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Daur Mary Jane by Phebe Cooper married in India:

Bride's Forename Mary Jane
Bride's Surname Clarkson
Bride's Age 15
Groom's Forename John
Groom's Surname Heath
Groom's Age 27
Year Of Marriage 1866
Date Of Marriage 21 Nov 1866
Place Cannanore
Presidency Madras
Bride's Father's Forename Edmund
Bride's Father's Surname Clarkson
Groom's Father's Forename James
Groom's Father's Surname Heath
Archive Reference N-2-47
Folio No. 420
Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Madras, : 1698-1948
Entry No. -
Record set British India Office marriages
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection Marriages & divorces

James Heath was a Sergt, but it's hard to read details of his unit, could be 102, 107 or 109th Regt and the rest I can't decipher.

I didn't find any trace of Alice's full brother, William Edmond Clarkson in the India records after his birth, nor was I able to identify a marriage or death in India for Thomas Clarkson born 1839,second son of that name of Edmund and first wife Charlotte.

Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!

Think I've finally found Edmund's marriage to Margaret, mother of Alice, though Ted probably already knows this.

Edmund is called Edward here, but on the image he is 'Edward Clarkson**** Sergt Major 40th Regt N I *******widow.

Margaret was a spinster, and surname is Lawrence on the image:

Bride's Forename Margaret
Bride's Surname Lawrewnce
Bride's Age -
Groom's Forename Edward
Groom's Surname Clarkson
Groom's Age -
Year Of Marriage 1840
Date Of Marriage 11 Nov 1840
Place Calcutta
Presidency Bengal
Bride's Father's Forename -
Bride's Father's Surname -
Groom's Father's Forename -
Groom's Father's Surname -
Archive Reference N-1-57
Folio No. 100
Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal, : 1713-1948
Entry No. -
Record set British India Office marriages
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection Marriages & divorces

Well done Kucinta. I had received this from Ted so he did know Margaret's maiden name but good sleuthing.

Thank you for the information supplied
Alice Clarkson B 1841 is the one.
Edmond Cooper Clarkson is Edmond Clarkson's son by his third wife Phoebe Cooper M 1846.

Alice Clarkson, family legend say that she was adopted by Edmond's wife Margaret Laurence, she was the daughter of an Indian Maharajah born in Madras.
No information as yet can be found about her mother

Photos of her confirm the Indian connection.

There are some trees on ancestry with photos. Striking one of Mary Jane Clarkson Heath Fuller.

A very special THANK YOU ! to all who have taken the time and effort to contribute to my inquiry

Ted M

Edmond's first wife Charlotte Jones was an Indo Briton. If the same were true of Margaret, and there seems to be no evidence either way, then that could account for any 'Indian' looks Alice may have had, if Margaret were her biological mother, rather than the adoptive mother of family legend.

If Edmond is the father of Alice by a Maharajah's daughter, then he was playing away from home very early in the marriage, as he only married Margaret on 11th Nov 1840, and Alice was born 18th Dec 1841, and baptised as Edmond and margaret's daughter on 1st Jan 1842.