FIBIS Journals

The Journal of the Families in British India Society is published twice yearly (in Spring and Autumn) and sent to all current members of the Society. The principal aim is "the presentation to members of the availability and value of various sources both to the establishment of genealogy and of the background to ancestors' lives in India and associated regions."

Back issues of the Journal are available to members and non-members, and can be purchased online. Click on <FIBIS shop> in the Navigation panel to the left to learn more. An index of the contents of each issue appears below.

Most of the content of Journals 1 - 49 is available for FIBIS members to download when logged into the main website. The Journal Archive can be found at Members Area - under heading Members Only Material.

The FIBIS database now has a searchable index for Volumes 1-46 of the FIBIS Journal. Anyone can search, but to view the reference in a Journal you must be a logged in FIBIS member.

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 52 (Autumn 2024)

Murdered, Missing or Suicide? The disappearance of my great-grandfather John William Birch - by Glenda Holder - page 3
On The March - by Peter Hare - page 8
Three Generations in India, their families and friends - by David Jamieson - page 12
The French In India Part 3 - by Peter Summers - page 16
The Leith Family and the 'Disney' Letter of 1897 - by Omer Tarin - page 24
Fine Art Exhibitions in British India: An Overview 1866-1903 - by Renate Dohmnen - page 26
DNA: Tracing my Carrolls - by Rob Wilson - page 34
Dr Roshan Khanande and the cemetery of the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi - by Mike Young - page 36
Fragrance Of The Voyagers - by Dr Roshan Khanande - page 37
Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain - by Arunima Datta Jo Stanley - page 40
Teatime at Peggy's: A Glimpse of Anglo-India - by Stephen McClarence and Clare Jenkins Adam Streatfeild-James - page 42

FIBIS Journal Number 51 (Spring 2024)

Editorial - by Adam Streatfeild-James - page 2
The French in India Pt2 - by Peter Summers - page 3
Henry Baird - Colour Sergeant, 26th Regiment of Foot - by David Radley - page 11
The Girl I left behind me - The life of Gen. William Gilbert (1781-1866) - by Dr. Chris A Joseph - page 14
Books about Old Madras - Examples of online sources - by Ed Storey - page 18
Agnes Teresa Meighan - My paternal grandmother - by Ron Horton - page 20
An Indian Gentleman who won the hearts of British officials and the local public - by Dr. N.C. Shah - page 24
James and Sarah Rosalie Robinson, 'Insanes', and letters from Bengal 1807-1819 - by Stephen Reilly - page 31
The Wessex Division in India 1914-1919 - by David Bull - page 36
Pompous Graves: A History of the Park Street Cemeteries of Calcutta - by Anirban Bhadra (Richard Morgan) - page 46
The Engineer, the Crook and Eight Men of the Sea - by Aurélie Freeman (Adam Streatfeild-James) - page 47

FIBIS Journal Number 50 (Autumn 2023)

Editorial - by Adam Streatfeild-James - page 2
For the Love of Gardening Part 2 - by Annabel Percy-Lancaster - page 3
Indian Textile Trade in the Indian Ocean - by Sue Paul - page 8
Escape from a massacre - the mutiny at Indpore, 1857 - by Colin Evans - page 12
John Teil of Kidderpore Tannery, Calcutta: A remarkable life - by Rod Berrieman - page 17
The early years of the EIC's Madras Presidency Artillery Corps, Pt. 2 - by Jane Keyes - page 22
The heights of British soldiers in the servce of the East India Company - by Stephen Lally - page 25
Some Hill Stations on the sub-continent - by Peter Hare - page 27
Highlands - The School on Tiger Hill - by Tony Mortlock - page 30
A Letter Home from Magdala - by Adam Streatfeild-James - page 35
Homeward Bound: Return migration from Ireland and India at the end of the British Empire - by Niamh Dillon (Margaret Murray) - page 41

FIBIS Journal Number 49 (Spring 2023)

Editorial - by Adam Streatfeild-James - page 2
A Tribute to Peter Bailey - by Beverly Hallam - page 3
My memories of FIBIS - by Peter Bailey - page 5
The French in India Part 1 - by Peter Summers - page 7
For the Love of Gardening Part 1 - by Annabel Percy-Lancaster - page 13
Commissioner Boilard and the 1915 Calcutta Municipal Election - by Will Barber Taylor - page 18
Arthur Moore, Editor of The Statesman, Calcutta - by Keith Haines - page 21
Life and death in India in the 1820s - by Stephen Lally - page 27
The Indian Medical Department - by Allan Stanistreet - page 32
The Bandmaster of Sanawar: Warrant Officer Albert Swann - by Douglas Edwards - page 37
The early years of the EIC's Madras Presidency Artillery Corps, Pt. 1 - by Jane Keyes - page 40
Empire Building: The construction of British India 1690-1860 - by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (Margaret Murray) - page 46

FIBIS Journal Number 48 (Autumn 2022)

Editorial - by Sally Gibson - page 2
Ranikhet: A Township of Britons when they ruled India - by Dr N C Shah - page 3
Wanderings down a Family Lane - by Peter Hare - page 11
A Ceylon Childhood - by Michael McKeag - page 13
From Writing for Family to Publishing Worldwide - by Helen Parker-Drabble - page 19
The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar - by Malcolm Bradbury - page 25
Memories of Ooty - by Tony Mortlock - page 28
The Indian Saltpetre Industry - by Ed Storey - page 31
A Snapshot of Three Bradbury Family Generations in India - by Malcolm Bradbury - page 35
Review: Wally and Zizza's Amazing Journey - by Louis Vanrenen (Margaret Murray) - page 38

FIBIS Journal Number 47 (Spring 2022)

Editorial - by Pat Scully - page 2
Indigo: Horses and Railways - by Richard D'Silva - page 3
A Tenuous Connection - by Ed Storey - page 7
Jai Hind! Chalo Delhi! - by Mike Tickner - page 9
Three Brothers from Limerick - by Harper Wright - page 16
Journal and Sea Log HC Edinburgh (1825-26) - by Mike Muirhead - page 20
FInding Clara: Solving a British India Family Mystery - by Sean Kelly - page 24
Little Brown Brownlows: Race, Shame and Genealogy - by David Macadam - page 28
A Small Boy in British India - by Tony Mortlock - page 33
Karl Marx - by Peter Hare - page 43
Review: The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean 1942-44 - by Charles Stephenson (Richard Morgan) - page 44
Read all about it! - by Valmay Young - page 50

FIBIS Journal Number 46 (Autumn 2021)

Editorial - by Jacob Bailey - page 2
From Lucknow to Pallavaram via Bangalore (School and Cultural Memories in the last decade of the Raj - by Duncan Bamford Stirling Wilkins - page 3
The Currie Legacy - by Derek Turner - page 12
My Grandparents Time in India - by Helen English - page 18
From Ruabon to Rangoon (The 61 Indian Reproduction Group IE) - by Ian Jacobs - page 23
Memories from St Paul's School, Darjeeling - by Kenneth Miln - page 31
Beyond the Brick Wall (Yet more questions and mysteries about Thomas Farrell) - by Harper Wright - page 32
Review: Dragon: Penang Chronicles I - by Rose Gan (Sue Paul) - page 37
Review: A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands? - by Jonathan Lawley (Margaret Murray) - page 38
The FIBIS Conference 2021 Review - by Margaret Murray - page 42

FIBIS Journal Number 45 (Spring 2021)

Editorial - by Jacob Bailey - page 2
Woods and Wilsons - by Rob Wilson - page 3
The Earl of Abergavenny - An East Indiaman - by Peter Summers - page 9
Mulberry Trees in Madras - by Ed Storey - page 17
Passages in Uncertain Times - by Kenneth Miln - page 20
Missionary Families in British India - by Dick Wolff - page 23
Henrietta Wardman - A 'Yorkshire Lass' in India - by Dr Ernest Lucas - page 29
The Persian Interpreter - Turner Macan (1792-1836) - by Keith Haines - page 36
India to Ireland and back again, and back again - by Robert Ringrow - page 43
Review: Gunpowder and Glory: The Explosive Life of Frank Brock, OBE - by Harry Smee and Henry Macroy (Margaret Murray) - page 46
Review: The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest - by Ed Caesar (Mike Young) - page 47
Review: Missionary Lives: The Wolff and Van Someren Families in 19th Century India - by Dick Wolff (Margaret Murray) - page 49

FIBIS Journal Number 44 (Autumn 2020)

Editorial - by Mark Young - page 2
Adventures Travelling From India to Scotland: May-July 1942 - by Bruce Calderbank - page 3
The Savage Wars of Peace: VJ Day and Aftermath - by Mike Tickner - page 11
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Foreward by Peter Summers) - by Gordon Summers - page 20
The Charles Davis Affair: A Story of Race, a Bandmaster and Raja - by Will Barber Taylor - page 24
Charles William Hatten of Suffolk and His India Collection - by Alan Fraser - page 28
Dr Campbell Peter Ronald and Agnes Wrey Harler - by Cdr Campbell D de Burgh - page 36
The Little House at Arrah - by RIchard Boyle - page 38
Review: Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns 1798-1807 - by Martin R Howard (Richard Morgan) - page 40
Review: Digging Up the Raj in Deansgrave Cemetery - by Shabnam Vasisht (Joss O'Kelly) - page 41
Review: Rambles with my Family - by Wendy Maitland (Margaret Murray) - page 42

FIBIS Journal Number 43 (Spring 2020)

Editorial - by Mark Young - page 2
Why Volunteer? Who Volunteers? A Brief Resume of the Life of Bill Hall - by Penny Tipper and Carrie Watson - page 3
Sinclair Family: From Paisley Weaver to Darjeeling Tea Planter - by Vivian Brown - page 6
Son of a Permanent Way Inspector - by Linda Evans - page 12
A Soldiers Will Ought to be Short - by Marian Press - page 19
The East India Language Policy in the Early 19th Century - by Prof Marjorie Lorch - page 25
A Tale of Mathew Kelly and His Son James - by Alan Rowe - page 29
Madam Bowcher of Bombay and Her Disreputable Salons - by Sue Paul - page 38
The Partridges and Pymms - by James Sinclair - page 42
In Memoriam – Ian Baxter - by David Blake - page 45
Review: The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience - by David Gilmour - page 48

FIBIS Journal Number 42 (Spring 2019)

Editorial - by Mark Young - page 2
A Nurse's Story - by Allan Stanistreet - page 3
The Memoirs of Lt Col Frederick Corbett Hickie - by Frederick Hickie - page 7
Ephraim da Costa: Judging the Judge - by Will Barber Taylor - page 16
My Cosmopolitan Ancestry - by Norman A Fuller - page 21
Red White and Blue: Three Generations and 150 Years of Colonial Life - by Chris Hardy - page 30
Coming Back Home - by Mike Young - page 35
Review: The Bitter End of the British Raj (2016) - by Ian A C Smith (Margaret Murray) - page 41
Review: Wally and Zizza's Amazing Journey - by Louis Vanrenen (Margaret Murray) - page 43

FIBIS Journal Number 41 (Spring 2019)

Editorial - by Patrick A Scully - page 2
Richard Seyer 1786-1833: Aurangabad 200 years on - by John K Palmer - page 3
Arthur George Allan: Postcards from India (1907-11) - by Sue Dawson-Smallwood - page 11
Walter Francis Shore: The Lost Grave - by Iain R Shore - page 20
Henry Reginald Corbett (1891-1973) - by Kimberley John Lindsay - page 27
Friendship & Family Ties: Philadelphia Out of Obscurity - by Sue Paul - page 35
Dr Babu and the Catla Fish: Megna Jute Mills - by Kenneth Miln - page 39
Read All About It - by Valmay Young - page 43
India Cemeteries Project - by Nigel Penny - page 45

FIBIS Journal Number 40 (Autumn 2018)

Editorial – page 2
An IMS Surgeon in East Africa by Ann Crichton Harris – page 3
An Indian Army Unit in East and West Africa 1915–1917 by Bill Hall – page 9
‘Knowing that some are spending their last half-hour on earth': The Indian Army in the Middle East by Tim Willasey-Wilsey – page 17
BACSA and the Cemeteries of British India' by Stephen McClarence – page 23
A Life Well-Lived: John Seely, Surveyor and Author by Barbara Frankl – page 30
Encounter with a Film Star by David Railton – page 37
Review: Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi by Stuart Flinders. Review article by Sir Allan Ramsay – page 41
Review: Goodbye Burma. Review by Margaret Murray – page 54
FIBIS 20th Anniversary Conference by Sally Tipper – page 52
Notices – page 55
Notes on Contributors – page 56
Sources of Illustrations – page 56

FIBIS Journal Number 39 (Spring 2018)

Editorial – page 2
Gurkhas in the First World War by Craig Lawrence – page 3
On the Western Front with the Meerut Division by Ron Horton – page 11
George King IMD and his Medals by Allan Stanistreet – page 17
The Last of the White Hunters by Joshua Mathew – page 21
Reminiscences of a Jute Wallah in West Bengal by Kenneth Miln – page 24
FIBIS: The First Twenty Years by Peter Bailey – page 28
You Were Born When? by Hedley Sutton – page 39
Review: Brave as a Lion: The Life and Times of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough by Christopher Brice. Review article by Sir Allan Ramsay – page 40
Review: British Ships in Indian Waters by Richard Morgan. Review by Margaret Makepeace – page 50
Review: The Uprising of 1857 edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. Review by Tim Willasey-Wilsey – page 52
Notices – page 55
Notes on Contributors – page 56
Sources of Illustrations – page 56

FIBIS Journal Number 38 (Autumn 2017)

Editorial – page 2
Remembering Cawnpore by Mark Probett – page 3
Sir Henry Ramsay's Kumaon Friends by N. C. Shah – page 12
IP v. ICS: The Long Duel? by Paul Dean – page 15
Muni, Mali and the Beetles by Sir Allan Ramsay – page 24
Getting to Grips with FamilySearch Family Tree by Sharon Hintze – page 32
Unsung Servants of the Raj: An Anglo-Indian Family in the Nineteenth Century by John Webber – page 39
Not in Baxter: A Member of the Legislative Councils of Bengal and Central Legislative Assembly of India by Richard Morgan – page 45
Review: Last Children of the Raj: British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming. Review by Allan Stanistreet – page 53
Review: Dance with Fireflies by Jane Gill. Review by Xandra Sherman – page 54
Notices – page 55
Notes on Contributors – page 56
Sources of Illustrations – page 56

FIBIS Journal Number 37 (Spring 2017)

Editorial - page 2
Hooghly to Himalaya - A Short Story by Kenneth Miln - page 3
An Honourable Upright Man: Ralph Henry Sneyd (1784-184) by Keith Haines - page 9
The Life of Joseph Knowles by Aubrey Knowles - page 24
John Brierly in India by Elizabeth Wilde - page 26
Lieutenant (Assistant Surgeon) R. L. W. Beveridge by Allan Stanistreet - page 32
Colonel Thomas Barrett and Friends by Ed Story - page 33
General the Hon. Sir Henry Ramsay: The Uncrowned King of Kumaon by N. C. Shah - page 36
Some Unpublished Inscriptions from the Cemeteries of Jaipur by Syed Faizan Raza - page 47
Notices - page 52

FIBIS Journal Number 36 (Autumn 2016)

Editorial - page 2
Diary of Dora M. Fowle During a Trip from Poona to Burma in 1905 by Bill Hall - page 3
Walter Williams - A Private Soldier in India 1878-1888 - Part Two by Sylvia Murphy - page 11
The Joy of Family History by Hilary Sheridan - page 20
Under Duress: The Tiger of Mysore and His Infidel Artisans - Part Two by David Atkinson - page 23
Remebering Aunt Peggy by Emma Louise Oram - page 34
Using Thacker's and Other Directories for Business in India by Richard Morgan - page 35
Inspector James Dwyer and the Thanks of the Bengal Government by Kimberley Lindsay - page 43
Reviews - page 49
Notices - page 51

FIBIS Journal Number 35 (Spring 2016)

Editorial
An English Bride in Edwardian India by Christine Kendell – page 3
Surgeon, Silk Merchant and Banker: The Balfour Brothers in India by Francesca Radcliffe – page 6
'Some hot water quickly' – Sister Sallie’s Kaisar-i-Hind by Kimberley John Lindsay – page 11
Wanted: Robert William Cox aka. Charles Edward Custance by Michael Whitehead – page 18
Under Duress: The Tiger of Mysore and his Infidel Artisans (Part 1) by David Atkinson – page 20
Walter Williams, A Private Soldier in India 1878 to 1888 (Part 1) by Sylvia Murphy – page 31
Maintaining British Links with the Past in South Asia: The Work of BACSA by Clive Williams OBE – page 39
A Visit to India in Autumn 2015 [The organisation of a group tour] by Elaine MacGregor – page 42
Review: Beatson’s Mutiny – The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier by Richard Stevenson 2015. Review by Peter Bailey – page 49
St. Mary’s Church, Chennai by Andrew Cumine – page 52

FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015)

Editorial
The Life of George Parbury, associate of Allen, Thacker and Spink by Dr John Carpenter – page 3
The Memoirs of John Norton of the Bombay Mint by Joan Harrison – page 18
W. Edward Bankes, an East India Company writer in the 1720s by Francesca Radcliffe – page 29
The East India Company: some snapshots of its history (Part 2) by David Blake – page 38
Francis Day, the Founder of the City of Madras by James T Day – page 45
Memories of my childhood in British India by Pearline Philomena Berry – page 49
Competition – Win one of three Genealogical DNA tests – page 50
Review: Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India by William Pennington 2003. Review by Maureen Evers – page 52

FIBIS Journal Number 33 (Spring 2015)

FIBIS Journal Number 33 is available for members to browse online.

Editorial
From Soldier to Newspaperman: The Varied Experiences of Joachim Hayward Stocqueler in Bombay and Calcutta from 1819 to 1843 by Audrey T Carpenter - page 3
Captains Outrageous: tracing the maritime career of William Henry Biden by Richard Morgan – page 16
The Melvill Family – Three Generations of Commitment to India (Part 2) by David Williams – page 28
Assistant Apothecary Charles Maitland versus East India Company Justice by Charles Maitland – page 36
The East India Company: some snapshots of its history (Part 1) by David Blake – page 43
Reference to an article on The Victorian Web: Of Intelligence, an Assassination, East Indiamen and the Great Hurricane of 1808 by Tim Willasey- Wilsey, concerning Lt-Colonel David Richardson of the Bengal Army and his family – page 50
Reviews
- The Nicholas Brothers and A. T. W. Penn: Photographers of South India 1855 – 1885 by Christopher Penn (2014). Review by Richard Morgan – page 51
- The Brewing Storm – 1939-1941 (2013) and Burma Invaded - 1942 (2013), both by Major C M Enriquez, based on his diary. Review by Peter Bailey – page 52

FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014)

FIBIS Journal Number 32 is available for members to browse online.

Editorial
The Melvill Family – Three Generations of Commitment to India (Part 1) by David Williams – page 3
Trumpeter Inwood, an Anglo-Indian Hero of the Kut Garrison by Rosemary Reardon – page 18
The North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles in East Africa in the First World War by Noel Clark – page 30
Gallantry Awards to the Indian Medical Department during the Great War of 1914 – 1918 by Allan Stanistreet – page 34
Competition – Win one of three Genealogical DNA tests – page 37
Elizabeth Martin of Madras and Walter Medhurst, Missionary by John Holliday – page 38
The Development of the Meerut District Volunteers, aka, the Meerut Volunteer Horse by Tim Bender – page 45
The FIBIS Conference 2014 – page 47
Reviews
- The 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-Asian Commerce and 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 Admiral Peter Rainer by Peter A Ward (2013)
  - The East India Company’s London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers 1800-1858 by Margaret Makepeace (2010)
- Indigo and Opium: Two Remarkable Families and Fortunes Won and Lost by Miles Macnair (2013). Review by Peter 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)

FIBIS Journal Number 31 is available for members to browse online.

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
Keddahs and Epigraphists : miscellaneous appointments in India and Burma in 1909 by Bill Hall - page 26
The Origins of Johann Jacob Hoff: my ancestor in the Dutch East India Company by 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 Peter Bailey - page 55

FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013)

FIBIS Journal Number 30 is available for members to browse online.

Editorial
Raising the Hanoverian Regiments: their passage to India by Hilary Sheridan - page 3
Owen Berkeley-Hill and Psychiatry in India by Mike Young - page 8
Dr Christopher Francis Henry Quick, IMD by Allan Stanistreet - page 21
The Indian Forest Services in the India Office Records: Questions and answers for researchers by Ian Baxter - page 23
A Postscript to the wounding of Campbell Clark by Charles Gordon Clark - page 32
Calvert Smith, the baby from the Parsonage by Diana Bousfield-Wells - page 33
Correspondence: records of the Dutch cemeteries, Java - page 43
Reviews
- 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 2011. 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.

FIBIS Journal Number 21 (Spring 2009)

Editorial
Seeking Giles Stibbert - Richard J Hayter
Recruitment for the Company's European Corps, 1781-1812 - Ian A Baxter
Gahan, Eaton & Co - Nigel Penny
The Lure of Indigo, and three V.C.s - Miles Macnair
Escape from Fyzabad, 1857 - Contemporary account by Lieutenant C S Fowle
The young bride of a Madras Police Inspector describes her new life in 1894 - Letter from Mary Mayne
Some 'Anglo-Indian' and other Memorials at St Helena - Trevor Hearl
Reviews

In Pursuit of the Past by Christopher Penn. Review by Richard Morgan
Scattered seeds: the diaspora of the Anglo-Indians by Dorothy S Dady 2007 Review by Beverly Hallam

FIBIS Journal Number 20 (Autumn 2008)

My ancestor Matthew Leslie (1755-1804) was a 'White Mughal' - Beverly Hallam
The Letters of Captain John Orrok - Alison McBrayne
In God and Company: the life and times of the Reverend William Kew Fletcher (c1802-1867), EIC Chaplain - Mark William Fletcher
Jules Henri Jean Schaumburg (1839-1886): a forgotten artist rediscovered - Sylvia Murphy
Eliza Robinson and the Women's Workshop in Allahabad - Ann Currie
Freemasonry in India - Susan Snell
Campaign and other medals to Anglo-Indians - Allan Stanistreet
The Trichinopoly Registers - Richard Morgan

FIBIS Journal Number 19 (Spring 2008)

The Great Van Someren Obsession - Liz Wilde
Faith and Family in South India: Robert Caldwell and his Missionary Dynasty - David Gore
The Defence of Lucknow: letter from Lt Clifford Henry Mecham, Part Two
150 years on: the secrets of William and Stuart William Howard - Ian Howard
Searching for Allen, Alan or Allan Buchanan and his MC - Jean Mitchell and Lawrie Butler
The Police Officer and the Dacoit: Freddy Young and Sultana the 'Robin Hood of British India’ - N C Shah
Book Reviews

Storm and Conquest-The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1809 by Stephen Taylor 2007. Review by Lawrie Butler.
The Great Uprising in India 1857-1858 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones 2007. Review by Richard Morgan

FIBIS Journal Number 18 (Autumn 2007)

Researching for FIBIS Members - Lawrie Butler and Beverly Hallam
The Battle of Plassey, 23 June 1757 - David Blake
The Lady's Log-book - Mark William Fletcher
Rebecca Dorin, April 1813-July 1857: a Heroine of the Mutiny - Brenda M Cook
The Defence of Lucknow: letter from Lt Clifford Henry Mecham
The Army Rank of Conductor and the history of an HEIC Conductor VC - Lawrie Butler
Planning for Indian Independence: Mountbatten, Nehru, and V P Menon - David Blake
Review article

The Way We Were-Anglo Indian Chronicles edited by Margaret Deefholts and Glen Deefholts 2006. Review by Hazel Craig

FIBIS Journal Number 17 (Spring 2007)

The Family Tree of our 1000th Member, Denielle West - Lawrie Butler
Researching Officers who served in the East India Company Army - Richard Morgan
'Death on the Pale Horse': William Mayne and the Mayne military tradition in India - David Gore
On the trail of Manuel D'Eremao and Juliana Dias Da Costa: a quest to verify oral tradition through the India Office Records - Beverly Hallam
Looking for Gunner Hurley in India - Malcolm Hurley Mills and Lawrie Butler
Civilian Gallantry Awards to Members of the Anglo-Indian Community: a plea for information - Allan Stanistreet
Dr Graham's Homes: a Century of Service - Douglas Evans
Book Reviews

Researching Ancestors in the East India Company’s Armies (FIBIS Research Guide no.1) by Peter Bailey 2006. Review by Richard Scott Morel, Archivist, Pre-1858 India Office Records
In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857 by Rosemary Raza 2006.Review by Penny Brook, Head of India Office Records
Children of the Raj by Vyvyen Brendon 2005/2006. Review by Nora Naish, author of the book Passage from the Raj: story of a family 1770-1939

FIBIS Journal Number 16 (Autumn 2006)

Hints on Research in the India Office Records at the British Library Asian and African Studies Reading Room - Lawrie Butler
George Bogle, Part 3 Into Bhutan and Tibet - Richard Wenger
The Rind Family in India 1830s-1880s: recently discovered papers in the Pembrokeshire Record Office - Nikki Bosworth
Links with India: Records in the New South Wales State archives relating to settlers and others - Christine Yeats
The Children of John Company - The Anglo-Indians, Part 2 - Geraldine Charles
Percy Wyndham: an unforgettable meritorious British Administrator of bygone days - N C Shah
Book Review - The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire by Jan Dalley 2006. Review by Richard Scott Morel, Archivist, Pre-1858 India Office Records

FIBIS Journal Number 15 (Spring 2006)

Editorial
The India-related holdings of the National Army Museum - Marion Harding and Jenny Spencer-Smith
Buy out, Pay Off, and a Pension? Terms of discharge from Queen Victoira's Army - Peter D Rogers
The Children of John Company - The Anglo-Indians, Part 1 - Geraldine Charles
India - it was Magical - Hazel Craig
George Bogle, Part 2, The advent of Warren Hastings 1772 to 1774 - Rcihard Wenger
India through old Picture Postcards - Douglas Evans
Reviews

Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750- 1914 by Richard Holmes 2005. Review by Steve van Dulken
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 2005. Review by Ian A Baxter
A Handbook for Irish War Graves in India, Burma and Beyond, compiled by Eileen Hewson 2005. Review by David Blake.
In Those Days: A Scrapbook of Growing Up in India in the Days of the Raj by Justine Dowley-Wise. 2005. Review by David Blake.

FIBIS Journal Number 14 (Autumn 2005)

Editorial
George Bogle 1746-1781, Part 1, His Early Years - Rcihard Wenger
Tragedy and Betrayal: the story of Henry Fowle 1803-1849 - Bill Hall
The Indian Navy Family Fund 1828-1863 - Peter D Rogers
An English Soldier in Persia 1833-1840 - Jo Purshouse and Lawrie Butler
Brigadier-General Octavius Edward Rothney 1824-1881 - David Blake
Biographical Sources within the L/MIL/14 Series - Lawrie Butler
Reviews

English County Regiments, revised edition by Ian F W Beckett 2003 (first published 1970, original author – Arthur Taylor). Review by Anne Kelsall
Passage from the Raj: story of a family 1770 -1939 by Nora Naish 2005 Review by David Blake.

FIBIS Annual Report for the year 2004-2005 to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 13 (Spring 2005)

Editorial
The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey
William Westall in India - Richard J Westall
Sources in the India Office Records for the British Army in India - Peter Bailey
The Wreck of the Ava, 1858 - Brenda M Cook
Registry Marriages in India - Lawrie Butler
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Patricia Redmond
Forms of Identification of Indian Army Pensioners and Widows - Peter D Rogers
Review - Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India by Elizabeth Buettner 2004 Review by David Blake.

FIBIS Journal Number 12 (Autumn 2004)

Editorial
The East India Company London Warehouses - Margaret Makepeace
The British India Steam Navigation Company (Part 2) 1914-1971 - David Mitchell
The Early Life of Gordon Alexander Jahans 1888-1908 - G A Jahans
Matthew Baillie Pollock 1803-1844: Surgeon, HEIC Madras Army - Shirley West
The 'Unattached List' - Peter Bailey
Indian Army Prisoners of War in the Second World War - Hedley Sutton
The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey
Index of Articles published in Journals 1 to 11 - Complied by Michelle McCosh
FIBIS Annual Report and Financial Statement to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 11 (Spring 2004)

Editorial
Donald Jaques - Peter Bailey
The India Office Records: the Way Forward - Penny Brook
A Passage to India and Beyond: the Voyage of the Rockingham to Bombay and Canton 1791-1793 - Trevor W Hearl
William Howell 1789-1867: Surveyor-Missionary-Priest - Shirley West
Tracing Ancestral Churches in India - Doreen Elcox
Soldiers' War Service Records - Peter Bailey
The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 3
The British India Steam Navigation Company, Part 1 - David Mitchell
Anglo-Indian Legacy - Book review by Geraldine Charles
The IOR-FIBIS Collaboration Project, and FIBIS Database Project - Report by Peter Bailey

FIBIS Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003)

Editorial
Courts Martial in John Company's India and their help to the Genealogist - Peter Bailey
An Introduction to The Public Works Department and its records at the India Office Records - Anthony West
A Tale of Two Storeys? - Ed Storey and Lawrie Butler
Research In India - Malcolm Speirs
The Headquarters of the Madras Artillery at Saint Thomas's Mount - Peter Bailey
The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 2
The IOR - FIBIS Collaboration Project
Index of Articles published in Journals 1 to 9 inclusive - Michelle McCosh
FIBIS Annual Report to the Annual General Meeting

FIBIS Journal Number 9 (Spring 2003)

Editorial
The Autobiography of David Dinwiddie, Part 1 - transcribed by Ruth Croft
The Railway Children - An Appeal by Hazel Craig
The Condell Family in India - Dian Montgomerie Elvin
Extracts from 'From Warley Magna to Great Warley' - George Harper
The Jokai Tea Estates - Dick Barton
Civil Service Records at the OIOC - Tim Thomas
A Rix Family in India - Ian Howard
The 'European Manuscripts' Holdings of the OIOC - David Blake
Letters to the Editor
The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project - Peter Bailey

FIBIS Journal Number 8 (Autumn 2002)

Editorial
How Mary Anne became Marianne - Hermione-Ann Davies and Peter Bailey
My Search for the Ancestry of Francis Coleridge Hutchinson MD - Marie A. I. McCulloch
India Civil Service Records - Tim Thomas
BACSA Family Trees
Some Sources of Probate and Estate Records for India - Sylvia Murphy
The transcription of the Bombay Marriage Index (1709-1859) - Sylvia Murphy
The Devonshire Regiment's Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881 - Moira Mark
The Perils of Parentage: The Plight of an Addiscombe Cadet - Trevor Hearl
Book Offer - Alfred Gabb
Report of the Annual General Meeting held on 25th May 2002 and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2002
The First World War: further sources in the India Office Library and Records - Hedley Sutton
Letters to the Editor - from Theon Wilkinson, Hon. Secretary, BACSA; David Barnabas (in Bangalore)
Miscellaneous East India Company Pensions - Tony Fuller
A rare Indian Army Journal - Catherine Pickett
The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project

FIBIS Journal Number 7 (Spring 2002)

Editorial
A Luso-Indian Voyage - Cliff Pereira
The Old or Mission Church at Calcutta - Peter Bailey
Pension Records at the OIOC - Ian Baxter
Censuses of India - Donald Jaques
The Search for Captain James Nowlan - Nigel McCrea
Lords of the East - Trevor Hearl
Monthly Military Musters Part 2 - Peter Bailey
Some EIC Family Histories in Print - Trevor Hearl
The First World War: Sources in the India Office Library and Records - Hedley Sutton
Soldiers Pay in 1829 - Peter Bailey
Index of Articles in Journals 1 to 6 - compiled by Michelle McCosh
The OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project
Additions to Members' Interests

FIBIS Journal Number 6 (Autumn 2001)

Editorial
Thomas Robson & The Bombay Missionaries - Trevor Hearl
The Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum - Peter Bailey
Who was William Hopper? - Sylvia Murphy
First Visits to the OIOC by a 'Newbie'- Elaine MacGregor
A Mystery Man - Donald Jaques
Looking for Baptism, Marriage & Death Records for Roman Catholic Soldiers in India from Original Records - Peter Bailey
Gladys' Story - Leap Year's Day 1880 - David Gore
The National Maritime Museum Indian Collection - Geraldine Charles
Report of the 2001 Annual General Meeting
Monthly Military Musters - Peter Bailey
OIOC-FIBIS Collaboration Project

FIBIS Journal Number 5 (Spring 2001)

Editorial
The Man who built St James', Calcutta - Michael Quin-Conroy
The Diary of Richard B, Part 2 - Donald Jaques
The Railways of India & Family History - Anthony West
The Punjab Frontier Force Association
Those British India Roman Catholic BMD Records! - Peter Bailey
The OIOC-FIBIS Database Collaboration Project
Memorial Inscriptions in Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone Road
Records of the Lord Clive Pension Fund - Ian Baxter
Lesser Known Sources at the OIOC - Presidency General Orders - Peter Bailey
Editor's Notes

FIBIS Journal Number 4 (Autumn 2000)

Editorial
Editorship of the Journal
Annual Report and Accounts
Snippet from a Preventative Officer
Bengal Soldiers on the March - Cartoon from Peter D Rogers
Letter from Ceylon - Bridget Thurgate
The Royal Asiatic Society
Some Strays - Kathleen Hudson
To Whom We Owe - Alfred Gabb
The Bengal Club/Memorial Inscriptions at Poplar
The BB&CI Railway Offices, Bombay - Photograph
The Diary of Richard B. - Donald Jaques
Family Snippets - Claire Hamon
Members' Databases
OIOC Family History Study Days
The Victoria Military Society
Photographs - can anybody help?
Book Reviews
The FIBIS Research Service
Apprentices in India - Michael Gandy
Necessities for a Midshipman
HEIC Maritime Holdings at the National Maritime Museum, Part 1
New FFHS Publications
Anglo-Indian Correspondence, Part 3, N-Z
The Madras Military Fund

FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000)

Editorial
Formal Notice of Annual General Meeting
Secretary's Report - Important Notice
Good News - membership of FFHS
Life of a Madras Artilleryman - Peter Bailey
Illustrations - St. Thomas' Churches
The Organization of the OIOC Reading Room - Hedley Sutton
Family History Study Days
The BACSA/FIBIS Project
The Warley Project
Bombay Country Ships
Illustrations - more churches!
Army Births in India - Alan Millerin
OIOC Charges
The Mystery of Sir George Everest
Edward Jenner and Smallpox
Membership List - FIBIS' new members
Anglo-Indian Research Correspondence at SoG [Part 2, E to M] - Tony Fuller and Michael Gandy
Illustration - The Pay Book of John Isaacson
John Isaacson of Exning, Persia and India - Tony Fuller and Jenny Law
Research on Ayahs
French Overseas Archives
HEIC Ships' Commanders

FIBIS Journal Number 2 (Autumn 1999)

Looking for an 'Old India Hand' - Peter D Rogers
St. Thomas' Mount
Professional Researchers
The Year 2000 Family History Fair
New Projects
New and Important Publication
The Delhi Durbah - Tony Fuller
The Delhi Durbah Medal of 1911 - Peter Duckers
Subscriptions
Members' Interests - the ancestors of Camilla Gemmingen von Massenbach
The Ancestry in India of Geraldine Lorna Charles
Members' Interests - General
Membership List - Amendments and New Members
Book Reviews
Book Dealers
Brief Book Reviews
List of Original Subscribers to the East India Dock Company in London
The Black Hole of Calcutta, Part 2 - Tony Fuller
The 1881 UK Census
Anglo-Indian Research Correspondence - Tony Fuller and Michael Gandy

FIBIS Journal Number 1 (Spring 1999)

Editorial - Michael Gandy, Tony Fuller and Jenny Law
Catholics in India - Michael Gandy
Catholics in Mangalore - A Bicentennial
St. Thomas' Mount, [Roman Catholic] European Baptisms, 1750-1880
Records of the East India Company in Tower Hamlets - Tony Fuller
Some Facts about the Black Hole of Calcutta
Professional Researchers
Project Report
Oral History - Geraldine Charles
Major Thomas Back of the Madras Army - Tony Fuller
FIBIS' First Open Meeting, 25 September 1999
The East India Company Site in Poplar
Request for Help - James Henry Fletcher
Looking for Armenians in India - Jenny Law
Book Review
The Quit India Movement
Railway Journeys of My Childhood
Forthcoming Books & Second-hand Books
Books for Sale & Books from India
Members' Interests
Membership List