The following announcement appeared in the West Briton newspaper, Truro, Cornwall, UK on 17 April 1857 and is forwarded from the CORNISH-GEN List. I have no further information, nor any interest in the family. I purely forward it to the List in the hope that it's of use to someone. Best wishes, Tom Thompson, St Agnes, Cornwall. ---0--- West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser - 17 April 1857 Deaths On the 20th of February, at Umballah, East Indies, on her way from Simla to Calcutta, to embark for England, the wife of Captain D. BRIGGS, 17th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, and Department of Public Works, aged 42 years. The deceased was a niece of the late Major-General Sir. W.H. SLEEMAN, K.C.B.