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'''Secunderabad''' was a cantonment town that is now generally considered a part of the city of [[Hyderabad]]. The villages of [[Trimulgherry]] and [[Bolarum]] are suburbs of Secunderabad. There were The Headquarters of [[Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway]], their railway workshops and a railway colony were at Lallaguda (Lalaguda), in the suburbs 2 miles (3km) east of Secunderabad town centre. During the Second World War Secunderabad was a major hospital base for troops fighting in North East India and Burma.
==History==
'''Secunderabad''' was founded during the reign of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Akbar_Ali_Khan_Sikander_Jah,_Asaf_Jah_III Nizam Sikander Jah] on land ceded by him to the British in 1800. Despite being located in [[Hyderabad State]], it remained under British control. The town had a large military garrison and the British stationed a Subsidiary Force there, complimented by the [[:Category:Hyderabad Contingent|Nizam's Contingent]] who were stationed at Bolarum.
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1094&s_id=332 Transcriptions of Gravestones in Secunderabad] FIBIS Database
==Records==
*An The church records for churches located in the British '''cantonment areas''' are part of the Madras Returns, now available on the commercial site [[findmypast]], but possibly other church records can be found in the Indian States N5 Series at the British Library from 1890, now also available on [[findmypast]]. **As an example, an 1871 Marriage was noted to be in the Madras Ecclesiatical Ecclesiastical Returns at the [[British Library]], indicating these Returns are a source of records.<ref>Charles Partridge married 13 September 1871 in Secunderabad, Madras, India [https://www.familysearch.org/ Family Search] LDS film 521859</ref>*[[LDSFamilySearch]] film: Names from Secunderabad Cemetery, Hyderabad, India ca. 1820-1990 - film 795981 Item 6 which is a microfilm of an unnamed “manuscript (photocopy)”*Probably most - (but also note transcriptions in FIBIS Resources above). The [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/706759 catalogue entry] however shows that although digitised, this record is only viewable as a microfilm, which should be available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. A '''possible''' source of some of the church records are part contents of the Madras Returns, but it record is not known whether any the book can be found ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in H.E.H. the Indian States N5 Series Nizam's Dominions : with biographical notes'' by O.S. Crofton. 1941, which is available at the [[British Library from 1890]] UIN: BLL01001781826, and in an Indian reprint edition.<ref>[https://heritage.telangana.gov.in/publications/list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-h-e-h-nizam-dominion/ Department of Heritage Telangana reprint] which includes a description of the contents, of ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions : with biographical notes'' by O.S. Crofton. 1941. </ref>* Also see Refer [[Hyderabad State#Records| Hyderabad State - Records]].
==Transport==
Secunderabad was the location for the headquarters of the [[Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway]], the first of several [[:Category:Indian States Railways|railways]] to be constructed by the Indian princely states.
The Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshop of the Nizam State Railway (NSR) was established in 1893 and was located at Lallaguda (Lalaguda)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151225122257/http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/Prestigious-INTACH-Heritage-Award-for-SCRs-Carriage-Workshop-155394.html Prestigious INTACH Heritage Award for SCR's Carriage Workshop] newswala.com, now archived.</ref>, part of Secunderabad, together with the railway colony. This area was '''not''' in the British controlled cantonment area, so baptisms, marriages and burials from churches in the railway colony will not be found in the Madras Ecclesiastical Returns.
==Cemeteries==
Cemetery names have changed over time as detailed below.<ref>Johnson, Ronnie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118023605/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240638/ New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad] ''Rootsweb Mailing List'' 7 November 2009 and Edwards, Kerry. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118023510/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240596/ New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad] ''Rootsweb Mailing List'' 8 November 2009, now archived. </ref>
==Description in 1837==
The British barracks at Secunderabad were described by Dr Archibald Shanks, [[Surgeon]] of the Corps, in 1837 in the ''Madras Quarterly Medical Journal'' (the full description can be read [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vwQHAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0eTwnUwBQlmQrRl&client=firefox-a#PPA263,M1 here on Google Books]. He was stationed in the cantonment with the [[55th Regiment of Foot]] and describes the barracks to indicate how they have been the cause of extensive sickness and mortality amongst the troops.
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/s/largeimage60362.html Photograph: St John's Church, Secunderabad] with [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/s/019pho000001056u00012000.html description] British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mars1940/sets/72157637640340573 Photographs: Secunderabad, remains of the British Raj] The Parade Ground Cemetery, or Protestant Cemetery (Church of St John the Baptist), Secunderabad. A collection on flickr.com, from Wattman (Museum van mijn 20e eeuw), taken January 2013.
*An India List post<ref> India List post Taylor, Rosemary. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200102024307/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/list/readindia.rootsweb.com/INDIAthread/2011-071316210/1309878907 Alfred Madgwick] by Rosemary Taylor''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 5 July 2011, archived.</ref> indicates that the priest at St Mary's Church in Secunderabad, c 1904, resented having to send the ecclesiastical returns which in turn led to one of the marriage registers being lost. *[http://www.kingsownmuseum.com/ko0983-01.htm Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Plan of Barracks and Accommodation at Secunderabad, India, 1843] King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster.
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-S.htm#Secunderabad RAF Secunderabad] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a2838666.shtml A Queen Alexandra's Nurse in India] by Margaret Ledger. WW2. Her postings included Secunderabad. bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n115/mode/1up Plan of Secunderabad] ''An Atlas of the Southern Part of India'' 1854 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA72 Secunderabad] page 72, ''The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847''. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the Table Lands"
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yyJcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA313 "Sanitary and Topographical Report of Secunderabad EI" <nowiki>[</nowiki>East Indies<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Staff-Surgeon Dr Crawford, page 313 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1860'' (published 1862) Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/244/mode/2up Secunderadad] page 245 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/414/mode/2up Secunderabad] page 415 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*"Secunderabad - An Appreciation from the Point of View of an R.A.M.C. Officer" [1926] by Captain S. Smith [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/46/5/379.2.full.pdf Part 1], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/46/6/452.full.pdf Part 2] ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1926;46:5 pages 379-387 and 1926;46:6 pages 452-458
*There is a chapter on Secunderabad in [https://archive.org/details/PictorialHyderabad in.ernet.dli.2015.388502/page/n341 "Secunderabad"] page 289 ''Pictorial Hyderabad Volume I''] by K.Krishnaswamy Mudiraj 1929 Archive.org. May require Images are generally unfortunately of a Djvu or BitTorrent plug-in for ease of readinglow standard. [httphttps://dliarchive.sercorg/search.iiscphp?query=%22pictorial%20hyderabad%22 All editions Archive.ernet.in/handle/2015/31815 ''Volume I'': Pdf downloadorg], Digital Library of India]. Other files are also available on but the DLIimages seem poor in all editions.
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