O'Leary (Ó Laoghaire) is from Munster, south-west Ireland. It means 'calf keeper'; Lugaid Mac Con, High King of Ireland and King Laoghaire mac Néill are ancestors, apparently.
Hugh McDicken (1803, India? - son of Alexander (1782)) married Eleanor (Ellen) O'Leary (1809, (Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Kanrantaka, India) in Bangalore in 1824. Her father was Thomas O'Leary and her mother has the interesting name of 'Yearamah' which might be the only native name we have in the ancestral tree. We know from a family mitochondrial DNA test that her ultimate ancestry was Middle-Eastern.
Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, in southern India. My photos are here. It is located in southern India, on the Deccan Plateau at an elevation of over 900 m above sea level, which is the highest among India's major cities. It has a pronounced multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan character.
The city was captured by the British East India Company after victory in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799), who returned administrative control of the city to the Maharaja of Mysore. In 1809 (fifteen years before Hugh and Ellen married), the British shifted their cantonment to Bangalore, outside the old city, and a town grew up around it.
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| Bangalore Cathedral (credit) |
- 48.2.1 - Margaret Julia McDicken (1825)
- 48.2.2 - Jane Ann McDicken (1827)
- 48.2.3 - Ellen McDicken (1830)
- 48.2.4 - Hugh McDicken (1832)
- 48.2.5 - Daniel McDicken (1834)
- 48.2.6 - Agnes McDicken (1836)
More on these individuals in Chapter 48.
Ellen's father, Thomas, was a Sgt Major 5th Native Madras Cavalry, which had been re-raised in 1799.
Hugh was also in the native cavalry - a Gunner in the Horse Brigade at the time of his marriage, which suggests that they both mixed race. He was a Quarter Master at the time of his death in 1842. Ellen lived until 1864, when she died in Calcutta.
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