Re: My previous post: "I have also traced "Mrs Bridget Watson". Another mystery! She was born "Maria Elizabeth Crommelin" but christened "Bridget Watson"! She eventually married Mordaunt Ricketts! What the connection with Seraphina was I don't know - yet! I have now done some further research and the above source was incorrect. "Bridget Watson" and "Maria Elizabeth Crommelin" were two different people. In Seraphina's will dated 1810 she says: "To Mrs Bridget Watson at this time residing under the protection of Mordaunt Ricketts Esqr HC(?) Civil Service I leave the Sum of Sicca Rupees four Hundred (Scks 400)". So Bridget was probably a friend of Seraphina's and also probably an "Anglo-Indian" (in new speak). Mordaunt married the next year (1811) to "Maria Elizabeth Crommelin". The search for Bridget continues because her two daughters may have gone there after her death before being sent back to UK.
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