Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
NameCaroline S. Davies 
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29Spouses
Marriage184629
ChildrenFanny Elizabeth
Notes for Edward John (i) (Spouse 1)
From BBB15:
b 1820, probably in Dublin, and nominated to a cadetship in the HEICS by Neil Edmonstone, s-in-law of Anne Charlotte i. Cadet in the Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe, 1836-37. Commissioned as Ensign, Dec 1837 and arrived at Calcutta 1838. Joined one of the Company's European regts at Agra. For his services in the 1st Afghan War, see the Chronicles, Section 'Afghanistan and Sind'. Tfd to 35th Bengal NI Nov 1839. Lt 1841. Adjt 1843 and official interpreter to the regt the same year. Agra 1843-45; Allahabad 1845; d at Jehanabad, Bihar, 1847. The 35th was one of the best regts of that day composed of high-caste Brahmans; it formed a great friendship with the 13th Foot, the British regt with which it served during the siege of Jelalabad, which lasted for two months, March-May 1842. Edward was entitled to the medal for the Capture of Ghuznee, and that for the Siege of Jelalabad.
He m 1846 Caroline Elizabeth Davies, and they had a dau Fanny Elizabeth.
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In 2014 Sidney Holdrege sent me the following:
Sacred to the Memory of Edward John Boileau, Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 8th Regiment of Bengal Light Infantry who died at Jahanabad while removing from Allahabad to Barrikpore on 8th November 1847. He departed in Christian faith and hope, being an affectionate husband, a kind father and a gallant soldier. This tablet was erected by his most attached widow in A, D. I848. [E. J, Boileau was son of J. T. Boileau of Dublin, and was born in 1820. He joined the service in 1837, fought at Jehalabad, and was mentioned in dispatches for the attack on Jagdalak.]
List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by Sir Edward Arthur Blunt, Allahabad, 1911.
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b 1820, probably in Dublin, and nominated to a cadetship in the HEICS by Neil Edmonstone, s-in-law of Anne Charlotte i. Cadet in the Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe, 1836-37. Commissioned as Ensign, Dec 1837 and arrived at Calcutta 1838. Joined one of the Company's European regts at Agra. For his services in the 1st Afghan War, see the Chronicles, Section 'Afghanistan and Sind'. Tfd to 35th Bengal NI Nov 1839. Lt 1841. Adjt 1843 and official interpreter to the regt the same year. Agra 1843-45; Allahabad 1845; d at Jehanabad, Bihar, 1847. The 35th was one of the best regts of that day composed of high-caste Brahmans; it formed a great friendship with the 13th Foot, the British regt with which it served during the siege of Jelalabad, which lasted for two months, March-May 1842. Edward was entitled to the medal for the Capture of Ghuznee, and that for the Siege of Jelalabad.
He m 1846 Caroline Elizabeth Davies, and they had a dau Fanny Elizabeth.
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In 2014 Sidney Holdrege sent me the following:
Sacred to the Memory of Edward John Boileau, Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 8th Regiment of Bengal Light Infantry who died at Jahanabad while removing from Allahabad to Barrikpore on 8th November 1847. He departed in Christian faith and hope, being an affectionate husband, a kind father and a gallant soldier. This tablet was erected by his most attached widow in A, D. I848. [E. J, Boileau was son of J. T. Boileau of Dublin, and was born in 1820. He joined the service in 1837, fought at Jehalabad, and was mentioned in dispatches for the attack on Jagdalak.]
List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by Sir Edward Arthur Blunt, Allahabad, 1911.
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