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No luck finding a birth cert for my Mum

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Lester

Lester Report 3 Jan 2022 13:07

Hi All,
I am trying to find a birth certificate for my late Mother but struggling. She and her five siblings where born in India and I have certs for the others but not Mum
Her Details: Patricia Enid Rabjohns B 12/08/1929 In India.

Thank you for any help
Lester

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 3 Jan 2022 13:27

Where have you looked?

What were the names of the parents?

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 3 Jan 2022 13:32

Were the siblings all registered in the same place? You may need to go back to that reigsitry.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 3 Jan 2022 13:42

Look as though the father may be Reginald Frank Rabjohns Capt in Indian Army Ordance Corps.

Thre seem to be several Rabjohns children born around this time. All registered with the British India Office records of births & Baptisms and some later with the Britiah Armed Forces Overseas Births & Baptisms. (Find My Past).

Added. Lokks like she returned fro India with her mother & sisters from India in July 1947 with an address in Worthing

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Jan 2022 13:42

Parents:

Enid Marjorie Walker
in the India, Select Marriages, 1792-1948
Name: Enid Marjorie Walker
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Birth Date: 1899
Marriage Date: 27 Sep 1921
Marriage Place: Coonoor, Madras, India
Father: Reuben George Walker
Spouse: Reginald Frank Rabjihus [Rabjohns ]
FHL Film Number: 463305


Mrs E Rabjohns
in the UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Name: Mrs E Rabjohns
Arrival Age: 49
Birth Date: abt 1898
Port of Departure: Singapore
Arrival Date: 17 Jul 1947
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Singapore; Bombay; Colombo and Port Said
Ship Name: Otranto
Shipping Line: Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Official Number: 146025

Travelling to The Lawn, Worthing, Sussex.
Accompanied by: Miss F (22), Miss P (18), Miss I (11), and Miss E (5)

Lester

Lester Report 3 Jan 2022 13:46

Parents; Reginald Frederick Rabjohns 1895 - 1950Born In Devon I assume got to India Via the army as he was a Major upon retirement in the Indian army
Enid Marjorie Walker 1899 - 1972 Born in India came to UK 1947

The sibling where not all born in the same place

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Jan 2022 13:49

There's a suggestion/claim on Ancestry that she was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, but no proof is offered.

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https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/patricia-enid-rabjohns-24-stv8j0

Lester

Lester Report 3 Jan 2022 13:49

Yes all the above is correct thank you

Lester

Lester Report 3 Jan 2022 13:51

Argyll/Gran.
Yes I have tried to contact and ask that person for info but no response

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 3 Jan 2022 13:54

The India Office records used to be kept at the Britiah Library - I assume they still are. it might be worth asking FIBIS for help. (Families in British India Society

Tracing Reginalds serivice record might help work out where he was in 1928/29

"Where can I find Indian Army service records?
Contact the British Library for information on Indian Army service records held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collection. These also include records of the Honourable East India Company. Search the India Office Family History Search database for births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of mainly European people in India from about 1600 to 1949."

Lester

Lester Report 3 Jan 2022 14:51

nameslessone.

Thank you for giving me hope and direction I shall give it all a go not yet ready to give

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 3 Jan 2022 14:52

Baptism..................FMP

First name(s) Patricia Enid
Mother's first name(s) -
Last name Robjohns
Mother's last name -
Birth year 1929
Archive reference N-1-518
Birth date 1929
Folio 217
Baptism year 1929
Page -
Baptism date 1929
Catalogue descriptions Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal
Place Allahabad,Holy Trinity
Record set British India Office Births & Baptisms
Presidency Bengal
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Father's first name(s) -
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Father's last name Robjohns

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Jan 2022 14:57

A FIBIS website search only comes up with one Rabjohns record

Cemetery, Memorials, MIs > BACSA : Pakistan
Click to see detail
View Surname Rabjohns
Forename(s) Dolly
Date of death 1942

https://search.fibis.org/bin/index.php

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 3 Jan 2022 15:04

Baptism................familysearch

Name Patricia Enid Robjohns
Sex Female
Christening Date 10 Sep 1929
Christening Place Bengal, India
Christening Place (Original) Allahabad, Bengal, India
Birth Date 15 Aug 1929
Father's Name Frank Robjohns
Father's Sex Male
Mother's Name Enid Marjorie
Mother's Sex Female

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 3 Jan 2022 15:29

First name(s) Reginald Frank
End date 1948
Last name Rabjohns
Date range 1921-1948
Rank Temporary Captain
Record reference IOR/L/MIL/14/20029
Year 1921-48
Scope and content Number: OS/139;
Highest Rank: Temporary Captain;
Regiment: Indian Army Ordnance Corps; U L; D C L I;
Date of commission: 23 Feb 1921