Born to John Inman Linzee and Elizabeth Tilden, he married twice. His first wife, a Grey, died young. He then went to India for business, where a Rev. McCabe married him to his second wife. While her parents knew her as Anne Brigette, she is often found in American lists as Anne B. She had been born in India, an ethnic of some sort, a French colonial, hence, her maiden name of Mahé (her mother's maiden name was Martyn/Martin). This later wife, full maiden name Anne Brigette Mahé, had been the widow of a Mr. Haggart or Haggard, widowed just a few years when Rev. McCabe performed the ceremony at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Calcutta.
HISTORY NOTE: The British established the city of Calcutta, now called Kolkata. Anne's church, on Dhurroomtollah Street, had been built by a Portuguese family after the British in 1824 emancipated Catholics, that is, finally ended hundreds of years of forbidding and punishing that religion, finally let incoming Catholics arriving from Ireland and Portugal and France and elsewhere build churches and worship in the faith of their fathers. This new tolerance made wider business travel possible, less dangerous. More French moved to British areas, then, mixed, by marriage, with more British families.
Life and Children. Born in Massachusetts, John William Linzee, Sr. was an active Mason while abroad. The era in which he and Anne B. married and began raising children was that of the U.S. Civil War. Embargoes stopped shipping of goods to and from an enemy, causing changes in trading patterns, so the War was in the news even for people overseas. He was Republican. Still a very new political party when he and Anne Brigette married in 1856, it had been formed in 1854 to stop those Southerners who wished to expand slavery into the western frontiers of the US.
After several decades in the commission/trading business in India and England, John William Linzee, Sr. would move most of his family back to the States, where he had been born (his father, from England, his mother, Massachusetts). Two adult children went along, making two separate trips, in 1884 and 1885. They were Josephine Warren Linzee (never married) and John William Linzee, Jr. (married twice, first ended in divorce). Another son, Lewis Linzee, would marry and stay in Southampton, England, would not make the move to the US. Our source? That son called Jr. gave names, dates, burial places, and more for the above in his family genealogy, published in two books.
1900 Census. In addition, the census of 1900 shows the aged two, John W. the senior and Anne B., living back in Boston, with adult daughter Josephine W. The census-taker interviewed them on June 4. India had been mainly a British colony, but the French still had small territories there. So, the family carefully explained who was born where, in "India (British)" vs. "India (French)". Anne B.'s father had been born in France proper, her mother and her daughter in British India, herself in French India.
Dramatic fact. Anne B. told the census-taker that she'd had 18 children/pregnancies. Asked "How many still lived?" "Four." The census-taker may have asked why so few, but did not record the answer. That was in 1900.
GEOGRAPHY NOTE. Modern demographers say infant mortality was very high in India for a very long time. People would have extra-large families to make up for the many infant deaths, as they were never sure how many would make it to adulthood.
Geographers would add that the many deaths in certain countries were related to poor infrastructure. Without sewers, water treatment is rare (one example of treatment being holding ponds; another, chlorination). In the days before water treatment, cholera outbreaks would follow rivers and other water streams as they "flowed downhill" (dirty water dumped upstream made its way into the drinking water of other places downsteam; cholera outbreaks would occur upstream, then, with a time lag, repeat downstream.) After people pulled out their drinking and washing water from a dirty, diseased source, infants were less able than adults to tolerate the cholera and other intestinal illnesses that resulted. The infants would die in greater numbers.
Calcutta Marriage Scene, Through Art. Fascinating lithographs of old Calcutta still exist, done by an artist with a photographer's eye, one showing both a marketplace and the church facing it, that church where J.W. Sr. married Anne Brigette. Called "Entrance to the Dhurroomtollah", the lithograph was printed in 1848, in the decade before they marry.
People in native dress and European styles "mill about", mid-street, doing business, working, most walking, a very few riding, most are adults, with more large animals present than children. Buildings might use street-facing walls to hold a courtyard, such as seen in front of the Church of the Sacred Heart, built by the Portuguese a decade earlier. The wide, steepled church is lovely, but missing clocks in the rounded holes left in the church tower for that purpose. Instead, a rough sundial, placed for all to see, adorns the broad awning that shades windows in a lower building off to the right. All of this is charming in the "dry season" shown. Private and donated infrastructure thus both line the wide unpaved street. (The detailed lithograph, by artist Sir Charles D'Oyly, is kept by the British Library, website BL.uk, "Plate 7" in a series by him.)
Commentary, Evidence through Art. Public infrastructure differs from private, by depending on leadership that properly uses public resources. When no politicians admit to neglect, the artist can display it, by design or by accident. The 1848 lithograph shows a Calcutta street as it enters a marketplace, both busy with large animals and people, yet no signs of added public infrastructure. The brown dirt roadway and square were made wide, but left unbricked, perhaps dusty in the dry season, perhaps kept oiled. But, Bengal has a wet season. The artist shows no road gutters, no ditches, no sewer holes to carry away manure-laden water once the seasonal rains (monsoons) arrive. If this was a frontier town, what could have been done as temporary steps? Boardwalks set high would help people stay out of any messes, gutters along the edge could drain the square, but the lithograph proves there were no boardwalks, no street gutters.
HISTORY NOTE: The British established the city of Calcutta, now called Kolkata. Anne's church, on Dhurroomtollah Street, had been built by a Portuguese family after the British in 1824 emancipated Catholics, that is, finally ended hundreds of years of forbidding and punishing that religion, finally let incoming Catholics arriving from Ireland and Portugal and France and elsewhere build churches and worship in the faith of their fathers. This new tolerance made wider business travel possible, less dangerous. More French moved to British areas, then, mixed, by marriage, with more British families.
Life and Children. Born in Massachusetts, John William Linzee, Sr. was an active Mason while abroad. The era in which he and Anne B. married and began raising children was that of the U.S. Civil War. Embargoes stopped shipping of goods to and from an enemy, causing changes in trading patterns, so the War was in the news even for people overseas. He was Republican. Still a very new political party when he and Anne Brigette married in 1856, it had been formed in 1854 to stop those Southerners who wished to expand slavery into the western frontiers of the US.
After several decades in the commission/trading business in India and England, John William Linzee, Sr. would move most of his family back to the States, where he had been born (his father, from England, his mother, Massachusetts). Two adult children went along, making two separate trips, in 1884 and 1885. They were Josephine Warren Linzee (never married) and John William Linzee, Jr. (married twice, first ended in divorce). Another son, Lewis Linzee, would marry and stay in Southampton, England, would not make the move to the US. Our source? That son called Jr. gave names, dates, burial places, and more for the above in his family genealogy, published in two books.
1900 Census. In addition, the census of 1900 shows the aged two, John W. the senior and Anne B., living back in Boston, with adult daughter Josephine W. The census-taker interviewed them on June 4. India had been mainly a British colony, but the French still had small territories there. So, the family carefully explained who was born where, in "India (British)" vs. "India (French)". Anne B.'s father had been born in France proper, her mother and her daughter in British India, herself in French India.
Dramatic fact. Anne B. told the census-taker that she'd had 18 children/pregnancies. Asked "How many still lived?" "Four." The census-taker may have asked why so few, but did not record the answer. That was in 1900.
GEOGRAPHY NOTE. Modern demographers say infant mortality was very high in India for a very long time. People would have extra-large families to make up for the many infant deaths, as they were never sure how many would make it to adulthood.
Geographers would add that the many deaths in certain countries were related to poor infrastructure. Without sewers, water treatment is rare (one example of treatment being holding ponds; another, chlorination). In the days before water treatment, cholera outbreaks would follow rivers and other water streams as they "flowed downhill" (dirty water dumped upstream made its way into the drinking water of other places downsteam; cholera outbreaks would occur upstream, then, with a time lag, repeat downstream.) After people pulled out their drinking and washing water from a dirty, diseased source, infants were less able than adults to tolerate the cholera and other intestinal illnesses that resulted. The infants would die in greater numbers.
Calcutta Marriage Scene, Through Art. Fascinating lithographs of old Calcutta still exist, done by an artist with a photographer's eye, one showing both a marketplace and the church facing it, that church where J.W. Sr. married Anne Brigette. Called "Entrance to the Dhurroomtollah", the lithograph was printed in 1848, in the decade before they marry.
People in native dress and European styles "mill about", mid-street, doing business, working, most walking, a very few riding, most are adults, with more large animals present than children. Buildings might use street-facing walls to hold a courtyard, such as seen in front of the Church of the Sacred Heart, built by the Portuguese a decade earlier. The wide, steepled church is lovely, but missing clocks in the rounded holes left in the church tower for that purpose. Instead, a rough sundial, placed for all to see, adorns the broad awning that shades windows in a lower building off to the right. All of this is charming in the "dry season" shown. Private and donated infrastructure thus both line the wide unpaved street. (The detailed lithograph, by artist Sir Charles D'Oyly, is kept by the British Library, website BL.uk, "Plate 7" in a series by him.)
Commentary, Evidence through Art. Public infrastructure differs from private, by depending on leadership that properly uses public resources. When no politicians admit to neglect, the artist can display it, by design or by accident. The 1848 lithograph shows a Calcutta street as it enters a marketplace, both busy with large animals and people, yet no signs of added public infrastructure. The brown dirt roadway and square were made wide, but left unbricked, perhaps dusty in the dry season, perhaps kept oiled. But, Bengal has a wet season. The artist shows no road gutters, no ditches, no sewer holes to carry away manure-laden water once the seasonal rains (monsoons) arrive. If this was a frontier town, what could have been done as temporary steps? Boardwalks set high would help people stay out of any messes, gutters along the edge could drain the square, but the lithograph proves there were no boardwalks, no street gutters.
Born to John Inman Linzee and Elizabeth Tilden, he married twice. His first wife, a Grey, died young. He then went to India for business, where a Rev. McCabe married him to his second wife. While her parents knew her as Anne Brigette, she is often found in American lists as Anne B. She had been born in India, an ethnic of some sort, a French colonial, hence, her maiden name of Mahé (her mother's maiden name was Martyn/Martin). This later wife, full maiden name Anne Brigette Mahé, had been the widow of a Mr. Haggart or Haggard, widowed just a few years when Rev. McCabe performed the ceremony at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Calcutta.
HISTORY NOTE: The British established the city of Calcutta, now called Kolkata. Anne's church, on Dhurroomtollah Street, had been built by a Portuguese family after the British in 1824 emancipated Catholics, that is, finally ended hundreds of years of forbidding and punishing that religion, finally let incoming Catholics arriving from Ireland and Portugal and France and elsewhere build churches and worship in the faith of their fathers. This new tolerance made wider business travel possible, less dangerous. More French moved to British areas, then, mixed, by marriage, with more British families.
Life and Children. Born in Massachusetts, John William Linzee, Sr. was an active Mason while abroad. The era in which he and Anne B. married and began raising children was that of the U.S. Civil War. Embargoes stopped shipping of goods to and from an enemy, causing changes in trading patterns, so the War was in the news even for people overseas. He was Republican. Still a very new political party when he and Anne Brigette married in 1856, it had been formed in 1854 to stop those Southerners who wished to expand slavery into the western frontiers of the US.
After several decades in the commission/trading business in India and England, John William Linzee, Sr. would move most of his family back to the States, where he had been born (his father, from England, his mother, Massachusetts). Two adult children went along, making two separate trips, in 1884 and 1885. They were Josephine Warren Linzee (never married) and John William Linzee, Jr. (married twice, first ended in divorce). Another son, Lewis Linzee, would marry and stay in Southampton, England, would not make the move to the US. Our source? That son called Jr. gave names, dates, burial places, and more for the above in his family genealogy, published in two books.
1900 Census. In addition, the census of 1900 shows the aged two, John W. the senior and Anne B., living back in Boston, with adult daughter Josephine W. The census-taker interviewed them on June 4. India had been mainly a British colony, but the French still had small territories there. So, the family carefully explained who was born where, in "India (British)" vs. "India (French)". Anne B.'s father had been born in France proper, her mother and her daughter in British India, herself in French India.
Dramatic fact. Anne B. told the census-taker that she'd had 18 children/pregnancies. Asked "How many still lived?" "Four." The census-taker may have asked why so few, but did not record the answer. That was in 1900.
GEOGRAPHY NOTE. Modern demographers say infant mortality was very high in India for a very long time. People would have extra-large families to make up for the many infant deaths, as they were never sure how many would make it to adulthood.
Geographers would add that the many deaths in certain countries were related to poor infrastructure. Without sewers, water treatment is rare (one example of treatment being holding ponds; another, chlorination). In the days before water treatment, cholera outbreaks would follow rivers and other water streams as they "flowed downhill" (dirty water dumped upstream made its way into the drinking water of other places downsteam; cholera outbreaks would occur upstream, then, with a time lag, repeat downstream.) After people pulled out their drinking and washing water from a dirty, diseased source, infants were less able than adults to tolerate the cholera and other intestinal illnesses that resulted. The infants would die in greater numbers.
Calcutta Marriage Scene, Through Art. Fascinating lithographs of old Calcutta still exist, done by an artist with a photographer's eye, one showing both a marketplace and the church facing it, that church where J.W. Sr. married Anne Brigette. Called "Entrance to the Dhurroomtollah", the lithograph was printed in 1848, in the decade before they marry.
People in native dress and European styles "mill about", mid-street, doing business, working, most walking, a very few riding, most are adults, with more large animals present than children. Buildings might use street-facing walls to hold a courtyard, such as seen in front of the Church of the Sacred Heart, built by the Portuguese a decade earlier. The wide, steepled church is lovely, but missing clocks in the rounded holes left in the church tower for that purpose. Instead, a rough sundial, placed for all to see, adorns the broad awning that shades windows in a lower building off to the right. All of this is charming in the "dry season" shown. Private and donated infrastructure thus both line the wide unpaved street. (The detailed lithograph, by artist Sir Charles D'Oyly, is kept by the British Library, website BL.uk, "Plate 7" in a series by him.)
Commentary, Evidence through Art. Public infrastructure differs from private, by depending on leadership that properly uses public resources. When no politicians admit to neglect, the artist can display it, by design or by accident. The 1848 lithograph shows a Calcutta street as it enters a marketplace, both busy with large animals and people, yet no signs of added public infrastructure. The brown dirt roadway and square were made wide, but left unbricked, perhaps dusty in the dry season, perhaps kept oiled. But, Bengal has a wet season. The artist shows no road gutters, no ditches, no sewer holes to carry away manure-laden water once the seasonal rains (monsoons) arrive. If this was a frontier town, what could have been done as temporary steps? Boardwalks set high would help people stay out of any messes, gutters along the edge could drain the square, but the lithograph proves there were no boardwalks, no street gutters.
HISTORY NOTE: The British established the city of Calcutta, now called Kolkata. Anne's church, on Dhurroomtollah Street, had been built by a Portuguese family after the British in 1824 emancipated Catholics, that is, finally ended hundreds of years of forbidding and punishing that religion, finally let incoming Catholics arriving from Ireland and Portugal and France and elsewhere build churches and worship in the faith of their fathers. This new tolerance made wider business travel possible, less dangerous. More French moved to British areas, then, mixed, by marriage, with more British families.
Life and Children. Born in Massachusetts, John William Linzee, Sr. was an active Mason while abroad. The era in which he and Anne B. married and began raising children was that of the U.S. Civil War. Embargoes stopped shipping of goods to and from an enemy, causing changes in trading patterns, so the War was in the news even for people overseas. He was Republican. Still a very new political party when he and Anne Brigette married in 1856, it had been formed in 1854 to stop those Southerners who wished to expand slavery into the western frontiers of the US.
After several decades in the commission/trading business in India and England, John William Linzee, Sr. would move most of his family back to the States, where he had been born (his father, from England, his mother, Massachusetts). Two adult children went along, making two separate trips, in 1884 and 1885. They were Josephine Warren Linzee (never married) and John William Linzee, Jr. (married twice, first ended in divorce). Another son, Lewis Linzee, would marry and stay in Southampton, England, would not make the move to the US. Our source? That son called Jr. gave names, dates, burial places, and more for the above in his family genealogy, published in two books.
1900 Census. In addition, the census of 1900 shows the aged two, John W. the senior and Anne B., living back in Boston, with adult daughter Josephine W. The census-taker interviewed them on June 4. India had been mainly a British colony, but the French still had small territories there. So, the family carefully explained who was born where, in "India (British)" vs. "India (French)". Anne B.'s father had been born in France proper, her mother and her daughter in British India, herself in French India.
Dramatic fact. Anne B. told the census-taker that she'd had 18 children/pregnancies. Asked "How many still lived?" "Four." The census-taker may have asked why so few, but did not record the answer. That was in 1900.
GEOGRAPHY NOTE. Modern demographers say infant mortality was very high in India for a very long time. People would have extra-large families to make up for the many infant deaths, as they were never sure how many would make it to adulthood.
Geographers would add that the many deaths in certain countries were related to poor infrastructure. Without sewers, water treatment is rare (one example of treatment being holding ponds; another, chlorination). In the days before water treatment, cholera outbreaks would follow rivers and other water streams as they "flowed downhill" (dirty water dumped upstream made its way into the drinking water of other places downsteam; cholera outbreaks would occur upstream, then, with a time lag, repeat downstream.) After people pulled out their drinking and washing water from a dirty, diseased source, infants were less able than adults to tolerate the cholera and other intestinal illnesses that resulted. The infants would die in greater numbers.
Calcutta Marriage Scene, Through Art. Fascinating lithographs of old Calcutta still exist, done by an artist with a photographer's eye, one showing both a marketplace and the church facing it, that church where J.W. Sr. married Anne Brigette. Called "Entrance to the Dhurroomtollah", the lithograph was printed in 1848, in the decade before they marry.
People in native dress and European styles "mill about", mid-street, doing business, working, most walking, a very few riding, most are adults, with more large animals present than children. Buildings might use street-facing walls to hold a courtyard, such as seen in front of the Church of the Sacred Heart, built by the Portuguese a decade earlier. The wide, steepled church is lovely, but missing clocks in the rounded holes left in the church tower for that purpose. Instead, a rough sundial, placed for all to see, adorns the broad awning that shades windows in a lower building off to the right. All of this is charming in the "dry season" shown. Private and donated infrastructure thus both line the wide unpaved street. (The detailed lithograph, by artist Sir Charles D'Oyly, is kept by the British Library, website BL.uk, "Plate 7" in a series by him.)
Commentary, Evidence through Art. Public infrastructure differs from private, by depending on leadership that properly uses public resources. When no politicians admit to neglect, the artist can display it, by design or by accident. The 1848 lithograph shows a Calcutta street as it enters a marketplace, both busy with large animals and people, yet no signs of added public infrastructure. The brown dirt roadway and square were made wide, but left unbricked, perhaps dusty in the dry season, perhaps kept oiled. But, Bengal has a wet season. The artist shows no road gutters, no ditches, no sewer holes to carry away manure-laden water once the seasonal rains (monsoons) arrive. If this was a frontier town, what could have been done as temporary steps? Boardwalks set high would help people stay out of any messes, gutters along the edge could drain the square, but the lithograph proves there were no boardwalks, no street gutters.
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