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Elizabeth Casement of Invermore, Larne, was m. at Calcutta cathedral on 26 June 1826 to Capt. Gillespie of the 4th Light Dragoons, AdC to the Governor-General.

I assume she's "the lady of Capt. Gillespie" who d. 21 June 1827
(source: announcements in the East India Register found on the FiBIS web site, and also card index at the India Office library).

Can anyone help me discover who the mysterious captain was?
Possibly Robert Rollo, son of Sir Robert Rollo, who then m. Miss Blaxland a couple of years later -- though I thought he was in a different regiment.
But what did Elizabeth do (apart from inconsiderately dying within a year of marriage, probably in childbed) that was so disgraceful that she's apparently been expunged from the Gillespie family records?

The birth of Ada Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Stanley Hill,
was registered in Reigate 1876 i.

Is it possible that the index at the county record office gives more details,
such as a date?  Would some kind soul with access be prepared to look her up for me?

Not in the IGI, as far as I can see.  If I know those clergymen, he dipped her in the kitchen sink and never thought to make an entry in the parish register.

Dank je wel, JMVH!

Incidentally, Capt. Fabian's letters to the Admiralty survive, and his spelling seems to have been rather better than that of the newspaper reports at the time. 

Jed,

I've only just come across your query.

Rosa Sarah m. at St Edward, Cambridge, 29 May 1838, Matthew Wilkinson who was then curate of Oakington.  That same year he was appointed principal of the Church of England Collegiate School in Huddersfield.  She died there in childbed of a stillborn daughter 13 Mar. 1839 and was buried in the crypt of the church.  So there are no descendants there.

I know very little about John Robert Lea except that I understand he had already died by 1838, as had his elder daughter.

Matthew Wilkinson later became the first headmaster of Marlborough College and was later vicar of West Lavington and Melksham.  To the left of this message you should see the arms and motto granted to one of his grandsons.

Dawn, you're a sweety.