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*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 East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
*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 Episcpalian 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 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. 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. Apart from this possible source,it appears Presbyterian records which have not been included in the India Office Ecclesiastical records, are only available at the church in India.
