I know there have been no posts for a long time. I only just came across this thread. Robert Smith Coombs is my Great-Great Grandfather! Though his son Charles. I have Mary Archer in my tree, but I don’t know the source. I suspect the Charles having an Indian mother is correct, as I have done an Ancestry DNA test, and do have Indian ancestry (16%, though I think through 2 grandparents), which seems consistent with an Indian ancestor around that generation.
Interested to know he kept diaries which still exist.
