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The Journal of the Families in British India Society is published twice yearly (in Spring and Autumn) and sent to all current members of the Society. The principal aim is "the presentation to members of the availability and value of various sources both to the establishment of genealogy and of the background to ancestors' lives in India and associated regions."

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FIBIS Journal Number 22 (Autumn 2009)

• Editorial
• Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part 1: History - Maureen Evers
• Wrecked or Captured: the East India Comapny Ships that failed to arrive - Andrea Cordani
• The loss of an East Indiaman in 1807: account by Samuel Rolleston
• Using Newspapers and Journals to research your family in British India - Sylvia C M Murphy
• Looking for Gunner Hurley in India (part 2) - Lawrie Butler and Malcolm Hurley Mills
• The Memorial to Major William Hodson in Lichfield Cathedral - Richard Morgan
• Reviews

• The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel HP Pearson August 1856-March 1859, edited by TA Heathcote. Review by Richard Morgan.
• Engines of change: the railroads that made India by Ian J Kerr 2007. Review by Hugh Wilding
• A Tug on the Thread by Diana Quick 2009. Review by Allan Stanistreet
• Farewell Raj; Witness to the End of Empire by Tony Hearne 2009. Review by Peter Bailey.

FIBIS Journal Number 21 (Spring 2009)

• Editorial
• Seeking Giles Stibbert - Richard J Hayter
• Recruitment for the Company's European Corps, 1781-1812 - Ian A Baxter
• Gahan, Eaton & Co - Nigel Penny
• The Lure of Indigo, and three V.C.s - Miles Macnair
• Escape from Fyzabad, 1857 - Contemporary account by Lieutenant C S Fowle
• The young bride of a Madras Police Inspector describes her new life in 1894 - Letter from Mary Mayne
• Some 'Anglo-Indian' and other Memorials at St Helena - Trevor Hearl
• Reviews

• In Pursuit of the Past by Christopher Penn. Review by Richard Morgan
• Scattered seeds: the diaspora of the Anglo-Indians by Dorothy S Dady 2007 Review by Beverly Hallam

FIBIS Journal Number 20 (Autumn 2008)

• My ancestor Matthew Leslie (1755-1804) was a 'White Mughal' - Beverly Hallam
• The Letters of Captain John Orrok - Alison McBrayne
• In God and Company: the life and times of the Reverend William Kew Fletcher (c1802-1867), EIC Chaplain - Mark William Fletcher
• Jules Henri Jean Schaumburg (1839-1886): a forgotten artist rediscovered - Sylvia Murphy
• Eliza Robinson and the Women's Workshop in Allahabad - Ann Currie
• Freemasonry in India - Susan Snell
• Campaign and other medals to Anglo-Indians - Allan Stanistreet
• The Trichinopoly Registers - Richard Morgan

FIBIS Journal Number 19 (Spring 2008)

• The Great Van Someren Obsession - Liz Wilde
• Faith and Family in South India: Robert Caldwell and his Missionary Dynasty - David Gore
• The Defence of Lucknow: letter from Lt Clifford Henry Mecham, Part Two
• 150 years on: the secrets of William and Stuart William Howard - Ian Howard
• Searching for Allen, Alan or Allan Buchanan and his MC - Jean Mitchell and Lawrie Butler
• The Police Officer and the Dacoit: Freddy Young and Sultana the 'Robin Hood of British India’ - N C Shah
• Book Reviews

• Storm and Conquest-The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1809 by Stephen Taylor 2007. Review by Lawrie Butler.
• The Great Uprising in India 1857-1858 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones 2007. Review by Richard Morgan

FIBIS Journal Number 18 (Autumn 2007)

• Researching for FIBIS Members - Lawrie Butler and Beverly Hallam
• The Battle of Plassey, 23 June 1757 - David Blake
• The Lady's Log-book - Mark William Fletcher
• Rebecca Dorin, April 1813-July 1857: a Heroine of the Mutiny - Brenda M Cook
• The Defence of Lucknow: letter from Lt Clifford Henry Mecham
• The Army Rank of Conductor and the history of an HEIC Conductor VC - Lawrie Butler
• Planning for Indian Independence: Mountbatten, Nehru, and V P Menon - David Blake
• Review article

• The Way We Were-Anglo Indian Chronicles edited by Margaret Deefholts and Glen Deefholts 2006. Review by Hazel Craig

FIBIS Journal Number 17 (Spring 2007)

• The Family Tree of our 1000th Member, Denielle West - Lawrie Butler
• Researching Officers who served in the East India Company Army - Richard Morgan
• 'Death on the Pale Horse': William Mayne and the Mayne military tradition in India - David Gore
• On the trail of Manuel D'Eremao and Juliana Dias Da Costa: a quest to verify oral tradition through the India Office Records - Beverly Hallam
• Looking for Gunner Hurley in India - Malcolm Hurley Mills and Lawrie Butler
• Civilian Gallantry Awards to Members of the Anglo-Indian Community: a plea for information - Allan Stanistreet
• Dr Graham's Homes: a Century of Service - Douglas Evans
• Book Reviews

• Researching Ancestors in the East India Company’s Armies (FIBIS Research Guide no.1) by Peter Bailey 2006. Review by Richard Scott Morel, Archivist, Pre-1858 India Office Records
• In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857 by Rosemary Raza 2006.Review by Penny Brook, Head of India Office Records
• Children of the Raj by Vyvyen Brendon 2005/2006. Review by Nora Naish, author of the book Passage from the Raj: story of a family 1770-1939

FIBIS Journal Number 16 (Autumn 2006)

• Hints on Research in the India Office Records at the British Library Asian and African Studies Reading Room - Lawrie Butler
• George Bogle, Part 3 Into Bhutan and Tibet - Richard Wenger
• The Rind Family in India 1830s-1880s: recently discovered papers in the Pembrokeshire Record Office - Nikki Bosworth
• Links with India: Records in the New South Wales State archives relating to settlers and others - Christine Yeats
• The Children of John Company - The Anglo-Indians, Part 2 - Geraldine Charles
• Percy Wyndham: an unforgettable meritorious British Administrator of bygone days - N C Shah
• Book Review - The Back Hole: Money, Myth and Empire by Jan Dalley 2006. Review by Richard Scott Morel, Archivist, Pre-1858 India Office Records

FIBIS Journal Number 15 (Spring 2006)

• Editorial
• The India-related holdings of the National Army Museum - Marion Harding and Jenny Spencer-Smith
• Buy out, Pay Off, and a Pension? Terms of discharge from Queen Victoira's Army - Peter D Rogers
• The Children of John Company - The Anglo-Indians, Part 1 - Geraldine Charles
• India - it was Magical - Hazel Craig
• George Bogle, Part 2, The advent of Warren Hastings 1772 to 1774 - Rcihard Wenger
• India through old Picture Postcards - Douglas Evans
• Reviews

• Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750- 1914 by Richard Holmes 2005. Review by Steve van Dulken
• The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 2005. Review by Ian A Baxter

FIBIS Journal Number 14 (Autumn 2005)

• Editorial
• George Bogle 1746-1781, Part 1, His Early Years - Rcihard Wenger
• Tragedy and Betrayal: the story of Henry Fowle 1803-1849 - Bill Hall
• The Indian Navy Family Fund 1828-1863 - Peter D Rogers
• An English Soldier in Persia 1833-1840 - Jo Purshouse and Lawrie Butler
• Brigadier-General Octavius Edward Rothney 1824-1881 - David Blake
• Biographical Sources within the L/MIL/14 Series - Lawrie Butler
• Reviews
• FIBIS Annual Report for the year 2004-2005 to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 13 (Spring 2005)

• Editorial
• The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey
• William Westall in India - Richard J Westall
• Sources in the India Office Records for the British Army in India - Peter Bailey
• The Wreck of the Ava, 1858 - Brenda M Cook
• Registry Marriages in India - Lawrie Butler
• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Patricia Redmond
• Forms of Identification of Indian Army Pensioners and Widows - Peter D Rogers
• Reviews

FIBIS Journal Number 12 (Autumn 2004)

• Editorial
• The East India Company London Warehouses - Margaret Makepeace
• Matthew Baillie Pollock 1803-1844: Surgeon, HEIC Madras Army - Shirley West
• Indian Army Prisoners of War in the Second World War - Hedley Sutton
• The Early Life of Gordon Alexander Jahans 1888-1908 - G A Jahans
• The 'Unattached List' - Peter Bailey
• The British India Steam Navigation Company (Part 2) 1914-1971 - David Mitchell
• The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey
• Index of Articles published in Journals 1 to 11 - Complied by Michelle McCosh
• FIBIS Annual Report and Financial Statement to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 11 (Spring 2004)

• Editorial
• Donald Jaques - Peter Bailey
• The India Office Records: the Way Forward - Penny Brook
• A Passage to India and Beyond: the Voyage of the Rockingham to Bombay and Canton 1791-1793 - Trevor W Hearl
• William Howell 1789-1867: Surveyor-Missionary-Priest - Shirley West
• Tracing Ancestral Churches in India - Doreen Elcox
• Soldiers' War Service Records - Peter Bailey
• The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 3
• The British India Steam Navigation Company, Part 1 - David Mitchell
• Anglo-Indian Legacy - Book review by Geraldine Charles
• The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project, and FIBIS Database Project - Report by Peter Bailey

FIBIS Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003)

• Editorial
• Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist - Peter Bailey
• An Introduction to The Public Works Department and its records at the India Office Records - Anthony West
• A Tale of Two Storeys? - Ed Storey and Lawrie Butler
• Research In India - Malcolm Speirs
• The Headquarters of the Madras Artillery at Saint Thomas's Mount - Peter Bailey
• The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 2
• The IOR - FIBIS Collaboration Project
• Index of Articles published in Journals 1 to 9 inclusive - Michelle McCosh
• FIBIS Annual Report to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 9 (Spring 2003)

• Editorial
• The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 1 - transcribed by Ruth Croft
• The Railway Children - An Appeal by Hazel Craig
• The Condell Family in India - Dian Montgomerie Elvin
• Extracts from 'From Warley Magna to Great Warley' - George Harper
• The Jokai Tea Estates - Dick Barton
• Civil Service Records at the OIOC - Tim Thomas
• A Rix Family in India - Ian Howard
• The 'European Manuscripts' Holdings of the OIOC - David Blake
• Letters to the Editor
• The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey

FIBIS Journal Number 8 (Autumn 2002)

• Editorial
• How Mary Anne became Marianne - Hermione-Ann Davies and Peter Bailey
• My Search for the Ancestry of Francis Coleridge Hutchinson MD - Marie A. I. McCulloch
• India Civil Service Records - Tim Thomas
• BACSA Family Trees
• Some Sources of Probate and Estate Records for India - Sylvia Murphy
• The transcription of the Bombay Marriage Index (1709-1859) - Sylvia Murphy
• The Devonshire Regiment's Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881 - Moira Mark
• The Perils of Parentage: The Plight of an Addiscombe Cadet - Trevor Hearl
• Book Offer - Alfred Gabb
• Report of the Annual General Meeting held on 25th May 2002 and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2002
• The First World War: further sources in the India Office Library and Records - Hedley Sutton
• Letters to the Editor - from Theon Wilkinson, Hon. Secretary, BACSA; David Barnabas (in Bangalore)
• Miscellaneous East India Company Pensions - Tony Fuller
• A rare Indian Army Journal - Catherine Pickett
• The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project

FIBIS Journal Number 7 (Spring 2002)

• Editorial
• A Luso-Indian Voyage - Cliff Pereira
• The Old or Mission Church at Calcutta - Peter Bailey
• Pension Records at the OIOC - Ian Baxter
• Censuses of India - Donald Jaques
• The Search for Captain James Nowlan - Nigel McCrea
• Lords of the East - Trevor Hearl
• Monthly Military Musters Part 2 - Peter Bailey
• Some EIC Family Histories in Print - Trevor Hearl
• The First World War: Sources in the India Office Library and Records - Hedley Sutton
• Soldiers Pay in 1829 - Peter Bailey
• Index of Articles in Journals 1 to 6 - compiled by Michelle McCosh
• The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project
• Additions to Members' Interests

FIBIS Journal Number 6 (Autumn 2001)

• Editorial
• Thomas Robson & The Bombay Missionaries - Trevor Hearl
• The Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum - Peter Bailey
• Who was William Hopper? - Sylvia Murphy
• First Visits to the OIOC by a 'Newbie'- Elaine MacGregor
• A Mystery Man - Donald Jaques
• Looking for Baptism, Marriage & Death Records for Roman Catholic Soldiers in India from Original Records - Peter Bailey
• Gladys' Story - Leap Year's Day 1880 - David Gore
• The National Maritime Museum Indian Collection - Geraldine Charles
• Report of the 2001 Annual General Meeting
• Monthly Military Musters - Peter Bailey
• OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project

FIBIS Journal Number 5 (Spring 2001)

• Editorial
• The Man who built St James', Calcutta - Michael Quin-Conroy
• The Diary of Richard B, Part 2 - Donald Jaques
• The Railways of India & Family History - Anthony West
• The Punjab Frontier Force Association
• Those British India Roman Catholic BMD Records! - Peter Bailey
• The OIOC-FIBIS Database Collaboration Project
• Memorial Inscriptions in Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone Road
• Records of the Lord Clive Pension Fund - Ian Baxter
• Lesser Known Sources at the OIOC - Presidency General Orders - Peter Bailey
• Editor's Notes

FIBIS Journal Number 4 (Autumn 2000)

• Editorial
• Editorship of the Journal
• Annual Report and Accounts
• Snippet from a Preventative Officer
• Bengal Soldiers on the March - Cartoon from Peter D Rogers
• Letter from Ceylon - Bridget Thurgate
• The Royal Asiatic Society
• Some Strays - Kathleen Hudson
• To Whom We Owe - Alfred Gabb
• The Bengal Club/Memorial Inscriptions at Poplar
• The BB&CI Railway Offices, Bombay - Photograph
• The Diary of Richard B. - Donald Jaques
• Family Snippets - Claire Hamon
• Members' Databases
• OIOC Family History Study Days
• The Victoria Military Society
• Photographs - can anybody help?
• Book Reviews
• The FIBIS Research Service
• Apprentices in India - Michael Gandy
• Necessities for a Midshipman
• HEIC Maritime Holdings at the National Maritime Museum, Part 1
• New FFHS Publications
• Anglo-Indian Correspondence, Part 3, N-Z
• The Madras Military Fund

FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000)

• Editorial
• Formal Notice of Annual General Meeting
• Secretary's Report - Important Notice
• Good News - membership of FFHS
• Life of a Madras Artilleryman - Peter Bailey
• Illustrations - St. Thomas' Churches
• The Organization of the OIOC Reading Room - Hedley Sutton
• Family History Study Days
• The BACSA/FIBIS Project
• The Warley Project
• Bombay Country Ships
• Illustrations - more churches!
• Army Births in India - Alan Millerin
• OIOC Charges
• The Mystery of Sir George Everest
• Edward Jenner and Smallpox
• Membership List - FIBIS' new members
• Anglo-Indian Research Correspondence at SoG [Part 2, E to M] - Tony Fuller and Michael Gandy
• Illustration - The Pay Book of John Isaacson
• John Isaacson of Exning, Persia and India - Tony Fuller and Jenny Law
• Research on Ayahs
• French Overseas Archives
• HEIC Ships' Commanders

FIBIS Journal Number 2 (Autumn 1999)

• Looking for an 'Old India Hand' - Peter D Rogers
• St. Thomas' Mount
• Professional Researchers
• The Year 2000 Family History Fair
• New Projects
• New and Important Publication
• The Delhi Durbah - Tony Fuller
• The Delhi Durbah Medal of 1911 - Peter Duckers
• Subscriptions
• Members' Interests - the ancestors of Camilla Gemmingen von Massenbach
• The Ancestry in India of Geraldine Lorna Charles
• Members' Interests - General
• Membership List - Amendments and New Members
• Book Reviews
• Book Dealers
• Brief Book Reviews
• List of Original Subscribers to the East India Dock Company in London
• The Black Hole of Calcutta, Part 2 - Tony Fuller
• The 1881 UK Census
• Anglo-Indian Research Correspondence - Tony Fuller and Michael Gandy

FIBIS Journal Number 1 (Spring 1999)

• Editorial - Michael Gandy, Tony Fuller and Jenny Law
• Catholics in India - Michael Gandy
• Catholics in Mangalore - A Bicentennial
• St. Thomas' Mount, [Roman Catholic] European Baptisms, 1750-1880
• Records of the East India Company in Tower Hamlets - Tony Fuller
• Some Facts about the Black Hole of Calcutta
• Professional Researchers
• Project Report
• Oral History - Geraldine Charles
• Major Thomas Back of the Madras Army - Tony Fuller
• FIBIS' First Open Meeting, 25 September 1999
• The East India Company Site in Poplar
• Request for Help - James Henry Fletcher
• Looking for Armenians in India - Jenny Law
• Book Review
• The Quit India Movement
• Railway Journeys of My Childhood
• Forthcoming Books & Second-hand Books
• Books for Sale & Books from India
• Members' Interests
• Membership List