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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-11/1322473168 post] advises that a Prussian ancestor arrived in India in 1784 to join the Austrian East India Company at Bankipur, up-river from Calcutta. The Austrian EIC went bankrupt by 1789.
 
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-01/1168720400 thread] advises  that there were lots of German Regiments in India especially during the 18th Century and until about 1820, including captured Wurttenburgers from the Dutch service who were brought in from South Africa to fight for the EIC. Many references in the India Office records are listed, including the raising of Swiss and [[Hanoverian Regiments]].  This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218610422 thread] is on similar matters.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1149438720 thread] mentions the [[Hanoverian Regiments]] and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-02/0919004517  post] mentions Swiss regiments
*[[Hanoverian Regiments|Hanoverians]] are mentioned in this [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor06canngoog#page/n43/mode/1up link] (Archives.org) in 1783.
*[[Hanoverian Regiments|Hanoverians]] are mentioned in this [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor06canngoog#page/n43/mode/1up link] (Archives.org) in 1783.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261348709 thread] mentions the Swiss mercenary [[De Meuron Regiment|regiment of De Meuron]] largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795
*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was  the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment  Wikimedia].
*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was  the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment  Wikimedia].This Rootsweb List [http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BADEN-WURTTEMBERG/2001-11/1005137681 post]  says: Wuerttemberg Kapregiment (the regiment of the Cape of Good Hope) from 1786 to 1808. Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg formed a regiment of soldiers and sold it to the Dutch to fight as their mercenaries at the Cape. Of the 3,200 men only about 100 men returned home!. This [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kapregiment.png&filetimestamp=2008081512052  Wikipedia  map] showing where the Regiment was based, includes Madras.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078652672 post] says that the French Armies in Pondicherry were very largely made up of mercenaries from Switzerland and German States like Wuttenburg
*In 1860 the [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment]], later the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by over 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.  The Jager (Jaeger) Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa, although some of the men were not German. For more details, see [[Jager Corps]]
*In 1860 the [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment]], later the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by over 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.  The Jager (Jaeger) Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa, although some of the men were not German. For more details, see [[Jager Corps]]
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about  Germans in [[Dutch|Dutch East India Company]] regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of [[French]], Prussian, Spanish, [[Dutch]] and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…"  
*The following reference to Germans in the [[Dutch|Dutch East Indies]]  is quoted in [http://www.igv.nl/jir/broneng.html Janssen’s Indisch Repertorium]: ''Die Deutschen in Niederländisch Indien'', door Mr. P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, Vortrag gehalten in der Ortsgruppe Batavia am 30. Sept. 1935, Tokyo/Leipzig 1937 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Band XXIX, Teil D).
 
*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 Episcopalian 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]]. Some Church of Scotland Bombay church records and records for St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Madras may be found in [[LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]], but it seems the records for St Andrew's  Church of Scotland in Calcutta have not been filmed and are only obtainable from the church, refer  [[Calcutta#Churches and missions|Calcutta-Churches and missions]]. St Andrew's Calcutta also holds baptism and marriage registers  from Church of Scotland churches in cantonments throughtout India, Burma, Ceylon and some Gulf stations. 
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-04/0954748785 post] suggests Lutheran missions as a source of German names. Refer [[Missionary#Other External Links| Missionary-Other External Links]]
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of [[French]], Prussian, Spanish, [[Dutch]] and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…" Available  through  Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0956127010 FIBIS Shop]
*British Library Blog Untold Lives:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/10/index.html  Missionaries and madams] 31 October 2011 and [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/11/unfortunate-women.html  'Unfortunate' women]  7 November 2011. Repatriation of Germans and Austrians during World War 1
*British Library Blog Untold Lives:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/10/index.html  Missionaries and madams] 31 October 2011 and [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2011/11/unfortunate-women.html  'Unfortunate' women]  7 November 2011. Repatriation of Germans and Austrians during World War 1
*[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D3407.php The Swiss in India]  (German/French language) Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
*[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D3407.php The Swiss in India]  (German/French language) Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz

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Article "German Voices from India : Officers of the Hanoverian Regiments in East India Company Service" by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2 August 2009 , pages 189 - 211.Details. Available at the British Library

German soldiers from Dutch East India Company Regiments were recruited into the 1st Madras (European) Fusiliers

Records

Some Catalogue entries for the India Office Records at the British Library are:

  • Deputation of Lieutenant John Owen to the Cape of Good Hope to enlist German, Austrian and Polish recruits for the Company's European Regiments IOR/F/4/3/634 Nov 1787-Sep 1796
  • Additional allowance granted to Lieutenant John Owen for enlisting German, Austrian and Polish recruits at the Cape of Good Hope in 1796-97. IOR/F/4/74/1609 Aug 1795-Aug 1799
  • Complaint of Baron de Reiger alleging ill-treatment of the prisoners of war of the Wurttemberg Regiment at Madras not upheld by the Court of Directors. IOR/F/4/53/1182 Oct 1793-Feb 1798
  • Papers regarding the disbandment of the Wurttemberg Company, (includes a Muster Roll of the Company). Memorial of Lieutenant Paul Kellner requesting permission to transfer to the Madras Army. IOR/F/4/183/3685 Jul 1804-Mar 1805
  • Question of the pensions and allowances to be granted to the officers of the Swiss Regiment De Meuron (includes lists of officers of the regiment and a copy of the Capitulation of 25 September 1798) IOR/F/4/78/1728 Sep 1798-Apr 1800
  • Six months' advance of pay is made to Captain N.J. De Bergeon and Captain Francois Louis Lenn, two officers of the Regiment De Meuron who remained behind in India when the regiment left for Europe. IOR/F/4/234/5396 Jul-Oct 1806
  • British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36 1860-1866

Also see External Links, below

Also see

  • POW Camps in India for details of POW and Internment camps during the First and Second World War.

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