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Samuel Hickson who was in ==Recruitment and conditions==Fairly consistently six percent of soldiers were recruited as married, based on a statistical analysis of the Depot Lists and Embarkation Lists of recruits going to India 1777-1785 wrote in , by Peter Bailey, FIBIS Chairman. One of his Diary about ancestors joined the fact that EIC Army at very few soldiers of closely the same time as his daughter was born and was sent to India several weeks later with his wife and new-born baby<ref name=Bail> Email from Peter Bailey to User:Maureene dated 10 April 2014 </ref> c mid 1820s. Although the East India Company Armies returned provided a passage back to Britainfor soldiers <ref> Also including wives "on the strength”</ref><ref name=Bail /> at the expiration of their term of service, and <ref name=Bail /> it appears that very few elected to return. Samuel Hickson who was in India 1777-1785 lists the reasonsin his Diary: disease, the good provisions made by the Company relating to age and incapacity, the bounty paid on renewal of service, and family ties.
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*[[Madras Army]]
<blockquote>"I know that in England an opinion prevails of this country being extremely unhealthy this takes foundation in a great measure from the very few of those that enter into the Company’s service that ever return to England, but this must not be attributed to the climate alone, many other reasons concern to prevent the return of the majority of soldiers. I shall name the principal. The climate must be acknowledged as one reason as most people after their arrival are attacked with the bloody flux, after their recovery from which, I don’t see but people who do not destroy their constitution by intemperance generally enjoy their health as well as in Europe. But intemperance in a variety of ways destroys thousands of its unhappy votaries; first Drinking is carried to such an excess as is hardly credible… The fatal effects of venereal disorders are only to be conceived by those who have been in hot climates and seen the many wretched spectacles it occasions;…
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=13 Soldiers Service Records]
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=221 The First Soldiers of the EIC Army]
*''Monthly Military Musters'' by Peter Bailey. Part 1 ''[[FIBIS Journals|FIBIS Journal]] Number 6 (Autumn 2001)'' and Part 2 ''[[FIBIS Journals|FIBIS Journal]] Number 7 (Spring 2002)''. The article contains a copy of the muster taken for ‘A’ or Captain J. Cramer’s Company, Madras European Infantry which was stationed at Bangalore on 1st January 1841. Part 1 contains information about the 'Women' classified according to 'European' or 'East Indian', and children, and Part 2 is about the officers and soldiers.
*"Looking for Gunner Hurley in India" by Malcolm Hurley Mills and Lawrie Butler
::Part 1 ''FIBIS Journal Number 17 (Spring 2007)'' Part 2 ''FIBIS Journal Number 22 (Autumn 2009)''
==Wives and children==
Marriages between EIC soldiers and [[Anglo Indians]] or [[Native Woman|Native women]], the allowances paid to wives and the army records kept regarding these wives are discussed in "Haemoglobin D (B Punjab) in an East Anglian Family", ''The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'', Vol. 95, No. 2 (Jul. - Dec., 1965), pp. 295-306. The article (including an extract) and its implications are the subject of this an India List thread.<ref> [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-01/1264031553 archived India List thread]</ref>. The 2nd Madras (European) Light Infantry is particularly mentioned as marriage registers were (in 1965) available for the period 1840-1863 showing the race of the bride. The article may be read online on the subscription website JSTORfor free, but first you must register. Some card holders of participating libraries may also have access, refer [[Miscellaneous tips]]for more about both options. Also available at the [[British Library]]
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