From the South African Commercial Advertiser
Saturday 16 April 1853

MARRIAGE by Special Licence on the 14th April at Trinity Church, Cape Town, by the Rev R.G. Lamb AB, Edward Herbert NIGHTINGALE Esq, 23rd Regt Madras L.I., eldest son of A. NIGHTINGALE Esq, late of HM 23rd Fusiliers, and grandson of the late Sir Edward NIGHTINGALE Bart of Kneasworth Hall, Cambridge, to Sophia Carden Bell, youngest daughter of Colonel R. BLACKALL, Bengal Army.

IGI lists birth of Sophia Carden Bell BLACKALL, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, on 2 Feb 1833, in Barrackpore, West Bengal, India (baptised 10 July)