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*The Wurttemberg Regiment’s German name was the Württembergisches Kapregiment or Cape Regiment [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapregiment Kapregiment] Wikipedia written in German and associated [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W%C3%BCrttembergisches_Kapregiment Wikimedia].This Rootsweb List [http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BADEN-WURTTEMBERG/2001-11/1005137681 post] says: Wuerttemberg Kapregiment (the regiment of the Cape of Good Hope) from 1786 to 1808. Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg formed a regiment of soldiers and sold it to the Dutch to fight as their mercenaries at the Cape. Of the 3,200 men only about 100 men returned home!. This [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kapregiment.png&filetimestamp=2008081512052 Wikipedia map] showing where the Regiment was based, includes Madras.
*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]
*This India list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in [[Dutch|Dutch East India Company ]] regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC*The following reference to Germans in the [[Dutch|Dutch East Indies]] is quoted in [http://www.igv.nl/jir/broneng.html Janssen’s Indisch Repertorium]: ''Die Deutschen in Niederländisch Indien'', door Mr. P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, Vortrag gehalten in der Ortsgruppe Batavia am 30. Sept. 1935, Tokyo/Leipzig 1937 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Band XXIX, Teil D).
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-03/1141504497 post] advises that an ancestor came from East Prussia, now Lithuania . Many Germans were Lutherans who did not use the Episcopalian Churches and records were found in Presbyterian registers. Refer [[Church records#Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records, including the Church of Scotland| Missionary and Non-Conformist Church records]]. Some Church of Scotland Bombay church records and records for St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Madras may be found in [[LDS Microfilms of Church registers in India]], but it seems the records for St Andrew's Church of Scotland in Calcutta have not been filmed and are only obtainable from the church. Contact the Church of North India, refer [[Calcutta#Churches and missions|Calcutta-Churches and missions]]. There is a [[LDS]] film catalogue [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1123389& entry]: 'Parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals, burials, correspondence, etc.), Church of South India, Diocese of Madras, 1743-1990'. The Church of South India (CSI) includes Presbyterians but no specific Presbyterian Registers are listed in the film notes.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-04/0954748785 post] suggests Lutheran missions as a source of German names. Refer [[Missionary#Other External Links| Missionary-Other External Links]]
