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Copies of the ''Journal'' are also available at the [[British Library]]. The current issue is on display in the African and Asian Studies Reading Room and earlier editions are in the General Reference Collection, shelfmark ZK.9.a.7347 ==FIBIS Journal Number 24 33 (Autumn 2010Spring 2015)==*Message from the Chairman and Editorial*Eliza FayFrom Soldier to Newspaperman: New Aspects - ''David Atkinson''*The Marriages Varied Experiences of Margaret McCombe: A combined London-Sydney effort - Joachim Hayward Stocqueler in Bombay and Calcutta from 1819 to 1843 by ''Laurie ButlerAudrey T Carpenter''- page 3*Letters from the MillCaptains Outrageous: tracing the Calcutta Jute Industry - maritime career of William Henry Biden by ''Carol TurnhamRichard Morgan''– page 16*'Peculiar Circumstances': Catholic Chaplains The Melvill Family – Three Generations of the Victorian British Army in Commitment to India - (Part 2) by ''Margaret MulvihillDavid William''s – page 28*Fanciful Memories? The Foothead Family and Assistant Apothecary Charles Maitland versus East India - Company Justice by ''Carol GilbertCharles Maitland''– page 36*Life with Tea in The East IndiaCompany: the diaries some snapshots of Samuel Cleland Davidson - its history (Part 1) by ''Wendy PrattDavid Blake''– page 43*Using Social Networking for Family History Research - Reference to an article on The Victorian Web: [http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/37.html Of Intelligence, an Assassination, East Indiamen and the Great Hurricane of 1808] by ''Valmay YoungTim Willasey- Wilsey'', concerning Lt-Colonel David Richardson of the Bengal Army and his family – page 50*Reviews*Building the Beas Bridge - *The Nicholas Brothers and A. T. W. Penn: Photographers of South India 1855 – 1885 by Christopher Penn (2014). Review by ''Hugh WildingRichard Morgan''– page 51*Review *The Brewing Storm – 1939- Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India 1941 (2013) and Australia Burma Invaded - 1942 (2013), both by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde 2010Major C M Enriquez, based on his diary. Review by ''Sylvia C M MurphyPeter Bailey''– page 52

==FIBIS Journal Number 23 32 (Spring 2010Autumn 2014)==

*Waters from Ireland - The Melvill Family – Three Generations of Commitment to Bengal - to New Zealand - India (Part 1) by ''Neville ThomasDavid Williams''– page 3*Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part II: parents, conditionsTrumpeter Inwood, prospects an Anglo- Indian Hero of the Kut Garrison by ''Maureen EversRosemary Reardon''– page 18* How People May Live and Not Die The North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles in East Africa in India - the First World War by ''Florence NightingaleNoel Clark''– page 30*Two Unusual Accidents on Gallantry Awards to the Indian Medical Department during the Eastern Bengal Railway - Great War of 1914 – 1918 by ''Miles MacnairAllan Stanistreet''– page 34*For the Sake Competition – Win one of a Hyphen: in search three Genealogical DNA tests – page 37* Elizabeth Martin of the Flower-Mellings - Madras and Walter Medhurst, Missionary by ''Tina DaviesJohn Holliday''– page 38*M.I.C.E. in The Development of the Meerut District Volunteers, aka, the branches: a family history work in progress - Meerut Volunteer Horse by ''Hugh WildingTim Bender'' (M.I.C.E. stands for Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers)– page 45*Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930 - ''John Sworder''The FIBIS Conference 2014 – page 47

**IzzatThe Boydell Press Series 'Worlds of the East India Company'. Review by ''Richard Morgan'' – page 48***The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Historical Records Asian Commerce and Iconography Politics 1790-1860 by Anthony Webster (2009)***The East India Company and Religion 1698-1858 by Penelope Carson (2012)***British Naval Power in the East 1794-1805: The Command of Indian Cavalry Regiments 1757Admiral Peter Rainer by Peter A Ward (2013)*** The East India Company’s London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers 1800-2007 1858 by Ashok Nath 2009Margaret Makepeace (2010)**Indigo and Opium: Two Remarkable Families and Fortunes Won and Lost by Miles Macnair (2013). Review by ''Richard MorganPeter Bailey'' – page 50* New FIBIS publication – Researching Ancestors in the Indian Army 1858-1947 by Peter A Bailey – page 52 ==FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014)==*Editorial*The Walsh Family and the Cawnpore Massacre by ''Paddy Walsh''- page 3*Searching for Gopal Drooge and the Murder of Captain William Richardson by ''Tim Willasey- Wilsey'' - page 16* Soldiers, Saints Keddahs and Epigraphists : miscellaneous appointments in India and Scallywags Burma in 1909 by ''Bill Hall'' - stirring tales from family history page 26*The Origins of Johann Jacob Hoff: my ancestor in the Dutch East India Company by David Gore 2009''Mary McPherson'' - page 30 *Captain Hunter: researching a memorial in Durham Cathedral by ''Geoffrey Fox'' - page 36 *More on Hanoverian Regiments in India: using online newspapers to further research by ''Hilary Sheridan'' - page 49*Review : When the Tiger Fought the Thistle – The Tragedy of Colonel William Baillie of the Madras Army by Alan Tritton 2013. Review by ''David BlakePeter Bailey''- page 55

==FIBIS Journal Number 22 30 (Autumn 20092013)==

*Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and Raising the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part 1Hanoverian Regiments: History - their passage to India by ''Maureen EversHilary Sheridan''- page 3*Wrecked or Captured: the East Owen Berkeley-Hill and Psychiatry in India Company Ships that failed to arrive by ''Mike Young'' - page 8*Dr Christopher Francis Henry Quick, IMD by ''Andrea CordaniAllan Stanistreet''- page 21*The loss of an East Indiaman Indian Forest Services in 1807the India Office Records: account Questions and answers for researchers by Samuel Rolleston''Ian Baxter'' - page 23*Using Newspapers and Journals A Postscript to research your family in British India - the wounding of Campbell Clark by ''Sylvia C M MurphyCharles Gordon Clark''- page 32*Looking for Gunner Hurley in India (part 2) - Calvert Smith, the baby from the Parsonage by ''Lawrie Butler and Malcolm Hurley MillsDiana Bousfield-Wells''- page 33*The Memorial to Major William Hodson in Lichfield Cathedral Correspondence: records of the Dutch cemeteries, Java - ''Richard Morgan''page 43

**Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning 2012. Review by ''Beverly Hallam'' - page 43**Lucknow – Families of the Raj by Malcolm Spiers 2013. Review by ''Richard Morgan'' - page 45**Early Photographs of Ladakh, edited with an introduction by Hugh Rayner 2013. Review by ''Robert Charnock'' - page 46**Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The empire of clouds in north-east India by Andrew May 2012. Review by ''David Macadam'' - page 48 ==FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)==*'''Editorial'''*'''The Clark Brothers - Life in the Bengal Army''' by ''Charles Gordon Clark'' - page 3*'''Distant Relations Discovered - A Bencoolen Family Reunited''' by ''James T Day'' - page 15*'''From Agra Fort - George Collett’s letters to Mountstuart Elphinstone''' by ''Valmay S Young'' - page 19*'''Assistant Surgeon RLW Beveridge, Indian Medical Department''' by ''Allan Stanistreet'' - page 28* '''The British Indian Civil Service''' by ''Peter Bailey'' - page 30* '''A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Smith’s letters''' by ''Diana Bousfield Wells'' - page 38*'''Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Director of the East India Company''' by ''George Buxton'' - page 49*'''Review: The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy 2012'''. Review by ''Hugh Wilding'' - page 51 ==FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)==*'''Editorial'''*'''The Mysterious Murder at Agra''' by ''Rosemary Reardon'' - page 3*'''Edward Squibb-Letters from a Bengal Cadet''' by ''Charles Gordon Clark'' - page 15*'''John Braddock- Powder Master''' by ''Sylvia Murphy'' - page 25*'''The Assassination of Thomas Parr, Resident of Bencoolen''' by ''Joanna C Fennell'' - page 32*'''Medals to a Nurse''' by ''Allan Stanistreet'' - page 39*'''Lost and Found-the records of Pembroke House''' by ''Sylvia Dibbs'' - page 41*'''A Northumberland Fusilier in India, 1886-1896''' by ''Ruth Sear'' - page 47*'''Reviews''' ** '''Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors: A guide for Family Historians by Emma Jolly 2012'''. Review by ''David Blake'' - page 49** '''P&O A History by Ruth Artmonsky 2012'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan'' - page 51** '''Schreyvogel’s Mission: Lindau to Trichinopoly by Walford Pears 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton'' - page 51 ==FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012)==*'''Editorial'''*'''The Imhoff Inheritance''' by ''Pippa Milnamow''*'''General Gilbert and the surrender of the Sikh Army''' by ''Sarah Bilton''*'''The Chaplains of St Luke’s, Abbottabad c. 1859-1947 and some notes on the Old Christian Cemetery''' by ''Prof. Omer Salim-Khan Tarin''*'''The Viceregal Carriages-The Indian Railways and a dynasty of Pearces, Part 2''' by ''Michael Feilden Pearce''*'''Discovering biographical sources in the British Library Manuscripts''' by ''Dorota Walker''*'''Ancestral research through DNA''' by ''Debbie Kennett''*'''Obituary: Admiral Dawson 13 November 1923 to 23 October 2011''' by ''David Barnabas''*'''Reviews'''**'''The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858 by Daniel O’Connor 2012'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan''**'''DNA and Social networking: A Guide to Genealogy in the 21st Century by Debbie Kennett 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''**'''Anu: The Raj Years by Shabnam Vasisht 2009''' and '''Anu: The Nomad Years by Shabnam Vasisht 2010'''. Review by ''David Pyle''**'''Graves in British India (FIBIS Fact File 6) by Richard Morgan 201'''1. Review by ''Sarah Bilton'' ==FIBIS Journal Number 26 (Autumn 2011)==*'''Editorial'''*'''From the Land of Dracula to an English Rectory''' by ''Peter Hubert''*'''A Lucas Family: From Ireland to India''' by ''David Atkinson''*'''William Garnett, the Volunteering Major''' by ''Michael Garnett''*'''Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars''' by ''Ainslie Sharpe''*'''James Minty: Tracing the Life of a Soldier''' by ''Cathy Day''*'''Dean Mahomed and Captain Godfrey Evan Baker of the HEIC Bengal Army''' by ''Emma Jolly''*'''Reviews'''**'''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma:The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947 by John Archibald Hislop, edited by Penny Kocher 2010'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan''**'''Heroes or Villains? The British in India' by Geoff Palmer 2011'''. Review by ''Peter Bailey''**''''I Can Never Say Enough About The Men'- A History of the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles throughout their World War One Campaign by Andrew Kerr 2010'''. Review by ''Peter Bailey''**'''Letters from Bencoolen 1823-28 by Thomas Day and William Day with an intro by James Trelawny Day 2008'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''**'''Getting the best out of the FIBIS Website by Valmay Young 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton'' ==FIBIS Journal Number 25 (Spring 2011)==*'''Editorial'''*'''The Tale of a Telescope from Lucknow''' by ''Susan Macklin'' *'''The Indian Railways and a Dynasty of Pearces''' by ''Michael Feilden Pearce''*'''Tracing an Honorary Assistant Surgeon''' by ''Lawrie Butler''*'''Adam Maxwell of Cawnpore - Indigo and Intrigue''' by ''Judith Vandenburgh Green''*'''Advice for Young House-Keepers in India''' by ''William Hall''*'''Civil Service Records in the India Office Reading Room: A Study of the L/F/10 series''' by ''Lawrie Butler'' with a contribution from ''David Blake'' *'''A Christmas Dance and Supper in Jodhpur 1942''' *'''Using Google Books for Family History Research''' by ''Ed Storey''*'''Reviews'''**'''Mehtars and Marigolds: a story of four generations in British India (1874-1948) by Barbara Dinner 2009''' Review by ''R Reardon''**'''The Travelling Scotsman: the Life and Times of Paterson Saunders, Senior by Mary Anne Gourley 2010'''. Review by ''Sylvia Murphy'' ==FIBIS Journal Number 24 (Autumn 2010)==*'''Eliza Fay: New Aspects''' - ''David Atkinson''*'''The Marriages of Margaret McCombe: A combined London-Sydney effort''' - ''Lawrie Butler''*'''Letters from the Mill: the Calcutta Jute Industry''' - ''Carol Turnham''*''''Peculiar Circumstances': Catholic Chaplains of the Victorian British Army in India''' - ''Margaret Mulvihill''*'''Fanciful Memories? The Foothead Family and India''' - ''Carol Gilbert''*'''Life with Tea in India: the diaries of Samuel Cleland Davidson''' - ''Wendy Pratt''*'''Using Social Networking for Family History Research''' - ''Valmay Young''*'''Building the Beas Bridge''' - ''Hugh Wilding''*'''Review - Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India and Australia by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde 2010'''. Review by ''Sylvia C M Murphy'' ==FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010)==*'''Editorial'''*'''Waters from Ireland - to Bengal - to New Zealand''' - ''Neville Thomas''*'''Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part II: parents, conditions, prospects''' - ''Maureen Evers''* '''How People May Live and Not Die in India''' - ''Florence Nightingale''*'''Two Unusual Accidents on the Eastern Bengal Railway''' - ''Miles Macnair''*'''For the Sake of a Hyphen: in search of the Flower-Mellings''' - ''Tina Davies''*'''M.I.C.E. in the branches: a family history work in progress''' - ''Hugh Wilding'' (M.I.C.E. stands for Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers)*'''Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930''' - ''John Sworder''*'''Reviews'''**'''Izzat-Historical Records and Iconography of Indian Cavalry Regiments 1757-2007 by Ashok Nath 2009'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan''**'''Soldiers, Saints and Scallywags - stirring tales from family history by David Gore 2009'''. Review by ''David Blake'' ==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 Company 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''.

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