Hi Westy and Madmats
First - Livorno
I have it recorded that Charlotte Eliza Thornhill was buried in the Campo Santo Inglese, Leghorn in either Jan 1866 (my record) or Jun 1866 (her grand-daughter's record) Which? Her husband Robert had died at sea of dysentery off Mauritius on 10 Jan 1858, having left Calcutta as Master of the SS Clarendon, 802 tons, on 15 Sep 1857. I think he would have been buried at sea. Unfortunately his effects were put on a transport which foundered, all his papers and belongings being lost. I imagine that it can only be a memorial to him in the cemetery in Livorno, rather than an actual burial.
Second - Ada (Thornhill) Janson. She was born at sea on 20 Oct 1831. She was privately baptised 12 Nov 1831 in Hounslow and then baptised again in Southwark 6 Aug 1834! She and her sisters would have seen little of her father as he was often away for a year at a time on voyages to East Indies and Australia. She married William Dillwyn Janson in December 1853, when she was just twenty, and initially they lived in Paris. Their only child, daughter Ada Charlotte Mary Dillwyn Jansen, was born in Eton (probably Upton-cum-Chalvey) in October 1855, baptised in Upton-cum-Chalvey 19 Dec 1855 and died in the district of Dover Apr 1858, being buried on 12 April. Was the family going to or returning from France?
Why, in the 1871 census did William describe himself as unmarried? He was buried in Garsdon, Wilts on 13 Jun 1876. My aunt's book mentions that the marriage was unhappy and that it ended in separation, and my great-aunt's book says that in 1900 Ada was living in Paris. I have no record of her death.
