Allens Indian Mail - 3500 records of Births, Marriages & Deaths in India and British Indians ‘At Home’ have been uploaded to the FIBIS database for 1862. Our thanks go to John Gannon and his team,
Jan 182013
Jan 092013
Photographs of ninety-eight gravestones at St Thomas Church Cemetery, Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) taken by Edmund Bourne have been uploaded to the FIBIS database website with a fully searchable index compiled by Sylvia Murphy. Our thanks go to Edmund for kindly sending us the photos for our website and Sylvia for indexing them.
Jan 092013
Births, marriages and deaths as reported in the Times of India newspaper 1920 editions have been uploaded to the FIBIS database website. The data comprises of 704 births, 380 marriages and 1146 deaths, a total of 2230 new entries. Our thanks go to David Edge and his team.
Jan 092013
It is with great sadness that we read of the passing of Ronnie Johnson, our Bangalore Wallah friend.
Ronnie was a great friend to the British India family history world and an excellent contact to those going to Bangalore. He undertook some sterling work for the benefit of us all and was kind enough to allow FIBIS to publish much of it on the FIBIS database website. I hope that the data will serve as a small token of our sincere appreciation of his great assistance.
May he rest in Peace!
Jan 042013
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We are still looking for volunteers for our locations project. No experience in adding information to a wiki is necessary. Volunteers are needed to help gather information needed to create a page on a location in fibiwiki. To see a developed location page, visit Cannanore. If you are interested in volunteering or would like to find out more about this, or any other project, contact the FIBIS Webmaster.
Jan 032013
A list share holders in the Bombay Tontine Society invited to apply for a final distribution of funds has been sent to us by Sylvia Murphy and is now uploaded to the FIBIS database website. Sylvia also sent us the following text which she says is a near transcript of that which accompanies the list in the newspaper.
Times of India, Monday 2 March 1863
Bombay Tontine Society – Final Distribution of FundsA final distribution of the funds of this Society will be made on the 1st September 1863 when all persons for whose benefit shares were subscribed (or, if dead their personal representatives) will receive a dividend per share on proof that the persons on whose lives their shares were severally subscribed for were alive on the 12th February 1852. A list of 126 names contains all those who may on proof be entitled to dividends.
The required proof will be a Statutory Declaration which must be in the hand of the undersigned together with the Share Certificate on or before the 1st August 1863. All claims of which proof shall not have been received at Bombay on or before the last mentioned date will not be recognized and the distribution will be made without reference thereto.
W H Crawford, Solicitor, Military Square, Bombay.
Jan 022013
Births, marriages and deaths as reported in the Times of India newspaper 1919 editions have been uploaded to the FIBIS database website. The data comprises of 681 births, 402 marriages and 1253 deaths, a total of 2336 new entries. Our thanks go to David Edge and his team.
Jan 012013
Births, marriages and deaths as reported in the Times of India newspaper 1918 editions have been uploaded to the FIBIS database website. The data comprises of 827 births, 295 marriages and 1277 deaths, a total of 2399 new entries. Our thanks go to David Edge and his team.
Jan 012013
The latest edition of the FIBIS newsletter is now available for members to read in the FIBIS Social Network area.
Past copies of newsletters are also available in the FIBIS Social Network area in PDF and Word.doc format.
If you can’t remember your username and password for the FIBIS Social Network please check on the FAQ/Help page.
Dec 112012
Long-time FIBIS member Liz Chater has very kindly sent FIBIS some photographs she had taken of the graves at Kabul British Cemetery. These have now been indexed and uploaded to the FIBIS database website. Although the cemetery is called the ‘British Cemetery’ there are Poles, Germans, French, Italians, Canadians and other nationalities buried there also. Most of the graves photographed and included in the FIBIS database are of recent burials, but there are several from the late 1800′s and early 1900′s included.