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Old 13-07-18, 09:30
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Great find, Crawfie!

Lt. Col. Dunbar James Hunter

Born Edinburgh 1773; Major in 19th Foot 4 November 1795; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 1 January 1801; Lieutenant-Colonel 14 February 1804; superseded May 1804; retired June 1804.

He actually died in Sep 1803 according to death notices. Army obviously takes a little time to sort things out!

So Charlotte must have been born sometime before 19 Aug 1803 when he wrote his will,
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Old 13-07-18, 09:37
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https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/...18040508%2f008

Dunbar James Hunter died in Ceylon. His grandfather was Robert Hunter, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh.
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Old 13-07-18, 09:55
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The Crommelins in India:

http://www.crommelin.org/history/Bio...ssel/Index.htm
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Old 13-07-18, 10:28
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As an aside:

Isn't it depressing that even presumably professional genealogists assume a scenario and thus never look any further for evidence of anything?

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OC, I always think it is better when more than one person looks at the evidence. We have seen time and time again on this forum that one person can miss something while another will find the answer.
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Old 13-07-18, 10:35
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Elizabeth

Oh yes, I agree, the power of group research is phenomenal. BUT, we are not professionals and perhaps what I really mean is that we all should be wary of accepting the research of just one professional as the gospel!

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Old 13-07-18, 10:40
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I agree, OC. Professionals don't always look in the right place.

I suspect that people who use professional researchers then think that it's all done and dusted, whereas with my own research I don't ever stop as I have found more and more over the years. I revisit my lines regularly.
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Old 13-07-18, 12:42
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Will of Elizabeth (Eliza) Goreham, grandmother of Charlotte Hunter, leaving everything, bar a few requests to Charlotte. Written in 1811, proved in 1815.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...1_311087-00480
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Old 13-07-18, 13:18
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Could this be Charlotte's marriage -

Oxford Journal 6 Sept 1823.

At Clapham, Richard Bevan Esq. youngest son of S. Bevan Esq. of Fosbury, Wilts to Charlotte, daughter of the late Lieut.Col Hunter of the 19th Reg.


If so, then there is this tree on Ancestry, that seems to be for her:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tr...53610813/facts

She died in Brighton in 1835 at age 34.
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Old 13-07-18, 14:46
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Maggie, yes, Doncler would work as a Dutch name, there was a large Dutch presence.

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I only say that because I have foraged about in the records for the Netherlands for personal reasons and seen that name but I think it has died out or changed shape, it is also Germanic and Flemish.

Here are two records that seems to suggest it was a name in the Netherlands:

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...=successSource

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...=successSource


What is the likliehood of the East India company keeping a record of the union of Seraphina between Hunter, or Slessor or Doncler?

I expect Seraphina decided that Scotsmen were not that reliable and I get that so the next stop is a 'Dutchman'.

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