There is a baptism of a Mabel Evelyn Pepper b. 21 October 1889, christened 25 November 1889, at Dinapore, Bengal, India; daughter of Thomas Pepper, a sergeant major with the 4th Field Battery, Royal Artillery, and his wife Elizabeth Grace. (British India Office births and baptisms). . On the 1901 census they are stationed at Shorncliffe Military Camp, Thomas James Pepper, soldier, age 46, gives his birthplace as Essex, and wife Elizabeth Grace, age 35, as Shorncliffe, Kent, with children Mabel 11, b. India, Ernest 8, b. Aldershot, Hants., Thomas Frank 6, b. Shorncliffe, Kent, William 1 month b. Shorncliffe. Hope this helps.