Death in Bombay India

[Suzy100]

My Great Grandaunt Gertrude Leah Ricketts (born 1879 Derby) married Charles Rouse Marchant (born 1876 Eastbourne) in 1898, in the 1901 census they were living together and he was a ticket writer.  They had one daughter Dorothy.  In 1902 they had a son Charles James.  In 1911 the children are with their grandmother Emily and Gertrude is living alone working as a waitress in Ealing.  Charles is:
Rank Gunner Military UnitNo 9 Company Royal Garrison ArtilleryRegistration District Number641ED, institution, or vesselArabia, Cyprus, and Gibraltar.
In 1916 Gertrude Leah Marchant is in Bombay India but has died of small pox.  States widow of Charles Marchant.  However in the 1939 register there is a Charles Rouse Marchant in hospital and he dies in 1944 (this may not be the correct death, I have ordered the certificate just in case)  I then find he was in Springfield mental asylum in Wandsworth.
My question is what on earth would Gertrude have been doing in India and can I obtain a death certificate?
And why would she be listed as a widower in 1916.
Have I gone wrong somewhere??

 

[Milliepede]

In 1916 Gertrude Leah Marchant is in Bombay India but has died of small pox. 

Can you find this lady on a passenger list anywhere to see if it helps?

[Milliepede]

There's a death in Fulham - Gertrude L E Marchant - right age 77 in Mar 1956 - wonder if that could be her?

[ShaunJ]

Charles is:
Rank Gunner Military UnitNo 9 Company Royal Garrison ArtilleryRegistration District Number641ED, institution, or vesselArabia, Cyprus, and Gibraltar.

The Gunner Charles Marchant in the RGA in Gibraltar in 1911, born Eastbourne, had a father Thomas, and married Andria Roberts in Gib in 1902:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FWO97%2F5461%2F036%2F001&parentid=GBM%2FWO97%2F5461%2F954421

[Comberton]

The 1956 death is for Gertrude Lottie Emily Marchant

[shume]

"My question is what on earth would Gertrude have been doing in India"

Familysearch.org https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGV5-3X9 has an entry for marriage in India in 1919 for Dorothy Gertrude Marchant father Charles John Marchant.

Is she connected to your Gertrude? As death certificates are only as accurate as the informant knows, perhaps the family assumed Charles was deceased but he may have already been institutionalised?
Also a possible passenger record for Charles?  from Ancestry.com.au UK Inwards Passengers.
Name:   Charles Marchant
Arrival Age:   55
Birth Date:   abt 1878
Port of Departure:   Karachi, Pakistan
Arrival Date:   1 Apr 1933
Port of Arrival:   Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage:   Karachi; Bombay; Port Said and Marseilles
Ship Name:   City of Baroda
Shipping Line:   Ellerman City Line
Official Number:   140594

Name:   Chas Rowse Marchant
Gender:   Male
Admission Date:   27 Jul 1905 Discharge 1924
institution:   Wandsth
Institution Place:   Surrey, England  Source UK Lunacy admissions.

Perhaps this is why she described herself as a widow?

[Comberton]

Charles is in the Middlesex County Asylum, Wandsworth, in 1911 as C R Marchant, 1876, birthplace not known. His occupation matches the 1939 Register.

It seems he may have had  problems most of his life.

[Suzy100]

Charles is in the Middlesex County Asylum, Wandsworth, in 1911 as C R Marchant, 1876, birthplace not known. His occupation matches the 1939 Register.

It seems he may have had  problems most of his life.

Brilliant I had been searching the newspapers for him but could find nothing.  Another piece of the jigsaw.  Maybe Gertrude went to India to get away from him!!!  But I just cannot see why a waitress would end up in India.

[Suzy100]

Charles is:
Rank Gunner Military UnitNo 9 Company Royal Garrison ArtilleryRegistration District Number641ED, institution, or vesselArabia, Cyprus, and Gibraltar.

The Gunner Charles Marchant in the RGA in Gibraltar in 1911, born Eastbourne, had a father Thomas, and married Andria Roberts in Gib in 1902:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FWO97%2F5461%2F036%2F001&parentid=GBM%2FWO97%2F5461%2F954421


I think this is my red herring, definitely not him.  As he was probably in the Asylum anyway.  Thank you.