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 St Johns Memorials Index - Bengal Obituary 1851

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DescriptionTranscriptions of MIs from The Bengal Obituary: Or, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth, Being a etc etc by Holmes and Co (Calcutta, India ). Published by W. Thacker & Co
Date transcribed2009-08-22
Transcribed byPeter Bailey

Surname  Johnson    
Forename(s)  Frances    
Year of Death  1812    
Inscription  Beneath are deposited the remains of Mrs. Frances Johnson; she was the second daughter of Edward Crook, Esq., Governor of Fort St. David, on the coast of Coromandel, and was born the 10th of April, 1725. In 1738 she intermarried with Parry Purple Templer, Esq. Nephew of Mr. Braddyll, then Governor of Calcutta, by whom she had two children, who died Infants. Her second husband was James Altham, of Calcutta, Esq. who died of small-pox a few days after the marriage. She next intermarried with William Watts, Esq. then Senior Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal. by whom she had issue four children, Amelia, who married The Right Honourable Charles Jenkinson afterwards Earl of Liverpool, by whom she had issue one child, Robert Banks, now Earl of Liverpool, &c. &c. Edward, now of Hanslope Park in the county of Bucks, Esq. Sophia, late the wife, and now the widow of George Poyntz Ricketts, Esq. late Governor of Barbadoes, and William who died an Infant. After the death of Mr. Watts, she in 1774, intermarried with the Reverend William Johnson, then principal chaplain of the Presidency of Fort William by whom she had no issue. She died the 3d of February 1812. Aged 87, The 0ldest British resident in Bengal, universally beloved, respected and revered.    
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