louis wrote:The screenshot is for Funerals so I don't think it has anything to do with the Baptisms at Camp Poona. Perhaps the document was microfilmed out of sequence, but the only way to confirm would be to trawl through the microfilm.
James Butler was in Poona in March, 1851, so it is likely he was stationed there up to the birth of Johanna. The GRO hold British Army Records and you could apply for her Birth Certificate to confirm exactly where she was born. She was Baptised in a Roman Catholic Church eight days after birth and likely to be the place where she was born. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Poona, is the oldest Catholic Church in Poona and would be my starting point.
To find out more about James Butler you could trace the movements of the 86th Regiment and through the Army Muster Rolls.
Hope this helps
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Louis
Thanks for the info Louis. The screenshot above is on the back of the birth records which I'll attach below. I think as you say that the second sheet was microfilmed when the page was folded over. Curses, Photobucket isn't playing
. I have a copy of the record sheet and the transcript from the Indian Office Family History search, and it states she was born in Poona and the ceremony was held in a church, not privately. I will certainly look through the muster rolls as I know nothing about her parents.
Just thinking, James Butler may have been Irish, so no GRO birth records, and no trace yet in irishgenealogy.ie. I have had a quick look at The National Archive and can only find one relevant entry for a James Butler born in Carlow, covering the period 1831 to 1853. He was in the 86th foot regiment, no reference to rank, although the birth record states he was a Sergeant. Looking at FMP through the link from The National Archive, he was medically discharged, but had previously been court marshalled about 5 times. I can't read a lot of the report. Interesting if it is the same guy, he was a Sergeant too!
Just a post script. I have ordered a certificate from GRO for overseas births for Johanna, so will wait and see what happens. Reading the discharge document on FMP has him as a Sergeant and being released on 4th November 1852 as medically discharged. Maybe they were glad to get rid of him! His number in the 86th was 728.
Wonderful help, thanks again.
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. I finally received my certificate, which was a transcript, and not a photocopy of the original. It has the parents surname as Butter, not Butler, and the mother as Ellen, not Elizabeth. Unfortunately it does not have a maiden name either, so I am £9.25 worse off and with no new information 