FIBIS Journals

FIBIS Journal 20 (Autumn 2008)

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

FIBIS Journal 19 (Spring 2008)

• The Great Van Someren Obsession - by Liz Wilde
• Faith and Family in South India: Robert Caldwell and his Missionary Dynasty - by 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 - by Ian Howard
• Searching for Allen, Alan or Allan Buchanan and his MC - by Jean Mitchell and Lawrie Butler
• The Police Officer and the Dacoit: Freddy Young and Sultana the 'Robin Hood of British India’ - by N C Shah
• Book Reviews

FIBIS Journal 18 (Autumn 2007)

• Researching for FIBIS Members - by Lawrie Butler and Beverly Hallam
• The Battle of Plassey, 23 June 1757 - by David Blake
• The Lady's Log-book - by Mark William Fletcher
• Rebecca Dorin, April 1813-July 1857: a Heroine of the Mutiny - by 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 - by Lawrie Butler
• Planning for Indian Independence: Mountbatten, Nehru, and V P Menon - by David Blake
• Review article - by Hazel Craig

FIBIS Journal 17 (Spring 2007)

• The Family Tree of our 1000th Member, Denielle West - by Lawrie Butler
• Researching Officers who served in the East India Company Army - by Richard Morgan
• Death on the Pale Horse': William Mayne and the Mayne military tradition in India - by 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 - by Beverly Hallam
• Looking for Gunner Hurley in India - by Malcolm Hurley Mills and Lawrie Butler
• Civilian Gallantry Awards to Members of the Anglo-Indian Community: a plea for information - by Allan Stanistreet
• Dr Graham's Homes: a Century of Service - by Douglas Evans
• Book Reviews

FIBIS Journal 16 (Autumn 2006)

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

FIBIS Journal 15 (Spring 2006)

• The India-related holdings of the National Army Museum
• Buy out, Pay Off, and a Pension?
• The Children of John Company ? The Anglo-Indians, Part 1
• India ? it was Magical
• George Bogle, Part 2
• India through old Picture Postcards
• Reviews

FIBIS Journal 14 (Autumn 2005)

• Editorial
• George Bogle 1746-1781, Part 1, His Early Years
• Tragedy and Betrayal: the story of Henry Fowle 1803-1849
• The Indian Navy Family Fund 1828-1863
• An English Soldier in Persia 1833-1840
• Brigadier-General Octavius Edward Rothney 1824-1881
• Biographical Sources within the L/MIL/14 Series
• Reviews

FIBIS Journal 13 (Spring 2005)

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

FIBIS Journal 12 (Autumn 2004)

• Editorial
• The East India Company London Warehouses - Margaret Makepeace
• Matthew Baillie Pollock 1803-1844: Surgeon, HEIC Madras Army - Shirley West
• 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
• The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey
• Indian Army Prisoners of War in the Second World War - Hedley Sutton
• FIBIS Annual Report to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal 11 (Spring 2004)

• Editorial
• Donald Jaques
• 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 - Geraldine Charles
• The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project, and FIBIS Database Project Report - Peter Bailey

FIBIS Journal 10 (Autumn 2003)

• Editorial
• Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist
• An Introduction to The Public Works Department and its records at the India Office Records
• A Tale of Two Storeys ?
• Research In India
• The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie (Part 2)
• The IOR - FIBIS Collaboration Project
• Index of Articles published in Journals 1 to 9 inclusive
• FIBIS Annual Report to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal 9 (Spring 2003)

• Editorial
• The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie (Part 1) - transcribed by Ruth Croft
• The Railway Children - 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 - 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 8 (Autumn 2002)

• Editorial
• How Mary Anne became Marianne - by Hermione-Ann Davies and Peter Bailey
• My Search for the Ancestry of Francis Coleridge Hutchinson MD - by Marie A. I. McCulloch
• India Civil Service Records - by Tim Thomas
• BACSA Family Trees
• Some Sources of Probate and Estate Records for India - by Sylvia Murphy
• The transcription of the Bombay Marriage Index (1709-1859) - by Sylvia Murphy
• The Devonshire Regiment's Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881 - by Moira Mark
• The Perils of Parentage: The Plight of an Addiscombe Cadet - by Trevor Hearl
• Book Offer - by Alfred Gabb
• Report of the Annual General Meeting held on 25th May 2002 and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2002
• Letters to the Editor: from Theon Wilkinson, Hon. Secretary, BACSA

FIBIS Journal 7 (Spring 2002)

• Editorial
• A Luso-Indian Voyage - by Cliff Pereira
• The Old or Mission Church at Calcutta - by Peter Bailey
• Pension Records at the OIOC - by Ian Baxter
• Censuses of India - by Donald Jaques
• The Search for Captain James Nowlan - by Nigel McCrea
• Lords of the East - by Trevor Hearl
• Monthly Military Musters Part 2 - by Peter Bailey
• Some E. I. C. Family Histories in Print - by Trevor Hearl
• The First World War: Sources in the India Office Library and Records - by Hedley Sutton
• Soldiers Pay in 1829 - by 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 6 (Autumn 2001)

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

FIBIS Journal 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

FIBIS Journal 4 (Autumn 2000)

• 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?
• 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 3 (Spring 2000)

• 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
• 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 2 (Autumn 1999)

• Looking for an 'Old India Hand'
• St. Thomas' Mount
• Professional Researchers
• The Year 2000 Family History Fair
• New Projects
• New and Important Publication
• The Delhi Durbah
• The Delhi Durbah Medal of 1911
• Subscriptions
• Members Interests

*The Ancestry 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
• The 1881 UK Census
• Anglo-Indian Research Correspondence

FIBIS Journal 1 (Spring 1999)

• Editorial
• Catholics in India
• Catholics in Mangalore - A Bicentennial
• St. Thomas' Mount, European Baptisms (1750-1880)
• Records of the East India Company in Tower Hamlets
• Some Facts about the Black Hole of Calcutta
• Oral History
• Major Thomas Back of the Madras Army
• 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
• Book Review
• The Quit India Movement
• Railway Journeys of My Childhood
• Forthcoming Books & Second-hand Books
• Books for Sale & Books from India