This site is dedicated to my research into my paternal Wemyss family heritage. It was created primarily to enable me to document my family history research and secondly in the hope that it would bring me into contact with others who could assist me in my research or for me to assist in theirs.
My family tree is hosted and available at FindMyPast.co.uk
A bit about my family
My father and his family were Anglo-Indians who lived in India from the mid 1800's to Independence in 1948 when the family left
for the UK after the unrest.
The first of my ancestors to arrive in India was David Wemyss who was born in 1806 in Abbotshall
Scotland. He was a mariner who settled in Calcutta marrying a 'native' girl known as Munshoo who had 2 children, John and Mina.
John married a Rebecca De Cruz who is my great great grandfather.
Tracing exactly when David arrived in India and linking him back to Scotland
is proving challenging but I will continue to persevere in the hope that a breakthrough will be made.
My father's family - Lahore 1948
My family was primarily employed by the East Indian Railway in the northern states of India who resided in Calcutta, Lahore, Karachi, Jamalpur, Sahibganj, Allahadad and Asansol. (The railway records in the British Library London is a great resource to discover more about an individual's their role within the railway.)
The construction of a steam locomotive at the Jamalpur Workshops circa 1930's