Alziere Servante

1776 - 1851  (75 years)

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• Name	Alziere Servante
  Birth	c. 1776	Carriacou Island, West Indies
  Gender	Female
  Immigration	1815-1820	Carriacou, West Indies to Scotland
  Immigration	1840	Scotland to New Zealand
  	After several months of fruitless search for land in Australia, the Bells finally arrived in Wellington, NZ on the Lady Lilford, on March 16, 1840.
  Death	12 Dec 1851	Belle Vue Estate, Waimea East, Nelson New Zealand
  Burial	Nelson, New Zealand
  Person ID	I19	Lineage
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Pierre Servant,   b. c1738, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France d. 1784 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Mother	Alziere
  Family ID	F10	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Gordon Bell,   b. 29 Sep 1784, Heathhall, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 19 Apr 1864, Bellevue, Waimea East, Nelson, New Zealand (Age 79 years)
  Children	+ 1. James Bell,   b. 27 Apr 1817, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 30 Jul 1902, Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand (Age 85 years)   2. Margaret Bell   3. Mary Bell   4. Elizabeth Bell,   b. 1818   5. William Gordon Bell,   b. 1820
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2022

  
  

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  Birth - c. 1776 - Carriacou Island, West Indies Immigration - 1815-1820 - Carriacou, West Indies to Scotland Death - 12 Dec 1851 - Belle Vue Estate, Waimea East, Nelson New Zealand Burial - - Nelson, New Zealand  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  William Gordon Bell house - Bellevue, Richmond, Nelson, NZ

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		NELSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL, VOLUME 06, ISSUE 01, 1996 THE BELL FAMILY IN NELSON Bell Family in Nelson
  		Museum: How farmer settler William GordonBell helped shape NZ
  		The Bell Family Trek from Wellington to Whanganui
  		The Bell Family Affair - Jean Williams The Bell Family Affair - Jean Williams excluding the family tree pages
  		Alzire Servant (c.1780-1851)

  
  

• Notes

  Biography Source: (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640709) Named as his natural daughter in the will of Pierre Servant (proved in 1787). Servant owned Bellevue estate on Carriacou which was sold to Dr John Bell in 1787 subject to an annuity for Alzire. In his will proved in 1800, Bell bequeathed to his 'Mallotto Girl Alzee and hir Child Marian' twenty enslaved people and a small plantation adjacent to Bellevue. After the death of John Bell, Alzire began a relationship with William Gordon Bell, an estate manager. They had a daughter born in Carriacou before moving to Scotland where they had four more children. The moved to New Zealand in 1839 where Alzire died in 1854. Three children of William Gordon Bell and Alvise/Alyize Stewart [sic] were baptised in New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire: James (1817), Elizabeth (1820) and William Gordon (1820). William Gordon Bell, farmer of Waimea East, Nelson, appears on the New Zealand Jury Lists from 1843. William Gordon Bell, farmer, and William Gordon Bell junior, also a farmer, appear on the Electoral Rolls for Waimea from at least 1853. Alziers Cervantes Bell, born Carriacou, West Indies c. 1776, wife of William Gordon Bell, died 12/12/1851. William Gordon Bell, born Dumfries, Scotland, 29/12/1784, died at Bellview, Nelson, 19/04/1861. Sources Joseph Alan Beatty, '“I bear witness”: An African's Quest for faith and community in the Atlantic World', PhD thesis, University of Florida (2014) p. 87. Email from Jo Broad 16/01/2020. GROS OPR Baptisms 877 10 261; 877 10 262; 877 20 6. Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Jury Lists, 1842-1862 [database online]; Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 [database online]. Findagrave.com memorial ID 105330048. We are grateful to Jo Broad for her assistance with compiling this entry.