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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] Recruits to the EIC Army
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:01:02 -0000
References: <026f01c2ccef$acf850c0$a1bb193e@default>

Peter -

I found your post of great interest, thank you.

Two querries, if I may, as this seems to be an area of your expertise:

1/. I understand the the Company had a recruiting and training centre at
Warley, jiust ouside Brentwood, Essex. If this was so could you give it's
dates and main functions?

2/. In my tree, on the distaff side, I have a John Strover, Capt HEIC,
Superintendent of Dock Yards, for whom I have no dates, (his son was born
about 1800). I have reason to believe that this post was on the Thames,
rather than in India. He married a Mary Dudley Rogers. Have you come accross
the name?

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
Rogers has gone to Paris with the Dowager Lady Essex and her niece; it is
not yet known which one he has married. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon
of St. Paul's.


From: "Peter Bailey"
<snip>
>
> 2.Troopships generally set sail for India from January to maybe April each
> 'Season'. As recruits were joining continuously throughout the year, many
> had to wait at the Depot (Chatham in 1829) until allocated to a ship. For
> some this was only a week or so. Others waited many months. The Depot had
a
> military staff and, no doubt, there was a deal of 'square bashing' etc.
for
> the recruits.
>
<snip>

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  • [India-L] Query from Lanark list by John dods <>
  • [India-L] Recruits to the EIC Army by "Al Thompson" <>
    • Re: [India-L] Recruits to the EIC Army by "Tim de Gruyther" <>