See also
| Husband: | John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON (1872-1940) | |
| Wife: | Ruby Ethel WILTZ (c. 1885- ) | |
| Children: | Ellen CHARLESTON (1904- ) | |
| Harry CHARLESTON (1906-1975) | ||
| Status: | Divorced | |
| Marriage | 16 Apr 1901 | Kansas City USA |
| Name: | John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | John CHARLESTON (1832?-1881) | |
| Mother: | Mary Ann Elizabeth D'CRUZ (1854?- ) | |
| Birth | 26 Sep 1872 | Calcutta |
| Death | 29 Aug 1940 (age 67) | Chicago USA |
| Name: | Ruby Ethel WILTZ | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1885 | |
| Name: | Ellen CHARLESTON | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1904 | |
| Name: | Harry CHARLESTON | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 28 Sep 1906 | Springfield, Illinois USA |
| Death | 27 Apr 1975 (age 68) | Chicago |
According to newspaper cuttings, John was using the name Dr. Saik Abdall Ahlee when he married Ruby Wiltz.
This information and the date of marriage was included in the newspaper cutting reporting his divorce.
Most of the information I know about John Joseph Charleston has come from his family living in USA.
John's first name is a bit of a puzzle, his family in USA knew him as John Joseph or sometimes Joseph John but his family in India knew him as Sam. In 1877 when John was 5, his parents had another son who they called John David Charleston, he died after only 3 months. I don't think John and Mary Ann would give two of their sons the same first name, but I have settled on a first name of John because that is the name he seems to have used in USA where he spent most of his life.
John was born in 1872 in Calcutta, his father was a clerk in the high court.
In 1881 when John was 8 his father died of T.B. John's mother Mary Ann remarried in 1881 a few months after the death of John senior.
It is believed that John was sent to an orphanage after the death of his father, I wonder if this could have been a boarding school?
John supposedly left the orphanage when he was 14 and stowed away on a ship travelling to Liverpool and from there he journeyed on to USA arriving in 1887.
John served in the U.S. army at different times between the ages of 21 and 33.
John married Ruby Ethel Wiltz in1901 and they had 2 children, this marriage did not last, John and Ruby divorced in 1906. John married again in 1908 to Lillian Maud McClay. John and Lillian had 13 children.
John died in 1940 in Chicago USA.
John's occupation seems to have been: Soldier, Clerk and Preacher.
DNA comparisons carried out using ancestry.com and gedmatch.com have matched descendants of Charles, John and Ellen Charleston.
Ruby's surname came from a the family history story by a descendant of John Joseph Charleston.
There a number of newspaper cuttings from Kansas and Illinois where Ruby's surname is Wilt.