Lieut-Colonel Wm Elliot C.B. - India

[Jean Price]

Hello All,

From the "Asiatic Journal" 1841, page 233 there is this wedding notice:

June 11 - At Calcutta, Mr Leplaine, indigo planter, Jessore, to Margaret, daughter of the late Lieut-Colonel Wm Elliot C.B. of the 4th L.C.

My questions:
1. What does C.B. stand for?
2. I understand L.C to stand for Light Cavalry - but Googling will bring nothing up for "4th Light Cavalry". What other terminology can I use as search terms?
3. What are my chances of finding more about this William Elliott?
Apart from a daughter Margaret, and possibly a daughter Mary he remains anonymous. Any guide lines will be most welcome.

Regards
Jean

PS This query is linked to another query at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,605055.0.html

[cupoflife]

Hi Jean,

The abbreviation CB (an English title) is used for ‘Companion in Order of the Bath (CB)’. Recipients of this honour may use the postfix initials CB.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/OrderoftheBath.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_(Honour)
http://www.debretts.com/people/honours/orders-of-chivalry/order-of-the-bath.aspx

Check Military records for William Elliot. Also post as much information as you come accross and hopefully some rootschat members who have access may be able to assist with lookups.

Cheers
cupoflife

[sheldonesque]

CB is Companion of the Order of Bath
Try 4th Regiment Light Cavalry. They were pretty active in India through the first half of the C19th and the Mutiny.

He died in May 1823
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0hkoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA785&lpg=PA785&dq=%224th+regiment+light+cavalry%22+elliot&source=bl&ots=IqFuxE7pN5&sig=Fwl5FtRcKYw7fsAeg7_U_ejlCT8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o7fzT7GGDoym8gOi-9T-Bg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%224th%20regiment%20light%20cavalry%22%20elliot&f=false

ADDENDUM: Made CB in 1815 whilst a Major:

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17061/pages/1880

[barryd]

From the marriage records:
Emile Lapline  married Margaret Elliott, 11 Jan 1841, Calcutta, Bengal, India. 
familysearch.org
Note the discrepancy in the marriage dates of the marriage records and the "Asiatic Journal".

[cupoflife]

Try FIBIS search
There is a will for William Elliot 1823
http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=270607

There is also a marriage in 1804 for William Elliot and Elizabeth Carter
http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/simplesearchsummarycat.php?s_id=138&sn=elliot&fn=william&f=1750&to=1823&t=&c=&searchtype=0&tn=1

List of Officers of the Bengal Army - William Elliot 1776 -1823
http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=262481

Family Search brings up a burial 21 May 1823
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J8NN-CZF
 
Cheers
cupoflife

[John915]

Good evening,

The 4th light cavalry would most likely be one of the old presidency army units, Madras, Bengal and Bombay. The Bombay army only had 3 regt's of LC, Madras had 4 and Bengal had 10. These armies fought for the East India Company before being swallowed up by the British army. 8 regt's of the Bengal army took part in the mutiny.

John915

[cupoflife]

Hi

Try Times of India search (below are two) Marriage announcement and Military Retirements in 1898
FIBIS also has marriage record http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=121828

Cheers
cupoflife

[Jean Price]

Hello All,

Thank you so much for all the links you have given me - lots to follow up.

Its amazing how much you learn about all sorts of things with tracing genealogies - the link to the death gave me the place "Diamond Harbour" - which is a pretty little harbour about an hour away from me - in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now I know that it is also a pretty resort in Bengal, India.

I am sure I will be back with more questions - after I have digested all the information.

Thank You
Jean

[AM77]

Lt Col Elliot’s Will mentions four children: William (born Aug 1798 at Futtighur), Mary (born Feb 1801 at Ghazipur), Eliza (born Feb 1807 at Meerut), and Margaret (born Jan 1810 at Meerut).  I'm not certain but his previous wife may be the “Mrs Elliot” who died at Julnah on 15 Oct. 1810 (on FIBIS).

He may have served in the West Indies/Leeward Islands in the 1790s, before heading to India/HEIC service.