48.2 Siblings of Agnes Crump (née McDicken)

Hugh and Ellen McDicken had six children:

• 48.2.1 - Margaret Julia McDicken (1825-1840)
• Died at about 15 years of age, possibly in childbirth
• Married as a minor to Robert Greaves Marshall (1807-1854) in Bangalore (now Bengaluru, Karnataka), India in 1839 

Victorian Bangalore (credit)

• Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, and grew up around a British cantonment established in 1809. My pictures are here.

Bangalore (my photo)

• Children:
• Ellen Margaret Marshall (1840)

• 48.2.2 - Jane Ann McDicken (1827)
• Born in Bangalore
• Courtesy of other researchers; no more known

• 48.2.3 - Ellen McDicken (1830-1830)
• Died in infancy

• 48.2.4 - Hugh McDicken (1832-1908)
• Born in Secunderabad (now in Andhra Pradesh), India. 
• Secunderabad was the twin city of Hyderabad. Secunderabad Junction railway station, one of the largest in India and the zonal headquarters of South Central Railway, was established in 1874. Several heritage buildings survive from the time that Hugh was there, including the King Edward Memorial Hospital (now the Gandhi Hospital). Sir Winston Churchill, the prime minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, was posted in Secunderabad during the 1890s as a subaltern in the British Army.

Victorian Secunderabad (credit)

• Secunderabad is now part of the Hyderabad municipality. My pictures are here.

Hyderabad (my photo)

• Emigrated to Australia after the death of his father
• Married Jane Farquharson (1831-1870) in Sydney, Australia
• Children:
• Charlotte McDicken (1859-1862)
• Ellen Matilda McDicken (1864-1941)
• Jane McDicken (1870-1870)
• ? McDicken (1870-1870)
• Married Isabella Agnes Argue (1844-1875) in Surry Hills, NSW, Australia. Percy and Ada Brittain also lived here.
• Children:
• Hugh William McDicken (1872-1942)
• Eliza Margaret McDicken (1872-1911)
• Henry James Argue McDicken (1874-1944)
• Mary Gertrude Isabella McDicken (1892-1963)
• Married Rachel A Aiken (1858-1925) in Sydney
• Children:
• Ivy E J McDicken (1885)
• Arthur William Charles McDicken (1892-1963)

• 48.2.5 - Daniel McDicken (1834)
• Born in Madras
• Courtesy of other researchers; no more known

• 48.2.6 - Agnes McDicken (1836)
• See Chapter 48

More information on these individuals in Chapter 56.

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