Henry John FITZGERALD [17846]

  General Notes:

On 15th July, 1857, at Cawnpore, India, Lieutenant H. J. Fitzgerald, of 10th Bengal Native Infantry, his wife, Louisa Fitzgerald, and their only child. They had with many others Fled from Futtyghur, at which place they were stationed, to escape the fearful end that awaited them, all leaped out of the boat into the river at Singhee, Rampore, and were all (3) drowned. Mrs Fitzgerald was the eldest daughter of Alderman Thurlow of this city.
This resulted from the Sepoy (Indian) Mutiny in Bengal 1857

Henry married Louisa Margaret THURLOW [17845] [MRIN: 6436], daughter of William Edward THURLOW [17831] and Ann Jane JAMES [17834], on 18 Jun 1853 in St James Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Louisa Margaret THURLOW [17845] was born in 1835 in New South Wales, Australia and died on 15 Jul 1857 in Singhee Rampore India.)