If you have any information regarding the #Marklew family then please do get in touch  as we would love to hear from you.

My connection to the Marklew family comes direct from my Gt Gran mother Dorothy  Adelina Marklew who was born out in india. 
 The connection to #India started on 8th November in 1827 when William James Marklew  son of Edward Marklew born circa 1760 and Susannah Lea born circa 1759 arrived in  indian state of Bengal on the Ship Thomas Grenville. William was previously a  Jeweller 
 in birmingham prior to enlisting in the 4th Battalion Artillery.

Follow the lineage to Hannah Marklew dob 1797
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To read up on an Assassination attempt on 
QUEEN VICTORIA and PRINCE ALBERT
by her son Edward Oxford dob 1822, who was tried and aqquitted of of Royal Treason at the Old 
Bailey on the grounds of Insanity. He was however imprisioned in Bethleham Hospital London for 
the 
insane for 25 years and then after serving his prison term he was then put on 
a ship in Plymouth to Australia. 
Nothing was ever documented or known about his where about's after he was put on the ship to 
Australia. 
This attempt on Queen Victoria's Life was actually included in the 2009 Hollywood Blockbuster The 
Young Victoria.

At the moment I'am in constant contact with numerous descendants of this line of the  Marklews some of who are listed below and have supplied most of the documentation and  photographs for this site.

Noreen Lavender
 Lorraine Sherry (extremely interested in an info on Maria Vitters family) Jean Duke (nee Marklew)
 Micheal Marklew
 Geoff Stokes and Maggie Stokes nee May
 Denis May
 Gloria Witts

The #colonial era in India began in 1502, when the #Portuguese established the first  #European trading center at Kollam (possibly explain's the entry of the vitters into  the Marklew tree. In 1510 the Portuguese sailor, Vasco da Gama, established an  important trading presence in Goa. Rivalry between European powers saw the entry of  the Dutch, #British, and French among others from the beginning of the 17th century.  By the 19th century, the British had assumed direct and indirect control over most of  India.

History of Calcutta now officially Kolkutta

During the bygone days of the British, as the capital of undivided India #Calcutta was  regarded as the second city of the British #Empire (after London) and was aptly  renamed " City of Palaces" and the Great Eastern Hotel was regarded as the "Jewel of  the East". During that bygone era, Calcutta was famous for its " Baboo Culture "

Calcutta remained in the forefront of Indian prosperity up to independence and for  some more years afterwards before the population pressure on infrastructure and  political disturbances led to a gradual decline. A violently disruptive Maoist  movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s and left the city badly bruised. Since  1977, a Marxist party has continuously ruled the state with various allegations of  electoral malpractices being common. The Municipal Corporation of Calcutta however is  presently controlled by a combine of parties opposed to them. Calcutta has a nickname, the "City of Palaces". 
 During the British colonial era in the period from 1700-1912, when Calcutta was the  capital of British India, Calcutta witnessed a spate of frenzied construction  activity of buildings largely influenced by the conscious intermingling of Gothic,  Baroque, Roman, Oriental and Islamic schools of design. Unlike many north Indian  cities, whose construction stresses minimalism, the layout in architectural variety  in Calcutta owed its origins to the Occident. Thus it was possible to walk on a  street in the European sector in Calcutta in the 1900s and confuse it for Saville  Row, Southall or Pont des Artes. 
 The buildings were designed, and inspired by the tastes of the English gentleman  around and the aspiring Bengalee Baboo (literally a nouveau riche Bengali who aspired  to cultivation of English etiquette, manners and custom ). 
 This spate of construction by the Bengalis to rival the English did not go unnoticed.  It was fully appreciated and fostered by the British who went on to construct some of  the most aesthetically visible monuments in the city.

Follow this link for an interesting family member.
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 an Assassination attempt on QUEEN VICTORIA and PRINCE ALBERT  by the son of Hannah Oxford nee Marklew. 
 http://marklew.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?
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