Civil Servants in British India circa 1890-1910

[Joseph_K]

Hello,

I am looking for some basic biographical information on the following men, who were resident in British India in the period circa 1890-1910. Some of them might have been employees in the British Indian Civil Service.

I have looked through the Indian Army & Civil Service Lists and searched ancestry.com quite thoroughly for information on them, but with little success.

A.E. Barton
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H.A. Lane
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G.F. McMahon
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H. O'Connor

J.W. O'Connor (brother of the above?)
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A.K. Oliver
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T.C. Sangster

Possibly related to Alfred Bruce Sangster (1864-1913)
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E.E. Steel
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Any help would be appreciated.

J.

[3sillydogs]

Have you tried searching on  http://www.fibis.org/  they sometimes have info other places don't.

[ShaunJ]

A E Barton is possibly Arthur Elliott Barton.

He was an officer in the Indian army. He married Eliza Lilian Wyatt in Trichinopoly in 1891.

See photo https://bartonhistory.wikispaces.com/Arthur+Elliott+Barton+(1864-1931)

[ShaunJ]

"G F McMahon" is possibly George Francis William MacMahon who was a British Army officer on the East Indies headquarters staff in Bombay. Born around 1852.

Promoted to Major in 1890 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26043/page/2275/data.pdf

[Pennines]

There are some records for people in Bristish India on the Find My Past website.
The British Library has a list of available records on that site here;

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/britishinindia/index.html

Not sure if this is of any help to you - but you can often access Find My Past at a local library.

[ShaunJ]

I would think that "E E Steel" is Ernest Eden Steel, more noted as a cricketer than a tennis player ( I assume that you are researching tennis players). He was in India around that time.

Photo http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Lancashire/Players/14/14623/14623.html

[ShaunJ]

"H A Lane" could be Harry Arthur Lane. He was born around 1862. When he married in 1899 he was Deputy Collector at Siliguri.

[ShaunJ]

" A K Oliver":

Arthur Knapp Oliver - born in India 1847, married Ellen Wollaston in London in 1879. An officer of the High Court in Bombay.

https://goo.gl/NA5j3y

[GrahamSimons]

Worth searching here, too: some records are only online on the BL site. Depends on how deeply you want to research: there is so much to be seen in the BL itself; but my (very limited) experience is that I got very much better value out of hiring a researcher than I did out of a train fare and researching for myself.

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/ui/AdvanceDiscovery.aspx