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"Discover more about your family and their life in colonial
British-India with The Indiaman Magazine. You will be taken on a
colourful and fascinating journey through time!"

By Paul Rowland.

Founder & Editor of The Indiaman Magazine.

When I first began researching my family history in British-India,
there were no British-India family history societies to join and ask
for help. There was no Internet. There were no genealogical magazines
available, and there were certainly no magazines about the British in
India available anywhere to help me make rapid progress with my
research. When I started out it was a purely solitary affair and it
took me 23 years to trace my family's origins back to the UK!

Today, it is now possible to make rapid progress tracing your family
history in British-India within months, and it is no longer a solitary
affair, thanks to The Indiaman Magazine. Within the pages of The
Indiaman Magazine you will be introduced to a community of individuals
in 25 countries around the world, who, like yourself are tracing their
family history in British-India too! Some of them may even be related
to you!

It was a copy of my paternal grandfather's birth/baptism certificate,
dated 1877, that was to set me off on my 40 year genealogical voyage of
discovery, and my love affair with India. This fragile document, I soon
discovered, was the only documentary evidence that my family possessed
relating to my paternal family's origins.

I remember feeling frustrated as I looked at that baptism certificate,
because behind the two names of my great grandparents lay a whole
lifetime of memories and experiences that were completely lost to us,
and I desperately wanted to know more about them!

If, like me, you have faced, or are facing a similar situation, where
documentary evidence within the family is scarce, non-existent, or even
very jealously guarded, then;

Believe me, you are not alone!

I have sat where you are now, tingling with excitement at finding a
record, photograph or newspaper clipping that provides you with a clue
to your family's origins. That feeling is mixed with one of sheer
frustration, bewilderment and lots of head scratching;

How do you progress back in time with the information that you have?

Well, my aim initially, was simply to try and discover whether I had an
ancestor who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Like most young boys
aged 10, I was fascinated by soldiers and battles, and the most famous
battle of all, was Waterloo.

My search for a soldier took me, not on a journey to Waterloo, as I had
hoped, but back in time from 20th century England to 18th century
India!

My family, possibly like yours, had left India in 1948 for England
following Indian Independence. I grew up in Sheffield, England, hearing
wonderful stories about my family's life and experiences there and
soaked them all up like a sponge!
Looking out across the smoky and polluted skyline of 1960s industrial
Sheffield I used to wonder at my young age;

What the hell were we doing in England, if life in India had been so
good!

My older brother and sisters would take great delight in telling me
about the ponies they used to own and ride; Or the hunting trips they
went on with my father on the back of an elephant! I had never ridden
on the back of an elephant, nor was I ever likely to see one roaming
the streets of Sheffield!

They, and my parents also used to tell me about the joy of travelling
up to their boarding schools on the trains.

Imagine looking out of your classroom window, across the Himalayas at
Mount Everest, that was the view that my mother enjoyed from her
school, St Mary's Convent in Naini Tal!

It was a bit different to the view of the grey and drab housing estate
that I enjoyed from my classroom window in England!

The black and white photographs of my ancestors sitting under tall
trees or outside their big houses with their servants in attendance or
in military uniforms became a fascinating and colourful world to me.

Large trunks brought from India by my parents full of old photographs
and letters were piled up in our damp and dirty cellar and I spent many
happy hours as a boy of 10 rummaging about in those trunks looking for
pieces of information or even a family tree to see where my family
actually came from in the UK. I can still smell the mothballs when I
think about that time!

Discarded in those trunks were only small pieces of information about
my family's life in British-India and it was like assembling a jigsaw
without a picture for reference!

23 years later I had traced EVERY BRANCH of my family back to the UK
from India and Burma, and 33 years later I eventually found a great
great great grandfather who at the age of 19 had fought in the
Peninsula Wars with the Royal Artillery Horse Drivers. However, he did
not appear in the Waterloo Medal Roll and only recently, I discovered
why he did not appear in the Waterloo Medal Roll. After fighting at
Salamanca, Orthes and Toulouse, his regiment was sent to Canada in 1814
to fight against the Americans in the War of 1812!

In 1815, a few months after the Battle of Waterloo, my ancestor
returned to England with his regiment which was subsequently disbanded.
He re-enlisted in the 11th Light Dragoons and was almost immediately
sent to India with his new regiment, where he married and raised a
family and ultimately died in Ghazipur.

I was dumbstruck to discover that my ancestor had not fought at
Waterloo, but luckily or unluckily for me, my family had yet again
managed to sidestep a possible tragedy which could so easily have
resulted in an untimely death of an ancestor resulting in an abrupt end
to my family tree and even my existence!

To discover all of this I had to trace my family's records, not through
England, but through India first! I travelled back in time from Indian
Independence to the days of the East India Company.

I discovered ancestors who fought the colonial wars of the Honourable
East India Company and the British Crown.

I discovered ancestors who had worked in the Opium Factories in Patna
and Ghazipur overseeing the production of Opium that was to be shipped
to China, and this substance was the cause of the Opium Wars between
Britain and China!

I discovered ancestors who built the railway system across India, and
Burma, and others who were Station Masters, and others who drove the
trains across the Sub-Continent.

I discovered a great great grandfather who had fought in the major
battles of the Sikh Wars and who later, thankfully survived the Indian
Mutiny along with his pregnant wife, when his regiment, the 46th Bengal
Native Infantry mutinied on July 9th 1857 in Sealkote along with the
9th Bengal Light Cavalry, slaughtering many of their European officers,
their wives and children. Their unborn child was my great grandfather!

I discovered ancestors who had suffered and died from tropical
diseases. Even in the 20th century, my own father nearly died of
Smallpox as a baby in India.

When I look at my family history in British-India today, I am truly
amazed that I exist at all! And you will be too!

I have 40 years experience and knowledge researching the history of
British-India and I have faced every genealogical setback that you will
also possibly face if you continue to work alone tracing your family
tree in British-India.

I have helped TV and radio stations with research into British-India
over the years. I have also written numerous articles about
British-India, genealogy and history for various magazines over the
years including Burke's Peerage online journal, and I have also been
featured in the newspapers covering local history issues.

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In 2007 and 2010 I helped with research into the BBC's popular
celebrity genealogical programme, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" for the
impersonator, Alistair McGowan and the actor, Rupert Penry Jones.

In an attempt to help people make rapid progress tracing their family
trees in British-India I published The Indiaman Magazine in 1996. This
is still the only genealogical and history magazine IN THE WORLD for
people like you and I who are lucky enough to have had British
ancestors in India and Southern Asia.

The Indiaman Magazine is for people who are interested in their
genealogy and who don't just want to simply compile a list of names and
dates!

The Indiaman Magazine is for people who want to put "meat on the bones"
of their ancestors!

I have published The Indiaman Magazine since 1996 and I have personally
helped thousands of people around the world to trace the records of
their ancestors, and I've helped them to write the history of their
families in British-India too.

To discover if I can help you trace your family in British India and
South Asia, click the "LEARN MORE" button below.

Best wishes
Paul Rowland.

Click the button below to learn more about The Indiaman Magazine.

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