Charles Mazzotti

Charles Mazzotti didn't have an easy start in life. The son of a single mother, he was raised by his aunt Rosina. He lost his mother when he was fifteen.

At sixteen Charles was a servant in South Lynn. Did his grandfather Pellegrino, who lived in Wisbech, find him the position in Lynn?

Nine years later, John Charles Mazzotti married Mahala Bailey Cole at a Roman Catholic Church in Devon. He was a plumber.

John Charles and Mahala had six children, three of whom lived into adulthood: two sons (Charles Henry and Theodore) and a daughter (Lena). Both sons had families and continued the Mazzotti line. Lena never married.

John Charles died on 28 March 1913, working as a plumber at the World Expo in Ghent, Belgium.

Mahala Bailey Mazzotti died in 1934 at the age of 94.

Notes:

• Birth certificate: Charles Mazzotti was born in Norwich on 18 February 1845. His mother, Caroline, lived at Crook's Place, Chapel Street, St Stephen, Norwich at the time of his birth.
• 1851 census: On 30 March 1851 Charles lived with his aunt Rosina at St Faith's Lane, St George Tombland, Norwich, as her brother.
• 1861 census: On 7 April 1861, Charles was a general servant of Edmund J. Cruice, at London Road, South Lynn.
• Marriage certificate: On 26 February 1870 Charles married Mahala Bailey Cole at the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in Torquay. He was a plumber. Charles had changed his name to John Charles Mazzotti. No father was mentioned. Mahala's father was Henry Cole, gardener, deceased.
• 1871 census: On 2 April 1871 Charles lived in St Mary Newington, London, with his wife, their son Charles and his mother-in-law, Martha Cole.
• 1881 census: On 3 April 1881 Charles, his wife, their son Theodore, their daughter Lina and a servant, lived in 12, Rylston Road, Chelsea, Fulham. Charles was a plumber.
• 1891 census: On 4 April 1891 John Charles was a fruit grower in Paignton, Totnes. His son Theodore was an engineer's apprentice and his daughter Lina was a scholar.
• 1901 census: On 31 March 1901 John Charles lived in Kingston-upon-Thames with his wife and his daughter Lina. He was a plumber and gas fitter.
• 1911 census: On 2 April 1911 the family lived in 55 Leander Road, Brixton, Lambeth: John Charles, a sanitary engineer and plumber, his wife Mahala, their son Theodore, a draughtsman, and their daughter Lina Marie
• Death certificate etc.: From 16 February 1913 Charles lived in 15 Ledeganckstraat, Ghent, Belgium. He was working as a plumber at the World Expo, which opened on 6 April 1913. His wife Mahala wasn't there. Charles died of brain haemorrhage in the Bijloke hospital on 28 March 1913 in Ghent. His body was sent back to the U.K., where he had been domiciled.
• Probate: Charles left his wife £376 3s 4d. Their address was 4, Wharfedale Gardens, Thornton Heath, Surrey.
• Death certificate: Mahala died in the last quarter of 1934.