Andrew Carmichael Weston

Other Events:

• Occupation: Accountant, HH Nizam's GS Railway - Manager Resident Engineers from 1890, Head Clerk 1897

Robert married Alice Patterson on 15 Dec 1886 in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• 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.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Solicitor

Notes:

He was Coroner of the county of Northampton for 55 years, and High Steward of the Manor & Borough of Brackley until he retired in 1858.
He was elected a Burgess in 1858 and in the following year Alderman and subsequently Mayor of Brackley.

Charles Newton Weston (Robert's great grandson) wrote in his book (relevant chapter in Documents) that he visited Brackley in 1936. He saw a gravestone 'Sacred to the memory of Mary, the beloved wife of Robert Weston of this town, Solicitor, who died on 6th day of January 1876 and of Robert Weston who died on 14th December 1889 aged 64 years.'
This could not have been the grave of his great grandmother since she died in 1844. Robert's second wife Maria died in 1889. And Robert himself died in 1872. So this gravestone is problematical - could there have been two solicitors in Brackley called Robert Weston?

Robert married Mary Rebecca Shorter on 8 Jun 1814 in St Peters Church, Brackley, Northampton, England. Mary (daughter of John Shorter and Mary Burford) was born in 1790 in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 24 Apr 1790 in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, England; died on 23 Jul 1844 in Brackley, Northampton, England; was buried on 27 Jul 1844 in Brackley, Northampton, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They were cousins.

Notes:

Died:
At her death in 1856, Rosannah was his wife, not widow, so he was alive then.

Samuel married Rosannah da Silva on 22 Mar 1826 in Cannanore, Madras, India. Rosannah was born about 1813; died on 30 Jul 1856; was buried on 30 Jul 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]