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3. SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTSBullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.
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V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the
Bengal Histories of Service.
PUBLISHED WORKS
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888); Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893); Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)
== References ==
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)
