Notes…Captain Deane travelled to India with his wife, Ann Deane (1770-1847) in 1799. The couple left behind their eldest son, Charles, so that he could be educated in England but took with them a younger child, John Bathurst Deane. Little is known of the first period of the Deanes’ residence in India. However, in 1804 Ann returned to England to place John in school, then sailed back to India with Charles, by then aged 14. Ann rejoined Captain Deane at Calcutta, and the couple lived in India for a further ten years.

Captain Deane was employed by the East India Company as a District Collector and Ann accompanied him on several long tours of the Company’s recently acquired northern provinces in Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. These tours subsequently became the focus of Ann’s published narrative, which details the family’s travels across India between 1805-1811. Ann returned to England in 1814, possibly as a result of escalating tensions between the East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy, which culminated in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817-18. Captain Deane remained behind and died in India in 1815