Tracing your St Helena and East India Company ancestors

St Helena

Here are some of the main sources of information:

  1. The Friends of St Helena website which, for an annual subscription, contains a comprehensive online searchable database.  

  2. On Social Media, e.g.:

  3. ‘St Helena family and friends (group)’.

    1. ‘South African St Helenian Heritage Association (group)’.

    2. ‘St Helena Family History/Genealogy (group)’.

  4. Other Genealogy Websites and Family History Links, listed below.

  5. St Helena Church records are online here: historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za/‌?inventory/U%2Fcollections&c=AB2073/R%2F7365.

Some people have produced their own family historyianbrucefamilyhistory.pdf

If you are looking for someone who left St Helena, you might find useful some newspaper cuttings listing names and some more 

EIC Geneology 

http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainheic.htm a guide to tracing mariners.

A list of the East India Company’s civil, military, marine,law, and revenue establishments, public officers, bankers, Greek, Armenian, Mughal and Portuguese merchants, Company’s agents at home and abroad.

1788 : https://archive.org/details/bengal-calandar-1788

1791 : https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-east-india-kalendar_1791

1795  https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-bengal-or-east-india_1795

1799 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-list-of-the-companys-_east-india-company_1799/page/n85/mode/1up

Asiatic Journal 

A comprehensive collection of reports from East India Company outposts and U.K. business. Includes births, marriages, deaths and furloughs.