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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

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