Resources and bibliography

Official records

Parish registers are available on Free REG and on a membership basis on Ancestry.

The Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales can be found on Free BMD and on a membership basis on Ancestry. Birth, marriage and death certificates can be ordered from the General Register Office.

Censuses are available online on Free CEN or on a membership basis on Ancestry.

Wills and probate can also be found on Ancestry.

The following original records have been studied:

• parish record of Pellegrino Mazzotti and Mary Leeds' marriage
• marriage licence of Pellegrino Mazzotti and Mary Leeds
• Catholic record of Caroline Mazzotti's birth
• Catholic record of Teresa Mazzotti's birth
• birth certificates of Rosina jr., Charles and Louisa Atkinson Mazzotti
• marriage certificates of Rosina sr. Mazzotti and Richard Skipper, (John) Charles Mazzotti and Mahala Bailey Cole, Louisa Atkinson Mazzotti and Walter Harcourt
• death certificates of Pellegrino Mazzotti, Mary Leeds, James Mazotti, Caroline Mazzotti, Rosina sr. Mazzotti, Rosina jr. Mazzotti and Charles Mazzotti

Periodicals and newspapers

• Monthly Magazine and British Register, vol. 53, 1822, about Pellegrino Mazzotti's marriage http://books.google.be/books?id=VrcRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22P.+Mazzotti%22&dq=%22P.+Mazzotti%22&hl=nl&ei=KWxhTb2gB8vO4AanjIzuCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwATgK
• Norfolk Chronicle, available at Norfolk and Norwich Millenium Library
• Norwich Mercury, available at Norfolk and Norwich Millenium Library
• The Wisbech Telegraph, available at Wisbech Museum

Websites and digital resources

• Ancestry
  • Bonhams Auction Catalogue, sale 11166 at Banningham, Norfolk, 22 Mar 2004, about a bust of Bishop Bathurst by Mazzotti http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=WholeCataloguePrint&iSaleNo=11166
  • Bonhams Auction Catalogue, sale 15822 at Knightsbridge, 23 Sep 2008, about a plaster bust of Nelson by Mazzotti http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=WholeCataloguePrint&iSaleNo=15822
  • Bonhams Auction Catalogue, sale 11166
  • British Museum, about Mazzotti's trade card http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3135197&partid=1&searchText=trade+card+Mazzotti&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1
  • Cornucopia, about the death mask collection at Norwich Castle Museum http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/7161
  • East Anglian, Notes and Queries, about bust of Henry Havelock by Mazzotti http://books.google.be/books?id=8chCAAAAYAAJ&q=%22P.+Mazzotti%22&dq=%22P.+Mazzotti%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=3
  • Find My Past, for family history research http://www.findmypast.co.uk/home.jsp
  • Fitzwilliam Museum http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&priref=29252&_function_=xslt&_limit_=10
  • Flickr, Mazzotti blue plaque http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/2124950008_42cf2f3acf.jpg
  • FreeBMD, for birth, marriage and deatch records, free of charge http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
  • FreeCEN, for censuses, free of charge http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
  • FreeREG, for parish registers, free of charge http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl
  • Google Book Search http://books.google.be/advanced_book_search
  • GRO General Register Office, to order birth, marriage and death certificates, https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp
  • Historical Directories http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
  • Moyse's Hall, St Edmundsbury, about the Red Barn Murder and Corder's death mask http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/exhibits.cfm
  • National Portrait Gallery, bust of John Crome http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?sText=Mazzotti&submitSearchTerm%5Fx=7&submitSearchTerm%5Fy=13&OConly=true&search=sa&firstRun=true&LinkID=mp07303&role=art
  • National Portrait Gallery, directory of British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers,1800-1980 http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980.php
  • Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, Collections, 5 busts by Mazzotti http://www.culturalmodes.norfolk.gov.uk/projects/nmaspub5.asp?page=hitlist&mwsquery=%28+%7BWho%3F%7D+%3D+%7BMazzotti%2C+Pellegrino%7D+%29&submitButton=Show+hits
  • Norfolk Sources for trade directories
  • Norwich Evening News, article about The Blue Plaques of Norwich, 8 Dec 2010 http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/derek-james/the_story_behind_norwich_s_man_of_mystery_1_748520
  • St John's College, Cambridge, about death mask of an unknown woman by Mazzotti http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/artefacts/busts/
  • Toovey's Antique and Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers http://www.tooveys.com/lots.asp?WEBLOTID=142141&LOTID=2601&AUCTIONID=213
  • Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/misc/mazzotti.html
  • Wisbech Museum http://www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk/index.htm

Bibliography

• Chambers, John, General History of the County of Norfolk, 1829 http://books.google.be/books?id=iDY2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1173&dq=%22P.+Mazotti%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22P.%20Mazotti%22&f=false
• Norwich Society of Artists, Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Norwich Society of Artists, 1805-1833
• Rajnai, Miklós, Exhibitors with the Norwich Society of Artists, 1971
• Roscoe, Ingrid, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, 2009
• Simon, Jacob, British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers 1800-1980, National Portrait Gallery, February 2011 http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-1.php
• Sponza, Lucio, Italian Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Realities and Images, Leicester University Press, 1988
• Williams Nick, The Blue Plaques of Norwich, Norwich HEART 2010