Strange Baptisms

Oh Toni she would have been very vulnerable I'm so pleased that her 2nd marriage worked out.

[HarrysMum]

Originally Posted by Shona

I saw that Naylor reference, too.

I'm getting a real name for myself, aren't I? lol

The caste system is !!!! to me Often white people treated the people of mixed race, better than the Indian people of full caste. I saw how some of the Indians treated native people in Fiji and then the Indians wondered why they had coups to oust them from parliament. (There were more reasons than that of course). It seems so wrong to me to think you are better than someone else because you are born into a particular caste.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Kit

Can someone look at the marriage between Thomas Rawsterne and Charlotte in 1816 at Dum Dum. Does that look relevant to me?

V diff to read, but that Thomas seems to be in the artillery.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by Kit

Can someone look at the marriage between Thomas Rawsterne and Charlotte in 1816 at Dum Dum. Does that look relevant to me?

Ignore this. Thomas's last child with Rose was born in 1817. This has to be someone else.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Shona

FMP's India records have a burial for a Thomas Raustorne at Mozoufferpore in 1830.

Wasn't Sophia baptised as 'Mazufferpore'?

[Kit]

Yes she was. She was married there too, in 1833.

Sophia was 16 and her mother signed in the parents spot, which could indicate her father was dead.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by HarrysMum

I'm getting a real name for myself, aren't I? lol

Yes.

Originally Posted by tenterfieldjulie

The caste system is !!!! to me Often white people treated the people of mixed race, better than the Indian people of full caste. I saw how some of the Indians treated native people in Fiji and then the Indians wondered why they had coups to oust them from parliament. (There were more reasons than that of course). It seems so wrong to me to think you are better than someone else because you are born into a particular caste.

I started reading a book someone wrote about their family which included my Johnstone relatives but not my direct line. It was hard reading and those of mixed blood were treated very badly after British women started going to India. I have no respect for my relatives that abandoned their mixed blood children and I don't care what the class system said.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Kit

Yes she was. She was married there too, in 1833.

Sophia was 16 and her mother signed in the parents spot, which could indicate her father was dead.

Found this in the Asiatic Review via Google books:

4 May 1833 at Mozufferpore, in Tirhoot, Mr H G Hampton to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Mr T Rawstone.

[Kit]

That is good Shona, thanks. It does look like what you found is correct. I just don't know what his job is, not that that matters.

I like the Asiatic Review books. It has the only record of another x great grandfather's death.