Portrait of Clementina Hooper

Clementina Hooper (nee Burnside) was born on 12 July 1803, the daughter of Robert and Catharine Burnside. She was christened at St. Andrew’s Church, Enfield on 12 August 1803. At the age of twenty she married George Stanley Hooper (1797-1867) of the East India Company. The wedding was performed at St. George’s Church, Madras on 18 December 1823. The births of six children were recorded in the Asiatic Journal between 1825 and 1840, while another three children, Charles, Frederick and Alice, were recorded as being born in the East Indies between 1844 and 1847 in the 1861 census, by which time the family had returned to England.