Charlotte (Giles) Wall (abt. 1805 - 1890)

Born about 1805 in Neen Sollars with Milson, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of John Wall — married 28 Dec 1829 in Neen Sollars with Milson, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of Edmund Henry Williams — married 11 Oct 1847 in St Bartholomew, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 13 May 1890 at about age 85 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Charlotte was born about 1805, daughter of John and Sarah Giles, probably at Tetstill Farm and Mill, the tenancy of which John Giles inherited from his mother, Mary Giles, on her death in 1823.

Charlotte married John Wall, tenant of the Sun Inn, Mamble, on 28 December 1829, at Neen Sollars.^[1] John and Charlotte had eight children before John died in 1842.^[2]

On John's death, Charlotte inherited the tenancy of the Sun Inn and later remarried. Her second husband was Edmund Henry Williams, a butcher and Farmer of 32 acres at Mamble. They married at St Bartholomew’s Edgbaston on 11th October 1847.^[3]

The 1851 census shows Edmund (then aged 32) and Charlotte Williams (then 46) living at the Sun Inn, Mamble, with their own two children, Frederick (5) and Charles Williams (one month), together with Charlotte's three daughters by her previous marriage to John Wall: Eliza (18), Mary (16) and Sarah Wall, then aged 14.^[4] Nine years later, in 1860, Sarah was to become the wife of William Bishop, daughter of the husband of Charlotte's sister Clara by his first wife.

At some time between 1851 and 1861 Edmund and Charlotte Williams separated and at the 1861 census Edmund (shown as a cattle dealer and butcher) was a lodger in the household of Samuel Scott, Farmer at Bayton, Worcestershire. Bayton is about a mile to the north of Mamble and two miles east of Neen Sollars. In 1851 it had a population of 443. Meanwhile, Charlotte Williams remained as Innkeeper at the Sun Inn with her daughter Mary Wall (26) and sons Frederick (13) and Charles Williams (10).^[5]

At the 1871 census Charlotte Williams was still running the Sun Inn, assisted by her son Henry Wall (33), a butcher. The household also included two barmaids: Charlotte's niece, Fanny Butcher (23) and Lucy Capenell (16).^[6]

In 1871 Edmund Williams was living in Bayton, still a butcher, with a five-year old daughter, Adelaide Stokes and a servant.^[7] He died at the age of 60 and was buried on 30 May 1878 at Bayton.^[8]

By the time of the 1881 census, Charlotte Williams had retired as the Innkeeper of the Sun Inn but still lived there. Her son Henry Wall (by then 43) had taken over as the publican, helped by his wife Fanny. At the 1881 census Charlotte was 76.^[9]

At some time during the 1880s the Walls gave up the tenancy of the Sun and Charlotte moved with Henry and his family to Tenbury, where Henry worked as a maltster and sanitary inspector.

Charlotte died at the home of her son Henry, Church House, Tenbury, Worcs., of "Natural Decay" on 13 May 1890 at the age of 85.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Shropshire Parish Registers, Shropshire Parish Registers, W.G.D. Fletcher ed. for the Shropshire Parish Register Society 1915. Neen Sollars 1829 Dec. 28. John Wall, of p. Mamble, Worcestershire, b.. & Charlotte Giles, sp., lic. Wit: John Giles. Caroline Giles. [1].
2. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010), Ancestry.com, Class: HO107; Piece: 1193; Book: 1; Civil Parish: Mamble; County: Worcestershire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 11; Page: 6; Line: 6; GSU roll: 464205. Record for John Wall. [2].
3. ↑ Ancestry.com, Birmingham, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Ancestry.com, Record for Charlotte Wall. [3].
4. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), Ancestry.com, Class: HO107; Piece: 1985; Folio: 127; Page: 27; GSU roll: 87386. Record for Charlotte Williams. [4].
5. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), Ancestry.com, Class: RG 9; Piece: 1846; Folio: 74; Page: 6; GSU roll: 542877. Record for Charlotte Williams. [5].
6. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Ancestry.com, Class: RG10; Piece: 2737; Folio: 21; Page: 5; GSU roll: 835393. Record for Charlotte Williams. [6].
7. ↑ Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Ancestry.com, Class: RG10; Piece: 2737; Folio: 11; Page: 13; GSU roll: 835393. Record for Edmund Henry Williams. [7].
8. ↑ Ancestry.com, England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, Record for Edmund Henry Williams. [8].
9. ↑ Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881 England Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Ancestry.com, Class: RG11; Piece: 2625; Folio: 80; Page: 5; GSU roll: 1341631. Record for Charlotte Williams. [9].
10. ↑ FreeBMD, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Ancestry.com, Record for Charlotte Williams. [10].