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Mary Eliza Louisa Tranchell (1814–1836)
Mary Eliza Louisa Hall (1836–1848)
Mary Eliza Louisa Cochrane (1848–1862)
Mary Eliza Louisa Glenie (1862–1893)

1814/15–93

Lived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Daughter of Mary Selway and Gustavus Adolphus Tranchell (1787–1866). Married Samuel Owen Glenie as his second wife in Trincomalee, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1862. Her previous marriages, both in Trincomalee, were to Andrew Halliday Hall (1808–38), a surgeon, in 1836, and to George Cochrane (1789/90–1860), an army officer, in 1848.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG13/1343/23/39)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 October 2018)

Hewson ed. 2017

J. P. Lewis 1913, pp. 230, 268, 273, 274, and 438

Bibliography

Hewson, Eileen, ed. 2017. St Stephen’s church Trincomalee: marriages from 1813. Wem, Shropshire: The Kabristan Archives.

Lewis, John Penry. 1913. List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated. Colombo, Sri Lanka: n.p.

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