ancestry is not turning up a corresponding registered death for this...

[dotty.]

...entry from the India Office, could someone check FMP for it please? I've used the inage viewer to try to trce maybe an untranscribed entry from the filmed index but no joy, cheers


Name:
Thomas Henry STODDARD
Event type:
Death
Date:05 Feb Year:1901
Location: England
Age:
Status: Maj-Gen, Staff Corps (retd)
Will administration:
Notes:
Transcribed by: British Library India Office Records Reference:

[Rose Maybud]

Nothing's come up oon FMP either. If you search for Thomas Stoddard then two deaths for Thomas Stoddart pop up. Searching all of the military records brings just one record under the Boer War heading:

Boer War 1899-1902 - Soldier details
Name: STODDARD
Rank: Driver
Soldier number:
Unit: The King's Royal Rifle Corps
Notes:
Age:
Literary references: With the Flag to Pretoria, Wilson, H.W., Harmsworth Brothers 39

[dotty.]

hi Rose
thanks for checking, it's odd that it clearly says England in the india office record, never mind,

[Rose Maybud]

OK, found him. His death was registered in New Zealand

https://www.bdmhistor...ddeaths#SearchResults

[Rose Maybud]

Looks like the family emigrated in 1878:

http://freepages.gene...y/ladyjocelyn1st.html

His daughter Florence married in 1880

http://trove.nla.gov..../del/article/13467292

[dotty.]

lol yes we've got that info, see 2 threads down!

[dotty.]

that's ,aybe why his family came home

[dotty.]

the Christine Elizabeth Wahab on the passenger list is his Mother-In-Law.