The marriage certificate duly arrived confirming beyond doubt that I am indeed dealing with one & the same lady. She married in Zion Chapel, East Road, Cambridge, on 30 Dec 1868: George JONES 23 Bachelor Gunner Royal Artillery son of Edward Duddin JONES an engine driver & Harriett Anne CORNWELL 27 Widow daughter of Edward HOYE a labourer. Address of both given as Calcutta Cottage, Mill Road, Cambridge. Witnesses: Charles SPENCER & Inez Harriet CARTWRIGHT.
Harriet HOY was baptised in St Margaret’s Church, Newton, Cambs. on 10 Oct 1841 the daughter of Edward Hinkins HOY & Ann THARBY who were married in Thriplow on 23 Apr 1825. I suspect that she was the unnamed female HOY whose birth was registered in Chesterton district Q3 1841 with mmn recorded as HARVEY (sic)? Her subsequent history remains as outlined in my original post.
Her second husband, George Edward JONES, later left the RA to work for the India Public Works Dept being appointed to the State Railways Loco Dept in May 1879 and retired in Apr 1904 as Locomotive Superintendent. I believe that they returned from Calcutta to England on 20 Apr 1909 and by 1911 they were living at Fair View, High Street, Harston, Cambs. Her death was probably that registered in Cambridge Q4 1916.
Yet my questions remain unresolved. A ‘widow’ on her second marriage in 1868 but I have been unable to identify a likely death for George CORNWELL beyond that recorded two years later in Bengal 1870 as suggested in Reply #2 to this thread. Even more intriguing, what am I to make of her apparent third marriage (once again as the widow CORNWELL) to James ANTHONY in Furzepore on 14 Nov 1878? They returned to England sometime prior to 1891 when they are found living at Aden Villas, 1 Saxham Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
I think it will take somebody with better access to military records than I currently enjoy to further unravel this conundrum. If you can help then feel free for, at present, I am well & truly scuppered.
