From reading the other thread I now know that he was born in Ireland in 1821! He married Ann sometime after 1841 (as she is not with him in the 1841 census) and they had four children. Mary Ann born 1849 in Dublin, Emily born 1851 in Canterbury, William born 1853 in Hounslow and Ellen born in 1856. William died in 1860 in India. Ann and the children arrived in India shortly after he died. She returned to, probably Ireland, with Mary Ann and left the three younger children in a military orphanage school. I am descended from son William born 1853...