So here we are in Scotland quite different I think you'll agree to
Calcutta so what I've learned now now I've spent some time in Calcutta taxi so
the only way to drive is like that so I've made contact with another
descendant of the slicers and I'm hoping he might have more information about
Harriet's grandmother and her family so we're on our way there now
come on thank you very much loved it yes it was amazing
no Livia come with me I've dug some stuff out for you which I think you will
enjoy thank you give me old cake there and do you know
how we're related because I well that's because I've dug up these documents it's
done me a good turn because I have to look at him all the game and um I think
I'm pretty sure this now but we're both five generations down from Harriet
Elizabeth okay because 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 yeah doing things that are
about I've got a portrait of her for you know I can tell you a lot about faded
but she's very much fair isn't she beautiful verbs on it and her fishy with
us it's so lovely to see her 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 starting
in the late 18th century which were later typed up a bit I think you'll be
really interested in is when Harriet Elizabeth brings her two sons William
aged nine Harry father yep and his elder brother John
Henry and aged 11 to school in England she spent nine months trying to find the
right school and you get the sort of complete devotedness she had to and here
we are these letters are written to John her son okay you and William will come
to an age for school how to reconcile the act of separation and here is a day
she leaves and she has to say goodbye to them and return to Portugal to her
husband and their three younger siblings mrs. Gerard Oh
Oh mrs. you I do so I know her name that's Harriet grandmother's sister
Louisa she read oh because she left a small fortune for India Harry she left a
small fortune yeah oh I love that mrs. Gerardo was the only sister I might
venture to hope might take you home for the holidays the shays was at the door
to take us away oh that's the coach I could not resist the impulse we were
both crying in each other's homes this is awful I exclaimed look at my dear
boys that's the same age as my boys do but say you will be kind to them if you
knew the pang I feel at parting with them no you will not refuse some comfort
by the answer I so anxiously wished for you might have to carry on mrs. yarrow
seemed as much afflicted as I was she promised all that was kind and strictly
she kept her word yes well I didn't know that it's obviously it's very
distressing but it does come across how much she loved them sort of always
assumed that knew that people have told her put it all together turn up stick up
Elaine it's so nice to see her it's not nice that she but they've
obviously suffered the same pain as we didn't they didn't always keep their
mouths shut she's telling she's really expressing how she felt yeah at least
she had her sister there it's wonderful that she had her there
so one painful departure is very tough for you but I'm afraid you got another
one here she was also saying goodbye to her mother carried Elizabeth's mother
yeah who she didn't see very often because she lived in oporto and I marvel
lived in London she was an old lady she was 81 and she was say goodbye Kate
it's probably easiest if you actually read from here you will not have forgot
the distress of parting with my mother so still talking to John Williams
brother 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
but she was crying bitterly oh so this poor woman do know more about
her and what her name was indeed and I've got a portrait of our upstairs
would you like to see come away let's go open this just you never know how long
you might need to follow me all the ancestors up here and the one you're
interested in is her up there and we're going to get a proper look at her yes
she is and Judith Britton Wow we left her the old lady with the bonnet
to hide her tears mash ease when she's married I 1740s I think that's her and
that's our husband John Bristow MP in Norwich Norfolk coz my dad's family all
from Norfolk so Han Judith Bristow is my great-great-great
great-great-great grandmother Wow Anne and Judith she wasn't born British
she was naturalized and this is the document that explains her
naturalization very shortly after her marriage in this present Parliament
assembled and Judith Bristow wife of John Bristow Esquire and daughter of
Paul Roth Singh for the Sforza by Louisa his wife born at Paris in the kingdom of
France French yes 100% Oh so she's the Frenchwoman the god why was
she having to be you're wanting to be naturalized well she was a French
Huguenot she was Protestant she was a French Protestant yeah from the late
17th century tens of thousands of Hyuga knows fled oppression in Catholic France
and sought refuge in Britain fact the French Huguenots were the first refugees
who carried the name refugee yes yeah at the very beginning of this my mom said I
think that somebody was French once but I thought it was more recent I love the
idea that families remember things miss long back we then write it down that
anyone was Indian but they've said once how exciting Wow
it had it's been it's been an incredible journey of discovery
find out about the family that I never would have known about and I have loved
that feeling of feeling like her it students like we're honoring them I
thought there was nobody exotic in my family ever I was so wrong spread over
the world Portugal India France and sent Alina
then I had to look up on a map because I have no idea what it was yeah I had no
idea and it is it so fragile what should gone you don't to be
forgotten I suppose I've always considered myself not adventurous but
then I've never been tested like they were tested when they're up against it
they did what they had to do it's really humbling 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 jump in little
braver now I'd say that letting down
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