Eleanor Taylor - Francis Tate- Matilda Tate

[DNichol]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to help me.

I’m currently trying to research my family tree and seem to have hit somewhat of a dead end. A lot of my family on my fathers fathers side were in India during the 1800s which makes it extra complicated 

I have managed to get back to my 4th Great Grandmother Matilda Tate 1828 Born in Leicestershire, died in 1872 in London after having three husbands and many children (many whilst in India)

I have found a record of her Father, Francis/Frances Tate and her mother Eleanor Taylor being married in Saint Margaret, Leicester on 29th October 1826 but that’s as far as I can get. I have no DOBs for either.

Just wondering if anyone had any ideas or has come across them in their endeavours.

Many thanks.

Dale

[Annie65115]

Francis Tate was a batchelor when he married Eleanor Taylor, but Eleanor was a widow, so it might not be too easy to find her maiden name.

Marriage on 29 Oct 1826 at St Margaret; Francis signed but Eleanor made a mark. Witnesses George Posthlethwaite and Rebecca Payne (might one of those people be related to eleanor?)

[Annie65115]

Baptisms to Francis and Eleanor, at St Margaret:

John -- 10 Sept 1827, buried 13 Sept same year
Matilda and Eleanor - twins - 10 Dec 1828. Little Eleanor was buried there on 30 Dec.

Francis was a taylor, address Wellington St when the twins were born.

[Annie65115]

Can you give us the info re Matilda's marriages - where did they take place, what were her married names?

[osprey]

baptisms to Francis Tate & wife Eleanor in India
Meerut
27 March 1833 Mary Ann dau of Francis private 11th Dragoons born Chitenah in Bengal
4 May 1834 Francis Charles son of Francis sergeant 11th Light Dragoons - buried 6 July 1837
23 Aug 1835 Jemima dau of Francis private 11th Dragoons - buried 26 July 1836
27 July 1842 Elizabeth dau of Francis sergeant 16th Lancers
Cawnpore
20 May 1837 Albert son of Francis private 11th Dragoons

[osprey]

first marriage Meerut 16 March 1842 Matilda Tate 14 to Joseph Harrison 25 Veterion (sic) Surgeon, Allyghur
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGN3-1M5

2nd marriage Fort William Calcutta 7 July 1845  Matilda Harrison widow under age, father Francis Tate, to Henry John Evans, jockey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNG-NRP

[DNichol]

Can you give us the info re Matilda's marriages - where did they take place, what were her married names?

Hi thanks for that info, it’s a little bit more to go on to try and crack the case of Eleanor and Frances parents.

As for Matilda,

She married Joseph Harrison in 1842 in Bengal when 14 years old, he died a year later and their child was born  a month later. Who then died 2 months later.

Remarried at age 17 in 1845 to Henry John Evans my 4th Great Grandfather in Calcutta, they had a child a year later that died 6 months later. They had a daughter together the following year in 1848, but then in 1849 Henry John Evans died.

2 years later in 1851 she married Percival Butler in Bengal and had 9 further children with him before returning to the UK in London in around 1870 and sadly died in 1872.

[osprey]

second marriage for sister Mary Ann

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNC-5GX

possible marriage for Eleanor
Meerut 10 May 1843
Valentine Cullen 27 bach sergeant 16th Lancers father James Cullen
Ellenor Tate widow 40 father John Brood

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNC-FGF

[osprey]

on the 1841 British Army index, there is an entry for Francis Tate Private 16th Dragoons Acting Master Tailor in Meerut.