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The FIBIwiki contains lots of guidance for starting out on your British India research. It is recommended that you read through this page before contacting FIBIS for personal research services (Members) or research advice (non-Members).

Scope of FIBIS' Interest

The main focus of FIBIS activities is the ‘sub-continent’ of India but the society is also interested in all areas and activities of the British in South Asia including the following between the founding of the East India Company in 1599 to ‘Indian Independence’ in 1947:

Afghanistan, Aden, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bencoolen (Sumatra, Indonesia), Burma (Myanmar), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), China, Macao & Hong Kong, Indonesia (Borneo, Labuan etc.), Malaysia, Mauritius, Persia, Singapore, Straits Settlements.

Also included are the activities of the East India Company in London and St. Helena.

Presidencies

Administrative areas of India in the 1930s

British India was divided into three Presidencies:

Bombay, which covered the smallest area on the west of the country, extending through Sind and to the coastal area of what is now Pakistan, including Karachi and also included Aden

Bengal, which covered the east of the country and included Burma and what is now Bangladesh and extended to the North West Frontier to include most of modern day Pakistan, including Lahore, Multan, Peshawar and Rawalpindi

Madras, which covered the southern portion of India

The main cities of the Presidencies were Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, respectively.

Knowing which Presidency a town or city was in, is important when consulting many of the India Office Records held at the British Library.

Also note that administrative boundaries changed from time to time and it is important to check 'border' districts in the adjoining area. The above map is adapted from Plate 21 of the (1931) revised atlas of the Imperial Gazetteer of India. Such small scale maps cannot show every enclave of territory, and this map is not to be taken as an authority for boundaries. For more detail see the provincial maps in the Imperial Gazetteer atlas, and large scale published Survey of India topographical maps.

Recommended steps for your research

The very first steps

Search the main online databases. There are three free websites:

FIBIS database contains information from many sources.
The IGI FamilySearch - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS)
British Library, India Office Family History Search. Contains only a small proportion of the total records.

The commercial site findmypast and the Familysearch web sites host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office church records housed at the British Library. (Some more recent records are not available for privacy reasons on findmypast. Alternative records are available for later births and marriages in the IGI).

Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you are interested in. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link Mailing lists. When you have some identifying details of a person such as name, date and place(presidency), you might wish to join the India List and send an email to the list, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the family.

Consider joining your local genealogy society as most large societies provide members free online access in their libraries to commercial sites such as Findmypast and Ancestry. This is especially relevant as the church records at the British Library are now digitised and available through findmypast. Some libraries may also offer free access to websites such as Findmypast and Ancestry, see Miscellaneous tips.

The next steps

Read the Fibiwiki article Birth, marriage and death records and all the associated articles and links

By now, you may have some occupational details.
- For officers and soldiers in the Military, read Armies in India and all the associated articles and links which are relevant to your research.
- Look at Category:Occupations, and read the articles and links about occupations relevant to your research.

Further steps

Look at Category:Research methods, and Category:Records and read the articles.
Browse the remaining categories on the Main Page

Visiting the British Library

External links

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-This article details some individual '''Apothecaries'''.  For general information and research guidance, see the main [[Apothecary]] article.
-===Arthur Fitzgibbon===
+The FIBIwiki contains lots of guidance for starting out on your British India research.  It is recommended that you read through this page before contacting FIBIS for personal research services (Members) or research advice (non-Members).
-[http://books.google.com/books?id=w1IBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 ''The Victoria Cross; an official chronicle of  the deeds of personal valour achieved in presence of the enemy during  the Crimean and Baltic campaigns, the Indian mutinies, and the Persia,  China, and New Zealand wars''  (1865)] and also page 154,  "Awarded Victorian Cross  August 13, 1861. Indian Medical Establishment—Hospital Apprentice Arthur  Fitzgibbon."
-''Medals  of the British army, and how they were won''  By Thomas Carter Published by Groombridge, 1861, states:
+==Scope of FIBIS' Interest==
-:"The youngest VC recipient is generally  regarded as Hospital Apprentice Arthur Fitzgibbon (15 years and 3  months), Indian Medical Establishment."
-The  following information, collected from various sources, some of which  give conflicting personal details, include his citation in The London  Gazette (issue 22538 dated 13 Aug 1861, published 13 Aug 1861) for the  action in the 2nd China War of 1860. He was in the Bengal SMD.
+The main focus of FIBIS activities is the ‘sub-continent’ of India but the society is also interested in all areas and activities of the British in South Asia including the following between the founding of the [[East India Company]] in 1599 to ‘Indian Independence’ in 1947:
-:{|
+[[Afghanistan]], [[Aden]], [[Andaman Islands]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Bencoolen]] (Sumatra, Indonesia), [[Burma]] (Myanmar), [[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka), [[China]], [[Macao]] & [[Hong Kong]], [[Indonesia]] (Borneo, Labuan etc.), [[Malaysia]], [[Mauritius]], [[Iran|Persia]], [[Singapore]], [[Straits Settlements]].
-|ARTHUR  FITZGIBBON
-|-
-|Hospital Apprentice, Indian Medical  Establishment; attached 67th Regiment
-|-
-|Born: 13 May  1845, Gujarat, India	Died: 7  March 1883, Delhi, India
-|-
-|Citation: For having behaved with great  coolness and courage at the capture of the North Taku Fort [near  Tientsin, China], on the 21st of August, 1860. On the morning of that  day he accompanied a wing of the 67th Regiment, when it took up a  position within 500 yards of the Fort. Having quitted cover, he  proceeded, under a very heavy fire, to attend to a Dhoolie-bearer, whose  wound he had been directed to bind up; and, while the Regiment was  advancing under the Enemy's fire, he ran across the open to attend to  another wounded man, in doing which he was himself severely wounded.
-|-
-|The [http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Library]  (London) has some documents, including his baptism in 1845 at [[Almorah]] (NW India) under the name Andrew  Fitzgibbon.
-|-
-|[http://www.ramcjournal.com/2008/mar08/starling.pdf  “The Youngest Victoria Cross: the Award of  the Victoria Cross to Andrew Fitzgibbon”] (pdf) by PH Starling from ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps March 2008''
-|}
-===Subordinate Medical Department in the Indian Mutiny===
+Also included are the activities of the East India Company in [[Home Establishment | London]] and [[St. Helena]].
-The following names of staff mentioned, killed or wounded during the[[ Indian  Mutiny]] are from the books ''Bulletins  and Other State Intelligence part 2, July-December for 1857''  and ''Bulletins  and other State Intelligence for the Year 1858 in Four Parts'', first published in the London  Gazette (published in 1859 and 1860):
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1687 ''Nominal Roll of Europeans Killed, Wounded,  and Missing, in the Army under the command of his Excellency the  Commander-in-Chief.'']  Head-Quarters,  Camp before Lucknow. March 14, 1858
+[[image:BritIndia.jpg]]
-::- 3rd  Brigade,  Bengal Horse Artillery. Officiating Apothecary R. W. Beale, severe  contusion on 8th instant.
-::- Her Majesty's 23rd Fusiliers. Hospital  Apprentice R. Pereira, severe contusion
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1886 ''List of Europeans Killed by the hands of  Rebels''], as per Return furnished by the Magistrate  of Delhi, between May 11 and October 24, 1857
+== Presidencies ==
-::- Mr. T. Corbet,  Sub. Medical Department, Delhi.
+[[Image:presidencies.gif|thumb|300px|Administrative areas of India in the 1930s]]
+British India was divided into three [[Presidencies]]:
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2096 ''Return of Killed and Wounded of the 2nd  Brigade Nerbudda Field Force during the Siege and Attack of Rathghur''.]  (Bombay Presidency, around March 1858)
+*[[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay]], which covered the smallest area on the west of the country, extending through [[Sind]] and to the coastal area of what is now [[Pakistan]], including [[Karachi]] and also included [[Aden]]
-::- 1st Troop Horse  Artillery. Assistant Apothecary W. Conway, wounded dangerously, ball  through head
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1616 Benares, June 1857] Killed, One apothecary, Her Majesty’s  10th, murdered by 37th [N.I.] men (Vol 2,1857, report commences page  1616, death listed page 1620)
+*[[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]], which covered the east of the country and included [[Burma]] and what is now [[Bangladesh]] and extended to the [[North West Frontier Province|North West Frontier]] to include most of modern day [[Pakistan]], including [[Lahore]], [[Multan]], [[Peshawar]] and [[Rawalpindi]]
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1622 Benares 4 June 1857] HM 10th Regiment of Foot: Killed:   Hospital Apprentice Edwin Courtenay Jackson, gunshot wounds, head, hip,  and thigh; killed while proceeding with hospital supplies to the scene  of action (Vol 2,1857, p1622).
+*[[Madras (Presidency)|Madras]], which covered the southern portion of India
-:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA886 Oude Irregular Force:] Apothecary Thompson is mentioned in the  following reports:
+The main cities of the Presidencies were [[Bombay]], [[Calcutta]] and [[Madras]], respectively.
-::[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 ''No. 2. General Orders by the Governor-General of India  in Council''] (Fort William December  5, 1857) (No  1,543.)  (report commences page 119, mention page 123) THE Governor-General in  Council has received from Brigadier Inglis, of Her Majesty s 32nd  Regiment, lately commanding the garrison in Lucknow, the subjoined  report of the defence of the Residency in that city, from the first- threatened  attack upon it on the 29th of June to the arrival of the force under  Major-General  Sir J. Outram, G.C.B., and the lamented Major- General Sir H.  Havelock, K.C.B on the 25th of September.
-:::"The medical officers of the garrison are  well entitled to the cordial thanks of the Government of India. The  attention, skill, and energy, evinced by...., and of Mr. Apothecary  Thompson, are spoken of in high terms by Brigadier Inglis."
+Knowing which Presidency a town or city was in, is important when consulting many of the [[India Office Records]] held at the [[British Library]].
-::[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA144 ''No. 3. Brigadier Inglis, Commanding Garrison  of Lucknow. to the Secretary to the Government, Military Department,  Calcutta.''] (Lucknow. September 26, 1857) (report  commences page 127, mention page 144)
+Also note that administrative boundaries changed from time to time and it is important to check 'border' districts in the adjoining area.  The above map is adapted from Plate 21 of the (1931) revised atlas of the ''[[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]''.  Such small scale maps cannot show every enclave of territory, and this map is not to be taken as an authority for boundaries.  For more detail see the provincial maps in the ''Imperial Gazetteer'' atlas, and large scale published ''Survey of India'' topographical maps.
-:::"I beg particularly to call the attention  of the Government, of India to the untiring industry, the extreme  devotion, and the great skill which have been evinced by Surgeons  ....and by Mr. Apothecary Thompson—in the discharge of their onerous and most important  duties."
+==Recommended steps for your research==
-:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA667 Transferred to the Medical College  Hospital, from Allahabad, as sick and wounded.]''  (Along with many from the 1st Madras Fusiliers, possibly around October  1857)
+===The very first steps===
-::- Assistant-Apothecary J.  C. Ellis
+* Search the main online databases. There are three free websites:
-::- Hospital Apprentice John Volkers.
+# [http://www.search.fibis.org/ FIBIS database] contains information from many sources.
+# The [[IGI]] FamilySearch - which is the website of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church (LDS)
+# [[British Library]], [http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]. Contains only a small proportion of the total records.
-:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA807 Numerical Return of Killed and  Wounded of the Troops composing the Garrison of Lucknow]'',  from the 25th of September, 1857, to the 9th of November, 1857, under  Brigadier J. Inglis. Commanding. Lucknow, November 12, 1857 - One hospital  apprentice of H.M.'s 32nd Regiment, mortally wounded, since dead, is not  included in the above.
+The commercial site [[findmypast]] and the Familysearch web sites host a large volume of transcriptions based on the India Office [[Church records|church records]] housed at the British Library. (Some more recent records are not available for privacy reasons on [[findmypast]]. Alternative records are available for later births and marriages in the [[IGI]]).
-:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Tqc1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3477 From the Nominal Roll of Casualties  in Brigadier Berkeley's Field Force on the 17th July, 1858.]''  Camp, Soraon, July 19, 1858. Assistant Apothecary George Wade, Royal  Horse Artillery, killed by round shot.
+*Search the archives of the India List. You may find that someone else has already researched the family tree you are interested in. Read how to do this, and more about the India List, in the Fibiwiki link [[Mailing lists]]. When you have some identifying details of a person such as name, date and place(presidency), you might wish to join the India List and send an email to the list, asking whether anyone has any knowledge of the family.
-===Names from other sources===
+*Consider joining your local genealogy society as most large societies provide members free online access in their libraries to commercial sites such as Findmypast and Ancestry. This is especially relevant as the church records at the British Library are  now digitised and available through findmypast. Some libraries may also offer free  access to websites such as Findmypast and Ancestry, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
-*From Stephen  Lewis's [http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/memindz1.htm  Soldiers Memorials], [http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/menM1.htm  Graves in India, letter M].  Grave at Quetta - "Sacred to the  memory of Alfred Fitzherbert Marshall. Extra Assistant Steward 3rd Light  Cavalry. 2nd son of Charles Marshall, Apothecary Lunatic Asylum  Calcutta who departed this life on the 6th day of August 1859 aged 22  years and 2 days, deeply lamented by his parents. He served in the late  Volunteer Cavalry throughout the Mutiny and was wounded at Lucknow when  proceeding to the relief of that Garrison with the late General  Havelock's force.”
-*'''Murder of Apothecary  Healy''' (sometimes spelt Healey)  by tribesmen, while travelling to his unit (1850). See [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA281 ''Allen's Indian Mail''  page 281], also [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313 p313], [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351 p351] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=vRoCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA394 ''Medical Times'',  Jan-June  1850 p394].
+===The next steps===
-*'''Apothecary Daly'''  (1821) and '''Assistant  Apothecary Everard''' (1824)  charged with being drunk while treating patients, from a book about [http://books.google.com/books?id=FukGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA597 Law in India, published 1825 (page  597)].  The Daly court martial  is also mentioned in [http://books.google.com/books?id=9SYYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA479 this link (page 497)].
+*Read the Fibiwiki article [[Birth, marriage and death records]] and all the associated articles and links
-*''' Senior Assistant Apothecary''', John Barnes, attached to the  garrison hospital of Cannamore {Madras Presidency] was found guilty of  having embezzled stores in 1832 and was sentenced to be dismissed from  the service of the Honourable East India Company. The Commander in Chief  considered the sentence insufficient “as the value of the drugs stolen  may frequently exceed the value of the situation lost.”  [http://books.google.com/books?id=KzGj7UiAY_cC&pg=PA284 London Medical and Surgical Journal  Volume 4 1834 page 284]
+*By now, you may have some occupational details.
+**For officers and soldiers in the Military, read [[Armies in India]] and all the associated articles and links which are relevant to your research.
+** Look at  [[:Category:Occupations]], and read the articles and links about occupations relevant to your research.
-*'''Assistant Apothecary Burgess''' murders '''Assistant Apothecary O’Brien''' in 1840 at [[Kamptee]] (Madras Presidency) and is  sentenced to be hanged, but his sentence is commuted into  “Transportation beyond the seas” ([http://books.google.com/books?id=vSsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA234 ''Asiatic journal''  1841, page 234]). Note at  least some convicts were sent to [[Australia]].
+===Further steps===
+*Look at  [[:Category:Research methods]], and [[:Category:Records]] and read the articles.
-*Not all reports about Apothecaries were  good (Kurratchee ([[Karachi]]),  Bombay Presidency 1840’s) [http://books.google.com/books?id=wT6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA252 ''The Westminster Review''  Published 1846, page 252]
+*Browse the remaining categories on the [[Main Page]]
+===Visiting the British Library===
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+== Related articles ==
+* [[British Library]]
+* [[IGI]]
+* [[Birth, marriage and death records]]
+* [[Church records]]
+* [[Miscellaneous tips]]
+== External links ==
+*[http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]
+*[http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ India Office Family History Search]
+*[https://familysearch.org/ Familysearch]
-*In [[Singapore]] in November 1826, there was a  case of attempted poisoning when a '''Hospital Apprentice, James Bagley''', was caught in the act of putting  something poisonous into the food of his fellow apprentice, '''John Leicester''', after they had a quarrel. [http://smj.sma.org.sg/1501/1501smj15.pdf  “Forensic Medicine in Early Singapore Part I 1819-1839”] by YK Lee ''Singapore Medical Journal''  1974 Mar 15(1) p 84-90
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-*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=xRcYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA6-PA105 link] gives the names of several hospital  apprentices who were dismissed, together with some appointed in Bengal  1839
+[[Category:Research methods]]
-==Notes==
-<references />
-[[Category:People]]