Roche Family Genealogy Blog

Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online

2009-07-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/search.php

And here are the Roche's:

First Name	De	Surname	Status	Rank	Captain Name	Commander	Year	Nature of Activity	Reference	Membrane
Gilbert		Roche		Man-at-arms	Windsor, William de, Sir	Windsor, William de, Sir	1374	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_33_35	m3
James		Roche		Armed archer	Windsor, William de, Sir	Windsor, William de, Sir	1374	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_33_35	m2d
John	de la	Roche		Man-at-arms	Brian, Guy Lord	Brian, Guy Lord	1371	Keeping of the Sea	TNA_E101_31_11	No 2 m2
John		Roche		Archer	Stanley, John de, Sir	Stanley, John de, Sir	1389-1392	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_18	m25
Martin		Roche		Man-at-arms	Nottingham, Thomas de Mowbray, earl of	Nottingham, Thomas de Mowbray, earl of	1389-1390	Standing force Scotland (East March)	TNA_E101_41_17	m2
Richard		Roche		Archer	Orell, Nicholas de	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m1ii
Richard		Roche		Archer	Orell, Nicholas de	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m4ii
Thomas		Roche	Esquire	Man-at-arms	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m5
William		Roche		Archer	Somerset, John de Beaufort, earl of	Somerset, John de Beaufort, earl of	1403	Standing force Wales/Garrison Carmarthen	TNA_E101_43_21	m2
William		Roche		Archer	Villa Nova, Rustin de, Sir	Villa Nova, Rustin de, Sir	1404	Garrison Carmarthen/Newcastle Emlyn	TNA_E101_43_29	m3
William		Roche		Archer	Percy, Thomas, Sir	Lancaster, John of Gaunt, duke of	1377-1378	Exped Naval	TNA_E101_37_28	m1
William		Roche		Archer	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m5
William		Roche		Archer	Neville, John, Sir	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m1i
William		Roche		Archer	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m3ii
William		Roche		Archer	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m2
William		Roche		Archer	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m7
William		Roche		Archer	Holt, Peter, Sir	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m8i
William		Roche		Archer	Cotenham, James	Scrope, Stephen le, Sir	1395-1397	Standing force Ireland	TNA_E101_41_39	m6i
William		Roche		Archer	Elmeden, William, Sir		1421	Exped France	TNA_E101_50_1	m4
Richard		Roche		Archer	Bergavenny, Richard Beauchamp, Lord	Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of	1417	Exped France	TNA_E101_51_2	m5
Elys	del	Roche		Archer	Norfolk, John Mowbray, Earl of	Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of	1417	Exped France	TNA_E101_51_2	m29
William		Roche		Archer	Huntingdon, John Holand, Earl of	Huntingdon, John Holand, Earl of	1439	Standing force, Acquitaine	TNA_E101_53_22	m2
John		Roche		Archer		Huntingdon, John Holand, Earl of	1439	Standing force, Acquitaine	TNA_E101_53_22	m1
John		Roche		Archer		Huntingdon, John Holand, Earl of	1439	Standing force, Acquitaine	TNA_E101_53_22	m3
Walter		Roche		Archer	Holand, John, Sir	Huntingdon, John Holand, Earl of	1439	Standing force, Acquitaine	TNA_E101_53_22	m6
John		Roche		Archer	Ormond, James, Sir	York, Richard, Duke of	1441	Exped France	TNA_E101_53_33	m5
Phillip		Roche		Archer	Standish, James	Beaufort, John, Duke of Somerset	1443	Exped France	TNA_E101_54_5	m9
Richard		Roche		Archer	Gerard, Thomas	Beaufort, John, Duke of Somerset	1443	Exped France	TNA_E101_54_5	m5
John		Roche		Archer	Griffin, John	Beaufort, John, Duke of Somerset	1443	Exped France	TNA_E101_54_5	m13
John		Roche		Archer	Ormond, James, Sir	York, Richard, Duke of	1441	Exped France	TNA_E101_54_9	m1
James		Roche	Yeoman / Valettus	Archer	Arundel, Thomas Fitz Alan, Earl of	Henry V	1415 sick	Exped France	TNA_E101_44_30_no1	no1_m8

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Genealogy Search

2005-06-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

Just now came across this helper site - genealogy-search-help - which helps you form google search queries for genealogical searches.

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Col. John Finnis

2005-06-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

Recently got a mail from John. He is related to Col. John Finnis - through John Finnis & Elizabeth Wilmott, Great-Uncle of Col. Finnis. Col. John Finnis was one of the first casualty of the 1857 mutiny/revolt in India.

Co. Finnis's wife was Sarah Roche. Sarah's father was Robert Roche and mother was Margaretha Louisa Plusker - they married on 31st May 1809 at Chinsura (in Bengal, India).

Margaretha Louisa Plusker was the youngest daughter of Dr Jacob Plusker.

Robert Roche's parents where Peter Roche and Elizabeth. Robert was born in Rotterdam, Holland on 1st Aug 1787 and died at Chinsura on 14th Dec 1820.

John Finnis was born on 28th Jan 1804 at Hythe, Kent to Robert Finnis. Stephen Finnis (29th Native Infantry) and Thomas Quested Finnis (Lord Mayor of London, 1857) were his brothers.

He married Sarah Bridgetta Dorothea Roche on 2nd Jan 1838 at Dholi (in Bihar & Orissa). Sarah died on 16th Aug 1890 - aged 72.

From John, I got a link to a Finnis web site maintained by Anthony Mercer Finnis - which has Sarah listed. But the details in the site do not match up properly.

So she was probably born around 1818 - based on age at death. The site lists her birth as ca. 1808. Also, her parent married in 1809 ... and she married in 1838 ... so I would lean more toward the 1818 date ...

The site states that she was born in Hythe, Kent. Not sure if she was born in Kent - since her parents were from Holland, so I don't see a reason for her to be born there. She was probably born somewhere in bengal.

But if its the same person - I now know her progeny. The site lists nine children - five boys and four girls.

Also Col. John Finnis's parents are listed as Robert FINNIS (1754-1832) & Elizabeth QUESTED (1762-1839). That would explain his brother's - Thomas Quested Finnis - name.

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Three Frenchmen in Bengal

2005-06-21T13:25:00.000-07:00

Found the book Three Frenchmen in Bengal in the Project Gutenberg archive. It was written by S. C. Hill in 1903.

The full title of the book is -
Three Frenchmen in Bengal
OR
The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements In 1757
BY
S.C. HILL, B.A., B.Sc.
Officer in charge of the records of the Government of India
Author of "Major-General Claud Martin"
With Maps and Plans

1903

"This account of the commercial ruin of the French Settlements, taken almost entirely from hitherto unpublished documents".

This book was linked to from the New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors.

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Bengal Marriages

2005-06-08T10:42:00.000-07:00

The index of Bengal Marriages has been updated with the marriages from 1713 to 1800 too (grooms, brides).

Groom Bride Year OIOC Reference
Roche, Edward "Domingo" 1752 N/1/1/382
Rock, Phillip Parsons, Sarah 1791 N/1/4/123
Rocke, Richard Pattle, Miss 1797 N/1/5/53
Rennell, Francis Roach, Sarah 1800 N/1/5/329

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TANAP VOC Documents

2005-06-08T08:44:00.000-07:00

From the TANAP database of VOC Documents.

"This Database of VOC Documents intends to contain the descriptions of all individual documents of the Dutch East India Company (VOC, 1602-1795) all over the world."

Its still incomplete. Currently it contains about 100,000 descriptions of the records sent from the VOC establishments in Asia and South Africa to the Board of Directors of the VOC in the Netherlands. These incoming documents from Asia are called Overgekomen Brieven en Paperen (OBP).

You've got to be a bit creative with the search. For instance Mangalore is spelt as Mangaloor! For locations you can try the Geographical names search.

For Mangalore, I found three records -

Year: 1727
Repository: NA
Fonds code: 1.04.02
Item no.: 9009
Section: mla
Page: 541 - 543

Year: 1732
Repository: NA
Fonds code: 1.04.02
Item no.: 9013B
Section: mla
Page: 3213 - 3298

Year: 1737
Repository: NA
Fonds code: 1.04.02
Item no.: 9022
Section: mla
Page: 529 - 535

The descriptions were in Dutch :(.

For Canara (and its various spellings) there were 115 records!

On searching for Roche I found 10 records. Nine of them referred to Louis Stephanus de la Roche and one to "de la Roche" (possibly the same person).

All of Louis Stephanus de la Roche's records were in Repository "NA", Fonds Code "1.04.02", Item no "8208", Section "mks" and in the year 1736. They were in pages 1 - 3, 3 - 163, 163 - 166, 166 - 177, 177 - 210, 210 - 219, 219 - 225, 225 - 229 and 229 - 239.

The de la Roche record was in the Year 1734, Repository "NA", Fonds Code "1.04.02", Item no "8205", Section "mks" and page 92 - 101.

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Captain David Roche, 1770s

2005-06-08T07:18:00.000-07:00

I recently read a book/narrative written by Capt. David Roche. The narrative was about the duel he had with Lieut. Ferguson on his way to India in 1771 at the Cape of Good Hope.

The book is titled
A Plain And Circumstantial Account of the Transactions Between
Capt. Roche and Lieut. Ferguson,
From their First Meeting to the Death of Lieut. Ferguson.
To which is added, The Trial and Depositions at the Cape of Good Hope,
Where Capt. Roche was Acquitted; Also His Second Apprehension;
And the Judicial Proceedings of the Governor and Council of Bombay.
With His Speech to the Privy Council When under Examination Here.
With every other circunstance Attending this remarkable Case.
Duly Authenticated.
L:ondon
Sold by G. Allen, No. 59, in Pater noster Row.
MDCCLXXV.

David Roche, Esq. obtained a Captain's command in the service of the HEIC (Honourable East India Company) in May 1772. He & Mrs Roche embarked on board the Vansittart bound for Bombay.

Others on board the ship were Serjeant Frazer, Serjeant Brown, Lieut. Ferguson, Mr. Grant (a writer), Grant's mother-in-law and her two daughters amongst others.

Lieut. Ferguson and Mr. Grant, the "co-conspirators" were bound for Bombay, but their destination was Bengal. Mr Grant was originally servant to Mr. Beecher, formerly in Council at Bengal, who afterwards promoted him to a desk in his office. Serjeant Frazer was first-cousin to Mrs. Frazer - Grant's mother-in-law.

On the ship Lieut Ferguson repeatedly tried to provoke Capt Roche and once even asked him on duel. Ashore at the Cape of Good Hope, on September 4th 1773, Capt. Roche was walking by the Dutch gardens at around 5 pm when he was attacked by Lieut. Ferguson. In the fight that ensued, Lieut. Ferguson lost his life.

Capt. Roche later took a French ship for passage to Bombay. This was provided by the Dutch Governor and Fiscal at the Cape of Good Hope. He was imprisoned in Bombay and was later acquitted. In 1775 he was in England.

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TANAP

2005-06-08T07:13:00.000-07:00

I had a look at the TANAP archives which contains Dutch East India Company Archives & Research.

In their respository of Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa) found a few references to Roche.

I was specifically looking for any records of Capt. David Roche who was attacked there by Lieut. Ferguson on his way to India in 1772-3. I didn't find any reference to it - or didn't understand it due to the language used in the documents.

Make sure that you read the introduction before reading any of the documents. You may like to look at an example of a Council meeting and an explanation of the structure of Council meeting minutes. The origin of the text and the language of the Resolutions and also consult the glossary to decipher unfamiliar words in the 17th and 18th century Dutch texts .

Here are the Roche referenced in the documents -

Monsr. la Roche
in C. 2, pp. 177-181, Woonsdag den 2en Meert 1661.

Jan de la roche
in C. 76, pp. 104-108, Dingsdag den 11e Maart 1727, voormiddags.

Louisa de la roche
in C. 108, pp. 32-34, Saturdag den 30 Augustus 1738, voormiddags.

Captain la Roche
in C. 159, pp. 377 – 383, K.A., Woensdag den 6: Júnij 1781 as Capitain Heer Chevallier roche.
in C. 159, pp. 384 – 387, K.A., Satúrdag den 16 Júnij 1781 as Mons Roche.
in C. 163, pp. 102 – 125, K.A., Dingsdag den 27: aúg:s 1782 as Chev roche.
in C. 177, pp. 161-204., Dingsdag den 5 febr: 1788. as Capitain la roche.

Major de Bas en la roche
(possibly the same person as above)
in C. 177, pp. 213-248., Donderdag den 14 februarij 1788 as Major de Bas en la roche.
in C. 177, pp. 403-410., Maandag den 24 Maart 1788 as Mrs de Bas & la roche.
in C. 178, pp. 36-56., Dingsdag den 15 April 1788 as de Bas en la roche.
in C. 177, pp. 249-287., Dingsdag den 19 febr: 1788 as Major la roche and De Bas Chev de la roche.
in C. 177, pp. 364-402., Dingsdag den 18 Maart 1788 as Maj Chevalier de la roche, De Bas Chev de la roche and Chevalier de la roche.

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Fr. Alfred Roche, O.F.M. Capuchin

2005-04-06T08:28:00.000-07:00

An article on Fr. Alfred Roche is published in the Barkur Online site on Jan 2004.

Excerpts from the article

Peter Roche (Alfred was a new name given by the Capuchins, so as to 'Renounce the Past and Embrace the Future' Capuchin way of life) was born to Mr. Isaac Roche and Carmine (nee Monteiro) of Moodahadu Kudru Vaado, of Barkur St. Peter's Parish, on 3rd April, 1924, South Kanara, in India. Mr. Isaac Roche was a landlord, holding coconut and rice farms. However, his love for God was so great, that he served the Barkur Parish as a sacristan for 40 years.

He got vested (official commitment to join Franciscan religious order) on 3.2.1944. His first profession took place on 11.4.1945 in Quilon, Kerala, and his perpetual profession on 11.4.1949. He was ordained to priesthood on 11.4.1951 in Kotagiri, Nilgiris, then in Madras State, thus was known as Fr. Alfred Roche OFM Cap. (Order of Friars Minor, Capuchins)

Fr. Alfred was the youngest one among the 5 children: Alphonso, Juliana, Louis, and Cecilia.

Alphonso Roche married to Mary Vas of Mangalore city proper was working for Grindlay's Bank, Bombay, for many years. They lived in Bandra, with children Adolph, Percy, Alwyn, Sheryl and Astrid. Both Alphonso and Mary are expired now.

Juliana Roche married to Dennis Rebello (Anagally,) both are expired. They had three children: Stanley, Phelomena and Hilary. Hilary is expired. The rest of them are settled comfortably. Though Juliana became a widow in her twenties, her life of dedication and commitment to her children and fellow neighbors has been a source of inspiration to many.

Louis Roche married to Angelina D'Almeida. Louis Roche was working for P & T in Bombay, while Angeline was a teacher in Barkur for some time, who opted to stay in Kudru, raising Rita, Jacintha, Jessie, Wilfred, and Sannu (Alfred Robert). Louis Roche expired whereas Angeline (Anjaal bai/Anjaal teacher) lives in Barkur Kudru with her son Wilfred, looking after the ancestral property.

Cecilia Roche married to Rosario Crasta of Kannada Kudru, near Kundapur. Both are in the embrace of the Merciful Father, the Lord God. Rosario was a hard working innovative farmer, raising green/red peppers, brinjaals, melons, sugarcane, besides rice and coconuts in Kannada Kudru. Their children are: Frederick (Freddie), John (Johny), Lucy, Patrick (Pity) ofm cap, Alexander (Alsu), Edward (Eddu), Wilfred (Wilfie), Rudolf (Dolphy) S.V.D, and Godfrey. There are two of them priests, needless to say, influenced by Fr. Alfred, in one form or the other.

As per the old Franciscan custom, Fr. Alfred was ordained at Kotagiri (Nilgiris, Tamil Naadu, then Madras State), and his first Mass was at Barkur. It was a unique event in the history of Barkur Parish. Fr. Charles Nazareth was the parish priest then. On that day Fr. Alfred gave the first Holy Communion to two of his nephews: Patrick Crasta (his sister's son) and Adolph Roche (his brothers' son). Believe it or not both of them are ordained priests today.

His first appointment was at Monte Mariano, Farangipet, near Mangalore, just on the banks of the river Nethravathi, as Vice-Master. In 1956 he came to Brahmavar as the first capuchin parish priest of the Holy Family Church.

After his creative and constructive mission of 16 years at Brahmavar Fr. Alfred went to Binaga, close to Karwar, as the parish priest. Then he came to Lower Kasarkod (Honnavar) in 1975, where he had to take up a greater responsibility as the parish priest of St. Joseph's Church and the coordinator of the five mission stations (Samsi, Kodani, Molkod, Gundibala and Binaga) of the then Belgaum Diocese (presently part of the Karwar Diocese) which were entrusted to the care of the Capuchins.

He served at Lower Kasarkod for 12 years (1975-1981; 1987-1993, in between for six years he was at Farangipet as guardian of the monastery.) and then he returned as a retired friar to Brahmavar in 1994. In short, the mission fields of Fr. Alfred were: Farangipet (11 years), Brahmavar (19 years), Binga (3 years) and Lower Kasarkod (12 years).

The mortal remains of Fr. Alfred were brought in procession from St. Peter's church, Barkur, to Holy Family Church Brahmavar on the funeral day (1.1.1997)

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Sacred Heart Grotto

2005-04-05T13:34:00.000-07:00

The web site of the Sacred Heart Grotto, Alanthalai, Tamil Nadu mentions Bishop G.F.T.Roche.

Could he be the same person as Bishop Francesco Tiburzio Roche?

Quotes from the site -

In the meanwhile, Tuticorin was elevated to the status of Diocese in 1923 and the first Latin rite Bishop Msqr. G.F.T.Roche S.J. was installed. When the Bishop passed through in the tram way to Manapad, he was given a warm welcome by the villagers except a few standing little away from the station. Seeing the converts His Lordship said "I also pray for my brothers who are standing away from here so that the blessings of Almighty God may continue to increase on them also". This sincere prayer in appeal melted the hearts of those few and peace returned on 3.12.1924.

On 30th June, 1928 his Excellency Bishop G.F.T.Roche blessed and inaugurated the Grotto.

While addressing the gathering he said, "Although this is a symbol of peace. I say this is a Pillar of Boons and Graces" Yes.this is the Miraculous Golden Grotto. On this grotto stands the King of Kings, the King of peace with open heart and outstretched hands to embrace the millions who honour Him. This Grotto is a place of solace to the grief stricken, a treat to lovers of art, a throne of blessing to childless couples to be blessed with off springs, a comfort house for the afflicted, a refuge for sinners and broken hearted, a paradise for the devotees.

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WW2 Nominal Roll (Australia)

2005-04-04T19:11:00.000-07:00

After around 400 finger numbing clicks on the search result from the WW2 Nominal Roll in the Australian Web site, I found two ROCHEs of Indian origin:

1) ROCHE, TERENCE MICHAEL JAMES

There were two records for Terence -

Service Record
Name	ROCHE, TERENCE MICHAEL JAMES
Service	Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number	429159
Date of Birth	3 Mar 1922
Place of Birth	CALCUTTA, INDIA
Date of Enlistment	27 Oct 1942
Locality on Enlistment	Unknown
Place of Enlistment	SYDNEY, NSW
Next of Kin	ROCHE, MICHAEL
Date of Discharge	30 May 1946
Rank	Leading Aircraftman
Posting at Discharge	RAAF STATION GARBUTT
WW2 Honours and Gallantry	None for display
Prisoner of War	No

Service Record
Name	ROCHE, TERENCE MICHAEL JAMES
Service	Australian Army
Service Number	N170887
Date of Birth	3 Mar 1922
Place of Birth	CALCUTTA, INDIA
Date of Enlistment	15 Oct 1941
Locality on Enlistment	GREENWICH, NSW
Place of Enlistment	WILLOUGHBY, NSW
Next of Kin	ROCHE, MICHAEL
Date of Discharge	26 Oct 1942
Rank	Private
Posting at Discharge	H Q 1 AUST DIV CONCERT PARTY
WW2 Honours and Gallantry	None for display
Prisoner of War	No

2) ROCHE, WILFRED ARTHUR

Service Record
Name	ROCHE, WILFRED ARTHUR
Service	Australian Army
Service Number	N318294
Date of Birth	26 Jun 1907
Place of Birth	MEERUT, INDIA
Date of Enlistment	22 Jan 1942
Locality on Enlistment	CAMMERAY, NSW
Place of Enlistment	NORTH SYDNEY, NSW
Next of Kin	ROCHE, GLADYS
Date of Discharge	27 Aug 1942
Rank	Private
Posting at Discharge	AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING DEPOT
WW2 Honours and Gallantry	None for display
Prisoner of War	No

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The 61st Foot in India 1845 - 1860

2005-04-02T19:13:00.000-08:00

From the web site on the 61st Foot in India 1845 - 1860:

August 24th, 1857: 9000 rebels with 13 guns left Delhi to attack the siege-train on the way from Ferozepore. Died: Ptes. Patrick Roche. Samuel Watchorn. Peter McMillan. Michael Grimes. William Dalton. Patrick Coffey. Benjamin Buxton.

September 3rd, 1857: Died: Ptes. John McGuire. John Kieley. Connell O'Hara. Lawrence Roche. John Sullivan.

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Bill Roach's Family Page

2005-04-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

Found Bill Roach's Family Page. It deals mainly with the Roach family.

Came across an interesting entry in their guestbook:

Name:	Ann Gray <anng@better.net.au>
Date:	2000-11-18
My "Brick Wall": Do you have info on this person?	Benjamin Joseph Roach
Comments:	Was in India during 1800's He was in H.M's 106th Regiment and was an Apothecary. My husbands grandmother Margaret Harriet Priscilla Roach was born there on 7.11.1863 at Neermuch. Margaret married in India and came to Australia. Her descendants are looking for information on the family.

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Otho de la Roche, Duke of Athens

2005-03-31T12:32:00.000-08:00

Came across Otho and Guy de la Roche in the site prepared by Dan Byrnes - Lost Worlds.

Unfortuntely the information is not attributed to any specific source - so that makes it difficult to validate this information.

1205AD: Crusaders, Duchies of Greece, Conquest of the Morea by William of Champlitte. (Sometimes known as "of Champagne") Earlier, Boniface of Montferrat had done homage to the Emperor re the Kingdom of Salonica, and is made commander-in-chief of the force which will march across Morea and take possession of baronies made possible by the partition. In 1205, one army under Count of Blois and Henry of Flanders, the Emperor's brother, attacked the Greeks in Asia, while the King of Salonica invaded Greece. In time, the title King of Salonica becomes a hollow title. Once the Franks had left, the Greeks of Adrianople rise in revolt, aided by Joannes, King of Bulgaria and Vallachia. Joannes cuts Emperor Baldwin's rescue army to pieces and kills Baldwin. The Bulgarians ravage Greece and the Greeks learn how the cruelty of the Franks can be exceeded. The Franks retreated to Rhedestos. Baldwin's brother, Henry of Flanders, becomes Emperor, crowned 20 August, 1206. In 1205, Otho de la Roche, a Burgundian noble, marches south with the army of Boniface of Montferrat and gains possession of Athens (Lord Athens and Thebes). Shortly, the Burgundian influence at Athens was challenged by a Greek notable, Leo Sgourous, who fought but was forced back to Corinth. Otho de la Roche retains control of Attica and Boetia.

1209AD: Duchies of Greece, Villehardouin becomes "man of the Emperor" and is given office of Seneschal of Romania. Shortly Villehardouin has to negotiate with Venice, then try to outsmart the newly-arriving Robert of Champlitte, cousin of Champlittes already in the area. Meantime, Othon de la Roche encourages the Burgundian influences of France, at the Court of Athens. (Othon marries Isabelle, heiress of Guy de Ray.

1209AD: Duchies of Greece, Henry of Flanders at a small town, Ravenika, calls a high court of his vassals to determine the (French-defined) feudal relations to be transplanted in Greece. Lombards from Italy are trying to make inroads on situations. Thebes is restored to Otho de la Roche. Mark Sanudo is given Naxos as Duke of the Archipelago (of the Aegean). Geoffrey Villehardouin the Younger is made Seneschal of Romania. Raven dalle Carceri has Negroponte.

1225AD: Duchies of Greece: Otho de la Roche Lord Athens resigns government of Athens and Thebes to his nephew Guy, son of Otho's brother, Pons le Ray.

Circa 1264AD: Duchies of Greece: Death of Duke of Athens Guy I de la Roche, who is succeeded by his son John died 1275 (who does not marry). William a brother succeeds John in 1275.

More on the little-known Duchy of Athens: Isabella Villehardouin (died 1311 in Holland) was of "the Duchy of Athens", this Isabella also married Florent II (d.1279) of Hainault and one daughter of Florent II married Guy II (d.1308) de la Roche, Duke Athens. We find amongst the Dukes of Athens (DA), the following: the first Duke of Athens, Guy de la Roche, (d.1263), John (of) Livadio (?) died 1280 succeeded as DA by his brother William; Guy II de la Roche died 1308 was DA; Walter Brienne DA died 1311, Manfred Borrell died young in 1317 was DA; Walter III Brienne died 1333 was DA; William II Borrell DA and Prince Taranto died 1338 was DA; John II Borrell died 1347-48, DA may perhaps be the same as John of Randazzo, DA, (d.1348); Walter II Brienne d. 1356 had failed to recover his duchy of Athens.

1290AD: Duchies of Greece: Death of Duke of Athens William de la Roche, who is succeeded by his son Guy II de la Roche. In 1304, Guy II marries Matilda (Maud) of Hainault, the eleven-year-old daughter of Isabella Villehardouin, Princess of Archaia. Matilda has Kalamata as her dowry.

1308AD: Duchies of Greece: Death of Duke of Athens, Prince Archaia, Guy II de la Roche. Guy earlier has developed a view (unreasonable?) that Philip of Savoy, the third husband of Guy's mother-in-law, Isabelle Villehardouin, holds territories from Guy illegally, so Guy employs mercenaries in the form of ex-members of the Grand Company of Catalans of Cyziko, as led by Fernand Ximines. Guy II has no children and is succeeded as Duke Athens by his cousin, Walter de Brienne. This Walter de Brienne is son of Isabella de la Roche, sister of the Dukes of Athens William and John. Isabella here had married Hugh de Brienne, Count Lecce in the Kingdom of Naples. Walter Brienne the succeeding Duke of Athens continues talks with Fernand Ximines and the Catalan Company, which winters in 1308 at Cassandra. Finlay comments in History of Greece/Trebizond, p. 171, "The expedition of the Catalans in the East is a wonderful instance of the success which sometimes attends a career of rapacity and crime, in opposition to all the ordinary maxims of human prudence". Internal dissension reigned amongst the Catalans, their leaders quarrelled, the chiefs assassinated one another, the troops murdered or banished their generals, yet they won victories. Their leader, Roger de Florez, was assassinated by Greeks. D'Entenza, one of their best chiefs, was murdered by his own troops as the Catalans marched from Gallipoli to Cassandra. Fernand Ximines had to flee. Responsible for some such disturbances was Rocafort, the oldest general in the Grand Company, was finally seized by his own officers, and given to a French admiral who took him to Naples where Rocafort died in prison, starved to death by the Angevines. Other Catalans loyal to Rocafort murdered fourteen army chiefs who had delivered Rocafort to the French. One outcome was that the Catalan Company (about 3500 cavalry and 3000 infantry ) held firmer to certain ideals of Republicanism, and wished to establish permanent territorial dominions in Greece.

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Roche Tree

2005-03-30T18:25:00.000-08:00

The RocheTree site contains the Roche family tree for the Roche Family of Curraghanearla, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland.

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East India Company, Contract

2005-03-23T15:28:00.000-08:00

Santhi Hejeebu has published a paper on Contract Enforcement in the English East India Company.

Extract:
Long-distance trade depends crucially on the enforcement of long-distance contracts, those in which principals are significantly removed from agents. The problem of contract enforcement in the English East India Company, the largest of the English chartered companies, is explored through an analysis of the information environment, the formal employment contract, and the broader relational contract. The relationship between Company servants and Directors reflects a multi-task principal-agent problem, in which servants trade public for the Company and at same time conduct their own private trade. Private trade, sustained by the private use of Company resources, and dismissals were the mechanisms that make East India contract work. Mechanisms which served little purpose were salaries and pre-employment bonds.

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Calcutta Churches

2005-03-19T11:18:00.000-08:00

The following churches are no longer present as quoted in the Goethal's News (Vol. V No. 1 Bulletin January - March 2002) - quoted from Bengal Past & Present. Vol. II, Pt1, Jan-July. 1908. Pages 145-151.

1) St. James Church
It is said to have fallen on Sunday, August 22nd, about 10.20 am.

2) St. Anne’s (consecrated in 1709)
At the south-western corner of Writers Buildings, was destroyed in the siege of 1756.

3) The Old Roman Catholic Church (1720)

4) The Anglican Chapel of St. John (1760)

5) St. John’s R. C. Chapel in Upper Circular Road (1808)
which has after a century been rebuilt.

6) Baptist Chapel (1821), known as the "Ebenezer" Chapel
At Howrah, across the river, and situated near Cullen Place, was removed in 1865 owing to the East Indian Railway Company having acquired the site.

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WW1 Campaign Medals

2005-03-15T12:58:00.000-08:00

The National Archives has the WW1 Campaign Medals available for search online.

I searched for Roche and found 648 entries - too many to be posted here, so here is the summary.

Catalogue Reference vs #Records
WO 372/5 - 9
WO 372/11 - 18
WO 372/15 - 1
WO 372/17 - 573
WO 372/23 - 25
WO 372/24 - 22

There were eight records that were definitely India related:

Roche, P J - Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army. WO 372/17
Roche, M J - Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. WO 372/17
Roche, H - in the Indian Medical Service. WO 372/17
Roche, E D - 1st Class Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Medical Department. WO 372/17
Roche, C A - Captain in the Indian Cavalry. WO 372/17
D'Roche, E - 1st Class Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Medical Department. WO 372/5
Roche, I A - Lieutenant in Gurkha Rifles. WO 372/17
Roche, H J - Lieutenant Colonel in the Jat Light Infantry. WO 372/17

There was an entry in the Royal Engineers (amongst 25 others) that I knew was India related:
Roche, Robert Trivadar Henry - Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. WO 372/17

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Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India 1720-1800

2005-03-09T10:43:00.000-08:00

Prasannan Parthasarathi has written a book on the above. A sample chapter of the same is available online - Front matter, Introduction, TOC, Weavers and Merchants 1720 - 1760, Index.

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Baldwin Project

2005-03-09T10:29:00.000-08:00

The Baldwin Project page has quite a few excerpts. Here are some of the links:

On the Siege of Arkot.
The first British Ambassador goes to the Court of the Emperor of India.
The French in India.
The Black Hole.
The Battle of Plassey.
Times of misrule.
Warren Hastings, War.
Tipoo Sultan.
Warrier Chieftains.
The Mutiny of Vellore.

and a lot more ...

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Genealogy Sites

2005-03-09T10:23:00.000-08:00

A few home pages of fellow genealogists

1. Michael Quin-Conroy's family history page.

2. Robert Campbell's Merseyside genealogy page

3. Charlie Clark's family page.

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Hodson

2005-03-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

I was just googling around to see who all have listed Hodson as their reference. Hodson is an excellent source of genealogical information for people researching family in the military in India.

The complete title of the book is

List of Officers of the Bengal Army,
1758-1834

Alphabetically arranged and Annotated with Bibliographical and Genealogical Notices by

Major V.C.P. Hodson

INDIAN ARMY (Retired List)

Author of 'Historical Records of the Viceroy's Body-guard'

London

Constable & Company Ltd.

1927

As expected I found a few sites of fellow genealogists -

Found two Anglo-Indian pages

Found two military sites -

Also found some lists of books -

Ian Poyntz's list.
The bibliography of Lola Seymour.
Bibliography from the Aberdeen Department of History.
Source list for Family History at India Office Records.

The one at the University of Aberdeen is excellent, I've listed it below for future reference.

USEFUL REFERENCE WORKS

Buckland, C.E., Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906)

Dictionary of National Biography

Farrington, A., A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers, 1600-1834 (1999)

Hodson, V.C.P., List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834, vols. I-IV (1927)

Mehra, P., Dictionary of Modern Indian History, 1707-1947 (1987)

Parker, J.G., The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790, (Edinburgh University, Ph.D., 1977).

Riddick, J.F., Who was Who in British India (1998)

Yule, H., A Glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases (London, 1886)

GENERAL TEXTS

The Oxford History of the British Empire, vols. 1-5 (1998)

Ashton, S., The British in India: from trade to empire (1987)

Bayly, C.A., Rulers, townsmen & bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion (1983).

Bayly, C.A., The Raj: India and the British (1990)

Bayly, C.A., Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830 (1989)

Bayly, C.A., ‘The First Age of Global Imperialism c.1760-1830’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 26 (1998)

Beer, G.L., Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 (1908)

Bowen, H.V., Elites, Enterprise and the making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 (London, 1996).

Furber, H., Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (1976)

Harlow, V., The Founding of the Second British Empire, vols. 1-2 (1952-64)

Marshall, P.J., ‘Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century, I & III’ in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6^th Series, vols. 8 & 10 (1998-2000)

Rose, J.H., The Cambridge History of the British Empire, vols. 1-8 (1929-40).

Seeley, J., The Expansion of England (1891)

Tuck, P. (ed.), The East India Company, 1600-1858, vols. 1-5 (1998).

PRIMARY SOURCES

It is expected that the following be consulted as a matter of routine.

The Annual Register (1758-1858)

British Parliamentary Papers, Colonies: East Indies, vols. 1-11 (Sessions 1805-1832) [Taylor Library]

Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: East Indies, 1513-1634, vols. 1-5 (1862-92)

The Camden Society

Fort William-India House Correspondence & other contemporary papers relating thereto, vols. 1-21

(1958-1985)

The Hakluyt Society, series 1-3

Parliamentary Debates.

Parliamentary Papers.

Reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to Enquire into

the present state of the East India Company (1830)

Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire & Commonwealth, vols. 1-2 (1985-

94)

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY

Bassett, ‘Early English Trade and Settlement in Asia, 1602-1690’, in Tuck, P. (ed.), The East India Company, 1600-1858, vol. (1998)

Blusse, L. & Gaastra, F., (eds.), Companies and Trade: essays on overseas trading companies during

the Ancien Regime (1981)

Chaudhuri, K.N., The English East India Company (1965)

Chaudhuri, K.N., The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 (1978)

Chaudhuri, K.N., Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean (1985)

Chaudhury, S., Trade and Commercial Organisation in Bengal, 1650-1720, with special reference to the East India Company (1975).

Farrington, A., Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia, 1600-1834 (2002)

Foster, W., England’s Quest of Eastern Trade (1933)

Horwitz, H., ‘The East India Trade, The Politicians and the Constitution, 1689-1702’, Journal of British

Studies, 17 (1978)

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Marshall, P.J. ‘The English in Asia to 1700’ in Canny, N. (eds.), Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. I (1998).

Scott, W.R., Constitution and finance of English, Scottish and Irish joint stock companies to 1720 (1910)

Steensgaard, N., Carracks, caravans and companies (1973).

Primary:

Parliamentary Debates, vol. III, 1694-1703, (1789), pp.105-116

Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire & Commonwealth, vol. 1 (1985),

pp.234 and 414.

Foster, W., The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-1614 (1934).

Markham, C.R. (ed.), The Voyage of Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands (1855).

A ‘COMMERCIAL’ EMPIRE

Armitage, D., The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000)

Barber, British Economic Thought and India, 1600-1858 (1975)

Bhattacharya, S., The East India Company and the Economy of Bengal from 1704-1740 (1954)

Bowen, H.V., Elites, Enterprise and the making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 (London, 1996).

Connors, R., ‘Opium and Imperial Expansion: The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Asia’, in Taylor, S., Connors, R. and Jones, C., (eds.), Hanoverian Britain and Empire (1998).

Hossain, H., The Company weavers of Bengal, 1750-1813 (1998)

Fry, H.T., Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade (1970).

Jones, C., “A fresh division lately grown up amongst us’: Party strife, aristocratic investment in the Old and New East India Companies and the vote on in the House of Lords on 23 February 1700’, Historical Research, 68 (1995)

Marshall, P., ‘Private British trade in the Indian Ocean before 1800’ in Tuck, P., (ed.), The East India

Company, 1600-1858, vol. IV (1998).

Marshall, P., ‘Private British investment in eighteenth century Bengal’ in Tuck, P., (ed.), The East India

Company, 1600-1858, vol. IV (1998).

Marshall, P.J., ‘The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765’ in Marshall, P.J., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II: The Eighteenth Century (1998)

Nightingale, P., Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784-1806 (1970)

Ormrod, D., The Rise of the Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1777 (2003)

Washbrook, D., ‘Progress and Problems: South Asian Economic and Social History, c.1720-1860’, Modern Asian Studies, 22 (1988).

Yalland, Z., Traders and Nabobs: The British at Cawnpore, 1765-1857 (1987)

Primary:

Anderson, P., The English in Western India: being a history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, of the subordinate factories on the western coast (1856).

Burnell, J., Bombay in the days of Queen Anne (1933)

Foster, Wm., The English Factories in India, 1618-1664, vols. 1-11 (1906-23).

Hamilton, A., A new Account of the East Indies (1744)

Orme, R., Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes and of English concerns in Indostan from the year 1659 to 1689 (1782).

Wheeler, J.T., Handbook to the Madras Records (Madras, 1907)

PLASSEY & THE BENGAL REVOLUTION

Bence-Jones, M., Clive of India (1974)

Chaudhuri, N.C., Clive of India (1975)

Chaudhury, S., The Prelude to Empire: The Plassey Revolution of 1757 (2000)

Dodwell, H.H., Dupleix and Clive (1920)

Edwardes. M., The Battle of Plassey and the Conquest of Bengal (1963)

Lawson, P., & Lenman, B., ‘Clive and the “Black Jagir”: The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics, Historical Journal, 26 (1983).

Marshall, P.J., Bengal: The British Bridgehead (1987)

Primary:

Gleig, R.G., The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)

Hill, S.C., Bengal in 1756-57: A selection of papers dealing with the affairs of the British in Bengal during the reign of Siraj Uddaula (1905).

Holwell, J.Z., A Genuine Narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English Gentlemen, and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, in Calcutta (1758).

Johnson, D., Clive of India: a collection of contemporary documents (n.p.?)

Verelst, H., ‘A View of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the English Government in Bengal’, in Tuck, P., (ed.), The East India Company, 1600-1858, vol. 3 (1998).

COMPANY CONTROVERSIES & STATE INTERVENTION

Bowen, H.V., Revenue & Reform: the Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757-1773 (1991).

Bowen, H.V., ‘British India, 1765-1813: the Metropolitan context’ in Marshall, P.J., (ed.) Oxford History of

the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century (1998)

Davies, C.C., Warren Hastings and Oudh (1939)

Furber, H., Henry Dundas, 1^st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 (1931).

Furber, H., ‘The East India Directors in 1784’, Journal of Modern History, 5 (1933)

Furber, H., John Company at Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late 18^th century

(1970).

Lawson, P., ‘Parliament and the First East India Inquiry, 1767, Parliamentary History, 1, (1982)

Marshall, P.J., ‘The First & Second British Empires: A Question of Demarcation’, History, 49 (1964)

Marshall, P.J., The Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1965)

Marshall, P.J., ‘Economic and Political Expansion: The case of Oudh’, Modern Asian Studies, 9 (1975)

Marshall, P.J,. ‘Empire and Authority in the later Eighteenth century’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 15 (1987).

Mukherjee, R., ‘Trade and Empire in Awadh, 1765-1804’, Past and Present, 94 (1982)

Philips. C.H., The East India Company, 1784-1834 (1961).

Phillips, J., ‘Parliament and Southern India, 1781-1783: The Secret Committee of Inquiry and the Prosecution of Sir Thomas Rumbold, Parliamentary History, 8 (1988)

Sutherland, L., The East India Company in Eighteenth Century Politics (Oxford, 1962).

Primary:

Gleig, R.G., Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings (1841)

Jones, M.E.M., Warren Hastings in Bengal, 1772-1774 (1918)

Marshall, P.J., Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813 (1968)

Marshall, P.J., (ed.), The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume V, India: Madras and Bengal, 1774-1785 (Oxford, 1981).

Indian Courier Extraordinary: Proceedings of Parliament relating to Warren Hastings Esq, vols. I-III (London 1796)

Warren Hastings: Selections from the State Papers of the Governor General of India, vols. 1-2 (1910).

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AS A MILITARY POWER

Alavi, S., The Sepoys and the Company, 1770-1830 (1998).

Bryant, G., ‘Officers of the East India Company’s Army in the Days of Clive and Hastings’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 6 (1978).

Callahan, R,, The East India Company and Army Reform, 1783-1798 (1972).

Callahan, R., ‘The Company’s Army, 1757-1798’ in Tuck, P., (ed.) The East India Company, 1600-

1858, vol. 5 (1998)

Cohen, S.P., ‘The Untouchable Soldier: caste, politics and the Indian army’, Journal of Asian Studies, 28 (1969) Available at http://uk.jstor.org

Heathcote, T.A., The Military in British India: 1600-1947 (1995)

Peers, D.M., “The Habitual Nobility of Being’: British Officers and the social construction of the Bengal army in the early 19^th century’, Modern Asian Studies, 25 (1991).

Peers, D.M., ‘Sepoys, soldiers and the lash: race, caste and army discipline in India, 1820-1850’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 23 (1995).

Razzell, P.E., ‘Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army: 1758-1962’, British Journal of Sociology, 14 (1963).

Stanley, P., White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India (1998)

Primary

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ANGLO-ASIAN RELATIONS

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1980)

Colley, L., Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 (London, 2002)

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Fisher, M., ‘British and Indian interactions before the British Raj in India, 1730s to 1857’, Journal of

British Studies, 36 (1997)

Hasan, F., ‘Indigenous cooperation and the birth of a colonial city: Calcutta, c.1698-1750’, Modern Asian Studies, 26 (1992)

Hawes, C.J., Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (1996)

Khan, G., Indian Muslim Perceptions of the West During the Eighteenth Century (1998)

Phillips, J., ‘A successor to the Moguls: the Nawab of the Carnatic and the East India Company, 1763-

1785’ in Tuck, P., (ed.), The East India Company, 1600-1858, vol. 4 (1998).

Ray, R.K., ‘Indian Society and the establishment of British supremacy’ in Marshall, P.J., (ed.), Oxford

History of the British Empire, vol. 2 (1998).

Subramanian, L., Indigenous Credit and Imperial Expansion. Bombay, Surat and the West Coast (1996)

Teltscher, T., ‘Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775’, in Wilson K., (ed.), A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 (2004).

Primary:

The Diary of William Hedges, vols. 1-3 (1887).

The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619 (1899)

Hay S., ed., Sources of Indian Tradition, vol. II (1988)

Price, F.J., (trans.), The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, Dubash to Joseph Francois Dupleix, 1736-1761, vols. 1-12 (1904-1928)

Ram, S., From Sepoy to Subedar (1970).

BRITISH SOCIAL & CULTURAL LIFE IN THE ORIENT

Archer, M., India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825 (1979)

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Ballhatchet, K., Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: imperial attitudes and policies and their critics,

1793-1905 (1980).

Busteed, H.E., Echoes from Old Calcutta (1888)

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Gist, N.P. Marginality & Identity: Anglo-Indians as a racially mixed minority in India (1973)

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Marshall, P.J., ‘British immigration into India in the Nineteenth Century’, Itinerario, 14 (1990)

Marshall, P.J., ‘British society in India under the East India Company’, Modern Asian Studies, 31 (1997)

Poliakov, L., ‘Racism from the Enlightenment to the age of imperialism’, in Ross R., (ed.), Racism and Colonialism (1982)

Raychaudhuri, T., Europe Reconsidered: perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal (1988).

Primary:

The Diary of William Hedges, vols. 1-3 (1887).

Foster, G., A Journey from Bengal to England (1808)

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Quinney, T., Sketches of a soldier’s life in India (Glasgow, 1853)

Mackenzie, H., Life in the Mission, the camp and the Zenna (London, 1853)

Mrs Monkland, Life in India: The English at Calcutta (1828)

Williamson, T., The East India vade-mecum: a complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military or naval service of the East India Company (1810)

MAKING THE COMPANY ‘BRITISH’: THE SCOTS & IRISH

Bielenberg, A., ‘Irish Emigration to the British Empire, 1700-1914’, in Idem, The Irish Diaspora (2000)

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Cain, A.M., The Corn Chest for Scotland: Scots in India (1986).

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Company (London, 1925).

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Devine, T.M., Scotland’s Empire, 1600-1815 (2003), chapter 11.

Fry, M., The Scottish Empire (2001) chapters 2 & 7.

Keirnan, V., ’Scottish Soldiers and the conquest of India’ in Simpson, G. (ed.), The Scottish Soldier

abroad, 1247-1967 (1992).

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Mackillop, A., ‘Fashioning a ‘British’ Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras’, in Idem and Murdoch, S., (eds.), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c1600-1800 (2003)

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Porter, A., ‘Scottish Missions and Education in 19^th century India’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 16 (1988).

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(1985)

Tomlinson, B.R., ‘From Campsie to Kedgeree: Scottish Enterprise, Asian Trade and the Company Raj’, Modern Asian Studies, 36 (2002)

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Primary

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COMPANY DECLINE: THE MISSIONARIES, FREE TRADERS & UTILITARIANS

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Primary:

The Call for Missions to India (1844)

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1857

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Primary:

Case, A., Day by Day at Lucknow (1858)

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Bowen, H.V. ‘Sinews of trade and empire: the supply of commodity exports to the East India Company during the late eighteenth century’, Economic History Review, LV, 3 (2002)

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Primary:

The Annual Register

Sayles, G.O., Contemporary Sketches of the Members of the Irish Parliament in 1782, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 56 (1954)

James Roach, b. cir 1800 in Ireland

2005-01-16T11:35:00.000-08:00

bardling is looking for information on James Roach. If you have any information on him, do reply to the mail.

"Looking for information on James Roach, b. cir 1800 in Ireland
(probably County Kerry) and married 8 Feb 1826 in Currow Roman Catholic
Church, County Kerry, Ireland to Mary Mahoney, b. 1806 in Clounacurrig,
Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Their son, Francis Roach, born 1837 in Co. Kerry, died in Lynn,
Massachusetts in 1879. He was a Civil War veteran, husband and father.
Anyway - I'm looking for information on James and Mary. Thanks!"

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Danish Roche in India

2005-01-08T20:53:00.000-08:00

Found this site on the Landmark Family Genealogy.

It lists an Antonette Augusta de Créqui la Roche whose 2nd husband Claus Voigt died 1701-05 at Trankebar, India. That was probably Tranquebar. Her first husband was Lambert Dideriksen.

I wonder if Claus worked for the Danish East India Company - which was founded in 1616 and was dissolved in 1669 ... now wait a minute, maybe not since he dies 30 years later ... anyway you could read more on the Danish East India Company online.

Here are some of the other Roche mentioned on this site:

Jean de Créqui -- Gjertrud Rengers
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Ahasverus Crequj, dit la Rochie (1617 - 1678) -- Mette Volkvartsdatter Riisbrich (b. 1645)
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|- Ahasverus Crequi de la Roche (b. 1671)
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|- Judithe Crequi de la Roche (b. 1673) -- Peder Arctander & Peder Lauritsen Scavenius
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|- Karen de Créqui dit la Roche -- Christian von Alst
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|- Antonette Augusta de Créqui la Roche -- Lambert Dideriksen & Claus Voigt
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|- Gjertrud de Crequi de la Roche -- Wentzel Rotkirch Kaas
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+- Karen de Créqui dit la Roche

Jean de Créqui -- Gjertrud Rengers
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Ahasverus Crequj, dit la Rochie (1617 - 1678) -- Judith Sweers (1633 - 1669)
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|- Jeanne de Créqui dit la Roche (m. 1682) -- Christian Clausen Jæger
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|- Alida Crequi de la Roche (b. 1651) -- Herman Garmann (1646? - 1648)
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|- Catharina Crequi de la Roche (m. 1683) -- Peder Pedersen Lem
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|- Frederik Henrik Crequi de la Roche (b. 1661)
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+- Salomon Crequi de la Roche

George Roche -- Aasta Egge
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|- Jelena Roche

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Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild

2005-01-08T20:29:00.000-08:00

Information from Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/cephalonia18910601_03.html
Ship: Steam Ship Cephalonia
Ship Master's Name: W. S. Seccombe
Route: Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland to Boston
Date: 1st day of June 1891

Passenger No.: 661
Name: Hanora Roc?e
Age: 19
Sex: F
Calling: Servant
The Country of which they are Citizens: Irelant
Intended Destination or Location: Mass
Location of Compartment or space occupied: No 7 Aft
Number of Pieces of Baggage and Transient: 1 P.S.

# 661 - surname could Roche or Rocke

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/ironsides18571117.html
Vessel's Name: Ironsides
Ship Master's Name: Curtis
Where From: Liverpool
Arrival Port: New Orleans
Date: 17 November 1857

#234
Name: Roche C
Age: 22
Gender: f
Country to which they belong: Ireland
Country in which they intend to become inhabitants: United States

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/johnbright18570612_02.html
Ship: John Bright
Ship's Master: R C Culting (unsure of name)
Route: Liverpool, England to New York
Date: 12 June 1857

Passenger number: 449
Name: Thomas Roche
Age: 25
Sex: M
Occupation: Labourer
the country to which they severally belong: Ireland
the country in which the intend to become inhabitants: U.S.

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/pavonia18910615_02.html
Ship: SS PAVONIA
Ship's Master: Alexander McKay
Route: Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 15 June 1891

Passenger Number: 402
Name: Wm Roche
Age: 23
Sex: M
Occupation: Laborer
Country severally belonging to: Ireland
Destination: Mass.
location during the voyage: No. 2 Steerage
number of pieces of luggage brought on the voyage: 1

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/samaria18810828_02.html
Ship: SS Samaria
Ship's Master: Arthur Talbot
Route: Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 28 August 1881

Number on list: 555
Name: ?. Correa da Roche
Age: 31
Sex: M
Occupation: Merchant
Place of Birth: South America
Last Place of Residence: South America

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/samaria18870502_02.html
Ship: SS Samaria
Ship's Master: J. B. Watt
Route: Queenstown, Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 2 May 1887

Number on list: 405
Name: Bridget Roche
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Calling: Spin.
The Country of which they are Native: Ireland
Intended Destination or Location: Mass.
Location of Compartment, or space occupied: Forward Main steerage
Number of Pieces of Luggage: 1

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/scythia18780116.html
Ship: PS Scythia [PS stands for Paddle Steamer]
Ship's Master: W H C Harris
Route: Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland to New York
Date: 16 January 1878

Number on list: 27
Name: John Roche
Age: 45
Sex: M
Occupation: Clerk
The country to which they severally belong: Ireland
The country of which they intend to become inhabitants: USA

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/wmpclyde18740605.html
Ship: SS Wm. P. Clyde
Ship's Master: L. H. Livingston
Route: Havana, Cuba to New Orleans, Louisiana
Date: 5 June 1874

Number on list: 9
Name: Maria Roche
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Occupation: Not Stated
Country to which they belong: United States
Accommodation: Cabin

Number on list: 13
Name: John Roche
Age: 4
Sex: Male
Occupation: Not Stated
Country to which they belong: United States
Accommodation: Cabin

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/antongunther18571119.html
Ship: Bark Anton Gunther
Ship's Master: Wragge
Route: Bremen, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana
Date: 19 November 1857

Number on list: 235
Name: Roch G.
Age: 21
Sex: m
Occupation: laborer
Country to which they belong: Germany
Country to which they intend to become inhabitants: United States

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1900v5/generalhowse19491217.html
Ship: General Howse
Departure Port: Naples
Departure Date: 20 November 1949
Arrival Port: Melbourne - Australia
Arrival Date: 17 December 1949

International Refugee Organisation
Group Resettlement to Australia

This passenger list contains individuals and families that migrated to Australia after World War II from various European Countries including Germany, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, etc. Most passengers are World War II refugees or displaced persons.

Sequence number, surname, forename
0935 ROCH Ferdinand
0936 ROCH Mirek
0937 ROCH Olga
0938 ROCH Vera

http://immigrantships.net/v5/1800v5/industrie18571105.html
Ship: Industrie
Ship's Master: Hilcken
Route: Bremen, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana
Date: 5 November 1857

Number on list: 32
Name: Roch, ?
Age: 26
Sex: M
Occupation: Farmer
Country to which they belong: Germany
Country in which they intend to become inhabitants: United States

Number on list: 33
Name: Roch, M. Eliz.
Age: 18
Sex: F
Country to which they belong: Germany
Country in which they intend to become inhabitants: United States

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Geneo

2005-01-08T19:11:00.000-08:00

Check out the display of the Baumert - La Roche Family Tree. It uses the Geneo applet. Looks cool.

The demo for Geneo and its parameters is explained on the Geneo demo site. He also has the jars online.

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Old Indian Photographs

2005-01-07T15:35:00.000-08:00

There are a few old Indian Photographs online at geh.org.

Here are a few intersting ones -

Jay Singh's Observatory, 1867. Delhi.
The Batta Waterfall Below Mussori, 1865.
Pathans, Peshawur Valley, 1865.
Group of men on steps, 1870.
Cave of Elephants, 1870. Bombay.

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Jana Family

2005-01-02T17:00:00.000-08:00

A site for the Genealogy of the Jana Family from India.

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Bhamidi Family

2005-01-02T16:55:00.000-08:00

Ram Bhamidi has setup a Genealogy site for the Bhamidi Family from India. It members from the Bhamidi and related faamilies - though it does not mention dates for many of the members.

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Pierre Simon de la Roche

2004-12-27T10:00:00.000-08:00

Debbie Broderick has posted her family genealogy. This includes a few de la Roche - starting with Pierre Simon de la Roche (c. 1766 to 24 Dec 1830).

Pierre was a Count and was an officer of Louis XVI's household guards. He escaped from France, to England, during the Revolution.

His Wife Marie Celestine TONDEUR (1766 to 20 Jun 1846) was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Marie-Antoinette.

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Rice Family

2004-12-16T09:56:00.000-08:00

Ossie Rice has put up a genealogy page for the Rice family at http://www.ricefamilygenealogy.com/. His family settled in the Trivandrum-Cochin-Coimbatore area.

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The Digital Colonial Documents Project (India)

2004-12-05T18:41:00.000-08:00

The La Trobe University has a section on the Digital Colonial Documents Project (India) which hosts some rare seminal colonial documents.

Some of the documents its hosts are listed below:

The Memorandum on the 1871-72 Census of British India (40 pages)
Volume One and Three of the 1881 Census Reports (751 pages)
The Report on the 1891 Census of India (292 pages)
The Report on the 1901 Census of India (557 pages)
Murray's Handbook for Madras and Bombay for 1859 (364 pages)
The Hunter Commission Report on Education for 1882 (254 pages)
Extracts from the Journal "Indian Education" (72 pages)
Mill's History of British India (Volume 1 (671 pages), volume 2, 727 pages, volume 3, in process)
Notes on the Races, Castes and Trades of Eastern Bengal by James Wise of 1883 (433 pages)
Captain Thomas Williamson's East India Vade Mecum of 1810 (volumes one and two)

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Murray's Guide

2004-12-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

The Murray's Guide to the Madras Presidency is available online and you can search its full text.

I did a search of Roche, but could not find any entries there.

there a few references to Mangalore - though it was referred to as Mangalur in most places.

For instance for pages 234 - 238 its described as -

(f) Mangalúr (Mangalore), Skr. Mangala, "rejoici(**)" ur, "town," "Glad-town," or, according to Graul, from Mangala Devi, who has a temple there, in lat. 12° 52', long. 74° 54', is the principal civil and military station in Kanara, and has a population of about 20,000 souls. This includes the seven villages of Bázár, Alláwar, Nirawalya, Kodialbail, Kadre, Mangalúr, and Bolúr. Hamilton tells us that the population was estimated at 30,000 in 1806, and has probably greatly increased since. This is a proof how erroneous mere estimates are; for we know, by census, that the number of inhabitants was only 11,548 in 1836. Graul, however, who travelled from 1850-1853, makes the number 40,000. Mangalúr is separated from the sea by a backwater, formed by the junction of the Bolúr, called by some the Netrawati, a large river, which rises in the Gháts, and flows in a W. direction, past Buntwálá, a trading place near the Gháts, whence from 50 to 200 boats, laden with rice, daily start for Mangalúr; and the Balure, which, rising in the same locality, passes to the coast by a more N. course. In the rains these rivers, which flow round two sides of a peninsula, on which the town and cantonment of Mangalúr stand, bring down a large quantity of water, and they are then navigable for boats of some burthen, to a considerable distance inland. In the dry season there is but little current in either, except that caused by the influence of the tide, which flows to about nine or ten miles from their mouth. The banks of these rivers—particularly of the Bolúr—are high and steep, and, unlike those of

most others in this country—which are covered with rank vegetation — are, where the soil permits, planted with cocoa nut trees, or laid out in gardens and rice fields. On the cantonment side of the backwater, immediately under some high ground, is a level belt of land surrounding the peninsula, but little raised above the sea, and varying in breadth from 100 to 200 yards. At the S. end it is converted into rice fields, or thickly planted with cocoa nut trees, and thence N. along the edge of the backwater, most of the fishermen and laborers of the place reside. At the back of the present landing place, and on ground contiguous to the said belt, the great bázár commences, and stretches N. on the edge of the backwater about half a mile. It is irregularly built, and though the trade carried on here is considerable, there is little indication of the wealth it may be supposed to possess. In this low site good water is procurable only in the dry season. That which is to be had is always more or less impregnated with iron from the laterite through which it percolates. The small tanks in the neighbourhood are seldom dry, but in the hot season they become covered with, slimy vegetable matter. The general appearance of Mangalúr from the sea is picturesque. The houses are detached, particularly those towards the N., on separate hills, whence an extensive view is to be had, while the thick woods on these heights, and intervening valleys, add much to the beauty of the place. Immediately beyond the cantonment, however, the country alters considerably, the hills attaining a greater elevation, with a barren and rugged aspect. We know that Mangalúr has from ancient times been a place of very great commerce. Ibn Batuta, in the middle of the 14th century, speaks of 4,000 Muhammadan merchants as resident there. Forbes speaks of it, in 1772, as the principal seaport in the dominions of Haidar 'Alí, and well situated for commerce. Moreover, both Haidar's and Típú's ships of war were built at Mangalúr of the fine teak produced on the slopes of the Gháts. But in the last 40 years considerable changes nave taken place in the harbor, which, commercially, have much injured it. The harbor was of much greater extent and depth than now. The old jetty and stone embankment, raised to prevent the encroachments of the sea, are now almost buried in sand, and though the tide rises 4 ft. 5 in. on the bar at springs, the native craft are obliged to anchor in the narrow channels of the rivers; and between these and the shore a mud-flat is now exposed at every ebb-tide. These changes in the harbour appear to have originated, in the first place, from an opening having been cut by the natives through a narrow part of the back sand, to the N. of the present outlet, to permit the escape of the freshes in the river, which had caused alarm in consequence of an unusual rise. The sea entered the cut, and, besides the changes alluded to, has formed an extensive and permanent opening.

The Cantonment is situate on the N. side of the village of Mangalúr, properly so called. The ground is tolerably level, rising gently till it reaches the place of arms, the centre and highest part. Thence it slopes on all sides, except towards the N.E., when the elevation continues till it is lost among the hills. To the S. of the parade ground, with merely the high road intervening, are lines for one regiment of Native Infantry. The huts are of clay and are thatched with grass. They lie in parallel lines E. and W. Mangalúr is considered a healthy station, and is favorably regarded by the troops, especially by the natives.

In the variety of the tribes which frequent its marts, Mangalúr may be called a miniature Bombay. Europeans, Indo-Portuguese, Indo-Britons, Pársís, Mughuls, Arabs, Sídís, Konkanís, Mápillas, Kanarese, and Tamulians jostle one another in the streets. The mother language of the place, however, is the Tuluva, for Mangalúr is the chief town of the Tuluva country. The Tuluva language is a dialect of Kanarese, which approaches closely to the ancient language of Halla-Kanada, and bears more resemblance to the Tamulian than to the

modern dialect. As a singular perversion of terms of world-wide use, it may be noticed that in Tuluva amma means "father," and appa, "mother."

The Mission House at Mangalúr is worthy of a visit. Formerly the Kacheri or Collector's office occupied the spot, but that being burnt down by the rebels in 1837, a new house was erected at the expense of Mr. Blair, the collector, and most liberally presented by him to the Mission. The site is, perhaps, the best at the station, commanding a fine view of the sea and surrounding country, and being considerably elevated above the camp. The missionaries are Moravians, and indefatigable, excellent men. They have a school with about 50 scholars. An industrial school is attached, where a watchmaker and typographic printer give lessons. The outbreak in 1837, alluded to above, was one of some importance. The Mápillas were as usual foremost in the fray, but several thousand people assembled also from Kurg, and cut off two companies of Sipáhís. They likewise attacked the station of Mangalúr, and burnt several of the houses. It is said the authorities on the spot did not behave well, and but for the arrival of troops from Bombay and other stations, the insurrection would have become very formidable.

The Burial Ground at Mangalúr is neat and well kept. It is enclosed and the gate is locked. There is an obelisk to the memory of Brigadier-General Carnac, who died here, aged 84, in 1806. He was second in command to Clive at the battle of Plassy. A tomb to the captain of the Faiz Rahmán may also be remarked. He with his wife and two children all perished, when the vessel foundered off camp, on the 1st of May, 1840. The oldest tombs are dated 1803.

There is a curious old ruin at Mangalúr, apparently a Muhammadan tomb, but respecting which tradition is silent. It is a square building with minarets at the corners, and a large arched gate in front. Numerous small openings in five regular rows permeate the walls. The most remarkable port of the building, however, is its curious top, an inverted cupola, open like a cup. Before leaving Mangalúr, the hill of Kadiri, two miles off, should be visited. Here is a Hindú, or rather Jain, pagoda, a Dargáh or shrine of the Muhammadans, and the residence of a Mahant, or Abbot, of the Kánphattís, a sect of Hindú ascetics, distinguished by their split ears. It is a pretty spot shaded with trees, and rich in a spring of the clearest and most delicious water. The pagoda contains four images of Tirthankars, most Egyptian looking idols. The priests say that these divinities were Tapawís, or ascetics, thousands of years ago, and attained Siddhánt or beatitude by their devotion. The Dargáh is said to have been the residence of a noted holy man, one Shaikh Farí, who performed a most unpleasant and unbecoming penance, hanging by one leg in a well for 12 years with his head downwards, by which he was purified from all sin. The visitor who has studied Hindú and Muhammadan lore will remark how, amongst the common people, the religious belief of both sects approximates, as in the above legend, which is thoroughly Hindú in its character. The Saints' chamber adjoins the well, and is a very uncomfortable niche cut out of a huge block of laterite. The Mahant is a native of Benares, and being a person of great sanctity, treats his visitors with uncommon haughtiness. He occupies the sole chair his tenement can boast of, while he leaves the traveller standing. There are here caverns in the rock which are said to extend to a vast distance.

The Jain Temples at Muda Biddarí and Kárkal may be conveniently visited from Mangalúr. Muda Biddarí is about 30 miles from Mangalúr, to the N.E. A very hilly road leads to Gonpur, 12 miles, and the next stage of 18 carries the traveller to the Rájá's palace at Muda Biddarí. The Rájá receives about 800 rupees yearly from Government, and has given up half his palace for the reception of European travellers. It is a large, rambling, native house. Among the ornaments is an elephant carved in wood and formed of the figures of

five mermaids. At a short distance from the palace are the temples. The principal one is a very large building, the outer wall forming an oblong of 300 yards by 200. In front is a graceful pillar about 40 ft. high, and formed of only two blocks. At the base are steps. The capital is well executed with the figure of a lion carved on the top. The temple itself is of granite, and the basement is curiously engraved with figures of men and beasts, among which is the cameleopard very tolerably designed. The people about the temple do not know what animal it is intended to represent, but if asked, say they suppose it is meant for a camel. In a dark chamber, in the interior of the temple, is a sanctuary, with an image of Párasnáth, dimly shewn by a few flickering oil lights. There are numerous inscriptions, but the iron stone in which they are cut has so mouldered away that they are now quite illegible. Round the chief temple are sixteen smaller ones, all of the same character, with a solitary pillar in front of each. The town was once considerable, but has gone to ruin, and there are many streets of crumbling houses filled with jungle.

A journey of four hours takes the traveller to Karkal ("Black-stone"). The road is very stony and hilly, and for some miles passes through thick jungle, where are tigers and bison. A stream about four feet deep must be passed, and the pálkí is carried on the bearers' heads. In the rains this stream would be a formidable obstacle. It is full of fish. On entering Kárkal, the traveller passes a tank, with a neat Gothic looking house built on an island in the centre. The village is small, and has but an open shed for a traveller's banglá, and this, too, situated at a most inconvenient distance from the road. The view from it, however, is good, with a bold range of hills called the Durg to the N., at the foot of which is a belt of deep jungle. The Jain temples, two in number, are about half a mile from the traveller's banglá, on the top of bare black rocks, without any coating of earth, and contrasting strongly with the verdure of the subjacent fields. The nearer temple is the larger of the two, and is said to be very ancient, though, in point of fact, its age probably does not exceed three centuries. It is of the same shape as the temple at Biddarí, but has no pillar in front. The most curious part of it is the roof, which is of solid stone cut into squares, which are supported by pillars. The weight must be enormous. Timber has not been used in any part of the building. On the door is sculptured the figure of a Dwárpal, or warder, leaning on a mace, and along the walls are some strange grotesques. In the interior are 12 figures of Párasnáth in black marble, three facing each quarter of the horizon. From this hill the gigantic image of Gautama Swámí, at the next temple, has a most singular appearance. The sun shining on the huge black figure shows its enormous bulk, with a strange and almost supernatural effect. It requires but a little stretch of the imagination to suppose that some hellish monster has descended from the dark mountains in the distance, to prey on the fair country around. One cannot but feel a sickening sense of the folly and hateful impiety of idolatry, while gazing at this demon form blackening against the pure sky. The figure is erect, and bears an Egyptian look. The hair curls close to the skull; the ears are broad flaps, which descend halfway to the shoulders, and these again are of great breadth. The hands are stretched close down to the sides. One holds a bell; the other, the Shesh Nág, or "many-headed cobra." A tall man, standing at the foot of the figure, just reaches to the calf of the leg. The height of the figure is said to be 45 ft. According to an inscription on the stone itself, the statue was made by Víra Pándia, son of Bhairava-Indra, 419 years ago. In the portico of this temple, or rather before it, is the usual pillar, surmounted by an image with a sort of tiara. Below is the representation of a man on horseback, not unlike St. George, but the priests call it Brahmá Dev. They further assert that these temples were erected 423 years ago by Byás Sandel, the Rájá of Hublí. A vast stone was cut out from a spot on the hill

close by, dragged up to the summit, and then formed into the present erect figure. The quarry from which it was cut is shown. Certainly the removal and erection of so vast and ponderous a mass deserves to be ranked as a work of labor with the performances of the Egyptians and Assyrians. An entrance, supported by pillars, leads into the inner room of the temple. On the right is a double row of eight pillars. Behind the statue is a kind of verandah and twelve pillars. To the right of the statue is a sacred tank. There is a Játra, or pilgrimage, to this place once in seven years. From the top of the hill is a good view of the surrounding country, which is chiefly covered with jungle, and shews but little cultivation, though there are two very large tanks close to the village.

Leaving Mangalúr, the road passes through a large bázár, on the banks of the backwater, for 2 miles 4 furlongs, to the Bolár river. After crossing the river, for which any number of boats may be procured, the road is very bad for two miles, passing through heavy sand. It then turns inland and improves. The traveller's banglá at Suratkal stands on an airy eminence, at the foot of which the sea breaks violently. Mulkí is a small town, the seat of the Basle mission. It stands on the Shambawatí river. The long street of the bázár is enveloped in a luxuriant thicket of jungle. The Tulu churches are entirely indebted to Mr. Amman, the missionary at Mulkí, for the translation of the New Testament into their language. This work was printed at the Mangalúr press. A good road leads through the village of Káp to Udapí.

After this the books continues to Udupi.

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Marquis de la Roche Mesgoues (1540-1606)

2004-11-02T10:04:00.000-08:00

From the site Indian History 1565 - 1599:

1577

Marquis de la Roche Mesgoues (1540-1606) received authority to invest and make his all lands that he can make himself master of and not previously claimed by other Europeans. This in effect is a form of legalized piracy but more fundamental makes no mention of Native rights which implies the savages have no rights as they are not persons. This Roman theology is at the very foundation of the European belief and value system that is still being applied systematically throughout the world. Over time only the rhetoric has changed not the fundamental beliefs.

1578

Marquis de la Roche Mesgoues (1540-1606) is named Governor of all New Found Lands (New France) that he shall take and conquer from the barbarians and colonize.

1598

Marquis de la Roche landed forty convicts on Sable Island off the Nova Scotia coast, inadvertently leaving the men for five years. They built huts and a storehouse with timbers from a wrecked ship. The island had wild cattle obviously from a previous colony. When they are rescued in 1603 eleven are still alive and some eventually returned to New France to engage in the fur trade.

January 12: Troilus de Mesgouez, Marguis de la Roche is appointed Lieutenant-General of Canada, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Norumbega (Maine).

1599

November 22: Francois Grave du Pont (1554-1629) who had previously fur traded the St. Lawrence River and Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit (d-1603 a Huguenot merchant from Hongleur is granted the position of Lieutenant General of Canada, Newfoundland, Labrador and Norumnega (Maine) forfeited by Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de la Roche.

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Roche Belgaum

2004-11-01T09:57:00.000-08:00

Did a Google search today for Roche Belgaum and found two hits. [Belgaum is a place in Karnataka, India]:

1. Rev. Kottaram Roche

Rev. Roche is mentioned as a Religious Priest, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in list of Priests from the Archdiocese of Changanachery who are incardinated to other dioceses.

The entry reads -
159. Kottaram Roche (+), Thekkekara

2. Fr. Simon Roche

Fr. Roche is mentioned as an author of section 74 "Order of Preachers in India" in the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India Vol III at this site.

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Mangalore Roche

2004-10-31T13:48:00.000-08:00

I did a search for mangalore roche on google and found quite a few hits.

1. Florine Roche is mentioned in deccan herald. She is the Programme Staff Association of All India Radio & Doordarshan unit secretary.

2. Austin Roche is mentioned in konkandaiz. He is mentioned as the Konkani Catholic Associations' Union president - possibly for Bangalore.

3. Rosy Regina Roche is mentioned as the owner of Konkan Tea Traders.

4. Elizabeth Roche is mentioned as a teacher in the news article on konkandaiz.

5. Dominic Roche is mentioned in the Vidya Niketan/Formation House, Mysore site [Google Cache].

On March, 1974 the Regional Fr. George Muthanatt, Fr. J. Puthumana and Frater Carlo arrived in Mysore to take possession of the two houses. Fr. Anthony Furtado, the first Rector arrived on June 11th, 1974. In July, 1974 the First batch of juniors from Palda were welcomed by the rector for their graduation studies in Mysore. Ambunathan, N.P. Anto, J. Antony Joseph, T. Bausally, K.M.Chako, P.T.Christuraj, Dominic Roche, Edward Sequira, Edwin Vas, Emmanuel, P. Gaspar, Raja A, Joseph Pereira, Lazar G, Ligoury Mendonca, Lourdusamy S., Mathew K.M., Michael C.J., Philip. P.P., Sandanam K, Sunny George, Varkey V.V., etc., were the first batch students.

6. Abundius Roche is mentioned by Dr. Gabriel Fernandes in mangalorean.com as a role model.

"Beside my mother as a role model for hard work, Mr. Abundius Roche, a neighbor, who was a hard working self made farmer, also set an example that dedicated hard work (18 hours a day) gives ample rewards. My success later was meeting right people, and always working hard"

7. V. L. Roche. There is an article on him at barkuronline.
"The ‘Roche clan’ of Moodahadu, Barkur, always had their crystal clear imprints in social work for years together, starting from elderly late Mr Isaac Roche. The present President of St. Peters Association Barkur- Bombay, Mr Henry Roche, the well-known Capuchin Priest Rev. Fr. Alfred Roche, the National High School, Barkur, Teacher of yester years Mr Heddhu Roche, Secretary of St Peter’s Barkurian’s Association of Bombay of 1950s Mr Louis Roche etc etc….. to mention a few of them.

One of the greatest among them may be Mr V.L.Roche – the personality of the month - in our ‘Amchen Barkur’ web-site, an educationist in its true sense, and a successful civil and engineering works contractor, most deserved man to be conferred the prestigious and highest Rotary honour - Paul Harries Fellow !!!."

8. Roche Mining Mt. India Private Limited mentioned in indiamart.
Manufacturers and exporters of mining equipments.
Address: Vytilla, Vrindavan Apartments, 406 F, Cochin - 682 019, India
Phone: +(91)-(484)-2389097 Fax: +(91)-(484)-2389506

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Claremont Family

2004-10-31T13:19:00.000-08:00

Stumbled across the site mentioning the Claremont Family.

Rhys Claremont was with the Basel mission in Mangalore. His son David Claremont (1891-93?) was the Lighthouse Superintendent of Mangalore, Lighthouse Superintendent of Tuticorin. He married Susan Bangara.

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History Of The Mackenzies

2004-10-11T20:25:00.000-07:00

The book History Of The Mackenzies, by Alexander Mackenzie, published 1879, talks about the daughter of John Roche, Baron of Fermoy.


to quote:
X.  JOHN  FITZ  THOMAS  FITZ  GERALD, sixth Baron Offaly, and first
Earl of Kildare.  From him, by his wife Blanche, daughter of John
Roche, Baron of Fermoy, are descended the present Duke of Leinster and
other Irish Fitzgeralds.  He died on the 10th November, 1316.

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Philip Roche - the Pirate

2004-10-11T20:03:00.000-07:00

The life of Philip Roche - the Pirate, is given in the book - Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences - by Hayward, Arthur L.., published in 1735.

Philip Roche was a pirate and was executed on 14th August 1723, aged around thirty.

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Paul de la Roche

2004-10-11T19:24:00.000-07:00

Paul delaroche was a French painter. He is mentioned in the book - The Nuttall Encyclopaedia [text available via Gutenburg], published in 1907.

It states, about him:

Delaroche, Paul, a French historical painter and one of the greatest, born in Paris; was the head of the modern Eclectic school, so called as holding a middle place between the Classical and Romantic schools of art; among his early works were "St. Vincent de Paul preaching before Louis XIII." and "Joan of Arc before Cardinal Beaufort"; the subjects of his latest pictures are from history, English and French, such as "The Princes in the Tower" and "Cromwell contemplating the corpse of Charles I.," a great work; but the grandest monument of his art is the group of paintings with which he adorned the wall of the semicircle of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris, which he completed in 1841 (1797-1856).

It also talks of two of his students:

Gérôme, Léon, a celebrated French painter, born at Vésoul; he studied at Paris under Paul Delaroche, with whom he subsequently travelled in Italy; he travelled in the East and familiarised himself with Eastern scenes; in 1863 he was appointed professor of Painting in the Paris School of Fine Arts; among his most famous pictures, all characterised by vivid colouring and strong dramatic effect, are "The Age of Augustus and the Birth of Christ," "Roman Gladiators in the Amphitheatre," "Cleopatra and Cæsar," &c.; b. 1824.

Millet, Jean François, French painter of French peasant life, born near Greville, of a peasant family; sent to Paris, studied under Paul Delaroche, withdrew into rustic life, and took up his abode at the village of Barbizon, near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where he spent as a peasant the rest of his life, honoured though poor by all his neighbours, and produced inimitable pictures of French country life, completing his famous "Sower," and treating such subjects as the "Gleaners," the "Sheep-Shearers," "Shepherdess and Flock," &c., with an evident appreciation on his part of the life they depicted so faithfully (1814-1875).

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Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

2004-10-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

Project Gutenberg has this book Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century available online. Its written by Montague Massey, published in 1918. It mainly describes the tranformation of Calcutta since his first arrival to Calcutta in the 1860s.

It contains lots of photographs of many landmark in Calcutta.

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British Military Records

2004-09-18T21:04:00.000-07:00

A nice article on genuki about British Military Records it lists out various sources from which we can get information of our ancestors who served in the British Army during the 18th and 19th century.

Anglo-Indian Family Trees

2004-09-18T21:01:00.000-07:00

Submitted information about Robert Roche the Anglo-Indian Family Trees site which has a list of Anglo-Indian family trees associated by surnames. Hope to see that entry on the site soon!

PictureAustralia

2004-09-18T20:12:00.000-07:00

PictureAustralia hosts images taken/made by Australian artists that you can search online.

Found a few mangalore images -

1. A house, probably called "Marlbrook" taken Nov 22, 1977 by Collins, John T. 1907-2001
2. The railway station. taken Nov 18, 1985 by Collins, John T. 1907-2001
3. "Shene" stables. taken Nov 19, 1977 by Collins, John T. 1907-2001
4. Oakwood. A house on midland highway, 1 km SE of Mangalore. taken on Nov 1995 by Baker, Claire

And finally -

ID Number: P00070.006
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: RAWALPINDI, INDIA, 1907. OFFICERS THE ROYAL IRISH. VIGORSIL H.H.; BERESFORD X.LO.; ROCHE; KELLY R.E.; MINCHINGTON; CALDECOTT R.E.; BALCKLEY R.L.; CHESNEY 23; P. GORE IIO; GORDON R.L.; STRANACH 29P; FERGUSON R.J.
Copyright: Australian War Memorial.

Old Calcutta Photos

2004-09-17T15:31:00.000-07:00

Some Old Calcutta Photos are online at CalcuttaWeb. These were taken in 1945.

Fetchbook

2004-09-17T15:16:00.000-07:00

Fetbook has a good listing of books. It has a section on Asian History.

Did a search for "Roche India" on the books and found three titles:

1. Childhood in India: Tales from Sholapur
By George Roche, Richard Terrell

I have this book and have read it. Its about George who grew up in India. AFAIK His father was the engineer in charge of building the railway station at Pune.

2. A visit to India
By Paul Roche

Must be the same Paul Roche whose Poetry book I have. He has some connection to India. Need to find that.

3. Swifty & the lamb
By Mitey Roche

No idea about this book or its author.

Unfortunately the site does not have any abstract from the books. It has a section for book reviews, but didn't find any reviews for these books.

Field of Bones

2004-09-13T13:18:00.000-07:00

There is an article - Field of Bones - by Charles Nicholl at the London Review of Books. In this article he talks about the travels of Thomas Coryate to India in 1617.

William Roche

2004-09-12T19:38:00.000-07:00

William Roche (b: Abt June 1840 d: July 03, 1877) was born in Cork, Ireland and was with this NY Inf. His descendents are listed in Martin's Family Page.

de la Roche family in SA

2004-09-12T19:15:00.000-07:00

Found the genealogy pages of Cray Regis Bauxmont-Flynn.

Claudine de la Roche, born in South Africa on 29-Jan-1921, is his paternal grandmother.
Her father was George T. de la Roche, born 13-Mar-1866 in Pietermatriztburg, SA and died on 5-Mar-1938 at Koppies, SA. Her mother was Orah E. Courniert, born 20-Sept-1880 in Koppies, SA and died 01-Nov-1967 at Avignon, FR.

Claudine married Etienne A. H. Bauxmont II. He was born in Paris, FR on 3-Mar-1912 and died on 26-Mar-1981 in Paris, FR. Their son Francois A. E Bauxmont is Cray's father.

He has mentioned George's parents as Benjamin D. Roberts (Aug-1834 to c. 1900) and Sarah A. E. Huggard (Jun-1842 to 1880).

List of Casualities - East India Directory & Register 1832

2004-08-30T14:15:00.000-07:00

The List of Casualities - East India Directory & Register 1832 is online. No Roche in it.

India-L List success story

2004-08-27T07:26:00.000-07:00

Deccan Herald has published an article titled Bangalorean Jean Fritchley finds her Scottish family via email. It tells of how Michael found Jean - who is his first cousin twice removed - through the India-L list.

I've been part of the India-L list - on and off since the mid nineties. Its a list of people with amazing information and a very helpful attitude.

If you're wondering whats this "first cousin twice removed", you may want to check the genealogy.com's glossary.

British History Online

2004-08-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

British History Online has a lot of useful information on British History. It contains all the parlimentary papers online.

I. There are references to a Captain James Roche -
1. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 1 April 1702 with references to a bill regarding Irish Forfeitures.

2. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 3 March 1704 regarding another bill on Irish Forfeitures.

3. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 29 February 1704 on forfeited Estates in Ireland.

4. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 26 March 1702 on Irish Forfeitures.

5. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 28 February 1704 on forfeited Estates in Ireland.

6. In House of Lords Journal Volume 17, 23 March 1702 on Irish Forfeitures.

II. Mary Roche is admitted in Formâ Pauperis, in Withering's Suit against her in House of Lords Journal Volume 11, 6 July 1663.

III. Richard Roche in Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693-1694 Middlesex, St John Hackney, Church Street (Hackney).
Name: Roche, Richard (Mr)
Property Tax assessment £24.00
Property Rental value £120.00
Stock Tax assessment £0.00
Stock value £0.00
On behalf of: Cooke, Sir Thomas. Occupation: rector.

IV. William Roche in Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693-1694
City of Westminster, St Martin in the Fields, Exchange Ward, Yorke Buildings.
Name: Roche, William
Property Tax assessment £6.00
Property Rental value £30.00
Stock Tax assessment £4.80
Stock value £400.00
Comment: Roman Catholic.

V. Mr. Roche in House of Commons Journal Volume 2, 18 March 1642:
Apprehending Roche.
Ordered, That a Warrant issue under Mr. Speaker's Hand, for the Apprehending of Mr. Roche, Son to the Lord Roche.

Ordered, That the Lord Admiral be desired to give Directions to the Officers of the Ports, that they be very watchful that the said Mr. Roche do not pass at any of the Ports.

VI. David Roche, Esq.

1. In House of Commons Journal Volume 3, 12 October 1643.
Roche's Petition.
The humble Petition of David Roche Esquire, late of the City of Limerick in Ireland, was this Day read; concerning Debts owing unto him upon Specialities; and desiring, that he may have Liberty and Warrant to seize the Goods of such as he knows to be in actual Rebellion in Ireland:

And it is Ordered, That it be referred to the Consideration and Examination of the Committee for Gloucester.

2. In House of Commons Journal Volume 3, 2 June 1643; Petition referred.

VII. Henry Roche.

1. In House of Commons Journal Volume 2, 12 April 1642.
Payments to Roche, &c.

Ordered, That One hundred Thirty-two Pounds be paid to Henry Roche, Owner of The Prosperous Elizaneth for Freight of Arms and Ammunition from Barwicke to London: And that One hundred and Twenty Pounds be paid unto James Sheriffe, for the Freight of his Ship, in bringing of Ammunition from Berwicke: And that One hundred Pounds be paid to Stephen Riche, Master of the Rebecca, in Satisfaction of Demurrage Days due unto him.

And further Ordered, That Mr. Wheeler do pay these several Sums accordingly.

2. In House of Commons Journal Volume 2, 29 December 1641
Transport Service.
Mr. Wheeler reports from the Committee appointed to consider of the Accounts due unto the Masters of the Ships that were to transport the Ordinance from Berwick, &c.

To Abraham White, and Hen. Roche, - £.160

VIII. James Roche. In House of Commons Journal Volume 2, 27 May 1642.
Restoring Goods seized
Whereas Francis Bickley, Richard Edisbury, Wm. Kendall, and others, Merchants of London, have petitioned this House; and have set forth, in their Petition, that they trusted divers Goods to Thomas Hannon and James Roche, Merchants of Limerick in Ireland; the which Goods were seized at Bristoll, as belonging to Irish Merchants, the greatest Part of the Kingdom being then in Rebellion: It is this Day Ordered, That in regard that the said Goods were contracted for before the Rebellion broke forth, that the Merchants that trusted these Goods to the said Hannon and Roche, shall have the said Goods restored unto them, for Satisfaction of their Debts; the House being informed, that the said Hannon and Roche are consenting thereunto; and that the Mayor and other Officers of Bristoll, in whose Custody the said Goods are, do forthwith deliver the same accordingly.

IX. Mr Roche. In House of Commons Journal Volume 2, 06 May 1642.
Roche's Escape.

Ordered, That the Consideration of this Escape of Mr. Roche, an Irish Man, sent for by Order of this House, in the Pacquet boat at Dover, (whereof this House was now informed) be referred to the Committee for Post-masters, where Mr. Weston has the Chair.

X. Richard atte Roche

1. St. Martin Pomary 95/16
Location: City of London > St Martin Pomary (Ironmonger Lane)
Sponsor: Centre for Metropolitan History
Publication: Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
Author: Keene, D.J.; Harding, Vanessa.
Year published: 1987
Pages: 180-183

16 was in the same ownership as 105/16 when by 1271 and by 1278 land belonging to Richard le Potyr adjoined both the N. and E. sides of 17-18. In 1309, 1319, and 1326, the tenement on the N. side of 17 was said to belong to Richard atte Roche, who may have been tenant rather than landlord of the property, or alternatively may have been identical with one of the men with the same forename who owned 16 and 105/16. In 1324 and 1330 this tenement belonged to Richard de Betoigne (Footnote 3) and thereafter passed through the same succession of owners as 105/16.(q.v.). These two properties were acquired by the hospital of St. Thomas of Acre in 1505.

Footnote 3: HR 4(85), 9(29), 42(119), 52(56), 54(82). The series of abutments from 17 refer to atte Roche over the period 1309-26 and then to de Betoigne.

2. Subsidy Roll 1319 - Cheap ward.
Cheap Ward

Parishes: All Hallows Honey Lane, St. Benet Sherehog, St. Lawrence Jewry, St. Martin Pomary, St. Mary Colechurch, St. Mildred Poultry, St. Pancras Soper Lane. Partly in Cheap: St. Margaret Lothbury, St. Mary le Bow, St. Olave Old Jewry, St. Stephen Walbrook. Alderman: John de Wengrave [BroadSt 1].

47 t De Ricardo ate Rothe J.mar. (Footnote 47)

Footnote 47: Richard, son of William atte Rothe, appr. of Michael de London, ointer, adm. Cheap 1309-10 LBD 103, R. atte Roche, called le Smeremongere 1309-10 ib. 112 (Cheap), R. atte Roche 1320 LBE 128. Richard was admitted late and is probably identical with R. atte Rothe, chandler 1299-1300 Mayors 59. - Roe Hrt, Rothend Mx.

XI. Henry atte Roche

1. St. Martin Pomary 95/0 The parish church of St. Martin Pomary
Location: City of London > St Martin Pomary (Ironmonger Lane)
Sponsor: Centre for Metropolitan History
Publication: Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
Author: Keene, D.J.; Harding, Vanessa.
Year published: 1987
Pages: 107-110

The church attracted other endowments. A parishioner who died in 1328 left the money from the sale of one of his properties (95/2), should that come about, for the endowment of a chantry there. Henry atte Roche, who probably lived near the church within the precinct of St. Thomas of Acre, at his death in 1348-9 left rent in St. Ethelburga's parish for the endowment of his chantry. In 1532 Robert Brocket left rent in Houndsditch to augment this chantry and to maintain his own obit. The chantry of Brocket and atte Roche was the only one being celebrated in the church in 1548.

2. St. Martin Pomary 95/6-7.
Location: City of London > St Martin Pomary (Ironmonger Lane)
Sponsor: Centre for Metropolitan History
Publication: Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
Author: Keene, D.J.; Harding, Vanessa.
Year published: 1987
Pages: 150-159

In 1336 6 was a shop with solars built above which John atte Welhous, ironmonger and citizen, and his wife Agnes granted to Henry atte Roche, citizen and chandler (unctarius). In 1358 atte Roche's former tenement here belonged to William Gregori and his wife Idonia, who in 1365 were named as owners of the little shop here. The property appears to have descended with others in various parts of the city from Henry atte Roche to his daughter Marion and from her to her son, Henry atte Mersh. Henry atte Mersh granted properties in several parishes, including St. Martin Pomary, to Richard Fohoun and Henry Yeveley, citizen(s), who in 1361 granted them in free marriage to Henry atte Mersh and his wife Idonia and their legitimate heirs, with remainder to Henry's right heirs. There was probably a family relationship between Henry and/or his wife and William Gregori and/or his wife, but this cannot be determined. There were other interests in this group of properties, including 6, which had once belonged to Henry atte Roche and concerning which several trusts appear to have been set up. Thus Robert atte Broke, a smith of Lemynton (Suffolk), granted the properties to John Gullay and his wife Andrina, daughter and heir of Thomas Hendeman of Grene (Kent), who in 1368 quitclaimed in them to John Creyndon, fishmonger, Henry Yevele, mason, and Thomas de Mildenhale, all citizens. By 1380, when Maud Holbech was in possession of 6, Creyndon, Yevele, and de Mildenhale sold the properties to Maud and her then husband, Hugh Southern. Maud was later described as the widow of William Holbech, who died in 1365-7, and it is probable that Hugh was her second husband. In 1386 Idonia, widow of Henry atte Mersh and now widow of William de Croydon, quitclaimed to Maud Holbech in the properties which had once belonged to Henry atte Mersh. Soon after this quitclaim Henry Yevele bound himself to Maud Holbech and Stephen Spelman to the effect that neither he nor his brother, Richard Foun, would cause her any loss concerning the properties by suing on a recognisance made to them in Chancery by Henry atte Mersh. Maud died in 1392-3 and left these properties to Thomas son of William Occlyf, formerly citizen and draper, for the term of his life and then to be sold. In 1408 Thomas surrendered the properties to Maud's executors, who included Stephen Speleman and in 1415 sold 6 to Henry Halton, citizen and grocer. 6 was now described as a shop with solar(s) over measuring 10 1/2 ft. (3.2 m.) next to the street, 10 ft. (3.05 m.) at its W. end, 14 ft. 3 in. (4.34 m.) on its S. side and 14 ft. 2 in. (4.32 m.) on its N. side. (Footnote 4)

3. St. Mary Colechurch 105/13-15.
Location: City of London > St Mary Colechurch
Sponsor: Centre for Metropolitan History
Publication: Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
Author: Keene, D.J.; Harding, Vanessa.
Year published: 1987
Pages: 465-474

Holy Trinity Priory did not alienate the property on the corner of Ironmonger Lane. It may have been represented by 2 of the 5 shops listed in 1283, and both then and in 1292 it presumably included the shop of Walter de Waldegrave. There was one shop on the site, held by Henry atte Roche, chandler (candelar') in 1336, when John de Ewell of London quitclaimed to Holy Trinity Priory in the property. In 1384 the priory let the shop to John Salle, citizen and cutler, and his wife Margaret at £3 rent for life, the tenants being liable for repairs. John Salle died in 1407 and there is no later record of this shop. (Footnote 16)

XII. John Roche
Broomfield Manors and other estates.
Location: Somerset > Andersfield Hundred > Broomfield
Sponsor: Victoria County History
Publication: A History of the County of Somerset: Volume VI
Author: R.W. Dunning (Editor)
Year published: 1992
Pages: 7-12

IVYTON manor was held of Broomfield manor in 1283 and continued to be so held until 1790 or later, although suit and rent had probably been unpaid for many years and it was not recorded as a manor after 1662. (Footnote 77) Ivyton was held by Hugh de la Tour (d. 1283), possibly in succession to his brother Henry (d. by 1280). (Footnote 78) Hugh's son Thomas was succeeded by his son Hugh who died c. 1321 leaving a son William. (Footnote 79) William died in 1349 leaving a daughter Alice, wife of John Roche. Alice was dead by 1375 but had had a child. (Footnote 80) That child may have been Isabel, wife of John Haddecombe, who released her claim to Ivyton to John Roche in 1375 and again in 1390. (Footnote 81) Later in 1390 Roche gave Ivyton to John Luttrell who in 1392 assigned the rents to John Haddecombe and his wife Isabel for her life, and granted the estate in 1394 to Joan, Roche's second wife, by then married to Thomas Trowe of Plainsfield. In 1404 Richard Roche, son of John, quitclaimed Ivyton to Joan's feoffees. (Footnote 82) In 1429 John Luttrell gave the reversion after Joan's death to his kinsman Richard Luttrell; Joan was dead by 1439 when Richard took possession. (Footnote 83) Ivyton then descended with Over Vexford in Stogumber until 1570 when the manor was sold to William Lovel. (Footnote 84)

XIII. Philip Keating Roche. In House of Lords Journal Volume 64, 7 December 1831.

White et al. v. Baugh & Beale.
Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Richard White, Francis Jenks Burlton, Vincent Wheeler and James Eysam Graham; complaining of an Order of the Court of Chancery, of the 9th of February 1831, made in a certain Cause wherein John Salwey, an Infant, by Job Walker Baugh, his next Friend, but who has since attained the Age of Twenty-one Years, was Plaintiff, and Elizabeth Salwey, Theophilus Richard Salwey, William Radclyffe, Richard Salwey, lately deceased, Theophilus Salwey, Philip Keating Roche, Robert Myddelton Biddulph and George Ridge were Defendants; and praying, "That the said Order may be reversed, or that the Appellants may have such Relief in the Premises, as to this House, in their Lordships great Wisdom, shall seem meet; and that the said Job Walker Baugh and Thomas Beale may be required to answer the said Appeal:"

It is Ordered, That the said Job Walker Baugh and Thomas Beale may have a Copy of the said Appeal, and do put in their Answer or respective Answers thereunto, in Writing, on or before Wednesday the 21st Day of this instant December; and Service of this Order upon Mr. Abel Jenkins of New Inn, the Agent in London of the said Respondents, shall be deemed good Service.

XIV. Roche Green.
Roman catholicism.
The 1560s and 1570s were a period of intensive Catholic activity when many papists were presented for recusancy; the bailiffs, who were very intolerant of Catholicism, did their utmost to persuade the dissidents to conform. (Footnote 21) One very prominent Catholic was Richard Cousins who, in the 1550s, owned the White Hart inn in which Bishop Bonner's agents stayed. In 1562 Cousins was imprisoned in the moot hall for his papist activities. (Footnote 22) Named repeatedly in the indictments was Roche Green (d. 1602), whose son Richard (d. 1590) was ordained in Rome in 1582, (Footnote 23) and who, resisting earnest attempts to convert him, spent c. 20 years in prison, some of them in Colchester. (Footnote 24) Other Essex recusants were imprisoned in Colchester castle, some for long periods. (Footnote 25)

XV. John Roche
Enmore Church.
Location: Somerset > Andersfield Hundred > Enmore
Sponsor: Victoria County History
Publication: A History of the County of Somerset: Volume VI
Author: R.W. Dunning (Editor)
Year published: 1992
Description: Historical account of religious life and the parish church
Pages: 43-44

The deanery chapter met at Enmore in 1195 when Gocelin, chaplain of Enmore, was present. (Footnote 65) John of Drayton, rector in 1327, was described as worn out and a coadjutor was appointed. (Footnote 66) There was an anniversary chaplain in 1450. John Roche or Ryche, rector 1463-7, was a canon of Wells. (Footnote 67) There were both a rector and a stipendiary priest c. 1535, and the parish supported a fraternity, known as Our Lady's service or the brotherhood.

XVI. Abigall Roche. In House of Commons Journal Volume 3, 26 June 1643

Gideon's &c. Pass.

Upon Mr. Rous his Motion, it is Ordered, That Mrs. Frances Gideon, with Abigall Roche, and James Faucett, shall have Mr. Speaker's Warrant to pass into France, and to return; with such Necessaries for her Journey as are lawfully exportable.

XVII. Drew de la Roche

1. Fen Drayton - Manors and other estates.
Location: Cambridgeshire > Papworth > Fen Drayton
Sponsor: Victoria County History
Publication: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume IX
Author: A. P. M. Wright & C. P. Lewis (Editors)
Year published: 1989
Pages: 292-295

Another substantial lordship was that over 3 1/4 hides held in 1066 by men of the king's thegn Ulf, one sokeman having 1 1/4 hides to himself. By 1086 the estate had passed to Ulf's successor as lord at Fen Stanton, Gilbert of Ghent (Footnote 87) (d. c. 1095), whose heir was his son Walter (d. 1139). (Footnote 88) Henry I, having allegedly seduced Walter's sister, obliged him to assign Fen Stanton with its dependencies for her support. (Footnote 89) The Ghents never recovered even their tenancy in chief, although Walter's grandson Gilbert (d. 1242) repeatedly sued successive possessors of the manor between 1208 and 1231. (Footnote 90)

After Walter's sister's death Henry II assigned the manor, by 1161 at latest, to the Breton noble Roland de Dinan, (Footnote 91) who briefly forfeited it for rebellion in Brittany c. 1167-8. (Footnote 92) Roland, Henry's governor of Brittany c. 1175-8, died in 1184, having adopted as heir his nephew Alan de Dinan. (Footnote 93) Probably by 1194, however, the manor had been given to Drew de la Roche, (Footnote 94) whose widow Agnes held it as dower between 1201 (Footnote 95) and the mid 1220s. (Footnote 96) In 1225 Richard Marshal, later earl of Pembroke, who had married Alan de Dinan's daughter Gervaise, (Footnote 97) claimed the estate, and was granted its reversion; Agnes died in 1226. (Footnote 98) Following the earl's insurrection in 1233 (Footnote 99) Henry III gave the estate in 1234 to his justiciar Stephen de Segrave, who lost it when he fell from power later that year, and it was assigned to the king's sister, Joan, queen of Scotland. (Footnote 1) Segrave recovered it shortly after her death in 1237. (Footnote 2) He died in 1241 and his son and heir Gilbert, (Footnote 3) also a judge, in 1254. Gilbert's son Nicholas, of age in 1258, (Footnote 4) a Montfortian partisan, (Footnote 5) vigorously despoiled his west Cambridgeshire neighbours in the mid 1260s. (Footnote 6) Lord over 4¼ yardlands at Fen Drayton in 1279, (Footnote 7) he died in 1295. His son John, (Footnote 8) a leading commander in the Scots wars, (Footnote 9) and John's eldest son Stephen, who apparently occupied the family's Cambridgeshire lands, both died fighting in Gascony in 1325. Stephen's son John, (Footnote 10) of age in 1336, (Footnote 11) died in 1353, (Footnote 12) having married Margaret (d. 1399), daughter of his guardian Thomas, earl of Norfolk. (Footnote 13) Tenants at Fen Drayton owed rents to her in the 1370s. (Footnote 14)

2. Fen Drayton - Economic history.

Location: Cambridgeshire > Papworth > Fen Drayton
Sponsor: Victoria County History
Publication: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume IX
Author: A. P. M. Wright & C. P. Lewis (Editors)
Year published: 1989
Description: Historical account of agriculture, marketing, and trades, crafts and industry
Pages: 295-298

All the 10 hides except Ramsey abbey's 3 yardlands were occupied in 1066 by c. 10 sokemen. Eight sokemen still possessed 6 1/4 hides in 1086 and 5 villani c. 1 hide, while only 2 3/4 hides were in demesne, only Ramsey's estate having any servi. There were also 8 bordars and 3 cottars. The limited arable, 5 ploughlands, for which only 2¾ teams were available, suggests that pasture was already important. (Footnote 81) In the 13th century Fen Drayton was still dominated by its resident freeholders, an attempt by Agnes de la Roche c. 1206 to claim more services from her sokemen having apparently failed. (Footnote 82)

World Biographical Index - 2

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Searching for all Roche's on the WBIS gave 657 results. Some of the older entries are listed below -

1.

Name:	La Roche-Baron, Ponce de évêque de Mâcon
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	mil. du 12e s.
Occupation:	évêque
Occupation Classification:	Church Dignitaries, Representatives, Administrators (715)
Archive:	Archives Biographiques Françaises (ABF)
Fiche Location:	I 601,404-421
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	La Rochette

Short Title:	La Rochette
Source Citation:	La Rochette, comte de; Histoire des évêques de Mâcon / par le cte de La Rochette. - Mâcon: Protat, 1866-1867. - 2 tomes

Saur Document Number:	F105945
Gale Document Number:	DA3506183466

Name:	Roche, Guillaume de
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	13e s.
Occupation:	maçon
Occupation Classification:	Construction Industry (161)
Archive:	Archives Biographiques Françaises (ABF)
Fiche Location:	II 557,203
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Brune P.

Short Title:	Brune P.
Source Citation:	Brune, Paul; Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d'art de la Franche-Comté / par Paul Brune. - Paris: Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie, 1912. - (Publications pour faciliter les études d'art en France).

Saur Document Number:	F332020
Gale Document Number:	DA3506278983

Name:	Rhos, Othon nte la
Other Name(s):	auch: Otto de la Roche
Year of Death:	nach 1225
Gender:	m
Occupation:	Ritter
Occupation Classification:	Aristocrats (905)
Archive:	Griechisches Biographisches Archiv (GBA)
Fiche Location:	364, 240-241
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Ekpaideutike hellenike enkyklopaideia

Short Title:	Ekpaideutike hellenike enkyklopaideia
Source Citation:	Ekpaideutike hellenike enkyklopaideia: pankosmio biographiko lexiko. - Athena, 1983-1988. - Tom. 1-9B

Saur Document Number:	G060-752-8
Gale Document Number:	DA3534063018

Name:	Roche, Thomas
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	1487-1504
Occupation:	judge
Occupation Classification:	Judges (332)
Archive:	British Biographical Archive (BBA)
Fiche Location:	I 941,289
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Foss

Short Title:	Foss
Source Citation:	Foss, Edward; A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England: from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870 / by Edward Foss. - London: Murray, 1870. - (Biographia Juridica).

Saur Document Number:	B150391
Gale Document Number:	DA3504257297

Name:	Roche, Jean
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	1570
Occupation:	Trompeter
Occupation Classification:	Instrumentalists, Orchestral Musicians (613)
Archive:	Deutsches Biographisches Archiv (DBA)
Fiche Location:	II 1083,125
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Refardt

Short Title:	Refardt
Source Citation:	Refardt, Edgar; Historisch-biographisches Musikerlexikon der Schweiz / von Edgar Refardt. - Leipzig [et al.]: Hug, 1928

Saur Document Number:	D616-583-0
Gale Document Number:	DA3508325693

Name:	Roche, Juan
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	1575
Occupation:	arcabucero
Occupation Classification:	Metal Working (121)
Country:	Spain
Archive:	Archivo Biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica (ABEPI)
Fiche Location:	I 812,110
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Gestoso

Short Title:	Gestoso
Source Citation:	Gestoso y Pérez, José; Ensayo de un diccionario de los artífices que florecieron en Sevilla desde el siglo XIII al XVIII inclusive / por José Gestoso y Pérez. - Sevilla: Andalucía moderna, 1899-1909. - 3 vols

Saur Document Number:	S104-900-5
Gale Document Number:	DA3514275655

Name:	Roche, John
Other Name(s):	c.h. John Neele
Year of Death:	1583
Gender:	m
Occupation:	martyr
Occupation Classification:	Saints, Martyrs (724)
Archive:	British Biographical Archive (BBA)
Fiche Location:	I 941,230-239
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Gillow; Burton/Pollen

Short Title:	Gillow
Source Citation:	Gillow, Joseph; A Literary and Biographical History, or, Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics: from the Breach with Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time / by Joseph Gillow. - London [et al.]: Burns & Oates [et al.], 1885-1902. - 5 vols

Short Title:	Burton/Pollen
Source Citation:	Lives of the English Martyrs: Second Series. The Martyrs Declared Venerable. Volume 1, 1583-1588 / edited by Edwin H. Burton and J. H. Pollen. - London [et al.]: Longmans, Green & Co, 1914

Saur Document Number:	B150368
Gale Document Number:	DA3504257273

Name:	Roche, José
Year of Birth:	1687
Year of Death:	1727
Gender:	m
Occupation:	Franciscan; missionary
Occupation Classification:	Members of a Religious Order (720); Priests, Preachers, Ministers, Rabbis (710)
Country:	Philippines; Spain
Archive:	South-East Asian Biographical Archive (SEABA)
Fiche Location:	350,143
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Gómez Platero

Short Title:	Gómez Platero
Source Citation:	Gómez Platero, Eusebio; Catálogo biográfico de los religiosos franciscanos: de la provincia de San Gregorio Magno de Filipinas desde 1577 en que llegaron los primeros á Manila hasta los de nuestros días / formado por Eusebio Gomez Platero. - Manila: Real colegio de Santo Tomás, 1880

Saur Document Number:	O63961
Gale Document Number:	DA3550065806

Name:	Roche, Philip
Other Name(s):	c.h. John Eustace
Year of Birth:	1693?
Year of Death:	1723
Gender:	m
Occupation:	pirate
Occupation Classification:	Criminals, Pirates, Traitors (912)
Archive:	British Biographical Archive (BBA)
Fiche Location:	I 941,267-273;II 1739,225-232
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Johnson; Knapp/Baldwin; Gosse; Hayward

Short Title:	Johnson
Source Citation:	Johnson, Charles; The History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, &c. &c. &c.: to which is Added, a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Noted Pirates / by Charles Johnson [pseud.]. - new ed. - Edinburgh [et al.]: Thomson [et al.], 1814

Short Title:	Knapp/Baldwin
Source Citation:	Knapp, Andrew; Baldwin, William; The New Newgate Calendar: Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters, who Have Been Convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England, During the Eighteenth Century, Brought Down to the Present Time / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin. - London: Robins [et al.], [1826?]. - 5 vols

Short Title:	Gosse
Source Citation:	Gosse, Philip; The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers / by Philipp Gosse. - London: Dulau, 1924

Short Title:	Hayward
Source Citation:	Lives of the most Remarkable Criminals: who Have Been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or Other Offences, Collected from Original Papers and Authentic Memoirs, and Published in 1735 / edited by Arthur L. Hayward. - London: Routledge, 1927

Saur Document Number:	B150384
Gale Document Number:	DA3504257290

10.

Name:	La Roche, Jean-Baptiste de
Year of Birth:	1704
Year of Death:	1785
Gender:	m
Occupation:	Jesuit missionary
Occupation Classification:	Members of a Religious Order (720)
Archive:	Chinese Biographical Archive (CBA)
Fiche Location:	133,14-15
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Pfister L.

Short Title:	Pfister L.
Source Citation:	Pfister, Louis; Notices biographiques et bibliographiques sur les Jésuites de l'ancienne mission de Chine: 1552-1773 / par Louis Pfister. - Shanghai: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1932/1934. - 2 vols. - (Variétés Sinologiques N° 59, 60).

Saur Document Number:	H20730
Gale Document Number:	DA3530022753

World Biographical Index

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I got access to the World Biographical Information System and looked around for ROCHEs in India. I found four records -

1.

Name:	Roche-Grellier
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	1883
Occupation:	physician
Occupation Classification:	General Practitioners (411)
Country:	Haiti; France; West India
Archive:	Scandinavian Biographical Archive (SBA)
Fiche Location:	I A-269,385
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Carøe 1

Short Title:	Carøe 1
Source Citation:	Carøe, Kristian Frederik; Den danske Lægestand: 1. Doktorer og Licentiater, 1479-1788, 2. Kirurger eksaminerede ved Theatrum anatomichirurgicum, 1738-85, 3. Den danske Lægestand 1786-1838, 4. Læger 1838-1900 (Supplement til 7. Udgave), 5. Supplement til Bd. 1-4 ved J. W. S. Johnsson / ved Kristian Carøe. - København [et al.]: Gyldendal [et al.], 1904-1922. - 5 Bd.

Saur Document Number:	C131904
Gale Document Number:	DA3512116609

Name:	Roche, William James
Year of Birth:	1865
Year of Death:	1948
Gender:	m
Occupation:	engineer
Occupation Classification:	Technicians, Engineers (181)
Country:	Ireland; India; New Zealand
Archive:	Australasian Biographical Archive (ANZO-BA)
Fiche Location:	336,49-50
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Furkert

Short Title:	Furkert
Source Citation:	Furkert, Frederick William; Early New Zealand Engineers / by F.W. Furkert. Revised and edited by W. L. Newnham. - Wellington: Reed, 1953

Saur Document Number:	N073-917-6
Gale Document Number:	DA3520075907

Name:	Roche, V.
Year of Birth:	1922
Gender:	m
Occupation:	public accountant; Indian community leader
Occupation Classification:	Accountants (308); Politics: Others (329)
Country:	Malaysia; India
Archive:	South-East Asian Biographical Archive (SEABA)
Fiche Location:	350,144
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Leaders of Malaya

Short Title:	Leaders of Malaya
Source Citation:	The leaders of Malaya and who's who 1957-58 / edited and published by J. Victor Morais. - Kuala Lumpur: Morais, 1957

Saur Document Number:	O63962
Gale Document Number:	DA3550065807

Name:	D'Costa, Roche Francis
Gender:	m
Year Cited:	1947-1948
Occupation:	medical practitioner
Occupation Classification:	General Practitioners (411)
Country:	Malaysia; India
Archive:	South-East Asian Biographical Archive (SEABA)
Fiche Location:	93,269
Short Title(s) of Source(s):	Medical practitioners

Short Title:	Medical practitioners
Source Citation:	Directory of information on medical practitioners in Malaysia / edited by Kuah Kim Boo. - 2 ed. - Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Medical Ass, 1972

Saur Document Number:	O16918
Gale Document Number:	DA3550018790

Geography of the Indian Empire - 1926

2004-08-12T10:34:00.000-07:00

The book -

Morrison, Cameron. A New Geography of the Indian Empire and Ceylon. Fifth Edition. London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1926, 101-191.

has been transcribed and put online. It starts with the political divisions and then goes on to give details on the then Provinces of India and Indian Feudatory States.

Web Sources for Military History

2004-08-12T10:30:00.000-07:00

Prof. emer. R Jensen has compiled many history related sites at the Web Sources for Military History.

It deals mainly with American history; it does contain a few India related links.

Chamier Family

2004-08-12T10:26:00.000-07:00

Another family web site - Chamier Family.

Old Style and New Style Dates

2004-08-12T10:22:00.000-07:00

I've encountered dates of the format 2nd March 1735/6 when reading through old documents. Now I know what it means! There's an article describing Old style and new style dates and changes to the Gregorian calendar.

Bibliography of Anglo-Indian Books

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Bibliography of Anglo-Indian Books

Genes reunited

2004-08-10T11:03:00.000-07:00

Heard some rave reviews of genes reunited so I registered myself to that site.

Will enter some family trees there. I can search for specific individuals (ancestors and current) on the site - these have been entered by members like me. So I can check if anyone is researching the same ancestor as I am.

Unfortunately they don't allow me to contact the other researcher until I cough out 7.5 pounds. So far I didn't find anyone researching the ROCHEs in India there, so don't plan to upgrade my membership.

posted message on cousinconnect

2004-08-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

Posted my message on cousinconnect.

Hi, I am researching the ROCHE family in India. I am especially interested in the family in Southern India, but am currently researching the family throughout the sub-continent. If you need information on the ROCHE family in India you may write to me; and if you have any information to share, I'll be glad to hear about it.

hopefully someone will notice!

How much is it worth today?

2004-08-07T13:18:00.000-07:00

Every wondered what the money one of your ancestors was earning would be worth today? The Economic history resources site has a nice utility to do just that!

Family History in India - 6

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10. From the the Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (1857-1859) whose recipients served in 1st Madras Fusiliers, 3rd Madras Fusiliers, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, 1st Bombay Fusiliers, the Lahore Light Horse and ‘A Troop’ Madras Horse Artillery, as well as the staff and students of La Martiniere College, Lucknow. It is extracted from the The Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces)1857-1859 by Kevin Asplin which is a complete list of 50,700 men who received the medal.

No.	Rank	Surname	First Names	Regiment	Remarks
570	Private	Roach	James	3rd Madras Fusiliers	Claimed Discharge
121	Private	Roach	John	3rd Madras Fusiliers
	Sergeant	Roach	William	2nd Bengal European Fusiliers
	Private	Roche	Edmund	1st Bengal European Fusiliers
	Private	Roche	James	2nd Bengal European Fusiliers

Family History in India - 5

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9. From the Indian Mutiny Medal - British Forces 1857-1859

Surname	Given Names(s)	Rank	Regiment or Ship
Roach	David	Private	72nd Foot (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)
Roach	David	Private	95th Foot (Derbyshire)
Roach	Edward	Private	1st Battalion 10th Foot (North Lincolnshire)
Roach	Edward	Private	88th Foot (Connaught Rangers)
Roach	George	Private	38th Foot (1st Staffordshire)
Roach	Henry	Private	83rd Foot
Roach	James	Private	1st Battalion 10th Foot (North Lincolnshire)
Roach	James	Private	43rd Foot (Monmouthshire Light Infantry)
Roach	James	Private	97th Foot (Earl of Ulster's)
Roach	James	Private	Camel Corps
Roach	John	Private	1st Battalion 10th Foot (North Lincolnshire)
Roach	John	Sergeant	1st Battalion 6th Foot (1st Warwickshire)
Roach	John	Private	3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade
Roach	John	Private	83rd Foot
Roach	John	Private	83rd Foot
Roach	Michael	Bugler	1st Battalion 60th Foot (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
Roach	Michael	Private	86th Foot (Royal County Down)
Roach	Patrick	Private	86th Foot (Royal County Down)
Roach	Peter	Private	1st Battalion 10th Foot (North Lincolnshire)
Roach	Remmy	Private	73rd Foot
Roach	Soloman	Private	74th Foot (Highland)
Roach	William	Private	75th Foot
Roach	William	Private	82nd Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
Roache	Edward	Drummer	88th Foot (Connaught Rangers)
Roache	James	Private	1st Battalion 4th Foot (King's Own)
Roache	James	Private	64th Foot (2nd Staffordshire)
Roache	John	Private	35th Foot (Royal Sussex)
Roache	John	Private	64th Foot (2nd Staffordshire)
Roche	Charles Boyse	Paymaster	34th Foot (Cumberland)
Roche	James	Private	81st Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)
Roche	John	Private	1st Battalion 8th Foot (The King's)
Roche	Lawrence	Private	61st Foot (South Gloustershire)
Roche	Michael	Private	32nd Foot (Cornwall)
Roche	Patrick	Private	61st Foot (South Gloustershire)
Roche	William	Private	1st Battalion 8th Foot (The King's)
Roche	William	Private	78th Foot (Highland)

Family History in India - 4

2004-08-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

8. From the Index to Bengal Marriages 1855-1864

Surname	First Name	Other Names	Spouse Surname	Spouse First Name	Spouse Other Names	Year	Prefix	Vol No	Folio	Notes
Roach	William		Baldwy	Letitia		1860	N1	98	179
Roach	James		Greenwood	Maria		1862	N1	102	635
Roach	Philip	H	Watkins	Agnes	M	1863	N1	103	110
Roade	James		Darmody	Eliza		1861	N1	99	631
Roche	Catherine	F	Rockford	Thomas		1861	N1	100	567
Roche	Catherine	Frances	Rochford	Thomas		1861	N11	2	49	Reg
Rochford	Thomas		Roche	Catherine	Frances	1861	N11	2	49	Reg
Rockford	Thomas		Roche	Catherine	F	1861	N1	100	567

Family History in India - 3

2004-08-03T15:01:00.000-07:00

7. From the Index to Bengal Marriages 1865-1873

Surnames	Forenames	Surnames	Forenames	Vol	Folio	Year
Roach	Catherine	Warden	William	1869	129	91
Roach	John	-	Emma	1871	137	102
Roach	Mary	Reid	Richmond	1869	127	154
Roach	Mary	Reid	Richmond	1869	128	94
Roahrey	George	Thompson	Victoria V.	1867	120	79
Roche	Esther A.	Jenno[n]	Pierre de L.	1869	130	97 & 453
Roche	William	Mullins	Mary A.	1871	137	270
Jenno[n]	Pierre de L.	Roche	Esther A.	1869	130	97 & 453
Mullins	Mary A.	Roche	William	1871	137	270

Family History in India - 2

2004-08-03T14:44:00.000-07:00

6. From the Index to Bengal Marriages 1874-1896

Surnames	Forenames	Surnames	Forenames	Vol	Folio	Year
Kaye	Fredk. Wm.	Roche	Bridget Agnes	216	293	1891
King	Joseph Hy.	D'Roche	Cecilia Joanna Anna	223	36 & 57	1891
Roach	Agnes	Harrison	Henry William	263	371	1884
Roach	Charlotte	Stokes	Henry C.	166	196	1878
Roach	Margaret	Young	James D.	161	201	1877
Roach	Mary	Adams	Francis Alf.	290	141	1890
Roach	Mary Ellen	Bruce	Walter	210	195	1889
Roach	Rebecca E.	Morgan	James H.	158	150	1876
Roache	Alex. W.	Davis	Ida Jane	212	275	1890
Roache	Jas. Hy.	De Silva	Sarah	203	190	1888
Roache	Joseph A.	Turner	Caroline E.	184	70	1883
Roch	Ernest W.	Wood	Beatrice C.	226	16	1892
Rocha	Louis	Ma Mein	Mary Clara	263	393	1887
Roche	A. Margaret	Harper	Thos. M.	162	232	1877
Roche	Alex. de R. B.	Mayne	Agnes Blair	207	278	1882
Roche	Alicia M.	Willett	Frank	191	[8]6	1885
Roche	Bridget Agnes	Kaye	Fredk. Wm.	216	293	1891
Roche	Eveline C.	Hogan	Wm. John. A.	208	266	1889
Roche	Mabel	Doyle	Michall Jos.	216	186	1891
Roche	Mary A	Green	Nicholas	184	187	1883
Roche	Mary A.	Neaves	Jonathan T.	163	223	1878
Roche	Timothy	Hodges	Emily	234	68 & Reg	1893
Neaves	Jonathan T.	Roche	Mary A.	163	223	1878
De Roaches	Thomas	De Silva	Catherine	263	376	1885
De Roche	Elizth.	Ryan	Hy. Ed.	246	339	1895
De Roche	Francisca	D'Silva	Peter	263	376a	1891
De Roche	Mary I.	Gardener	Geo. Reddish	229	74	1890
DeRoche	John	Mah Te	Rebecca	263	376	1888
Doyle	Michall Jos.	Roche	Mabel	216	186	1891
D'Roch[e]	Rosy	Rabel	Thomas	290	49	1885
D'Roche	Cecilia Joanna Anna	King	Joseph Hy.	223	36 & 57	1891
D'Roche	Edmd. Jso.	McGrath	Kathleen	239	142	1894
D'Roque[s]	Sabina	Henry	Alexander	290	54	1890
D'Silva	Peter	De Roche	Francisca	263	376a	1891
Gardener	Geo. Reddish	De Roche	Mary I.	229	74	1890
Green	Nicholas	Roche	Mary A	184	187	1883
Harper	Thos. M.	Roche	A. Margaret	162	232	1877
Hodges	Emily	Roche	Timothy	234	68 & Reg	1893
Hogan	Wm. John. A.	Roche	Eveline C.	208	266	1889
Mah Te	Rebecca	DeRoche	John	263	376	1888
Mayne	Agnes Blair	Roche	Alex. de R. B.	207	278	1882
McGrath	Kathleen	D'Roche	Edmd. Jso.	239	142	1894
Willett	Frank	Roche	Alicia M.	191	[8]6	1885

Family History in India

2004-08-03T14:19:00.000-07:00

I went to Cathy Day's Family History in India site and found that a lot of information has been added since my last visit.

Here are the ROCHEs mentioned in the site -

1. From the Index to Calcutta Marriages 1713-1800.

Groom: Roche, Edward
Bride: "Domingo"
Year: 1752
Folio: N/1/1/382

2. From the Ecclesiastical Officers in Hart's Army List - 1873

Name of Minister: Andrew William Roche QUINLAN
Qualification: MA
Level: Junior Chaplain
Year of Appointment: 1868
Presidency: Bengal
Location: Howrah

3. From the Madras Army Recruit Embarkation List for HEICS Minerva
Gravesend to Madras 12th May - 24th August 1827 (L/MIL/9/77 & L/MIL/9/100)

Recruited: Artillery
Christian: Danl
Surname: Roche
Rank: Soldier
Age: 19
Ft.: 5
Ins.: 7¼
Enlistment: 22-Jan-1827
Occupation: Labourer
Town: Ballinspittle
County: Cork
Country: England
Enlisted: Cork
Period: Unlimited
Remark: Wife, Margaret

4. From the British Army Casualty List 2nd Afghan War 1878-1880

Rank: Lieutenant
Surname: Thackwell
Given Names: Colquhoun Grant Roche
Unit: 51st Foot
Nature of Casualty: Severe Wound
Place of Casualty: near Pezwan
Date of Casualty: 30-06-1880

5. From the Medical Officers in Hart's Army List - 1873

Name of Officer: William Roche RICE, MD
Rank: Surgeon
Commission: 20 Nov 1856
Seniority: 20 Nov 1868
Presidency: Bengal
Other Information: Civil, Jubbulpore, 20 Jan 1865

CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

2004-08-02T15:24:00.000-07:00

The CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) is online and allows you to search for persons who were war casuality.

On searching for ROCHE with Nationality as Indian, I found two entries -

Name: ROCHE, KELLY J.
Initials: K J
Nationality: Indian
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
Unit Text: 1st/32nd Bn.
Date of Death: 21/11/1918
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: MADRAS (ST. PATRICK'S) CEMETERY, CHENNAI

Name: ROCHE, PATRICK JOSEPH
Initials: P J
Nationality: Indian
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Indian Army Reserve of Officers
Secondary Regiment: 1st King George's Own Sappers & Miners
Secondary Unit Text: attd.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 25/08/1917
Awards: MC
Additional information: Son of William and Ellen Roche, of Cork.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. C. 8.
Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

A general search for the ROCHE surname yielded 262 results.

Record Linkage in Genealogy

2004-07-12T19:23:00.000-07:00

Record Linkage in Genealogy

Genealogy Data

2004-07-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

I've been debating (with myself) for quite a while about the format in which I should store all my genealogical data. Right now my data is in many different formats - PAF, GEDCOM, text, doc, xls, notes on paper, xeroxes and printouts, images and some in xml (my own dtd).

What format to choose?

I'll have too look in detail what kind of data I store right now (and will in the future). Also will have to debate if I should use any of the existing format (whay? why not?)

I personally prefer a xml format, mainly 'coz I'm familiar with that field, can write xslt/code to view/manipulate the data and can just open the data in a text file and modify it.

I am also working on a classification scheme for the documents. Plan to generate/assign a unique id for each of the document (yep, in the xml format it would be the id of the root element) and also, possibly, for each section/part of the document. This way I can refer to the document as a whole as well as parts of the documents - while giving the source of any inferences and individual details.

From the documents I'll extract all the events mentioned (this will definitely be in xml format). So, we'll have a hierarchy -

Individual/Family -- Event -- Document

Each Individual/Family will have one ore more events associated with it.
Each event will be associated with one or more individual/family.
Each event will be documented in one or more documents.
Each document may document zero or more events.

The document could be a primary document (say the church registers) or a secondary document - in which case the primary document should, preferably, be identified.

An event could have a causal event (identified by its id) - for e.g. a burial event could have the causal event as the death event.

Each event will have details pertaining to it.

Convicts to Australia

2004-07-11T17:32:00.000-07:00

The Convicts to Australia site contains information about convicts that were shipped to Australia and NSW from UK, Ireland and India.

A search for roche returned four results -

1. Marquis Cornwallis (ship)
(Convict Women to NSW 1788-1828 - Marquis Cornwallis 1796)
Name: Roche, Mary
Trial Place: Dublin
Date: 08/1794
Departed: IRELAND

2. Mariner
(Convict Women to NSW 1788-1828 - Mariner 1825)
Name: Roche, Hannah
Trial Place: Dublin City
Day: 22
Month: 05
Year: 1824
Departed: IRELAND

3. Phoebe Dunbar
(Western Australian Convicts - Phoebe Dunbar 1853)
Name: Roche, John
Reg. No.:2544
Term: 10y
Age: 23
Trial Place: Wexford
Day: 01
Month: 03
Year: 1850
Criminal Offence: Burglary

4. Ramillies
(Western Australian Convicts - Ramillies 1854)
Name: Roche, William
Reg. No.: 3070
Term: 10y
Age: 23
Trial Place: Cork
Date: 11
Month: 10
Year: 1848

Gertrude Bell's India Trip (1902/3)

2004-07-10T11:56:00.000-07:00

The Newcastle University Library's Gertrude Bell Project contains trascribed records of Gertrude Bell- this includes diary entries, Letters, and Photographs.

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was born in Washington, in what was then Co. Durham, but, when she was very young, she moved with her family to Redcar. She travelled to India between December 1902 and March 1903.

Letters she wrote during that period -

1. Friday. [12 December 1902] We've arrived
2. Saturday. [13 Decembe 1902] India does make a noise in the morning! (2-liner)
3. [16 December 1902] Tuesday 16. In the train.
4. [22 December 1902] Jeypore [Jaipur]. Tuesday 22nd
5. Agra. Xmas Day. [25 December 1902]
6. [31 December 1902] Delhi Durbar.
7. Jan. 1st. [1 January 1902] We put on our best clothes and started off at 9 for a 4 miles' drive to the Durbar horseshoe.
8. [2 January 1903] Jan 2. 1st Visitor's Camp. Delhi.
9. Sat. 3rd. [3 January 1903] Mr Landon came to breakfast
10. Monday 4 [i.e. 5] [5 January 1903] We had a delightful day.
11. Tues 5 [i.e. 6]. [6 January 1903] This morning I watched a most interesting function.
12. [12 January 1903] Oudeypore (or Udaipur is I see the official spelling).
13. Tuesday. [13 January 1903] This morning our prancing horses took us to the Maharana's palace
14. Wed. [14 January 1903] We made an expedition today to some temples
15. [18 January 1903] Sunday Jan 18th. In the train from Alwar to Delhi.
16. Lahore Monday 19th. [19 January 1903] We got to Delhi at 3
17. [23 January 1903] Peshawar Friday Jan. 23.
18. Sat 24. [24 January 1903] Today we raided a bit of the Amir's country
19. Sun. 25. [25 January 1903] We are back again in Peshawar
20. Monday 26. [26 January 1903] We've had the social day
21. Tuesday 27. [27 January 1903] Well, we've been up the Khyber in gorgeous weather.
22. Wed 28. [28 January 1903] Hugo had for a travelling companion
23. [11 February 1903] Calcutta.
24. [14 February 1903] Darjeeling [Darjiling], Woodlands Hotel Feb 14.
25. Sunday Feb 15. [15 February 1903] Tangloo. 10,074 ft. up.
26. Feb 16. [16 February 1903] This morning, when we got up at 6.30
27. Tues 17. I woke at dawn and looked out and saw Kinchinjunga [Kangchenjunga] wonderfully close.
28. [22 February 1903] S.S. Tara. Bay of Bengal. Sunday Feb 22.
29. [25 February 1903] In the train. Wed.
30. [2 March 1903] On the Irrawaddy

Wow! She was a prolific writer!

She also has a lot of Diary entries for that period -
1. Dec 1902
2. Jan 1903
3. Feb 1903
4. Mar 1903

There are several references to a Charlotte Roche in this archive along with a few photographs.

The British Library - Images

2004-07-09T14:57:00.000-07:00

The British Library has its images, from its book collection, online.

On searching for Roche, I found one record -

Record Number: 21284
Shelfmark: C.32.h.14
Page Folio Number: opposite 52
Title of Image: Roche Brasiliano
Description: Roche Brasiliano. Dutch Buccaneer, active during the 1670s. Portrait.
Title of Work: Bucaniers of America: or, a true account of the ... assaults committed ... upon the coasts of the West Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga ... especially, the ... exploits of Sir H. Morgan ... written originally in Dutch, by J. [or rather A. O.] Esquemelin ... now ... rendred into English.
Author: Exquemelin, Alexander Olivier
Production: W. Crooke: London, 1684-85
Language/Script: English

The image shows a person holding a sword. The title, below the picture, reads "ROCK BRASILIANO"

Surname Distribution analysis

2004-07-08T11:08:00.000-07:00

Found this Surname Distribution analysis site from the Ashton site. It allows you to generate a plot of the distribution against the map for UK and US.

The UK distribution is based off 1881 census - you need to extract the data from the LDS 1881 Census National Index and feed it to the site. You can also download the application to work on it locally.

The US distribution is based off the 1880 census - again yuo need to extract the data from the LDS 1880 Census National Index and feed it to the site (or use teh aggregation program).

More Genealogy Sites (Family)

2004-07-08T10:26:00.000-07:00

Here are two more family genealogy sites:

1. The Winter family of Sri Lanka
Talks of the family/descendents of Sir William Winter, Surveyor of the Navy to Elizabeth I and of Rev. Charles Henry Winter.

2. The Ashton family

Both the sites take the narrative approach. The latter site has the narrative in pdf format.

Posted message on genforum

2004-07-07T17:12:00.000-07:00

Posted the message on genforum too - in the Roche Family Genealogy Forum.

Also posted the message on the India Genealogy Forum.

Posted message on Rootsweb

2004-07-07T14:14:00.000-07:00

Posted a message on the Rootsweb bb for the Roche surname -

Subject: Researching the ROCHE family in India
Date: 7 Jul 2004 9:10 PM GMT
Surnames: Roche
Classification: Query

Hi,

I am researching the ROCHE family in India. I am especially interested in the family in Southern India, but am currently researching the family throughout the sub-continent.

If you need information on the ROCHE family in India you may write to me; and if you have any information to share, I'll be glad to hear about it.

cheers
Conrad Roche

Also posted the message on the bb for the "Locality" India.

Old Indian Photographs

2004-07-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

The Smithsonian has a collection of early Indian Photographs (from 1840 to 1911) online - India through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911.

About.com has an article on Photography in India: The Early Years

Newspapers online

2004-07-07T11:13:00.000-07:00

The Times is no longer available free now. Should have researched more on that site before the trial period expired :(

Was searching around and found the Internet Public Library from our local public library. It has a section for newspapers which lists many online newspapers for various countries - even for India. But this is current news, not past....

The Mathematics Genealogy Project

2004-07-05T15:21:00.000-07:00

The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of the Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. It aims to document all known Mathematicians.

A search for Roche's on this database yielded a few persons - all in the last 100 years.

John Edward Roche
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1956
Dissertation: The Application of Certain Non-Parametric tests to Business Problems
Advisor: John Stockton

Peter La Roche
Ph.D. Cornell University 1978
Dissertation: Contributions to Recursive Algebra
Advisor: Anil Nerode

Claude Andre Roche
Ph.D. Université Scientifique et Médiacale de Grenoble (University of Grenoble) 1982
Dissertation: Cohomologie relative dans le domaine reel.
Advisor: Ivan Kupka

Karen Jean Bandeen-Roche
Ph.D. Cornell University 1990
Dissertation: A Receptor-Based Model for the Statistical Analysis of Air Pollution Data: Source Apportionment with One Source Unknown
Advisor: David Ruppert

Alan Joseph Roche
Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1996
Dissertation: Types and Hecke Algebras for Principal Series Representations of Split Reductive p-adic Groups
Advisor: Philip Kutzko

University of Birmingham - archives and manuscripts collection - Mangalore

2004-07-05T14:15:00.000-07:00

There are a few documents in this collection that have references to Mangalore.
All the records are from the same repository - University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department, Main Library, Edgbaston Campus

1. Menge, Rev. Charles Caesar,
Date: 1836-1869
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I3 O52/1-154
Extent: 154 docs.
/86 Includes [appendix] brief account of baptism of three Brahmins at Mangalore Jan 1844;

2. Leupolt, Rev. Charles Benjamin
Date: 1832-1872
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 O177
Extent: 169 docs.
/142 Describes visit to SPG missions at Tanjore and Trichinopoly and the American mission at Madura, Jan 1865; describes visit to temple of Minachi at Madura 31 Jan 1865; also Tinnevelly district, Palamcotta, Paneivillei, Nazareth, Mangnanapuram, London Missionary Society missions in Travancore, Neyoor, Trivandrum, Cottayam, Mangalore, Tillicheri and Madras 1865;

3. Miscellaneous letters to headquarters
Date: 1820-1876
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O13
Extent: 31 docs.
/11 Findlay Anderson: Mangalore: sends to Dandeson Coates copy of letter to Dr. Hoffman, Basel Evangelical Missionary Society relating to establishment by subscription of English school for Hindus at Mangalore: CMS to hope to provide a schoolmaster 1841;

4. Hebich, Rev. Samuel
Date: 1834-1846
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O118
Extent: 20 docs.
Description:
Basle Evangelical Missionary Society: Mangalore 1834-1841; Cannanore 1841-1846 /1-20 Letters 1834-46 mainly dealing with bills drawn on CMS including: /4 Includes reference to Mr. Findlay Anderson 1836; /20B Specification of bills drawn Nov 1845 - Oct 1846

5. Moegling, H.
Date: 1836-1859
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O166
Extent: 3 docs.
Description:
Basle Evangelical Missionary Society: Mangalore 1836-1857: Anandapura, Coorg mission 1858-1859 /1-2 Letters 1836, 1859; /3 Meeting at Mangalore to celebrate jubilee of CMS 1848

6. Sullivan, J.
Date: 1834
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O239
Extent: 2 docs.
Description:
/1-2 Letters 1834: /1 Includes reference to possible difficulties of Germans arriving at Calicut as licence from East India Company only applied to British subjects [J. C. Leihner, S. Hebich, C. I. Gruner, opening German Missionary Society (Basle) station at Mangalore, Canara coast] 1834; /2 Includes reference to need of missionary in Calicut 1834

7. Tucker, Rev. John
Date: 1833-1847
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O253
Extent: 295 docs.
/54/1-44 Papers received 19 Jan 1837 mainly relating to Rhenius including: /24 Letter from Findlay Anderson, Mangalore 1836;
/136/1-4 Papers received 26 Jan 1841 including: /3 Circular from Samuel Hebich, C. Greiner, H. Moegling and G. E. Sutter, Basle Evangelical Missionary Society: relating to missions in Mangalore, Dharwar, Hoobly and Tellicherry [printed] 1840;

8. Carr, Thomas [1837-1851]
Date: 1838-1850
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I3 O4A/1-22
Extent: 22 docs.
/21 Note of commendation from John Rowlandson, domestic chaplain, Mangalore, relating to Daji Pandurang and James Buntur following ordination as deacons by bishop of Bombay 1850;

9. Jeffreys, Rev. Henry
Date: 1834-1849
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I3 O41/1-40
Extent: 40 docs.
/18 Copy of letter to Rev. Samuel Hebich, Basle missionary in Canara reference to their missions at Mangalore and Darwar 1836;

10. Kharsedji, Sorabji
Date: 1850-1860
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I3 O46/1-5
Extent: 5 docs.
Description:
Catechist: Nasik 1849; Malegaon 1850; Bombay 1853; Nasik 1854; Sharanpur 1854-1861 /1-3 Journals 1850-52: /1 Journal of tour with Rev. Edward Rogers 5 Nov 1849 - [end missing]; /2 23 Oct 1850 - 5 Feb 1851; /3 Short notice of a tour toward the coasts [Mangalore] [with Rev. C. W. Isenberg] 1-17 Jan 1852; /4 Report 1854; /5 Annual letter for 1860 [also covering 1854-60]

University of Birmingham - archives and manuscripts collection

2004-07-04T21:11:00.000-07:00

The University of Birmingham - archives and manuscripts collection catalogue is online. This includes collection held on three sites across three campuses - Special Collections Department, Main Library, Edgbaston Campus, Orchard Learning Resources Centre, Selly Oak Campus and Shakespeare Institute Library, Stratford-Upon-Avon.

I looked for any Roche in the search page; there were 14 records - all of them in the same repository - University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department, Main Library, Edgbaston Campus.

Rev. Benedict La Roche

1. Correspondence and journals: 2 March 1818 - 4 April 1820
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E2
Extent: 1 file
Description: Includes: Letters from Josiah Pratt and Edward Bickersteth; from missionaries J. Adlington, W. Deerr, W. Greenwood, J. A. Jetter, B. la Roche, T. Morris, J. Perowne, D. Schmid and F. C. G. Schroeter; minutes of Calcutta Corresponding Committee and letters from T. Thomason (mission secretary), D. Corrie, H. Fisher and D. Wilson; letters from Capt. J. P. Griffith, Lieut. Stewart, C. Coleman, J. Cumming, T. Jones, J. Traill and J. Narian Ghopaul; journals of W. Bowley

2. Letter from Rev. Benedict La Roche to Pratt: 31 January 1819: Portsmouth
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E2/43
Extent: 1 doc.
Description: Asks for Hindustani and Sanskrit grammars and dictionaries for the nine missionaries on board, also for Russian leather and bookbinding materials for the printing shops at Benares and Garden Reach; all are well on board, except that Miss Perowne suffers from headache, and the passengers show interest in the missionary cause

3. Letter from Secretary to Thomason: 16 April 1819: London
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E2/62
Extent: 1 doc.
Description: Includes: Hopes to send two printers and a second printing-press of improved type, also materials in Oct; is sending two Lutheran missionaries from the Basel seminary to help in education - Rev. John Andrew Jetter and Rev. William Deerr; they are under the direction of the Calcutta Committee; hopes Rev. Benedict La Roche now studying oriental languages in Paris will come to Calcutta in the autumn [copy]

4. Letter from Secretary to Corrie: 29 September 1819: London
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E2/79
Extent: 1 doc.
Description: Is thankful for the bishop's plan to use the £5000 voted him by SPG in founding a mission college at Calcutta; SPCK thereupon voted him £5000 and CMS a further £5000 to be given through the Calcutta Corresponding Committee; Registers and Reports will be sent to C. as a friendly token and the London Committee would like to help in replacing his lost books; Committee is cheered by the good report of Greenwood and would like news of Abdul; Rev. Benedict La Roche, a well-educated young Lutheran who has studied Arabic and Persian and is now beginning Sanskrit and Bengali under Lee at Cambridge, will be coming to India with Rev. John Perowne, an Anglican, formerly a printer and also of good education, and a young man, Brown, who has long worked for the CMS printer Watts; hopes to send the party by Christmas, with the types and presses; loss of the 'Paragon' entails the loss of many CMS publications en route for Calcutta; as many as possible will be replaced; the idols sent by the 'Ganges' have arrived, after some delay in getting them exempt from customs dues; "we got them to this House yeaterday, and have ranged them in the yard, as we are afraid of our floors if we give them an inside lodging. They were reckoned in point of freight at six tons, but we find them less than two" [copy]

5. Letter from Secretaries to Thomason: 21 January 1820: London
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E2/86
Extent: 1 doc.
Description: Acknowledges letters; reports of mission are very pleasing; anxious lest exclusion of teaching of scripture in early education at Burdwan schools should prejudice its inclusion later, but trust to Committee's wisdom and local knowledge; Schmid's interest in his work on the tract on ecclesiastical history must be checked, the Committee do not agree to his being attached to the Female Orphan Asylum; he must spend more time in direct missionary work; Mr. La Roche, Mr. Perowne and Mr. Brown, the printer, are being sent by the Committee for work at Benares; La Roche, although intellectually very capable, is still in need of spiritual instruction; Perowne was trained as a printer and he and his wife have made good progress in their training at Norwich; Mr. Brown has been working under the CMS printer, Mr. Watts; although trained as a pressman he is now acquainted with all aspects of the work and should be capable of directing a printing-works; more printing materials are being sent; for the press at Calcutta local help may possibly be obtained; Thomas Morris has spent three years as curate of Bedminster, near Bristol; Abadullah, who left India as a sailor, has arrived in England, but will have to return; in view of the growth of mission work it would be too costly to equip every mission station with a library; there should be a good library at Calcutta for the use of the mission generally and this should contain all standard works of missionary interest; the local stations should be supplied with a collection of books used frequently by the missionaries; in addition each missionary should have an individual set of such books as 'Scott's Bible', lexicons etc.; lists of books needed should be sent to London each Michaelmas; points out that copyists are sometimes inaccurate owing to lack of knowledge of English, which makes the despatches difficult to decipher [copy]

6. Corrie, Rev. Daniel
Date: 1815-1834
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 O76
Extent: 207 docs.
Description
Secretary of Corresponding Committee 1820-1834: Calcutta 1815-1834 /1-133 Letters 1820-1834 including: /2 Relates to Bishop's College [Calcutta] 1820; /5 Reference to Rev. Robertson bringing to England painting of Abdul Masih 1820; /6 Includes reference to Abdul Masih 1820; /7 Relates to Mr. Deerr and Mr. La Roche and difficulties with German missionaries 1820; /12 Includes list of books printed at CM Press 1820; /15 Relates to Mr. La Roche 1821; /17 Includes reference to Mr. Adlington 1821; /30A-B Relate to death of bishop of Calcutta including [/30B] detailed assessment of character etc. 1822; /34 Includes reference to Mr. Peters, formerly a Baptist missionary 1822; /40-43 Relate to Rev. W. H. Mill and Rev. J. Hawtayne's attack on Calcutta Corresponding Committee, with correspondence 1823; /46-47 Relate to merger of Calcutta Corresponding Committee into CMS Auxiliary Society, and relating to property 1823; /49 Relates to mission church Calcutta 1823; /60 Includes reference to Abdul Masih and Mr. Bowley's episcopal ordination 1825; /64 [Beginning missing]; /65-66 Includes copy of letter from J. W. Doran relating to death of Bishop Heber 1826; /70 Relates to Syrian Christians 1826; /73 Relates to Bishop's College, with note by F. Goode 1826; /80 Relates to grants to Bishop's College 1827; /88, 100, 102 Relate to Wilson, Reichardt and Steward 1827-1828; /130 Has note relating to finance by C. J. D. Murray 1833; /134 Brief report of visit to Delhi, Meerut, Chunar, Benares and Buxar 1825; /135-137 Reports of visits to Burdwan 1827-1828; /138 Letter to W. Bannister, Secretary of Madras Corresponding Committee 1827; /139 Letter to bishop of Calcutta 1824; /140-144 Letters to G. W. Crauford, Secretary of Corresponding Committee 1824; /145 Letter to R. Hamilton 1827 /146 Letter to E. A. Newton relating to finance 1824; /147 Letter to T. Thomason relating to bishop's wishes concerning Bhagalpur 1824 /148A Letter from Rev. H. S. Fisher, including reference to Anand Masih [incomplete: end only] 1827; /148B Letter from A. Hampton applying for employment by CMS, with note by Rev. G. W. Crauford of Allahabad 1828; /149 Letter from Rev. John Irving, chaplain at Agra 1824; /150 Letter from Rev. William Parish of Kurnaul 1828; /151 Letter from Colonel W. S. Whish of Kurnaul 1827; /152-200 Papers as Secretary of Corresponding Commmittee, comprising correspondence, circulars, copies and drafts of committee papers including: /152 Copies of correspondence relating to Rev. William Greenwood 1815-1828; /153 Correspondence with Rev. D. Schmid 1820; /154-155 Relate to Rev. C. G. Schroeter's Tibetan papers (dictionary, grammar, treatises etc.) 1820; /156 Extract of letter from Henry Money relating to visit to Chunar 1820; /158 Correspondence with Lutheran missionaries relating to their use of the Anglican formularies 1821; /160, 172 Relate to Benares school 1821, 1826; /161-162, 171, 191 Account of work by Rev. William Deerr 1821-1822, 1826, 1828; /163, 167 Relate to Rev. Isaac Wilson 1822, 1824; /164 Extract from proceedings 5 Apr 1823 relating to Mr. Wilson and Miss Cooke; /168 Relates to Nilgherry Hills project 1824; /173 Including ground plan of proposed church, house and school at Buxar 1826; /183 Copies of correspondence with Rev. J. Steward of Calcutta 1827; /184-188 Correspondence and proceedings relating to Wilson, Reichardt and Steward 1828 [/184 is duplicate of /186]; /195 Relates to John Moore 1829; /196-197 Report by Rev. M. Wilkinson (Gorakhpur) 1829; /201 Petition to Corrie from parents and friends of boys relating to proposed plan for establishment of school for sons of missionaries: dated Calcutta: [51 signatures] 1826; /202 Memorandum on native female education [printed] 1822; /203 Native female education: proposal for a central school [printed] 1823; /204 Extract of letter from Mrs. Corrie relating to visit to Benares, Chunar and Mirzapore [few details] 1824; /205 Report of examination of Burdwan schools by Corrie and Major Phipps 1822; /206 Account of hill people of Bhagalpur [including customs] 1824; /207 Report by Corrie [draft: ?report to Corresponding Committee] 1826

7. La Roche, Rev Benedict
Date: 1821
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 O172
Extent: 1 doc.
Description: /1 Letter from Dr. A. F. Ramsay from Gravesend, reporting death of Benedict La Roche 1821

8. Schroeter, Rev. Frederic Christian Gotthelf
Date: 1820-1821
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I1 O257
Extent: 3 docs.
Description: Titalya, Bengal /1-2 Letters relating to work on compilation of Tibetan dictionary 1820; /1 includes reference to need for medical knowledge among German missionaries in Sierra Leone 1820; /3 Letter from Lord Hastings to Lord Gambier, CMS President, relating to Schroeter's death and appointment of Mr. La Roche to continue his work 1821

9. Ridsdale, Rev. James
Date: 1820-1830
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O201
Extent: 17 docs.
Description: Madras 1820-1830 /1-10 Letters 1820-23, 1826-28 including: /1 Relating to voyage: signed by Ridsdale, Benedict la Roche, Thomas Morris and John Perowne 1820; /3A-B Order for books and stores [with duplicate] 1821; /5 Acknowledges arrival of printing-press 1823; /8 Includes list of books needed 1827; /10A-B Relating to Alexander McDonald, superintendent of schools in Madras CMS mission with medical certificate 1828; /11A-B Letter 1821 to mission treasurer with notice relating to English service at Black Town new church (sample of Madras Church Mission Press) 1820; /12-14 Journals and extracts: Oct 1820 - Apr 1823 with pencilled comments (?by mission secretary/HQ staff); 7 Feb 1821: importance of missionaries having some medical knowledge and training; 8 Jun 1821: procession with goddess of cholera; /15 Report of establishment and progress of English and Tamil Female Schools (Madras) [1827]; /16-17 Summary of stations, teachers, congregations, seminarists, schools, scholars: Madras Black Town, Perambore, Poonamallee, Tripasoor, Mavaloor Coopush, Chengelput 1830

Mauritius

1. Hobbs, Rev. Stephen
Date: 1856-1877
FindingNo: CMS/B/OMS/C MA O 13/1-251
Extent: 251 docs.
Description: Mauritius: Creve Coeur 1856-1877: mission secretary [see also O 4] /1-219 Letters including reference to finance matters; also relating to SPG [S. H. was great friend of Mr. Chiswell, SPG missionary] 1856-1877
/248 Notes on places visited including planters' estates at Beau Bassin, Mont Roche, Roche Brune, Plaisance, Stanley, Heber, Beau Sejour, Trianon, Mon Repos, Mr. Tellfair's at Moka, Mr. Fontenay junior, M. Salappe Grand River 1857;

Theatrical programmes

1. 'The White Heather' by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton
Date: 1897
FindingNo: MS108/2/154
Extent: 1 item
Description: Programme for production of 'The White Heather'; programme is annotated with date of attendance, 13 Oct 1897 Performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London; produced by Arthur Collins; scenery by Joseph Harker, W. Perkins, Mr Cleery, Bruce Smith and Robert Caney; dresses designed by M. Comelli; costumes designed by Mrs Aria; incidental music by J. M. Glover Cast: John Wood, Kate Rorke, Pattie Browne, Beatrice Lamb, Lillian Menelly, Valli Valli, Mary Brough, Margaret Brough, E. Palmer, Henry Neville, H de Lange, Dawson Milward, Robert Loraine, J. B. Gordon, C. M. Lowne, Ernest Lawford, Albert Mayer, J. Rosier, Howard Russell, Akerman May, Edwin Palmer, Edward Shrimton, Frank Damer, Alfred Balfour, R. A. Lyons, T. Hendon, Lewis Egard, Daisy Rignold, Caroline Rhodes, Birdie Somerset, Daisy Sedger, Lily Roche, Ethel Wallis, Molly Bawn, R. Ward, Margot Werderman, Miss Hooton, Augusta Walters, Maud Rignold, Miss Eversfield, Daisy Lanford, Georgie Lennard, May Pelham, F. Clavin Clarke, W. Bedells, F. W. Cane, F. Eaglesfield, Mr Lovett, Mr Court, C. Ross, G. Chassemore, J. W. Sewell, Mr Knight, A. Vezin, E. Morgan, W. Morgan, Dyce Scott

2. 'A Runaway Girl' by Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls
Date: 1898
FindingNo: MS108/3/3
Extent: 1 item
Description: Programme for production of 'A Runaway Girl'; programme is annotated with date of attendance, 19 Nov 1898 Performed at The Gaiety Theatre, London; scenery by J. Harker and T. E. Ryan; costumes designed by Wilhelm; dances arranged by Willie Warde; music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton; lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood and Harry Greenbank; orchestra directed by Ivan Caryll Cast: Harry Monkhouse, W. Louis Bradfield, Fred Kaye, Lawrance D'Orsay, Willie Warde, Fred Wright, R. Selby, Mr Percival, A. F. Cramer, John Coates, Edward O'Neill, C. Baring, S. Barry, W. F. Brooke, Edmund Payne, Katie Seymour, Grace Palotta, Connie Ediss, Kate Talby, Margaret Fraser, Marie Shields, Rosie Boote, Marguerite Roche, Lilian Gregory, Cissie Vaughan, Ellaline Terriss

3. 'San Toy, or The Emperor's Own' by Edward Morton
Date: 1900
FindingNo: MS108/3/56
Extent: 1 item
Description: Programme for production of 'San Toy, or The Emperor's Own'; programme is annotated with date of attendance, 27 Jun 1900 Performed at Daly's Theatre, [London]; opening performance, 27 Jun 1900; scenery by Hawes Craven and Joseph Harker; costumes designed by Percy Anderson; dances arranged by Willie Warde; lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross; music by Sidney Jones; additional musical numbers by Lionel Monckton and Harry Hamilton; musical director Barter Johns Cast: Huntley Wright, Fred Kaye, Akerman May, Ernest Snow, Scott Russell, J. Murphy, S. Arrigoni, T. H. David, S. Vigay, Colin Coop, Rutland Barrington, Hilda Moody, Blanche Massey, Ethel Irving, Gladys Homfrey, Maidie Hope, Kitty Mason, Louie Collier, Aileen D'Orme, Marie Fawcett, Marguerite Roche, M. Darrell, Florence Allen, Mary Collette, Alice Davis, K. Francis, Aida Carter, Hilda Coral, Hayden Coffin, Florence Collingbourn

The Literature of British India

2004-07-02T11:35:00.000-07:00

Prof. Janusz K Buda has written an article The Literature of British India. He's the Professor of English at the Waseda University School of Commerce .

The article gives a good summary of the history of Colonial India and its literature.

Bishop Francesco Tiburzio Roche

2004-07-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

I saw an entry for Rev Roche in A2A, as mentioned in the previous post. I had originally found him in the Catholic-Hierarchy site.

Here are the details from that site:

Bishop Francesco Tiburzio Roche, S.J.
Bishop of Tuticorin

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1879		Born	Tuticorin
2 Oct 1910	31.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
12 Jun 1923	44.2	Appointed	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
23 Sep 1923	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
26 Jun 1953	74.2	Died	Bishop of Tuticorin, India

A2A: Some Old Roche Entries

2004-07-01T11:38:00.000-07:00

Somerset Archive and Record Service: Walker-Heneage and Button family and estate papers, Coker Court, East Coker [DD\WHb/1323 - DD\WHb/A/240]
Walker-Heneage and Button family and estate papers, Coker Court, East Coker
Catalogue Ref. DD\WHb
ref. DD\WHb/2170 - date: 1387
Witn. John Roche, John Moigne, Knts., John Stourton, John Wykyng, etc.

Centre for Kentish Studies: Stanhope of Chevening Manuscripts [U1590/M, T, A]
Stanhope of Chevening Manuscripts
Catalogue Ref. U1590
Creator(s):
Stanhope family, Earls Stanhope, of Chevening, Kent
TITLE DEEDS
Chevening estate prior to purchase by the Stanhope family in 1717
Chipstead in Chevening
Manor of Chepstead otherwise Wilkes - ref. U1590/T7 - date: c 1200-1591
item: Messuage called Byrchettes with the Roche and one parcel of meadow at Chipstead in Chevening - ref. U1590/T7/32 - date: nd [1480]

Sheffield Archives: Wentworth Woodhouse muniments
Wentworth Woodhouse muniments
Catalogue Ref. WWM
Baildon, Bolton-on-Dearne, Cadeby, Cowling, Cusworth, Darrington, Emley, Haddlesey, Hopton, Marr, Soothill, Sprotbrough, Stainton-next-Tickhill (including receipts for payments to Blyth priory, and counterpart lease to Roche Abbey), all Yorkshire, 1219-1542 (164);

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office: Money-Kyrle Family
THE MONEY - KYRLE FAMILY
Catalogue Ref. 1720
Creator(s):
Money-Kyrle family of Whetham, Calne, Wiltshire
Kyrle, Money-family of Whetham, Calne, Wiltshire
ESTATE
PRE-1500 TITLE DEEDS, ETC

ref. 1720/66 - date: c.1270-1280
Witd.: Laurence de Stodleye, Gilbert de la Roche, Nicholas le Eyr, Robert le Blund, Walter de Brudeferd, William de Depegate, Robert de la Roche. (With transcript and translation).

ref. 1720/69 - date: c.1270-1280
Witd.: Laurence de Stodleye, Gilebert de la Roche, Nicholas le Eyr, Robert le Blund, Walter de Brudeferd, William de Depegate, Nicholas le Blund, Robert de la Roche.

ref. 1720/82 - date: c.1280-1290
Witd.: Gilebert de la Roche, Geoffrey le Eyr, Gilebert le Wyte, Robert le Blund, Henry Phelip of Quemerford, Laurence de Stodleya, Robert de Jurleby, Thomas Puke and William de la Roche.

ref. 1720/124 - date: 1336
Witd.: John de la Roche of Bromham, Nicholas of Roude, Henry le Hert of Devizes, John Milys of Bromham, John le Frend, Robert of Stoke, William Aunscel of Lyttleton, Richard le Beste.

ref. 1720/128 - date: 1339
Witd.: John de la Roche, Nicholas de Roude, John Sallinges, John Herny.

ref. 1720/144 - date: 1351
Witd.: John de la Roche, Geoffrey le Eyr, Robert de Cauntelo, John atte Halle, William Cryps.

ref. 1720/146 - date: 1351
Witd.: John de la Roche, Geoffrey le Eyr, John atte Halle, Robert de Cauntulo, William Crups.

ref. 1720/164 - date: 1363
Grant (at Bromham) by John de la Roche, knight, to John atte Halle of Whetham, of all his 'standing' which he had from Ralph Scut of Sende (Seend, Wilts.) in the lands and tenements which were formerly John Fynamour's in socage, and which came to Ralph as next of kin to William, son and heir of the said John Fynamour, in wardship of the minority of the said William.

ref. 1720/215 - date: 1395
Witd: Sir John Roche and Sir John Blount, knights, Richard Witcombe, Robert Salemon, Roger Alingge, William Arnold, Henry Hobbekyns.

Isle of Wight Record Office: The Oglander Collection [OG/A - OG/Z]
The Oglander Collection
Catalogue Ref. OG
Creator(s):
Oglander family of Nunwell, Brading, Isle of Wight
TITLE DEEDS

HARDINGSHUTE
Grant - ref. OG/B/7 - date: c 1295
Witness: Thomas de Aveliers, John de Wyville, Henry D'Oglondre, Thomas Juel, Thomas Daccombe, Simon d'Aubermare, Peter Dorwal, Benedict la Roche, Henry Mey, William le Somenyr.

Quitclaim - ref. OG/B/9 - date: 15 July 1295
Witness: Thomas de Wyllers, John de Wyvil, Henry Dogelandre, Simon de Aubermare, Peter Dorewall, Benedict le Roche, William le Somenir

CHALE
Grant - ref. OG/Q/1 - date: c 1250
Witness: Richard de Langeford, Jordan de Insula, Bernard de Snape, Adam de Barneville, William de Chale, Simon de Chale, William Roche, Simon de Walpanne, Richard de Walwey, William de Hale

Grant - ref. OG/Q/2 - date: c 1250
Witness: Dominus Richard de Langeford, Everard de Snape, Adam de Barnevell, William de Chale, Nicholas de Walweye, William Fraunkeleyn, Edward [?] Wade, William Roche, Robert le Burche

COURT ROLLS AND OTHER MANORIAL DOCUMENTS
THE MANOR OF WHITEFIELD
Survey - ref. OG/X/49 - date: c 1559
1. Thomas Marche for Roche's tenement in the town of Brading

Court Baron - ref. OG/X/52 - date: 2 April 1576
Walter Brabant, gent., takes Roche's tenement and 18 acres in Brading on lives of himself and Richard and Bridget, his children

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office: Chippenham and Stanleigh Deeds
Chippenham & Stanleigh Deeds
Catalogue Ref. 1213
Creator(s):
Chippenham Estate
Stanleigh Estate

ref. 1213/11 - date: 30 March 1286
Witnesses: Richard Pig, Richard Horn, Laurence de Stodleye, Gilbert le Roche, Nicholas le Heyr.

ref. 1213/12 - date: [1286]
Similar quitclaim by Richard Horn of Chyppeham. Witnesses: Richard Pyg, Laurence de Stodlegh, Gilbert le Roche, Nicholas le Heyr, Geoffrey Fynemour. At Chippenham, Wednesday after the feast of St. Gregory the Pope 14 Edward I.

ref. 1213/14 - date: [1286]
Similar quitclaim by Adam Harding of Chippeham. Witnesses: Richard Pig, Laurence de Stodleye, Gilbert de la Roche, Nicholas le Heyr, Geoffrey de Finemor.

ref. 1213/18 - date: After 1290 ?Early 14th cent
Gift by Stephen le Frie and Juliana his wife to John de la Roche and Petronel his wife of a part of a meadow called La Brodemed which John le Wadel had for a a term of years by grant of Osmund le Rede, Julian's father, at a rent of 2s. 4d. a year. To hold of the chief lords of the fee, rent to the donors a rose. Witnesses: Nicholas le Eyr, William le Wite, John de la Forde, Adam Milis, Robert de la Clyve, Stephen le Eyr, Robert de la Roche.

Isle of Wight Record Office: The Manor of Brook
THE MANOR OF BROOK
Catalogue Ref. AC95/32
Creator(s):
Bowreman family of Brook, Isle of Wight
THE MANOR OF BROOK

GIFT with warranty in free marriage - ref. AC95/32.1 - date: c1200
Witnesses: Lord Ralph Maskerel and Lord Henry Trenchard, Lord Adam de Compton, William de Compton, Geoffrey St Cross, William de la Roche, Walter de Freskewater and Reginald de la Roch

GIFT with warranty - ref. AC95/32.2 - date: c1200
Witnesses: Lord Henry Trenchard, Adam de Compton, Robert de Shorwell, Walter de Cheverdon, William de Compton, Geoff de Compton, William de Affeton, Walter La Roche and Roger la Roch

GIFT with warranty - ref. AC95/32.10 - date: c1280
Witnesses: William le Roch, William de la Putte, William Golde, William le Vrce, Adam Roche, Adam de Compton, Robert de la Halle, and Ralph le Leon

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters: Musgrave Family of Edenhall
Musgrave family of Edenhall
Catalogue Ref. D MUS
Creator(s):
Musgrave family of Edenhall
DEEDS RELATING TO EDENHALL - ref. D MUS 2/2

Quitclaim - ref. D MUS 2/2/28 - date: [20 May 1344]
Robert del Roche

Quitclaim - ref. D MUS 2/2/29 - date: [10 August 1349]
One messuage and three acres of land in Edenhale which were formerly held by Robert del Roche, her father.

Gift - ref. D MUS 2/2/35 - date: [31 March 1344]
Alina daughter of Robert del Roche

Bath and North East Somerset Record Office: Ancient deeds belonging to the Corporation of Bath
ANCIENT DEEDS BELONGING TO THE CORPORATION OF BATH
Catalogue Ref. BC 151
Creator(s):
Corporation of Bath, Somerset
BUNDLE 4.: Deeds - ref. BC 151/4

Grant - ref. BC 151/4/85 - date: 29 October, 1408
By William Honybrygge and John atte Nalre, proctors of the parish church of St. Michael by the Bath, and all the parishioners, to John Roche, and Alice, his wife, for their lives, of a tenement with Alice, formerly wife of David Ryche, holds, on the north, and the tenement which Roger Coldewell holds, on the south. Rendering therefor yearly to the proctors 7s. 1½d., and to the Abbot of St. Augustine, Bristol, 20 pence yearly at Michaelmas, and to the Bishop 2½d. for land gabel (with clause of forfeiture if the rent be in arrear one month, etc).

BUNDLE 5: Deeds - ref. BC 151/5
Grant - ref. BC 151/5/14 - date: 20 April, 1417
Witnesses: Ralph Hunt; John Savage, the elder; Robert Drewe; John Roche; William Radestoke.

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office: Records of the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers. of Stauton Harold, Leicestershire
Records of the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire.
Catalogue Ref. 26D53
Creator(s):
Shirley family, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, Earls Ferrers
MISCELLANEOUS
Ferrers Bible, pedigrees, etc.
ref. 26D53/2684 - date: 1627
31. Roche

Somerset Archive and Record Service: Walker-Heneage and Button family and estate papers, Coker Court, East Coker [DD\WHb/1323 - DD\WHb/A/240]
Walker-Heneage and Button family and estate papers, Coker Court, East Coker
Catalogue Ref. DD\WHb
Grant - ref. DD\WHb/2170 - date: 1387
Witn. John Roche, John Moigne, Knts., John Stourton, John Wykyng, etc.

Norfolk Record Office: The Wodehouse Family of Kimberley
THE WODEHOUSE FAMILY OF KIMBERLEY
Catalogue Ref. KIM
Creator(s):
Wodehouse family of Kimberley, Norfolk
TITLE DEEDS
MEDIEVAL TITLE DEEDS
KIM 2H
Conveyance by Thomas Roche of Hingham to Emma, widow of William Osborne of Kimberley, junior, her son John and her daughter Cristiana, of land in Kimberley. - ref. KIM 2H/13 - date: 18 December 1 Henry IV [1399]

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch: Hengrave [449/2 - 449/9]
HENGRAVE
Catalogue Ref. 449
DEEDS - ref. 449/2
OTHER COUNTIES
Wiltshire
Wiltshire [probably near Calne]: Title Deed - ref. 449/2/768 - date: Undated [c.1280]
(i) Eva Crey of Cotes, widow, formerly wife of John de Holonde to (ii) Gilbert de la Roche

A2A: Oldest Roche Entry

2004-07-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

Here's the oldest entries for roche in A2A:

Northamptonshire Record Office: Fitzwilliam (Milton) Charters [F(M) Charter/1-1659]
FITZWILLIAM (MILTON) CHARTERS
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DEEDS - ref. F(M) Charter/1-1659
CASTOR AND AILSWORTH DEEDS

ref. F(M) Charter/131 - date: -- after F of St Nicholas [6 Dec] xx......Edw I
GRANT by Eva le Wythe, daughter of Adam le Roche of Castre to Reginald fil.Walteri de Castre and Edusia his wife, of hald an acre of meadow lying in Mikillangemedue in Castre. Rent, one silver halfpenny at Christmas.

ref. F(M) Charter/207 - date: Late C13th-early C14th
GRANT by William Cordel to Adam fil.Radulphi de La Roche and Cristiana his wife, daughter of Hawise fil.Alicia, for their homage and service and two marks paid in hand, of a messuage and three acres of land in Castre which the said Hawise sometime held from him, and a rood of meadow in Michilholm by performing yearly the service attached thereto; to wit, finding, every third year, in the hay time, two men to mow for one day, and once, during the day, breakfast at nine o'clock for the said William; and one man to gather the hay for one day without food; and every year at Christmas one hen, and in the third year the bringer of the hen shall eat at the said William's table; and every year at Christmas one halfpenny for suit, and at Easter one halfpenny for ward, and for the Sheriff's aid, for all services saving suit of court, and the King's foreign service namely, scutage, whenever it shall happen to 40sh. 5d.

FreeBMD

2004-07-01T06:43:00.000-07:00

FreeBMD which aims to place BMD (Births/Marriages/Deaths) records online and available for free has now placed even the pages pending transcription (as images) online. These pages were originally available only to transcribers.