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Originally Posted by Merry

I don't know the answer to your Q. Where were the children born? (for some reason FMP refuses to show me any of them, or the document you linked to )

The children were born in India.

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I will look at the card when I get my FMP sub, definitely in the next few days, but in the meantime, FamilySearch has an Indiana, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, born 1813 and baptised 1814, married a William Richard Chill and had several children. A tree on Ancestry has her parents as Thomas Clarke and Elizabeth Moon. Is she the same person as Adelaide? The tree says that Thomas was a timber merchant on his marriage record, and an indigo planter on Indiana's baptism record.

Sorry, she is Indiana. Thomas Mathews had a daughter, Adelaide.

Originally Posted by Merry

Thanks Kate.

Ancestry has some entries in the UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939 ....

Bengal European Inhabitants

Thomas Clarke shipwright 1803
Thomas Clarke, carpenter, Bankipore, 1797

I checked the start of the As to see if there was anything to be sure what the date represented, but there was nothing.

I'll have a look, thank you.

Originally Posted by Merry

There are two other Clark(e) children with the 'right'parents, but no other identifying details:

Fanny and Mary Ann both in 1810. Their birth dates are two months apart though, so separate parents? (or a very unusual set of twins?!)

I've found them recently and I don't know but as you say the dates are strange and I can find no marriages for them, at least none that have helpful witnesses to identify them.

Originally Posted by Phoenix

It says Copyright Society of Genealogists. This means an idefatiguable researcher in the late 1800s - early 1900s.
If FMP have no details, might be worth emailing the query to the SoG.

Good idea.