Charlotte (Bristow) Colebrooke (1776 - 1833)

Born Mar 1776 in Delhi, India

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Hyde Colebrooke — married 31 Jul 1795 in Calcutta, Bengal

Descendants

Died 2 Jul 1833 at age 57 in Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England

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Biography

Bengal Pres. Baptisms note a Charlotte d of John Bristow Esq, Senior Merchant etc. at Calcutta on 4 Sep 1780.

William Hickeys memoirs (vol. IV page 101 re. the year 1793): "We received in Calcutta the unpleasant intelligence of the total loss of the Winterton East Indiaman, outward bound, which ship was wrecked upon the Island of Madagascar, several of the passengers and crew being drowned. Amongst those who luckily escaped were six young ladies, two of them being daughters by a native woman of Mr John Bristow."

Mentioned in the book "Marked for Misfortune : an epic tale of shipwreck..." by Jean Hood.

By 1809 she resided at Wookey in Somerset. She was still living there in 1817 when her son Richard became a cadet in the army.

In 1833 she resided at 10 Seymour Street, Bath. She died in Walcot, Bath that year and was buried at St.Swithin, Walcot, Bath on 8 Jul 1833.

Her will pr. 1834.

Sources

Notes in private Brothers Keeper 7 database gathered by ancestors.at.hotmail.co.uk