think he was possibly born at sea and baptised aboard ship but have never found a record of his Birth other than he states British Subject born India, the others were also born Allahabad, both parents were British and were on the railways

Edna

[K Steve]

Have you had any more luck yet with the Pickett line?  We have always struggled finding her line.

[clematised]

FindMyPast has India Office records now but some are still a bit sketchy and the 100 year rule exists because of Familysearch promises.
It may be worth a look

Edna

[dawnsh]

You'll only get partial transcriptions for births under 100 years and marriages under 84 years.

This is because of FindMyPast's data protection policies, nothing to do with FamilySearch

If you finds a partial transcription, you'll get an 'N' ref number which means you can look at the originals on microfilm at the British Library at St Pancras.

[amandaconnally]

hi all, Stephen and I have "chatted" in the past. I too am related and unfortunately, have not got any further than Stephen has. The only difference is that Catherine/Katharine/Kate does seem to spell her name differently. I tried all three versions through findmypast and they came up with an Ida Catherine Pickett married 1886 British India Office???
Not sure if anyone has any further information, but it's so frustrating! I started my searches in 1998 after my mum died, going off the information she left me. My dad left me information re his grandmother, the elusive Katherine Pickett and that she was born in India and had her first child in Dover.
Good luck with your searches!
Amanda