Charles Milton Lovell

c1888-1918

Charles was born in the U.S.A., the son of Charles (aka John Charles) and Amy Eliza Lovell (nee Tucker) who were married in 1888 (marriage registered in Newbury).

His father Charles (aka John Charles) was born on the 1^st July 1866, in Silverstone, Northamptonshire. He was baptised 6^th June 1869, in Silverstone, the son of Simon and Sarah Ann Lovell (nee Hayle) who were married on the 10^th October 1861, in Silverstone.

His mother Amy Eliza was born 1862, in Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, the daughter of Henry and Hannah Tucker, nee Whornam/Wernham, who were married in 1861 (marriage registered in Wantage)

Soon after his parents married, they moved to the U.S.A.

Amy Eliza also gave birth to another son in the U.S.A., William Henry, born on the 22^nd June 1893.

By 1901 the family were back living in England. The census for this year records Charles (34), a Gas Stoker Foreman, Amy (38), Charles Milton (12) and William Henry (7), living at 2 St John’s Villa Cottages, Greenham Road, Newbury.

In 1911 Charles (44), as a Gas Stoker, living at the same address, with his wife Amy (48) and their son William (17) as a Brewery Clerk. (No census record for this year found yet, for Charles Milton).

Charles married in 1914

Marriage details:

Place: St John the Evangelist, Newbury, Berkshire

Date: 19^th December 1914

Groom: Charles Milton Lovell, aged 26, bachelor, occupation, Stoker, abode, Newbury

Bride: Ethel Goddard, aged 25, spinster, abode, 2 Ashton Road, King’s Road, Newbury

Fathers: Charles Lovell, a Stoker (no father recorded for Ethel)

Witnesses: Elsie Goddard and Charles Lovell

(Ethel was born on the 28^th July 1890 in Greenham, Berkshire, the daughter of Henry and Eva Goddard (nee Lambdin) who were married in 1886 (marriage registered in Newbury).

Ethel gave birth to a son, Charles c1917 who died soon after he was born (birth and death both registered in the March quarter in Newbury). She gave birth to another son, the following year, named Charles Milton, after his father (birth registered in the March quarter 1918, in Newbury).

Charles Milton, died aged 30 in 1918. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 6^th December. At the time of his death he was living at 4 Derby Cottages, King’s Road, Newbury.

Ethel after her husband’s death:

In 1921 Ethel (30), and her son, Charles (3), were recorded living at 1 Greenham Road, Newbury, with her father-in-law, Charles Lovell (54), a Gas Works Labourer for Newbury Corporation. Her mother-in-law Amy (59) and her brother-in-law William (27), a Civilian Clerk, for the Royal Air Force, in Milton, Berkshire.

Ethel remarried in 1925. He 2^nd husband was Charles Thomas Seymour

(Charles Thomas was born in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of John and Annie Seymour (nee Silvey) who were married on the 3^rd May 1885, at the Primitive Methodist Church, Newbury).

Charles Thomas Seymour died aged 33 in 1934, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th May. (Abode at time of death, 4 Greenham Road, Newbury)

The 1939 Register records Ethel and her son Charles Lovell, a Milkman, living at 1 Orts Road, Newbury.

Ethel Seymour died aged 88, in 1979, in Newbury.

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