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From: "nickbalmer" <>
Subject: [India-L] East India Shipping.
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:45:37 -0000


Hello all,

Tony Fuller and others have posted fairly extensive lists of shipping going to India recently. Has anybody found lists of ships lost to French capture in the years 1806 and 1807.

A nephew of my 5x Great Grandfather died in Mauritius in 1807, and one wonders how he had got there as it wasn't occupied until two years later. He could of course been on a country ship, and not necessarily on a East Indiaman at all.
John Baber 1783-1807, born Leather Lane, London. 3 Mar. 1783. son of Thomas Baber and Elizabeth his wife of Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell. b, St. Andrew's Holborn 6.Jan 1797. Educated. St Paul's school; admitted (not on the foundation)1790/91: admitted 24 feb 1794, aged 11. Pembroke College, Oxfordshire; matriculated 4 Nov 1799 aged 16. Lt. 8th N.I. Cadet 1801. Arrived in India 19 July 1802. Ensign 9 July 1802. Lieut, 24 May 1804. d. Mauritius 16 July 1807. From 4 volumes of the Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834.

Happy New Year.

Regards

Nick Balmer.








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