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**PWD Civil Lists 1861-1940 [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_5&cid=1-2#1-2 '''IOR: V/13/195-226]'''
**Once the whereabouts of your ancestor in a given year has been established, a useful next step is the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_5&cid=1-1#1-1 '''IOR V/12''' Service Histories].There are an alarming 434 volumes of Service Histories, and as well as whole sequences of volumes for the 3 Presidencies, there are more sequences for India, Assam, Bihar & Orissa, United Provinces, Punjab, North West Frontier, Central Provinces, Burma and Hyderabad! The earliest date from 1879 and the latest 1948, though dates for particular regions vary. The later you can get in your ancestor’s career the better, as the information appears to be cumulative.
** Records of Staff and Students of Cooper's Hill Engineering College 1871-1906 are held in series IOR/L/PWD/8 with those of students also on [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=913 FIBIS database]. [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/05/engineering-a-career-in-india.html "Engineering a career in India"] 20 May 2014 British Library untold lives blog.
*The publication ''Indian Engineering'' is held by the [[British Library]]. For comments about this publication, refer the online editions, below. The British Library catalogue shows the following issues are held: UIN: BLL01013927488 "vol.3.no.[1], etc (7 Jan.1888 - Jan.1952)". However, for the catalogue entry UIN: BLL01012090738 it is advised Deficient: vol.64, no.17 - vol.67, 1918-20.
*The publication ''Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland'' is held by the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009537566 . Published by ICE Publishing 2002-2014, currently (March 2016August 2020) in three volumes: Volume 1. : 1500-1830. Volume 2: 1830–1890. Volume 3: 1890–1920. Limited sample pages: [https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/book/10.1680/bdocev1.29392 Vol.1], [https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/book/10.1680/bdoceigbai.35041 Vol.2], [https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/book/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347 Vol.3]. [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.114 Sample page, Volume 3] with entry for Harold Edward Byrne, Federated Malay States. For more sample pages, see Individuals below.
* From c June 2013 the following records have been availble on the pay site Ancestry.com
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3585 UK, Civil Engineer Records, 1820-1930] source UK: Institution of Civil Engineers.
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3777 UK, Civil Engineer Photographs, 1829-1923] source UK: Institution of Civil Engineers.
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3149 UK, Mechanical Engineer Records, 1870-1930] souce source UK: Institution of Mechanical Engineers. '''Update''': date range is now 1847-1938, (noted at 2020/08/14).
*[https://www.ice.org.uk/disciplines-and-resources/ice-library-and-digital-resources ICE Library] Institution of Civil Engineers, London. Includes an Archive service. [https://www.ice.org.uk/ICEDevelopmentWebPortal/media/Documents/About%20Us/guide-to-ice-historical-archives.pdf Guide to the ICE Archives 2010]. Previously the [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/?myhome=true ICE Virtual Library] could be searched for an obituary of an ICE member, which often gives details of a person's work history, but it is unclear if this facility is now only available to ICE members.
*[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History]. The website advises “Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in the UK”. Includes Biographies of selected Engineers. As an example [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_S._Thorpe Thomas S. Thorpe] a Mechanical and Marine Engineer worked in both Ceylon and India from 1897 until 1917, including the tea industry.
*See also '''[[L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928]]'''
==Individuals==
*[http://archive.org/stream/incidentsandane00sprogoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Incidents and Anecdotes in the Life of '''Lieut.-General Sprot''' Volume 1''] 1906 Archive.org. The author spent 12 years in India, from 1849, [http://archive.org/stream/incidentsandane00sprogoog#page/n34/mode/2up page 13], with the British Army [[83rd Regiment of Foot]] but much of this time was attached to the Public Works Department, Bombay Presidency.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/621999-memoir-of-general-sir-william-erskine-baker-k-c-b-royal-engineers-bengal ''Memoir of General Sir '''William Erskine Baker''', K.C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal)''] 1882. Born 1808, he arrived in India in 1828 and worked on the canals of Upper India where he became involved with fossil discoveries. Papers about these were written in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He worked mainly with Canals and latterly the Railways, and in 1855 became the first Secretary of the Public Works Department. He left India in 1857 and in 1858 became Military Secretary at the India Office. FamilySearch Digital Library. You need to sign in to FS to view the book.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7104 Archive.org version]
*'''Lieutenant John C Harris''' of the [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal Engineers]] was involved in flood mitigation work following a major flood at Cuttack in 1855. See [[Cuttack]] for details.
*''Life of '''Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke''', Colonel-Commandant of Royal Engineers'' edited by Col. RH Vetch 1905 Archive.org. [httphttps://gwydir.demon.coarchive.ukorg/jodetails/genealogylifeoflieutgener00vetc/dibbleepage/index.htm '''Frederick Lewis Dibblee'''n239 "Member of Council of the Viceroy of India 1875-1880"]page 193-221. Railway engineerHe was head of the Indian Public Works Administration. Worked in India 1864-1888
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022898211 ''Village, Town, and Jungle life in India'']
by '''A.C. Newcombe''' 1905 Archive.org He was in India 1874-1902 as a Civil Engineer in the Public Works Department
*'''Tom Salkield''' , was Engineer to the Municipality of Delhi 1905-1922. He was awarded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisar-i-Hind Kaiser-i-Hind] decoration for public service in India .He was also in the Punjab Volunteer Rifles for 16 years. There are further details in his obituary ''ICE Proceedings Volume 16, Issue 3, 01 July 1960'' , pages 348 –349. <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/iicep/16/3 ''ICE Proceedings Volume 16, Issue 3, 01 July 1960'' , pages 348 –349] </ref> Details of [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022YY Tom Salkield Delhi Photograph Album 1905-1916] Janus (Archives in Cambridge)
== External links ==
*[http://www.indianetzone.com/36/developments_public_works_british_india.htm Developments in Public Works, British India] from History of India, Indianetzone
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131231025838/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/article2443690.ece "How our British rulers 'legalised' bribery"] by M B Lal September 11, 2011. The Hindu.com, now an archived webpage.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104121836/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120901/j&k.htm#2 Heritage tag for 110-yr-old power project] by Majid Jahangir. The second oldest power project, the Mohura [Mohra] Power House located in the Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, was commissioned in 1902. This article also mentions the first power house set up in 1901 by the Maharaja of Mysore. ''The Tribune'' Saturday, September 1, 2012, Chandigarh, now an archived webpage. The Mohura Power House was situated midway between Uri and Baramulla.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/public-works-department.html The Public Works Department of Burma 1910 – 1947] A Project by Vivian Rodrigues. Includes transcriptions from the book ''History of Services of Gazetted and other Officers serving under the Government of Burma July 1931 Vol I Part II'' . This Volume is titled ''Officers of Public Works Department'', and is available online, refer below. The Anglo –Burmese Library. Retrieved 11 September 2014
====Historical books online====
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=N1POAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 1 1863-64], [http://books.google.com/books?id=g1POAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2 1865], [http://books.google.com/books?id=wVPOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 3 1866], [http://books.google.com/books?id=_FPOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR6 Volume 4 1867], [http://books.google.com/books?id=OVTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 5 1868], [http://books.google.com/books?id=a1TOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 6 1869], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZHItAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP25 Volume 7 1870] Google Books.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515145 Second Series Volume 1, 1872] Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection. [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap00regoog#page/n9/mode/1up Second Series Volume 2, 1873]-([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PaEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 1873 Google Books]), [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap01regoog#page/n9/mode/1up Second Series Volume 5, 1876], [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap00regoog#page/n9/mode/1up Second Series Volume 7, 1878], [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog Second Series Volume 8, 1879] Archive.org
:Volume 9, 1880 is available to download as a pdf from [http://panhwarsanipanhwar.com/rare_booksreaebooks.htm html Rare Books on Sindh, sanipanhwar.com] (scroll downto letter P)
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=#PPP24,M1 India List & India Office List 1905] Your railway ancestor may be here.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaindianengin00medlrich#page/38/mode/2up ''India and Indian Engineering''] by J G Medley 1873 ex Principal of Tomason College, Rorkee. Good description of the life and work of engineers in India. Archive.org
*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/electricityinind00bomb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Electricity in India , being a history of the Tata Hydro- Electric Project with notes on the Mill Industry in Bombay''], edited by SM Rutnagur 1912 Archive.org. Contains a [http://www.archive.org/stream/electricityinind00bomb#page/76/mode/2up List of Engineers]
*''Military Works Handbook''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72256/page/n1/mode/2up ''Third Edition'' 1900], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548459/page/n1/mode/2up ''Fourth Edition'' 1908], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.107082/page/n1/mode/2up ''Fifth Edition'' 1914 (Reprint 1918)] 1919. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3385 ''Indian Engineering''] by William Lumisden Strange 1923. Full title: ''Indian engineering, relating to irrigation, water supply of towns, roads and buildings''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://bhagirathimgcl.iitr.ac.in/dspace/ Bhagirathi - The Institute Repository of IIT Mahatma Gandhi Central Library Roorkee] in with a link to the [http://bhagirathi.iitr.ac.in/dspace/handle/123456789/158 Bhagirathi Archival Collection, Archives collection of the Central Library] which has books and documents relating to Rourkee Roorkee and Engineering which may be downloaded as pdfs. As an example searching for Try the Search term Roorkee gives the following [http://bhagirathior Rourkee.iitr.ac.in/dspace/handle/123456789/158/simple-search?query=Roorkee publications]
*[https://archive.org/details/roorkeetreatiseo030592mbp ''Roorkee Treatise On Civil Engineering Section IX: Railways''] revised by W R Horn, Assistant Secretary, Railway Board 7th Edition 1929 Archive.org
*''Proceedings of the Punjab Engineering Congress'' from 1913 are available on the website of [http://pecongress.org.pk Pakistan Engineering Congress] which was established in 1912 as the Punjab Engineering Congress, located under Publications/Proceedings.
