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[19933] Beverley Minster : died at Secunderabad

Minster Church of St John & St Martin, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Memorial to Kate Ebena Ditmas (1816-1846).

She died at Secunderabad, Deccan, India in 1846, aged 30.

 

Thomas Ditmas, was born on 2 June 1806. He went into the Madras Artillery and was posted to the 1st battalion as a 1st lieutenant in October 1824. He travelled back to England at some point and in mid 1838 he married Kate Ebena, born 1816 as the eldest daughter of Edward Boghurst at Beverley Minster. She died at Secunderbad in India on 24 August 1846, at which time Thomas held the rank of Captain. She died about a month after giving birth to their fifth child. Thomas subsequently married Ella Martha daughter of Richard Hickman on 4 September 1851.

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