Rawes One-name Study:HEICS

THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY SERVICE

HEICS - general
The records of the Honourable East India Company Service (HEICS) are now housed at the British Library at Euston in London. The Company was established in the year 1600 as a joint-stock association of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to trade in the 'Indies'. The 'Indies' were defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellen. Over the next two and a half centuries the Company grew to become the largest trading company the World has ever seen. The Records cover the government of India amounting to over 10 miles of shelves, plus 70,000 volumes of official publications and 105,000 manuscripts and maps. There is also much material concerned with the everyday running of the company plus many hundreds of ships logs which list day-to-day events on the East India ships that dominated the trade between Britain and India and China for over two centures. (Part of the above has been extracted from a leaflet on the 'India Office Records', published by the British Library, 2002.).
The focus on this section has been to gather together material relating to the Rawes family who were involved in the HEICS in one way or another. Captain Richard Rawes and purser Richard Rawes sailed on a number of voyages to the Far East and the logs of most of these have been transcribed. We have however gone further with the transcription of ships logs and are now transcribing logs that have no relation to the name Rawes. It was therefore decided to create an entirely separate website dedicated to voyages of East India Company ships. A link to this website is to be found below under 'Voyages of East Indiamen to India and the Far East'.

List of Classes of Records. 2002 General h1

Index of Court Minutes. 1811- Bromley Line h2

Catalogue of HEICS Ships and Biographical Index of Ships Officers. 1800- Various Lines h3

Original Registers and Indexes to Records Series. c1700- Bromley Line h4

Registers of the Madras, Bengal & Culcutta Establishments. 1698- Wm Wilson Line h5

Surgeons Certificates. 1839 Wm Wilson Line h6

Military Service Records. 1866 Wm Wilson Line h7

Mutiny on the Warren Hastings recorded by Captain Rawes on the 6th of July 1823. 1823 Bromley Line h13

Disobedience and subsequent Court Martial recorded by Captain Campbell recorded on the 20th March 1811. 1811 Bromley Line h15

Crisis in a storm and typhoon in the Journal of the Warren Hastings on the 1st August 1825. 1825 Bromley Line h21

Voyages of East Indiamen to India and the Far East, now published as a sister site 'heicshipslogs.co.uk.' 1800-1830 Bromley Line HEICS

HEICS - general The records of the Honourable East India Company Service (HEICS) are now housed at the British Library at Euston in London. The Company was established in the year 1600 as a joint-stock association of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to trade in the 'Indies'. The 'Indies' were defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellen. Over the next two and a half centuries the Company grew to become the largest trading company the World has ever seen. The Records cover the government of India amounting to over 10 miles of shelves, plus 70,000 volumes of official publications and 105,000 manuscripts and maps. There is also much material concerned with the everyday running of the company plus many hundreds of ships logs which list day-to-day events on the East India ships that dominated the trade between Britain and India and China for over two centures. (Part of the above has been extracted from a leaflet on the 'India Office Records', published by the British Library, 2002.). The focus on this section has been to gather together material relating to the Rawes family who were involved in the HEICS in one way or another. Captain Richard Rawes and purser Richard Rawes sailed on a number of voyages to the Far East and the logs of most of these have been transcribed. We have however gone further with the transcription of ships logs and are now transcribing logs that have no relation to the name Rawes. It was therefore decided to create an entirely separate website dedicated to voyages of East India Company ships. A link to this website is to be found below under 'Voyages of East Indiamen to India and the Far East'.
List of Classes of Records.	2002	General	h1
Index of Court Minutes.	1811-	Bromley Line	h2
Catalogue of HEICS Ships and Biographical Index of Ships Officers.	1800-	Various Lines	h3
Original Registers and Indexes to Records Series.	c1700-	Bromley Line	h4
Registers of the Madras, Bengal & Culcutta Establishments.	1698-	Wm Wilson Line	h5
Surgeons Certificates.	1839	Wm Wilson Line	h6
Military Service Records.	1866	Wm Wilson Line	h7
*Mutiny on the Warren Hastings* recorded by Captain Rawes on the 6th of July 1823.**	1823	Bromley Line	h13
Disobedience and subsequent Court Martial recorded by Captain Campbell recorded on the 20th March 1811.	1811	Bromley Line	h15
*Crisis in a storm and typhoon in the Journal of the Warren Hastings* on the 1st August 1825.**	1825	Bromley Line	h21
Voyages of East Indiamen to India and the Far East, now published as a sister site 'heicshipslogs.co.uk.'	1800-1830	Bromley Line	HEICS