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  • Cathy Day’s Family History in India
  • Databases:
  • Cathy Day's History Databases
    1. 60,000 Europeans and Anglo-Indians residents of India during the colonial period.
    2. Scots Brigade Muster Roll 1804
    3. British Army Pensioners in India 1800-1857
    4. Officers of the Madras Regiment 1758-1958
    5. “50,700 men of the British Forces who received the Indian Mutiny medal, as well as the 5,059 recipients who served in 1st Madras Fusiliers, 3rd Madras Fusiliers, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, 1st Bombay Fusiliers, the Lahore Light Horse and 'A Troop' Madras Horse Artillery    . He has also listed the 64 staff and pupils of La Martiniere College, Lucknow who were recipients.”
    6. Medical Officers
    7. Veterinary Officers
    8. Ecclesiastical Officers
    9. Indian Civil Service Officers
    10. Madras Staff Corps Officers
    11. Officers of Bengal, Madras and Bombay Regiments (101st-106th Foot)
    12. Bengal Pension Fund - includes applications for Cadetships at the Duke of Wellington College at Saugor
    13. Bombay Civil Pension Fund - pensioners born early 19th Century
    14. Madras Civil Pension Fund - pensioners born early 19th century
    15. Madras and Bombay Pension Funds - pensioners died 1918 onwards.
    16. 1,057 British officers and soldiers who were wounded or killed in the 2nd Afghan War 1878-1880.
    17. Adjutant's Roll for Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1888
    18. Married Roll for Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1889
    19. Certificates of mariners who registered in South Australia 1897-1920
    20. India-Born Australians Enlisted in WWI
    21. Burials in Assam 1939-1959



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