Charles Robert Perpall (1824 - 1883)

Born 12 Feb 1824 in Nassau, Bahamas

Ancestors

Husband of Henrietta Jane (Fulford) Perpall — married 16 Jun 1847 in Nassau, Bahamas

Descendants

Died 30 Apr 1883 at age 59 in Nassau, Bahamas

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Charles Perpall is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Charles Robert Perpall was the youngest son of Margaret Bell Perpall and John/Juan Perpall of Nassau, Bahamas. His father died several months after his birth.

Baptized 8 September 1824 at Christ Church. Sponsors: Charles R Nesbitt, Mrs. Jane Christie.

Married Henrietta Jane Fulford in 1847 at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Kirk in presence of Henry Adderley, Copeland Adderley, and Edward Alexander Fulford. The couple had nine known children; the following lived to adulthood: William Alfred, Margaret Ellen, Henrietta Louise, Mary Ann, Georgina Frederica, Charles Robert, and Agnes Beatrice Perpall.

Merchant and shopkeeper on Bay Street, Nassau.

Freemason - member of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Bahamas under the registry of England.

Recruited crew members for runs into the Confederate States of America by blockade runners.

Charles Perpall died in Nassau, Bahamas 30 April 1883.

Sources

Birth recorded in Arnold Perpall's Family Bible - published by the late W. Heptinstall in London. Family files in St. Augustine Historical Society. Christ Church Birth and Baptism records, 1824.

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.

The Nassau Guardian, 30 September 1854.

Freemasons Magazine & Masonic Mirror, page 37, July 16 1859.

Affidavit of James Jenkins, Oreto/Florida Affair, 1869.

Bahamas Civil Registration, Deaths, Nassau, 1883.

Bahamas DNA Project, Direct Paternal Line Descendant Charts https://genealogy.hopetownmuseum.com/bahamasdnaproject/bahydna.htm

DNA

Paternal Great Great Grandfather of Y-DNA kit B2244

Acknowledgments

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