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I saw their records - I think they lost a few children in a matter of days, that's why they stuck in my memory.  We're probably connected, but it's difficult to know how far back the Charlesworths go in India. And it's such a shame that it's not possible to know when the Anglo-Indian line started

Dear all,

I'm not sure if anyone might be able to help with this.  I'm just going over what I put together a couple of years ago and am double-checking on:

William Conway and Elizabeth. 

They were based in St Luke's Finsbury from 1815 onwards (going by their children's baptism records).  He was a glass paper maker, but that was about all I had on them.  By the looks of it, they had two children baptised in 1815 (Sarah in April 1815 and William in May 1815 at St Andrews, Holborn.)  Because the residence is given as Field Lane for both, I think it definitely has to be them, although I don't know why they would have two children baptised in two months!  I have another five children for them after this.

I've just been looking on familysearch.org and have found one marriage record for a William Conway and Elizabeth (details below).  This is also in 1815 but in a different church.  I am thinking that they could be my William and Elizabeth but it seems odd to have two children baptised and get married in-between the two!  (Not that I think it impossible - I've come across all sorts of weird arrangements in my family tree!)  By the 1851 census, Elizabeth was widowed, although I haven't yet found a death record for William of which I can be certain.

I would like to be able to confirm whether the marriage record on familysearch.org is theirs.  Would anybody be able to find a more detailed record perhaps showing the groom's occupation and their residence? Thank you in advance! Here are the details I found:

   
groom's name:   William Conway
bride's name:   Elizabeth Harwood
marriage date:   07 May 1815
marriage place:   Parish Of Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England
indexing project (batch) number:   M01362-0
system origin:   England-EASy
source film number:   1042306

Thanks - they sound interesting.  I suppose it must be quite possible that some of them did go to school in the hill stations, as that was quite common.  I know that my other grandparents were in school in the south.  There's a lot for me to look in to!

Thank you so much - that made my morning!

Louise

Hi all, thank you so much for all your replies and apologies for replying so late.  They've all proven useful - I did contact one of the ladies in the link Ciderdrinker posted and unfortunately she didn't know the history of the Garlah name, but knew the ladies who ran a school in Mussoorie.

I was wondering if Garlah was an anglicized Indian name, but from what you've said, Ciderdrinker, it looks like it could be English.  So a Garlah went to India at some point and settled there. Thank you for those English references to Garlah - they give me more of a possible idea.  (I did manage to sit down and unpick the Charlesworth references on Familysearch, and managed to work out the three wives of William(!) and their children, so I now have a clear line from my g grandfather William Jonathon to William the coffee planter.)

My dad was Anglo-Indian (his father was Anglo-Indian and his mother was too).  The paternal line was easy because the Anglo bit only went back to my g grandfather.  With my dad's maternal line (the Charlesworths) it seems to go back much further, which makes it more complicated.

I've looked on the British library online records and on Familysearch, but does anyone know if there is another way of accessing East India company records?  I will be going to India next year so will have a chance to do some research...

Thank you so much!

Louise