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    Hello all

    I have been slowly gathering information on my daughters 2xGrt Grandmother Winifred Helen Dorothy Webb born 18/10/1907 in India (not sure where) and died 1970 in Chester.

    Her father was Charles Edwin Webb who was in 1931 working as a railway guard according to her marriage cert. He was definately alive as he was one of the witnesses.

    I have no idea who the mother was but my mission is to find out. I have spoken to the living kids of Winifred and they recall her only mentioning Jhansi which is where she married and Bangalore which is where the family lived.

    Any help finding Winifred's birth would be fantastic.

    Thanks in advance

    Danny
    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528974734

  • #2
    Have you tried FIBIS ?
    http://www.fibis.org/

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    • #3
      I've just looked on the familyrelatives site - sorry, no luck Danny
      Jacky

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      • #4
        Thankyou for looking Tilly

        Peppie
        I have tried but with no luck.

        Danny
        http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528974734

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        • #5
          This is a potential source - but I couldn't spot anything for you this time:


          There's a specialist FHS for Indian research, too. Have you looked in the Wiki?

          Christine
          Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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          • #6
            Hiya Christine

            Thankyou for the link, I will have a look into that now.

            Ive been looking for her birth for some time now and it been horrible lol.

            Danny
            http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528974734

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            • #7
              Could her father have been in the Army at the time of her birth? You could try the Army births records on FindmyPast.
              The National Archives, Kew – Research Service Offered
              Contact me via PM on Family Tree Forum or via my personal website - www.militaryandfamilyresearch.co.uk

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              • #8
                I do think he was in the army before hand but as for find my past (I do have access) I cant understand how to use there search engines for births oversea.

                Danny
                http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528974734

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                • #9


                  You could subscribe to the India List and ask the question of the members, I too am a member and had lots of help from them in the past.
                  My Grandfathers father worked for the East India Railway Company and he had been a railway clerk before he went to India so he took his family there to work on the railways in Allahabad where my grandfather was born
                  Edna

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                  • #10
                    Thankyou Edna

                    I will give that ago and hope they have some sort of clue as to where she was born.

                    Danny
                    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528974734

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                    • #11
                      I am very happy to be corrected but I'm not certain it was a requirement to register births in India at that time - I have a friend who was born in India as late as 1947 - just before partition - into a 'British' military family and his birth was never registered anywhere - it has caused him untold problems over the years - more so these days when everybody is supposed to be able to produce a birth certificate if needed by officialdom

                      Possibly a baptism record might be the best you can find - and then it depends on it having survived and hopefully being transcribed at some time

                      Good Luck anyway

                      Sue

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                      • #12
                        have you looked in our reference library Danny? we have a page on India

                        Julie
                        They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                        .......I find dead people

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                        • #13
                          Agreed Sue. Certainly the Army BMD are by no means complete although I've found the certs for the majority of births of any children and marraiges for British Army men I've looked for at the India Office, British Library.
                          The National Archives, Kew – Research Service Offered
                          Contact me via PM on Family Tree Forum or via my personal website - www.militaryandfamilyresearch.co.uk

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                          • #14
                            The link I posted at No 5 is the British Library online searchable database. I don't know how complete it is for this kind of record.

                            Christine
                            Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                            • #15
                              It's not complete but how much "not complete" I don't know!
                              The National Archives, Kew – Research Service Offered
                              Contact me via PM on Family Tree Forum or via my personal website - www.militaryandfamilyresearch.co.uk

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                              • #16
                                Originally posted by annswabey View Post
                                It's not complete but how much "not complete" I don't know!
                                Then I guess it's more use for discovering something is there, rather than proving it isn't!

                                Christine
                                Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                                • #17
                                  I have great interest in this thread. My Great Grandfather Woods' 1st marriage was to a lady in India. They had a child in Bombay and this his first wife died apparently died during childbirth. I have their marriage cert, but I am unable to find his wife's death cert or his first daughter's birth cert. I will be watching with interest.
                                  Fi, aka Wheelie Spice

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