Jane Janette (Hoseason) Cathrey (1817 - 1861)

Born 4 Feb 1817 in King's Lynn St John, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Werner Cathrey — married 10 Mar 1838 in St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta, India

Died 25 Jul 1861 at age 44 in 3 New Cavendish Street, London, England

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Biography

• Church Registers of India (Extracts of Indian church registers for the areas Bengal, Bombay and Madras are held in the British Library, London), *Archdeaconry of Calcutta — quarterly returns of marriages. 1838, March 10...

Werner Cathrey, Lieut. 13th Drags, Calcutta — Bachelor Jane Janette Hoseason, Calcutta — Spinster — of age... [friend, next of kin, etc. ] John Cochrane of Calcutta Standing Council to the E.I. Company... [witnesses: ] Matilda Irvinhoe, J. F. Leith, Ed. Whity? O'Hanlon, Isabella Oakes. In the East India Register & Directory for 1838, John Cochrane is recorded as being one of the Advocates to the Supreme Council of Judicature.

Sources

• Bayanne House

John Green Elizabeth Hoseason

◦Jane was killed from wounds sustained in the abdomen from a knife. Richard Anstwick Westbrook was charged with manslaughter, and was tried at Bow Street, where he was acquitted.

• Census return.

• Madras Courier, 24th August 1803, page 2, column B.