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 1. Lists of burials and inscriptions.

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Transcribed byRobert Charnock
CommentThe Percy-Smith/Bullock papers contain a large number of lists of burials and inscriptions merged here into a unified database.

Many of the lists may be duplicated by material held by the Society of Genealogists.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "TAYLOR" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Surname  TAYLOR    
Given Names  Henry Schence Taylor    
Deceased Rank  late Sergt Instructor    
Deceased Occupation  N V R    
View all other items of "Place of  Birth" with value "Bethnal Green, London" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Place of Birth  Bethnal Green, London    
Birth  10 September 1855    
Death Date  29 July 1913    
Age  57 yrs 10 mths    
View all other items of "Place of  Death" with value "Ootacamund" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Place of Death  Ootacamund    
Inscription  In Loving Memory of Henry Schence Taylor, late Sergt. Instructor N.V.R., born at Bethnal Green, London September 10 1855, died at Ootacamund July 29 1913, aged 57 years 10 months    
View all other items of "Church /  Cemetery" with value "St Mary's Church, Ootacamund" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Church / Cemetery  St Mary's Church, Ootacamund    
Source  Addition & Corrections Nilgiris District to 'List of European Tombs' from 1904 Typed    
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The data reproduced here was accumulated over many years by Lt-Col Hubert Kendall Percy-Smith (1897-1975) and Brigadier Humphry Bullock (d 1959), both Indian Army officers and keen genealogists intent on collecting biographical data on persons who served in British India. They gathered it from a variety of sources including publications about the sub-continent, church records and of course gravestones, and often received such information from others with similar interests. They also endeavoured to compile service histories and even pedigrees based on the material they had collected. This information is included here but researchers should bear in mind that it may sometimes represent no more than their deductions.

After his retirement Percy-Smith was for a time honorary librarian at the Society of Genealogists, and the greater part of the material collected by him and Bullock is deposited there, including a large card index. However, on his death, Percy-Smith bequeathed the papers still in his possession to the National Army Museum which subsequently donated them to BACSA which in turn has donated them to the British Library to be added to the India Office Private Papers in its custody.

In the meantime BACSA agreed to a proposal from the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) to transcribe the data for posting on both our websites. BACSA as the inheritor of Percy-Smith’s papers owns the copyright in his work, and Brigadier Bullock's daughter, Mrs Anne Macdonald, has generously given permission to publish his. BACSA is grateful to FIBIS and its transcriber Robert Charnock, and to Mrs Macdonald, for making it possible to bring this Percy-Smith/Bullock data to a wider public.
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