I wonder if any body can help? I am trying to find the marriage in about 1777-1778 of Charlotte Peche (1758-1833) to George Smith (c.1744-1808) George Smith was a merchant and in the late 1770s was operating mainly in Macao and China. His eldest known child was born in Macao on 23 June 1779 and as I have failed to find a marriage in Britain, I think it quite likely that George and Charlotte married in the Far East. If so what took Charlotte out there and when?. The family already had connections in India. One of Charlotte's older brothers, James Peche, a young cadet in the East India Company's infantry, had sailed to India on the 'Latham' which left Britain on 10 April 1776. The ship called at Bombay and then went on to Bengal where James disembarked in September 1776. His elder brother, John Peche, also in the HEIC army had been stationed in Bombay for some years by then. He had married in Bombay in March 1773 and by 1780 had had at least 5 children One possible scenario is that Charlotte sailed on the same ship as her brother James and left the ship in Bombay in order to be a mother's help of some sort to her elder brother John while she was looking for a suitable husband. My questions. 1. Would the log of the 'Latham' assuming it still exists have a list of passengers? 2. Alternatively was there any publication which reported passengers arriving and departing from India as early as the 1770s? 3. As I can't find a marriage for George and Charlotte in Bombay, would they have been able to have an Anglican marriage in Macao, and if so would there be any record of such a marriage? (Their first two children although born in Macao weren't baptised until many years later after the family had returned to Britain and were living near Guildford.) Nicholas Spence Member 4108 Chesson and variants