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Family of Leonard WHEATLEY and Mootamah or Mary MAKEN

Husband: Leonard WHEATLEY (1773?-1822)
Wife: Mootamah or Mary MAKEN (1784?-1852)
Children: Ann WHEATLEY (1802- )
Elizabeth WHEATLEY (1804-1835)
John WHEATLEY (1809-1857)
Thomas WHEATLEY (1811- )
Sarah WHEATLEY (1815-1848)
Joseph WHEATLEY (1819- )
Charlotte WHEATLEY ( - )
Marriage 20 Dec 1810 Bellary, India

Husband: Leonard WHEATLEY

Name: Leonard WHEATLEY
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1773 (est) Lancaster, Lancashire
Occupation Serjeant Carnatic European Vetrans
Death 9 Apr 1822 (age 48-49) Vizagapatam

Wife: Mootamah or Mary MAKEN

Name: Mootamah or Mary MAKEN
Sex: Female
Father: Peter MAKEN (1760?- )
Mother: Peterharmah or Natcharama ? ( - )
Birth 1784 (est)
Death 23 May 1852 (age 67-68) Bellary, India

Child 1: Ann WHEATLEY

Name: Ann WHEATLEY
Sex: Female
Spouse: George Val REDSALL ( - )
Birth 9 Jan 1802 Madras

Child 2: Elizabeth WHEATLEY

Name: Elizabeth WHEATLEY
Sex: Female
Spouse 1: John PAGE ( - )
Spouse 2: William SIMMONDS (1803?-1835)
Birth 2 Nov 1804 Fort St George, Madras
Death 12 Nov 1835 (age 31) Nagpore (Nagpur) Maharashtra

Child 3: John WHEATLEY

Name: John WHEATLEY
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Sarah STENNETT (1816?-1841)
Spouse 2: Julia HATTON (1825?- )
Birth 28 Jan 1809 Bellary, India
Occupation 1832 (age 22-23) Farrier 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry
Occupation 1842 (age 32-33) Catechist S.P.G.F.P.
Death 29 Dec 1857 (age 48) Trichinopoly

Child 4: Thomas WHEATLEY

Name: Thomas WHEATLEY
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Elizabeth EUAR (1806?-1852)
Spouse 2: Charlotte GODFERY (1833?- )
Birth 21 Mar 1811 Bellary, India
Occupation Farrier 1st & 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry

Child 5: Sarah WHEATLEY

Name: Sarah WHEATLEY
Sex: Female
Spouse: James Fitzgerald LINCOLN (c. 1811-1874)
Birth 11 Dec 1815 Bellary, India
Death 10 Mar 1848 (age 32) Masulipatnam, India

Child 6: Joseph WHEATLEY

Name: Joseph WHEATLEY
Sex: Male
Spouse: Joanna SPANKIE (1821?-1856)
Birth 20 Aug 1819 Vizagapatam
Occupation Teacher

Child 7: Charlotte WHEATLEY

Name: Charlotte WHEATLEY
Sex: Female
Spouse: ? MILTON ( - )

Note on Marriage

Marriage record n2/4/415.

Note on Husband: Leonard WHEATLEY

Death from burial record n2/8/528 and Casualty roll L/MIL/11/129.

Birth year calulated from age of death in L/MIL/11/129.

Leonard arrived in India in 1791 on the ship General Coote.

Leonard's rank was a Corporal in the 1st Battalion Artillery in 1810 on his marriage record and then Serjeant on the baptism record of Sarah in 1815.

Note on Wife: Mootamah or Mary MAKEN

Mary's surname was "Maken" on her marriage record.

On the baptism record of her Son, John, his mother is named as "Mootamah".

The name "Mootamah" means "Collector of Pearls".

 

Mrs Mary Wheatley (mother of Elizabeth Page) is recorded in the London Gazette as having received a share of Elizabeth's estate on her death.

 

British Library baptism film n2/11/237 records the Christening of Mary, Sally and Ann Maken in Bellary on 20 Dec 1810, birth dates are not given. This is the same date that Mary Maken Married Leonard Wheatley and Ann Maken married Joseph Norman in Bellary.

 

Mary's Date of death is taken from BL records n2/31/202 and correction N2/C/10/149, her gravestone inscription appears in the "List of European Tombs in the Bellary District". All of these documents give Mary's age as 95 years which is not compatible with the dates of birth of her children.