Uncatalogued: Percy-Smith, Hubert Kendall, Colonel, 1897-1975

Box 1:
Notebooks:
1. List of Bombay Marine Seamen, circa 18th and 19th centuries.
2. Bombay Marine - removal from active list, still serving in December 1837 list; ships burnt, lost, taken or otherwise destroyed, 1700-1819; list of managing owners with addresses of ships.

Exercise Books:
3. Ships and their commanders, 1760-1833; transcripts of three letters, 1822-1823.
4. East India Register 1842-1863; transcript disbandment of the Indian Navy, 1863; officers shown as pensioned, November 1862; Indian Navy men ommitted from the East India Register, 1863-1865.
5. Indian Navy casualties in East India Register, 1864-1929.
6. Indian Navy entries, 1830-1862 (not including pilots).
7.Bengal Marine Board members, 1803-1848.
8. Madras, Master Attendant's Department and Marine Board members, 1807-1847.
9. Bombay Marine Board Members, 1803-1847.
10. Bombay Marine, 1803-1831 and Indian Navy casualties, 1831-1847.
11. Bengal Marine, Pilot Establishment, casualties, 1837-1874.
12-14. Maritime Service, 1760-1833: A-J, J-W, W-Z
15. HEIC's Maritime Medical Service, Surgeons, 1760-1833.
16. Bengal Marine, A-Z
17. Bombay Marine, 1750-1830 and Indian Navy, 1830-1860, A-Z.

Box 2:
Pamphlets:
18. Government of Bengal Marine Department 'Particulars of Certificates Granted...up to the 31st December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in the Mercantile Marine', 1903.
19. Lists of Marine Records of the Late East India Company preserved in the India Office, London, 1896 (two copies).

Folders:
20: Lists of Bengal Marine and Indian Navy seamen from the India Office Records, 1752-1862.
21: Miscellaneous lists and notes on officers and men.
22. Lists of captains and ships of the East India Company, 1631-1822.

Box 3:
Typescripts:
23: Lists of officers of the Bombay Marine and Indian Army, 1767-1837.
24. List of officers and volunteers in the HEIC's Marine, 1801.
25. List of Free Mariners (three copies).
26. Officers of the name of Powell connected with India; officers of the Bombay Marine, 1768-1830; officers of the EIC's Maritime Service; Bombay wills, 1723-1900; Bengal Marine List of Branch Pilots, 1771-1821; EIC pensioners.

Manuscripts:
27. EIC's Maritime Service, Ships' Husbands; EIC's Maritime Service, List.


Card Index System:
28. List of ships and their officers, 1673-1833.
29. Index cards: Bengal Pilots, Mercantile, Maritime Service, Ship's Officers, Bengal Marine, Medical, Free Merchant, Bombay 1760-1880.
29. Bengal and Bombay Medical, 1740-1914; Bombay Pilot Service, 1840-1933; Maritime Medical, 1700-1710; Mariners, Merchants and Passengers, 1600-1833; Bengal Orphans, 1780-1840; Bengal Marine, 1700-1914; Mercantile and Maritime Services, 1685-1900.

Administrative / biographical background
He joined the 14th Punjab Indian regiment, serving in Turkey and Mesopotamia during the First World War; his regiment returning to India in 1919. Developing a keen interest in those who had served in India, he began compiling lists of people in 1933 taking the form of a large card index. After retiring from the army he became Honorary Librarian of the Society of Genealogists. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Percy-Smith was recalled and served again in India and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Brigadier Bullock also shared an interest and published several works including 'Indian Cavalry Standards' (1930) and 'British Military Adventurers in India, 1750-1850' (1941). He typed Percy-Smith's list of five thousand monumental inscriptions in a volume called 'Deaths in India vol 1.' This was later complimented with 'Marriages in India' volume 1 appearing in the Society of Genealogists journal, September-December 1941 (no later volumes was produced). Percy-Smith and Bullock both worked on 'Deaths In India' producing volumes two to four, with a total number of twenty-nine thousand entries in three volumes. Percy-Smith was in the Military Accounts Office, India, in 1946, soon returning to England and became a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists in 1948. In 1949 he began preparing an index to all the marriages in the India Office records between 1698 and 1900, including places that had at one time been administered from India; including Burma, St. Helena and Penang. This massive card index contains circa forty thousand entries and is held at the Society of Genealogists. He also produced an 'Index to Vols 652-666 (circa end of 18th century, early 19th centuries) of the India Office's Marine Miscellaneous series. Percy-Smith died in 1975.

Record Details

Item reference: MSS/88/006; MSS/88/006.0 MSS/88/006. MS1988/006
Catalogue Section: Uncatalogued material
Level: COLLECTION
Date made: 1631-1933
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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