From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   MB  wrote on 14 Jun 2018 in soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > There is an article in today's Oban Times   
   >   
   > "When a lady at sea loses her character"   
   >   
   > Which has a bit about the women who went out to try and find husbands in   
   > the East India Company.   
   >   
   > "From the 19th century, when the Raj – the rule by Britain in the Indian   
   > subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 – was at its height, hundreds of   
   > young women, called the ‘Fishing Fleet’, went out every year to find   
   > husbands among the East India Company’s administrators, soldiers and   
   > businessmen."   
   >   
   >   
   > It can be read online through PressReader which is available at most   
   > libraries or through their online access to library members.   
      
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