Hi thank you so much for your reply! I need to unpick it all, but William and Elizabeth look very likely candidates to be my g g grandparents and William and Charlotte look likely to be the generation above - because that would bear out the planter story.
I need to print all these Charlesworths out and try to make sense of them. Unfortunately they all seem to have been obsessed with the name William! William and Elizabeth christened two sons William. William Jonathon (who is likely to be my g grandfather) and then William Douglas. I thought that was sometimes done when one child died but although WD was born before WJ he was christened afterwards. If WJ IS my g grandfather, it might explain some confusion over whether his first name was William or Jonathon. On his grave stone it is William Jonathon, but maybe people called him Jonathon...
I have a few records from the British Library, but Familysearch has produced much more. My problem is going to be where records will be kept - by the looks of it, it could be Mysore, Bangalore or Hyderabad - possibly even Madras.
Thank you so much for your help. I think this is going to be a difficult one. Part of the problem is that while some British births were recorded and kept as British records, Anglo-Indians will usually be found in just church records. For instance, Margaret Elizabeth's husband (my grandfather) had an English father and Indian mother, but his records can't be found out of the church records in India. It has been said that William Jonathon was 'British', so maybe if his birth is recorded in that way he was.
Oh dear, it is all so confusing!
Thank you so much!
Louise
