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*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in Dutch East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-03/1141504497 post]advises that an ancestor came from East Prussia, now Lithuania . Many Germans were Lutherans who did not use the Episcpalian Churches and records were found in Presbyterian registers. Refer [[Church records#Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records, including the Church of Scotland| Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records]]. It appears these records are only available at the church in India.