Charles Webb

See also Esther Webb

In 1841 he is living at the Newbury Union with his parents and 8 siblings.

Esther Hopson married Charles Webb in Newbury (marriage registered March Q 1855). Charles was born c1826 in Newbury and was a Grocer later taking over (in partnership with his brother John) the family business J T WEBB & SONS GROCERS trading at 50 Northbrook Street Newbury.

Charles and Esther had the following children (all born in Newbury):

Kate born 1856 (died aged 11 months in 1856)

Charles born 1857 (died aged 6 months in 1857)

Annie born 1858

Henry born c1861

Alfred born c1863 (died aged 4 months in 1863 a month after his mother)

The 1861 census records Charles (34), Esther (25), Annie (2) and Henry (3 months) living at 50 Northbrook Street Newbury

Esther died aged 26 on the 9^th March 1863 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16^th March.

Charles remarried on the 7^th July 1864 in Coity Glamorgan Wales his 2^nd wife was a spinster, Eliza Cadman aged 30. Eliza gave birth to a daughter Florence Lizzie in 1865 (birth registered in the December Quarter in Newbury) and died on the 3^rd December she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road cemetery on the 8^th December 1865. Her daughter died the following month in Bridgend Wales her body was brought back to Newbury and she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th January 1866.

Charles married again on the 12^th March 1867 in Trowbridge Wiltshire his 3^rd wife was a spinster, Mary Eliza Moore.

The 1871 and 1881 census records Charles & Mary living at 50 Northbrook Street.  By 1891 Charles had retired and the couple were living at 6 Donnington Square Newbury. The 1901 census records them living at 12 Craven Street Newbury.

Charles died aged 84 on the 24^th March 1910 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 29^th March.

Mary Eliza died aged 84 on the 27^th February 1921 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the2nd March.

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