109. Alexander Henry Edmonstone¹⁶ Boileau (Thomas¹⁵, Simeon Peter¹⁴, Charles¹³, Jacques¹² De Boileau, Nicholas¹¹ Boileau, Jean¹⁰, Jean⁹, Antoine⁸, Guillaume⁷ De Boileau, Antoine⁶ Boileau, Regnaud⁵, Jean⁴, Jean³, Robert², Etienne¹) was born in Calcutta, Bengal, India 3 February 1807. Alexander died 30 January 1862 in Cawnpore, Oudh, India, at 54 years of age.

He married twice. He married Charlotte Hanson in Agra, North Western Provinces, India, 3 February 1834. Charlotte was born 1814. Charlotte died 29 April 1840 at 25 years of age. He married Matilda Grace Tovey in Paignton, Devon, 9 September 1850. Matilda was born in Bengal, India 31 October 1818.

He was christened 13 February 1807. Attended Bury St. Edmund's Grammar School. Listed as the 5th son of Thomas Boileau of Calcutta. Captain of Bengal Engineers at the time of his wife Charlotte's death. Lieutenant of Engineers at the time of his marriage in 1834. Wrote 'Personal Narrative of a tour through the western states of Rajwara' Calcutta in 1837. A member of the Himalayan Brotherhood at Simla.

Alexander Henry Edmonstone Boileau and Charlotte Hanson had the following child:

203 i. Charlotte Bosanquet¹⁷ Boileau was born in Bengal, India 4 June 1835. She married Thomas Nicholl. Thomas was born 1832. Thomas died 1903 at 71 years of age. He was listed as head of household in the 1901 census in 3 Stanley Gardens, Kensington, London. (See Thomas Nicholl for the continuation of this line.)

She was christened 31 August 1835. Charlotte was a student 1851 in 4 Hornsey Lane, Islington. She was listed as head of household in the 1901 census in 3 Stanley Gardens, Kensington, London.

Alexander Henry Edmonstone Boileau and Matilda Grace Tovey had the following children:

204 ii. Henry Alexander Tovey Boileau was born in Totnes, Devon 1851. Henry died 1852 at 1 year of age.

205 iii. Mary Hamilton Boileau was born in India 1854. She married Francis Cadell 1882. Francis was born in Edinburgh 1845. He was listed as head of household in the 1891 census in 22 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. He was listed as head of household in the 1901 census in 22 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. (See Francis Cadell for the continuation of this line.)

She was listed as a resident in the census report in 22 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, 1891.

206 iv. Arthur Cadell Tait Boileau was born 4/12/1856. Arthur died 10/02/1925 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, at 68 years of age. He married Isabella Harriet G. Child 1905. Isabella was born 1879. Isabella died 1928 at 49 years of age. From The Times, February 11, 1925

Colonel Arthur Cadell Tait Boileau, Royal Artillery, died at Cheltenham, yesterdsy at the age of 68. The only surviving son of General Alexander Boileau, of the Bengal Engineers, he was born in India a few weeks before the Mutiny broke out and could not leave that country for two years. He served with the Royal Artillery for nearly 32 years at home and at India, Egypt, Baluchistan, Nova Scotia, and Mauritius. He was for five years secretary of the Royal Artillery Institute at Woolwich. He was a well-known Freemason.

In 1901 census he was a widower.

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