Living

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Benny
• Occupation: Electrical Engineer, Tata Iron & Steel Works, India

John married Ernestine Inez Lincoln. Ernestine was born on 12 Nov 1919 in Delhi, India; died on 7 Mar 2014. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The family moved to the UK in January 1962.

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• Occupation: 1885 - Overseer, Deccan Railways, Secunderabad
• Occupation: 1887 - Permanent Way Inspector, H.H.N G. S. Ry. Co. (His Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway)

Notes:

He and Sarah his wife were both staunch Methodists

John married Sarah Louisa Ash on 28 Dec 1885 in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India. Sarah (daughter of John Ash and Anne Jane Moore) was born on 11 Sep 1869 in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India; was christened on 4 Nov 1869 in St John's Church, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India; died in Sep 1916. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Accountant - Sergeant, A Battery, Royal Artillary.

Notes:

In his book (see Documents), Charles Newton Weston (his grandson) says due to financial difficulties John could not go to public school, but was sent to Canada at an early age where the family had some landed interests. When he came home he decided there were no prospects for him in England and enlisted in a regiment to proceed to India. His father begged him to reconsider and offered to buy him out but he refused to consider any change of plans.
Although Newton (as he was known in the family) got several facts wrong, this sounds like a likely scenario. It would explain why I can't find him in the 1841 census, and his disenchantment with England might be tied in with his father's impending marriage to a much younger woman. The landed interests in Canada are interesting - Edward, John's elder brother, ended up in America.

In India he was attached to the Royal Horse artillery and served in the Madras Presidency.

Sources for his passage to India are

LDS Film Reference L/MIL/9/102
IOR Reference 1835691
Source Name Embarkation Lists, EIC Army Recruits
IOR Reference L/MIL/9/102

These were found on the FIBIS site. He is given as 22 years old in 1848 which doesn't quite match up. He is described as a farmer from Northampton, recruited as a gunner in London.
First Names John
Surname Weston
Rank Gunner
Service Recruited Artillery
Presidency Madras
Age 22
Home Parish Brackley
Home County Northampton
Occupation Farmer
Where Enlisted London
Attestation Date 2 Nov 1847
Embarkation Record Elizabeth 1848
Transcribed by Joan Birtles
Type Recruitment
Ship name Elizabeth
Embarked from Chatham
Principal Destination Madras
Date Departed 8 Mar
Year Departed 1848


He retired from the army as a Sergeant Major in 1860, and took up service in the Nizam's Public Works Department - as an accountant - until he died in 1878.

Newton also says 'My grandfather arrived in India 1856 just before the Mutiny in 1857. Married shortly after he arrived to an anglo indian girl Mary Anne Maine - an old anglo indian family from the Central Provinces.'
He got the date of arrival in India wrong, but the information on Mary is likely correct.
Also the family was in Kamptee when Newton's father was born in 1862. 'Later the regiment was stationed at Jalna and then at Secunderabad where the family stayed. When his period of service in the army was completed his Commanding Officer strongly recommended him for a commision in HEH the Nizam's forces, and he stayed there the remains of his active life.'

NB He could havs enlited for 12 years in 1847. See this site
http://wapedia.mobi/en/British_Army_during_the_Victorian_Era
This is for the Brotish Army, rather than the East India Company Army, but no doubt, to get recruits, they would have introduced the same short term enlistments.

John married Mary Anne Maine on 20 Oct 1853 in Jaulnah, India. Mary (daughter of Samuel Maine and Rosannah da Silva) was born on 25 Mar 1833 in Trichinopoly, Madras, India; was christened on 1 Jul 1833 in Trichinopoly, Madras, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Charles Newton Weston's book (see Documents) he says that the Maines were an old Anglo Indian family from the Central Provinces.

Notes:

His grandson Charles Newton Weston says that his father, John Augustus, had three older brothers (who all regularly took liquor) so there would have to be at least two other children here. Robert Shorter Weston seems like an extremely good fit for various reasons noted on his page.
However, Karen Brown, Emily Maude's great granddaughter, was told by her mother that there were only four children. The oldest Emily Maude, then John Augustus, then two daughters Lydia and Alice.
So there is quite a bit of mismatch here, and all the sources seem good.

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• Occupation: Corporal, HMS 18th Hussars

John married Anne Jane Moore on 13 Apr 1868 in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India. Anne (daughter of Samuel Moore and Sarah Steele) was born on 22 May 1852 in Bellary, Madras, India; was christened on 20 Jul 1852 in Bellary, Madras, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]