Charles Swindon
c1850-1918
Charles was baptised on the 21st April 1850 at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, Wiltshire, the son of Zebulon and Priscilla Swindon (Kemp) who were married on the 18th December 1831 at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough.
His father Zebulon was born c1804 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, he died aged 74 on the 5th September 1881 and was buried on the 8th September in 1881 in Wiltshire.
His mother Priscilla was baptised on the 8th May 1811 at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, the daughter of Francis and Rachel Kemp. Priscilla died aged 92 on the 28th May 1902, she was buried on the 1st June 1902 in Wiltshire
Zebulon and Priscilla also had the following children baptised in Marlborough:
George, baptised 7th October 1832
Ellen, baptised 18th May 1834
Elizabeth, baptised 4th October1835
Thomas Zebulon, baptised 17th September 1837
George, baptised 9th February 1840
Ann, baptised 11th December 1842
Mary Ann, baptised 2nd March 1845
William, baptised 19th September 1847
Henry, baptised 19th September 1852
The 1861 census records Zebulon (56) as a Stonemason (formerly an Ironmonger’s General Assistant), Priscilla (52), a Laundress, their children, Elizabeth (24), a Laundress, Thomas (22), a Groom, William (12), a Draper’s Errand Boy, Charles (10), a Gardener’s Errand Boy, Henry (8), their daughter-in-law Mary Ann (23), (nee Giles, wife of Thomas) a Sempstress and their grandchildren Ellen (2) and Sarah Jane (8 months), living in Herd Street, Marlborough.
In the 1871 census Charles (21) was recorded as a Painter, he was living in Herd Street with his father, a General Labourer, his mother, a Laundress and his sister, Mary Ann (26), a Laundress and his niece Ellen (12) (surname recorded as Saindon on ancestry).
Charles married Jane Peck in 1873 (marriage registered in Hungerford)
(Jane was baptised in 1849 in St George, Ogbourne, Wiltshire, the daughter of William and Jane Peck (nee Pett who were married in 1829 in Collingbourne Kingston))
Charles and Jane had the following children (all born in Newbury):
Charles William Montague 1874
Gertrude Bella c1876
Lily 1877 (died aged 6 months, buried in the NRC on the 2nd January 1878)
Nellie 1879
Edith Annie 1880 (died aged 3 months, buried in the NRC on the 23rd September 1880)
Samuel Percy 1881 (died aged 9 months, buried in the NRC on the 21s June 1882)
Reginald Augustus 1882 (died aged 13 months, buried in the NRC on the 1st December 1883)
Bertram Harry c1886 (died aged 0, buried in the NRC on the 12th October 1886)
Horace Ewart 1887 (died aged 0, buried in the NRC on the 5th June 1888)
Evelyn May 1890
The 1881 census records Charles (30) as a Plumber, living in Shrewsbury Terrace, Newbury with Jane (30) and their children Charles (6), Gertrude (5) and Nellie (2).
Charles (41) was still working as a Plumber in 1891, the census for this year records him living at 3 Sarum Cottages, Enborne Road, Newbury, with Jane (41), Charles (16), a Grocer’s Assistant, Gerturde (15), Nellie (12), Evelyn (1) and a visitor, Charles Edward Dick (0). (Family surname recorded as Leomdon on ancestry)
Charles was widowed in 1900, Jane died aged 50, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9th March.
The 1901 census records Charles (51) as a House Painter, living at 3 Sarum Cottages, with his children, Gertrude (25), Nellie (22), a Dressmaker and Evelyn (11).
Charles remarried in 1902, his 2nd wife was Tabitha Applegate (marriage registered in Newbury)
(Tabitha was born on the 1st November 1867 in Kintbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Silvanus and Celia Applegate (nee Waters), who were married in 1864 (marriage registered in Hungerford)
Tabitha gave birth to a daughter, Minnie Alice in Newbury in 1904.
The 1911 census records Charles (61) as a House Painter, living at 3 Sarum Cottages, Enborne Road, Newbury, with Tabitha (43), their daughter Minnie (6) and a visitor, Arthur Fell (55).
Charles died aged 68 on the 4th December 1918, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18th December.
Tabitha died aged 76 in the Emergency Hospital, Newbury in 1944, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 27th April.
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