Madeline Annis WALL (née DALBY) (1844-1887)

Madeline Annis Wall, née Dalby, later Alone (1844-1887) was the grandmother of Mela Brown Constable (the fiancée of Cyril Sladden).

Madeline Annis Dalby was born on 23rd February 1844 at Dinapore, India, the youngest of five children of Gabriel Dalby and his wife, Elizabeth (née Parsick).

Madeline was aged only 15 when she married Joseph Wall on 3rd May 1859 at Benares, Bengal.  Joseph was a schoolmaster from Cheltenham originally who moved to India in the 1850s.

Madeline and Joseph had seven children:  Joseph Charles (1860-1866), Robert James (1861-1876), Mary Eliza (1863-1863), Stephen Dalby (1864-?), Benson Parsick (1865-1940), Clara Emily (1866-1934) and Joseph (1868-?).

The Wall family lived at Lucknow, where Joseph taught at La Martinière College.  Joseph was one of seven staff at the school who had been awarded the Indian Mutiny Medal in 1858 for his parts in the defence of Lucknow from 29th June to 22nd November 1857.

Madeline’s husband, Joseph, died at Lucknow on 13th March 1870, aged 34.  Madeline was left with five children under the age of nine (two of their children had died in infancy).  Madeline married again on 28th November 1877 at Bareli, Bengal, to widower, Alfred Alone.

Madeline died on 10th October 1887 at Lucknow and was buried the next day.