India - Margaret Binn(e)y

[Forfarian]

I have been looking at the British India Office records from the British Library, and the FIBIS database, and I am wondering if these two records relate to the same person.

First, from the India Office records: Calcutta, 1800, March 25th. Miss Margaret Mr [sic] Binny. My transcription, and it definitely shows her middle name as Mr!

Second, from the FIBIS database, transcribed from the BACSA India and Burma Cemetery Record Books:
Surname     Binny (Binney in B.O.)   
Forename(s)     Margaret Marianne   
Date of death     1800   
Place name     Kolkata (Calcutta)   
Cemetery             South Park Street   
Province/State    Bengal   
Date of birth       1797

I am puzzled by this, because I can't see the clerk using the title 'Miss' for a small child, yet it is surely too much of a coincidence to have two Margaret Binn(e)ys dying in Calcutta in 1800.

I have looked unsuccessfully for a baptism of Margaret M* Binn(e)y in 1796/1797.

Just to muddy the waters, there is a Margaret Emilia Binny born 1794, baptised 1797 and died 1797 as Margaret Amelia. That is to say, that I am assuming (I know, not good) that Margaret Emilia and Margaret Amelia are the same person.

Thoughts, anyone?

[AMBLY]

Hi Forfarian

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mra/

That link goes to a book (printed) Epitaph for Margaret Marianne BINNEY who died 25th March 1800, aged 2 years and 3 months.

That ties up the India Office record (with DoD), and the FIBIS record (with middle name)

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

Hi Forfarian,

Have you come across this?

http://www.thepeerage.com/p48710.htm

It lists the family of Alexander BINNEY and  wife, Elizabeth Amelia JACKSON...with eldest child as:

Margaret Matilda BINNEY, born 17 Nov 1797 Calcutta and died 26 March 1800 aged 2.

Surely is Margaret Marianne, who would have been born around Nov/Dec 1797 to be aged 2yrs 3mth at her passing?

Cheers
AMBLY

[Forfarian]

Have you come across this?
http://www.thepeerage.com/p48710.htm

Actually, it was I who contributed that to the peerage site

The reason for this thread is that I have come to doubt that the information I supplied there is 100% correct. I got it from a manuscript in Angus Archives but as I work through the detail some of it isn't quite right.

I still can't find a record of the birth or baptism of Margaret M, whether the M is for Matilda or for Marianne, or of most of her siblings.