Hazel Olga, Irene, Margaret, Mary Faciolle

INDIA CONNECTION (confirmed 16 Jun 2026 - family memory matches the tree). Chris's maternal grandmother. Born 16 Jan 1913 in India (record says 'India or France'); the surname Faciolle plus the birthplace point to an Anglo-Indian or European-in-India family. She married Herbert Harry Barnes (#1839), a Birmingham man, in INDIA in 1933 [marriage #67]. Their daughter Hazel Olive (#1725, Chris's mother) was born the next year, 1934, in Birmingham, so the couple came back to England soon after the wedding. Hazel Olga is the mother who LEFT the family (per family memory): after she left, Herbert remarried and had more children, and young Hazel Olive ended up raising the nine children of the household. RESEARCH LEAD: British India records (FamilySearch / FindMyPast India Office & ecclesiastical returns) for the 1933 marriage place, the Faciolle family in India, and how/why Herbert was in India. FACIOLLE FAMILY IN INDIA (FamilySearch, 16 Jun 2026): the Faciolle surname is richly documented in the British/French India records - 'India, Marriages 1792-1948', 'India Births & Baptisms 1786-1947', the 'India Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records', and the 'British India Office Births & Baptisms' (160+ entries). The forenames are strongly FRENCH (Gaston Auguste, Pierre Antoine Auguste, Vital Joseph, Cecile, Leonie Olive Gertrude, Marie), marking a FRENCH family living in colonial India (the French-Catholic community around Madras / Pondicherry, French India). NB: she is not believed in the family to have been ethnically Indian, this recounted from memory; the strongly French names support a European (French) family resident in India rather than an Indian one, but her exact origin is unconfirmed and to be established from her own baptism record. 'Gaston Auguste Faciolle' recurs and is a likely patriarch of the family. Note 'Leonie OLIVE Gertrude Faciolle' - the 'Olive' echoes in Chris's mother, Hazel OLIVE Barnes (#1725). NEXT (a whole new branch to open): find Hazel Olga's own baptism c.1913 (try given names Olga / Irene / Margaret, and the French-India / France records) to name HER parents = Chris's great-great-grandparents; locate the city of the 1933 Barnes-Faciolle marriage; and build out the Faciolle line. A rich, documented seam. LATER LIFE & ESTRANGEMENT (family memory, 16 Jun 2026): after she left Herbert (#1839) and the family, Hazel Olga moved to LONDON, where she is remembered as having owned a few corner shops, and she died there. She was visited once in childhood within the family, by which time she was an old lady. Chris's mother (her daughter Hazel Olive, #1725) held a deep, lifelong resentment toward her; the family's understanding was that she had abandoned them, though the full details are not known. Recorded as family memory, not asserted fact. FACIOLLE FAMILY = BENGAL (FamilySearch, 16 Jun 2026; corrects the earlier Madras guess). The India baptism records place the Faciolles in BENGAL, India, and show a sibling group - Leonie Olive Gertrude, Cecile, Joan Adeline Marie, J.A. Auguste George, Reuben Ernest Eric and others - all children of GASTON AUGUSTE FACIOLLE and OLIVE ADELINE [her maiden name to confirm], a French-Catholic family. Hazel Olga (b.1913) is very likely a daughter of this couple: the 'Olive' name recurs across the family (Leonie OLIVE Gertrude) and came down to Chris's mother, Hazel OLIVE Barnes. If confirmed, GASTON AUGUSTE FACIOLLE + OLIVE ADELINE are Chris's great-great-grandparents. TO CONFIRM: find Hazel Olga's own baptism (c.1913, Bengal) naming her parents. Gaston Auguste Faciolle recurs as the likely patriarch. {CENSUS} Married-in (maiden surname Faciolle); born ~1913, place recorded as India or France (a French family then living in colonial India; her exact origin is unconfirmed per family memory). As she was born abroad, English census coverage is limited - the 1939 Register is the most likely UK record, plus any inbound passenger lists. Spouse-derived; a careful individual search is a later mop-up given the sensitive/uncertain origin. [Ancestry, transcription pass].