Colonial Office Registers of Births and Dates of Emigrants at Sea
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- Colonial Office Registers of Births and Dates of Emigrants at Sea
- National Archives Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea.
- The National Archives link includes series BT158: Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea 1854 - 1890 British Subjects and Other Nationalities.
More details of series BT158 are included in this FindMyPast link (scroll down ) which advises that there are many entries detailing events for men serving in various British Regiments and the Indian Army, together with births and deaths of Regimental Wives and their causes. As an example of births in the period 1854 to 1858, the birth of twins to Joanna Wedderburn the Wife of Andrew Wedderburn of the Madras Civil Service.
- The National Archives link includes series BT158: Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea 1854 - 1890 British Subjects and Other Nationalities.
- The British Library has a set of records called Ships' Journals IOR/L/MAR/A-B 1605-1856. Read about these records . The various ships are listed alphabetically, following the order in Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834 by Anthony J.Farrington (London, 1999) If you know the ship the person you are researching travelled on, these journals may provide interesting information.
