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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] East Indies
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:12:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000201c6516b$6dcd9d20$c55a543a@desktop>

In message <000201c6516b$6dcd9d20$>, Marg Keable
<> writes
>Hi, The Dutch East Indies or East Indies was also what we now call Indonesia.
>It is believed that sailors were blown off course on there way to the Dutch East
>Indies and so discovered Western Australia. They use to get spices etc from the
>East Indies.
This is not what 'East Indies' normally meant in censuses. a birthplace
in the 'East Indies' would usually mean that the child had been born in
India to a military man or an employee of the East India Compnay,
records for both of which are held in London, -which makes the question
relevant to the London list.
Very few births in what we now think of as the 'East Indies'
(Indonesia) would have been involved.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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