Charles Tanton (1864 - 1948)

Born 9 Oct 1864 in Woodchurch, Kent, England

Husband of Caroline Rachel (Nickolls) Tanton — married 1892 in East Ashford registration district, Kent, England

Descendants

Died 1948 at about age 83 in Ashford, Kent, England

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Biography

Charles Tanton was born at Woodchurch, Kent, in 1864 and was christened at the Wesleyan chapel there on 22nd January 1865. He was the seventh of eight children born to farmer George Tanton and his wife Mary Ann (Ring). Charles lived with his family at Aldington in 1871 and at Brabourne in 1881. He was still with his parents at Brabourne ten years later, an unmarried waggoner of 26. Following his marriage in 1892, he was next identified as a farm bailiff and shepherd living at Stone-cum-Ebony in 1901 with his wife and five children. Two more children were born at Stone followed by another three born across the county border at Iden, East Sussex, but by 1911 they were living in Stone again. Charles died in Ashford in 1948.

The ten children of Charles and Caroline were: Charles Reuben 1894 - 1963, John Enoch 1895 - 1941, Ellen Ruth 1897 - 1980, Archibald William 1899 -1979, Robert Benjamin 1900 - 1982, Elizabeth Jane (Stanley) 1902 -1970, Louisa Mary 1904 - 1979, Albert Levi 1905 - 1992, Lydia Caroline (Mills) 1907 - 1996, Eli James 1909 - 1998.

Sources

• Civil registration records.

• Census returns.

• Woodchurch non-conformist baptismal records.