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==India List==
The following information is taken mainly from the [[Mailing lists|India List]]:
*The term 'native woman’ applied to Hindu or tribal women. More details in this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249564449 thread].
*There was also a term ‘Bunnoo native woman’.  Bunnoo or Banoo or Bunnoa was an area in Eastern [[Afghanistan]], according to Thornton's 1844 Gazetteer, but a researcher advised more often the term implied a Muslim (of any northern origin).  ([[Bannu District]] is now in Pakistan.)
*This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249525160 thread] discussed a possible Persian/Parsee connection 
*If there was a marriage in a church, the wife had become a Christian. More details in this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249623472 thread].
*This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249833646 thread] showed how one researcher found details of an Indian mother from her son's school record.


[[Category:Non-British Ancestors]]
[[Category:Non-British Ancestors]]

Revision as of 17:06, 29 July 2014

When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as ‘a native woman’.

See also