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Charlotte Matilda MIDDLETON
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Charlotte Matilda MIDDLETON
- Born: 18 Aug 1866, Madras, (Chennai) Tamil Nadu, India 2
- Christened: 28 Nov 1866, Madras, (Chennai) Tamil Nadu, India
- Marriage (1): Hugh Joseph Maxwell SPEERS in 1888 in Chennai (Madras) Tamil
Nadu, India 1
- Died: 1936, Kilpauk, St. Mathias, Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India aged
70
Notes:
This is what I learnt from my mother as a child:
Charlotte Middleton married an Irish soldier (Spears) and went with him back
to Ireland. They were very poor. My mother said that Charlotte said her
husband took
better care of the family pig, than of his family. My mother
said he had to because
their source of income must have been the family
pig!
Charlotte left her husband in Ireland and returned to India with
the children (Spears) and
sent them to school in Lovedale. Both Louie
(Louisa - Ed) Spears and her sister's admission are recorded in the
Admission book. Louie married Hiscox, I don't know much about him
except
that he worked in the courts (bailiff, perhaps)? I never met him. Louie was a
nurse and I
saw both Louie and her mother (our Aunt Charlotte) in Madras as
a child. They lived
very close to Doveton School where my mother was a
teacher and I was taken many
times to visit them by my mother as a child. 3
Charlotte married Hugh Joseph Maxwell SPEERS, son of
Hugh SPEERS and Unknown, in 1888 in Chennai (Madras) Tamil Nadu, India.1 (Hugh Joseph Maxwell SPEERS was born circa 1861
in <.. Ireland>.)
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Sources
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India Office Records, Parish Register Transcripts from the Presidency of Madras.
(Ecclesiastical Returns 1698-1948 India. Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, (APAC). Office of
the Registrar General, British Library, London). Rec. Date: 11 May 2001, IOR Ref: Z/N/2/69
(1888). Cit. Date: 1 Aug 2016.
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India Office Records, Parish Register Transcripts from the Presidency of Madras.
(Ecclesiastical Returns 1698-1948 India. Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, (APAC).
Office of the Registrar General, British Library, London). Rec. Date: 11 May 2001, IOR Ref:
Z/N/2/47 Page 247.
3
Moira BREEN, The Genealogical notes and personal recollections of Moira BREEN,
descendant of William Henry MIDDLETON and Emma Louisa BRADBURY, and alumna of the
Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, (Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu,
India)., Letter (email) 31/07/2016. Cit. Date: 1 Aug 2016.