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Dear Christine,
According to the Madras Ecclesiastical Records in the OIOC of the British Library, Charlotte Brooks, the daughter of Charles Collyer Brooks and his wife Elizabth née Howard, married Mark Sterling, a 36 year old widower at Madras on 31 Jan 1842. Mark was an apothecary, the son of George Tuite.
Given the unusual nature of the name Tuite Sterling, and the dates you mention, it seems to me highly likely that the Mark Tuite Sterling you refer to was a son of the Mark in my previous paragraph and either Elizabeth or his earlier wife.
I hope you will find what follows exciting and interesting, rather than upsetting. The elder Mark was probably illegitimate because he did not carry his father's name. His father may (but I have no absolute proof) have been a baronet, Sir George Tuite, who was in a British army regiment in India until 1807. It is quite possible that Mark's mother was Indian or Anglo-Indian; one reason for suggesting this is that Eurasians were often apothecaries in India at the time. Whether Elizabeth Brooks, Charlotte's mother, was English or Anglo-Indian is unclear; what is certain is that her second husband, a forbear of mine called Thomas Arthur Chamier, was Anglo-Indian.
I am working on a large family tree for the family, accompanied by a report on the Anglo-Indian Chamiers, which will be ready I hope in about three months time. These should provide you with plenty more relevant information. Would you like me to put you on my mailing list for notification when they are ready? If so can you give me an address.(Incidentally are you in touch with the Tuite-Sterling family a few of whom still seem to be around in the UK?)
Yours sincerely, Anthony Chamier
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