SEARLE Family Tree

with Links to British India

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? SEARLE married ?, children:

Elizabeth SEARLE on 21 Nov 1837 in Nagpur married Thomas Staton RANSON, children:

1. Ralph Staton Ranson (b 22 Nov 1838 Aurungabad, d 31 May 1878 Calicut)

2. Amelia Staton Ranson (b 10 Sep 1840 Aurungabad)

3. Thomas Staton Ranson (b 3 Dec 1842 Aurungabad)

4. Elizabeth Staton Ranson (b 1845)

5. William Staton Ranson (b 29 Nov 1847 Madras, 11 Dec 1885 Karachi, age 37)

6. George Ranson (b 6 Jan 1851 Madras)

7. Mary Jane Ranson (b 6 Apr 1856 Aurungabad)

8. Louisa Ranson (b 31 Jan 1858 Aurungabad)

9. Henry Searle Ranson (b 18 Sep 1862 Aurungabad)

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? SEARLE married ?, children:

Joseph SEARLE married Eliza ?, children:

1. Moses Searle (b 2 May 1857 Madras)

2. Sarah Searle (c 7 Sep 1859 St Thomas Mount)

3. Eliza Searle (b 1853, d 12 Jul 1860 St Thomas Mount)

4. Joseph Ebenezer Searle (c 31 Aug 1862 St Thomas Mount)

Next Generation

Sarah SEARLE (c 7 Sep 1859 St Thomas Mount) at 24yrs on 5 Oct 1885 in Madras married 24yr William Charles Joseph REBEIRO (b 1861, d 22 Mar 1927 Madras, son of Charles Lewis Rebeiro), children:

1. Alice Evelyn Rebeiro (b 26 Apr 1888 Black Town)

2. Edith Louise Rebeiro (b 28 Mar 1890 Royapuram)

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Thomas Whitford SEARLE married Clara Sophia Grundy Fexina ?, children:

1. William Whitford Searle (b 18 Jul 1869, d 26 Sep 1871 Calcutta)

2. Joseph Henry Searle (b 18 Feb 1871 Calcutta)

3. Winifred Mary Wensley Searle (b 12 Dec 1874 Calcutta)

4. Mabel Constance Searle (b 19 Jan 1877 Calcutta)

5. Thomas Edwin Chance Searle (b 31 May 1879 Calcutta)

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My grandmother’s family tree is a mystery. We know she was born in Ferozepur,probably near the start of the 1900’s. Her family name may have been MILLER, her Mother’s maiden name was likely SULIMAN and she may have been Muslim. Her mother’s name was Ellen and her father was Theodor. She says he was a missionary, he was definitely a Christian and so was my Grandmother. She was educated and we believe she went to school in Lahore. This is all before partition of course. They had family dogs and her Uncles were land owners. Her name was Gladys Sybil. She eventually moved to Calcutta where she met my grandfather, an English Army Officer, they married in 1947 and had 2 daughters in 1949 & 1954, but we know she was married before that, had other children and that her mother Ellen lived and died in Asansol. We would love to find out her family tree, her real date of birth and if any of her relatives/our relatives are out there. I hope to be able to travel to India and stay in Ferozepur to do some detective work and see where she came from, but just wondered if anyone had any links I could follow up. Good or bad we are just so hungry for information to know her better.  Clara Bell

Cecil SEARLE (b 2 Nov 1896 Peshawar) married Harriet ?, children:

1. Sheila Magdalene Searle (b 7 Sep 1924 Lebong)