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Hello, I wonder if anyone can advise me about how to interpret this phrase?
My great grandmother, Pudentiana Murray, was born in Madras. I think that her parents were James Murray (a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion Artillery) and an Eliza Green. Oddly, they married twice, once in a Protestant Church in Quillon in 1824 and again in the Portuguese Mission Church at St Thomas Mount in 1839 (I wonder why?). In a record on FamilySearch, there is a description of James and his rank, and of Eliza “Queen”, and she is described as a “country born spinster”, and I wonder if anyone knows what this terminology means? I assume that it means that she was born in India, and I wonder if she was part Portuguese-Indian.
On another note I cannot find any service record for James, and I think he survived at least until 1851 when he had a child called William (who also became a soldier as ‘a lad’). I thought at first that he may have died in 1857 since there was a pension record for someone that looked like him who died that year. But, later I found that he had become a ‘cab proprietor’ (I assume in India – it is noted on William’s marriage certificate). Any advice about how to find out more about James would be helpful!
Thanks, Nicola
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