This is the last will and testament of one Richard Campbell Bazzette I give
and bequeath my property to be divided between my beloved wife Sarah Bazzette
okay and my beloved sons. Oh! William Young Bazzette, Charles Young Bazzette Henri
Young Bazzette, Richard Young Bazzette and Alfred Young Bazzette. So five
yes
Five boys, I'm descended from Charles their second son do we know anything else
about Charles well I've got this oh this is from the 1871 census many decades
later Charles Bazzette head, head of household
that's right
married yeah 63 three lieutenant colonel Indian Army retired Harriet wife so
Harriet is my great-great great-grandmother that's right and
Harriet was born East Indies kissin.. something
Kishanganj is what it says there
I don't know what I've never heard of that
it's a fairly remote town in the
northeast of India
oh
so it might be interesting for you to go to Kishanganj
to find out more about Harriet your three-times great-grandmother
Olivia has discovered that her great-great great-grandmother Harriet
was born in Kishanganj in the Indian state of Bihar in 1807 Olivia has come
to the former British club in Kishanganj
well the first thing we have is a
marriage certificate Harriet's marriage certificate and it's got a father's name
Celester
yes
Williams Celester born in 1778
so as you can see traveled a lot
around India with the army belonging to the East India Company
we know that came here to Kishanganj
okay and Harriet was born here
yes the
strong possibility is that Harriet's mother was not British and that very
likely very probably she was a local lady
my
great-great-great great-great-great-great grandmother is
Indian
mm-hmm
The Madras courier of February last
contains the following articles Celester was out shooting his gun having misfired
he had just re-primed with the gun went off and its contents passing
through his head he was killed on the spot so this is 1810 how old who would
Harriet have been?
three or four years old
do we know anything about what happens to
Harriet and her mum
We don't to know what happened to her mummy but
about Harriet in fact her grandmother William's mother who was also called
Harriet actually paid for Harriet to be taken from India and brought to England
Olivia now knows that little Harriet following her father's death in 1810 was
sent from Kishanganj to England
the last time I heard is that my
great-great-great grandmother Harriet landed in London in 1812 and I wanted to
know what happened to her after that
well this is the first mention we have
of Harriet in England
I give to my great niece Harriet's Celester the
granddaughter of my said sister Harriet Elizabeth's Celester the sum of three
hundred pounds
a lot of money those days this is Harriet's grandmother sister her
great-aunt great aunt Louisa she's about 21 now and now has her own
money and do we know what happened to her after that
this is a list of
passengers who have arrived by ship in Calcutta from England
Harriet's Celester
that's excited she's gone she's gone back to India
yes she comes back here to
Calcutta she's around 24 25 marriages
marriages 1832 on this third day of April 1832
William Trigg Garrett leftenant bachelor and Harriet Celester
hang on so who is William Trigg Garrett I
thought my great-great great-grandfather was Charles Bazzette
this is Harriet's first husband
OH and do we know what happened to them next
yes we do
sacred to the memory of William TIG
Garrett Lieutenant Bengal artillery Oh God he departed this life 25th of July
1833 age 29
after her first husband's death in 1833 Harriet fades from
official records for a number of years
so the last thing I knew about Harriet
is that she was widowed just over a year after she got married mid-twenties and
so I want to know what happens next
this is a letter written by Charles Young
Bazzette her second husband for half an hour we were alone together and then she
said she loved me so what happened next
they got married
following their marriage in September 1838 Harriet and Charles returned to
India September the 21st 1839 a friend and schoolfellow of Harriet's
who is married to the surgeon at the civil station has asked her to be
confined there so she's having a baby yes oh how lovely Richard Bazzette son of
Charles Young Bazzette and Harriet his wife Mary Bazzette baptized 1845 Curnow
which is in Punjab
Charles Bazzette was Cawnpore India again and Fanny Bazzette
that 12th of August 1849 and mahou one two three four oh how lovely, so they stayed
in India had all of their children there
Harriet's father William was the son of Harriet Elizabeth's Celester the
grandmother who brought little Harriet to England
so here we are in Scotland so
I've made contact with another descendant of the Celesters and I'm hoping
he might have more information about Harriet's grandmother and her family
I've dug some stuff out for you which I think you will enjoy
Thank You. Harriet
Elizabeth she changes the course of my great-great-great grandmother Harriet's
life brings her to England when her father dies but she's sort of in the
background doing things and I want to know more about her well
I've got a portrait of her for you
no
I can tell you a lot about her
Very faded but she's very much fair isn't she, she had a very
extraordinary life
Harriet Elizabeth lived most of her married life in
Portugal where her husband was serving in the Army she left a series of Diaries
and letters
you will not have forgot the distress of parting with my mother and
how difficult it was to tear ourselves from her last embrace
oh she lamented that she would never see us more I think I see her sitting in her
wheelchair with a little black bonnet pulled over her eyes to hide her tears
for she was crying bitterly oh so this poor woman do know more about
her and what her name was indeed here she is and Judith Bristow
we left her the old lady with the bonnet to hide her tears
There she is when she's
married I guess 1740s I think
so Anne Judith Bristow is my great-great-great
great-great-great grandmother Wow
And Anne Judith she wasn't born British
she was naturalized and this is the document that explains her
naturalization
born at Paris in the kingdom of France French
yes 100%
it's been it's been an incredible journey of discovery I thought there was
nobody exotic in my family ever I was so wrong and the spread over the world
Portugal India France and Saint Helena that I had to look up on a map because I
have no idea where that was. I'm still incredibly proud of being from Norfolk
that will never go but it's so exciting finding out this stuff it gives you a
little bit of confidence I've got to try and be a little braver now I hope I dont
let them down