Charlotte (Fletcher) Webster (1828 - 1900)

Born 1828 in Lancashire, England

Wife of Richard Webster — married 8 Feb 1852 in St John's Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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Charlotte (Fletcher) Webster migrated from England to New Zealand.

Biography

MARRIAGE

8th February 1852 in St. John's Church, Deans Gate, Manchester. Richard Webster of Brewery Street, a joiner by trade was married to Charlotte Fletcher of Piccadilly. Richard's father is Joseph Webster, a farmer, and Charlotte's father is George Fletcher, a surgeon. Witnesses were John Ellison and Harriet Fletcher.

Richard and Charlotte emigrated with their children; Richard, Arthur & Charlotte - ship : JOHN SCOTT left London 18th Nov, 1857 arrived Auckland 7th March 1858 : reported in The New Zealander, 9 Mar 1858

by 1886, Charlotte Webster was keeping a boardinghouse in Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Her husband Richard was a carpenter and builder working in Thames. [1]

Auckland Star 3rd December 1900 page 8 [2]

DEATH

WEBSTER - On October 25th Charlotte, aged 72 years, the dearly-beloved wife of Richard Webster, of the Thames, son of Jane and Joseph Webster, late of Wolfall Hall Farm, Hyton, Lancashire, England. The deceased arrived in Auckland on 20th March, 1859, in the ship John Scott. Manchester and Liverpool papers please copy.

Sources

• MARRIAGE "England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1H-ZYXJ : accessed 19 April 2016), Richard Webster and Charlotte Fletcher, 08 Feb 1852, Marriage; citing St John, Deansgate, Lancashire, England, Archives Central Library, Manchester; FHL microfilm 4,501,945.