See also
| Husband: | William Patrick Ralston SHEDDEN (1794-1880) | |
| Wife: | Frances Sophia BROWNE (1804- ) | |
| Children: | Annabella Jean Ralston SHEDDEN (1823-1873) | |
| Fanny SHEDDEN (1825-1827) | ||
| William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON (1828-1889) | ||
| Marriage | 18 Mar 1822 | Calcutta |
| Name: | William Patrick Ralston SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | William Ralston SHEDDEN (1747-1798) | |
| Mother: | Ann WILSON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 1794 | New York, USA |
| Residence | New York, USA | |
| Residence | frm 1817 to 1825 (age 22-31) | Calcutta, India |
| Residence | London | |
| Death | 1880 (age 85-86) | London |
| Name: | Frances Sophia BROWNE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1804 | |
| Name: | Annabella Jean Ralston SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1823 | London |
| Death | 1873 (age 49-50) | Edinburgh |
| Name: | Fanny SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1825 | Calcutta |
| Death | 7 May 1827 (age 1-2) | Calcutta |
| Name: | William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 4 Apr 1828 | London |
| Death | 6 Aug 1889 (age 61) | London |
Date and place of marriage from British Library marriage record downloaded from findmypast.
Year and place of birth from London Daily News litigation report.
Year and place of death from familypedia.wikia.org.
Information from wikipedia.org
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889) was born on 4 April 1828 in York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, as the third child and only son of William Patrick Ralston Shedden (1794-1880) and Frances Sophia Browne (1804-). His mother was the 3rd daughter of William Browne (1762-1833) of Galway, Calcutta and Sydney. HIS FATHER, born in New York of Scottish paternity and schooled in Scotland, had made his fortune as a merchant in CALCUTTA, India, before setting up home in Palmira Square, Brighton. William Ralston Shedden-Ralston spent most of his early years there. Together with three or four other boys he studied under the Rev. John Hogg of Brixham, Devonshire, until he went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1846, where he studied law and graduated with a BA in 1850.
In 1852 William's father entered into a lengthy but unsuccessful litigation over his claim to the Ralston estates in Ayrshire, Scotland. The cost dissipated his fortune. The family pressed the claim for many years. William's sister, Annabella Jean Ralston Sheddon (1823-1873), took up the pleadings, and at one stage in 1861 conducted the case before a committee of the House of Lords for more than thirty days while their father was in prison for unpaid legal debts.