A. C. Mazoomdar

A. C. Mazumdar

A. C. Mazoomder

Anundo Chund Mozoomdar

A. C. Majoomdar

Bristol

Anundo Chunder Mazoomdar was a convert to Christianity in India. He moved to Bristol and lived in Bedminster, south Bristol in the 1840s and 1850s, working at one time as a grocer and another time as a schoolteacher. He lived with his wife, Eliza Grace, whom he had married in 1842. They had two sons. James William Bevan Mazoomdar was born in 1845 and died in infancy, at six weeks. James Mangles Mazoomdar was born in 1853 and baptized at Bedminster St John on 2 October 1853. James died in 1859 at the age of 6 and was buried at Bedminster.

In 1847 Mazoomdar wrote to the directors of the East India Company for monetary assistance to help him find employment. He explained that he had gone to a Christian school in Bengal and despite the opposition of his wealthy family had converted to Christianity. He had moved to Britain to live among other Christians and had used his wife’s small capital to start up a business, which had failed. He suggested that his attempts at employment in Bristol had failed because he was a foreigner. Unfortunately, his appeal was unsuccessful.

Anundo Chunder Mazoomdar is recorded on the 1851 electoral register as living at 21 Little Paradise in the Bedminster Ward of Bristol, Gloucestershire. Mazoomdar died and was buried on 18 January 1854 in Wycliffe Church, Totterdown in south Bristol. Eliza died a widow and without children in December 1863, leaving all her effects to her uncle, who lived in Bristol.

It is likely that the Bristol-based Mazoomdar was the same Anundo Chund Mozoomdar who converted to Christianity in Calcutta in 1833 under the direction of the missionary Alexander Duff. He then travelled to Britain a year or two later. London Missionary Society reports suggest that Mazoomdar died in 1841, but it is probable that these are the same people – and that Mazoomdar did not die until 1854, as recorded.