Major (HEICS) Joseph Alexander Condell, my 3X Gt Grandfather, had two children in India with an Indian lady. No marriage has been found. No births have been found, but the family were devout Roman Catholics ( JAC was born in Madeira and therefore a Portuguese speaker). Somewhere there may be baptisms in Consular records or HEICS correspondence? He was an interpreter. Mary Agnes Alexander Condell was born in 1826, in Bangalore. Her brother, Charles Alexander Condell was born around 1830 (as an adult he joined the British Navy under the name Charles Alexander, having dropped his surname Condell). Both children were taken to England by their father and left with his widowed sister, Mrs Mary Bucknell (née Condell), around 1836, or earlier, after which he did not seem to have anything to do with them. He then married a young Scottish woman, on his retirement from the HEICS, and lived in Aberdeen. His two sons by this wife moved to the USA, but it is the Indian mother of his first two children, I would like to find. The complete service record for Joseph Alexander Condell, all the way from his cadet papers in 1805, to 1836, when he returned to Scotland (Edinburgh) is very clear and has been found in the British Library. Nothing at all has been found about any "wife" (bibi?) or family in India. Any help or hints would be gratefully received. No records have been found of late baptisms in Cheadle or Cresswell, where they lived as children, with their Roman Catholic teacher aunt. Dian Elvin