Evelyn & William Henry Coles - prob Croydon

[Singingsnail]

Can anyone help me solve a longstanding problem please?
My husband's family are remarkably ignorant about their people! Any info that I have for certain here is gained from records (eg BMD)
I'm looking for an Evelyn Coles ( middle initial 'C' on the death GRO)- maiden name unknown (and v important to me to know it!) born 1881-3 who married a William Henry Coles (taken from daughter Edith's marriage cert), maybe in Croydon - almost certainly in SE England. They had daughters Edith b 1911-13 and Florence b abt 1915-16 and another girl unknown name, who died as a child. William died before 1939. Evelyn died 1963 aged 82. The family spent time in India and China - but this seems to have been later than when their children were being born, maybe late twenties, early thirties. I don't know where either of them was born but guess Croydon or within the Greater London region. The only joy I've had with the census lists a guy with ooccupation 'tram driver' but this also doesn't seem right...... this man is more likely to have been a professional of some sort.
I just can't seem to find a record that coincides with this couple or their children - there are many that seem almost right, but not right enough. Reportedly William was a nasty man -  violent, drunk - perhaps there are records of him elsewhere, then......
If I'm wrong and their children were born in India or China, none of those records I've seen seem to fit either. I know that the girls attended a convent school in Bombay and wonder if anyone knows where this was - there can't have been many.
Sorry to make such an itsy-bitsy sort of request but I'm really stuck.
Thanks in advance to anyone who will try to help.

[CaroleW]

Could this marriage be a possibility?

Marriages June qtr 1903 
 
William Henry Coles and on the same page is Eveline Handy  Axbridge  5c 1058   
 

Evelyn died 1963 aged 82

Where did she die

Freebmd has this birth

Births December qtr 1883 

Eveline Handy     Axbridge  5c 527

[keyboard86]

Hi their are these people bound for India via Colombo in July 1915

William H Coles 38 occ Engineer
Evelyn 31
Edith 7
Florrie 5
Jennie 2 1/2

Departed London for Colombo Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 30th July 1915 on SS Osterley


Jennett Coles Death Date 2nd September 1925 Burial 3rd September 1925 aged 13 Bombay, India Father William Henry Coles
Keyboard86

[crisane]

Are you sure of the children's birth dates?
On familysearch.org

Florence Irene Lucy Coles

baptism29 Nov 1909
Bombay, Bombay, India
born 26 Oct 1909
father William Henry Coles
mother Evelyn Catherine
    

[crisane]

Lily Elsie Coles
baptism 28 Feb 1906
Byculla, Bombay, India
born 20 Jan 1906
father William Henry Coles
mother Evelyn Catherine

Evelyn Clifford Coles
Male
baptism 23 Jul 1903
Parel, Bombay, India
born   11 Jun 1903
father William Henry Coles
mother Evelyn Catherine

I can't see a baptism for an Edith. The parents names are correct but the dates are earlier than given and you didn't mention a son.

[crisane]

William Henry Coles
born 1877
age at marriage 25
bride - Evelyn Catherine Weller
born 1884
 age at marriage 18
marriage 17 Dec 1902
Parel, Bombay, India
groom's father - William Samuel Coles
bride's father - William Thomas Weller

Whether this is your couple or not?

[heywood]

Hello,

besides the marriage which Crisane has posted, Family Search also has baptism details for Catherine Evelyn Weller

regards
heywood

[groom]

A William H Coles travelled from Bombay arriving in London on board the Nagoya on 17th May 1919. His permanent place of residence was India. He seems to be travelling alone.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Also A William M Coles b c1878 travelling from Hong Kong to  London in  1929 - permanent address in Portsmouth. He's a chargeman of electrical fitters.

I did wonder if the M was a msitranscription, but the image has a typewritten M