Charlotte Searle
 

I've found an entry in the London Schools Admissions and Discharges which may or may not be my great-uncle's wife:

White Lion Street School, Islington, Charlotte Searle admitted 23 Sep 1889, father William, address 35 Henry St. Date of birth 20 Apr 1882, previous school - at Leicester. Date of leaving - 15 Sep 1893, remarks: does not know a letter, cannot write anything, has no idea. (Hopefully that was when she joined the school rather than when she left!)

I managed to find one of the other pupils from Henry Street on the 1891 census - Daisy Bradford, so I know which Henry Street it is, civil parish Clerkenwell, but there is no Searle or Charlotte at 35 Henry Street on that census. There are several families at the address but none looks to be connected to Charlotte.

My Charlotte married Frederick Cheeseman 29 Jun 1901 at St Pancras Register Office, age 20, residence 72 Judd Street, father William Searle (deceased), mechanical engineer. (On her second marriage his Witnesses D Anderson and John Reddy. Frederick Cheeseman and D Anderson are at 72 Judd Street on the 1901 census but the only Charlotte there is a Charlotte Hopkins age 23 born Islington.

On the 1911 census my Charlotte is age 30, born York Road, King's Cross. She died in 1968, so her death certificate doesn't give exact date of birth.

Of course there is no Charlotte Searle birth registration Apr-Jun 1882; that would be way too easy!

I would have thought that William must still be alive in 1889 or his name wouldn't be written in as name of parent or guardian. And surely Charlotte must still have been living in the area in 1891 or she would have left the school? Can anyone find either or both of them in 1891, please? I don't know whether this is my Charlotte so I don't know what her birthplace would be.

Update - 2022 - it turns out that Charlotte's father was actually a William Matthews going by the name Searle, not the William Thomas Searle who is mentioned in this thread.

I would have thought, had she been born in York Road, King's Cross, She shoud have been registered at Holborn, but I can't see that helping! lol

School run again.....

Or Islington, depending on the number in York Road.....

*dashes*

Ah! I bet this is her parents.....(note his occ)

1881:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=14149410

In 1871 father is Wm Thos Searle single an engineer in the RN.

I can't see a likely marriage between then and 1881 and I can't see a birth reg for Frederick in the right district.

Or a death for dad.

This is his birth:

Births Mar 1840
Searle William Thomas Strand 1 343


I wondered if Charlotte senr had remarried after the death of Wm Searle and was hiding her children under a different surname in 1891, but then I got bogged down with looking for her first marriage trying to see if she had any other forenames!

And now my lamb shanks are nearly ready......

Oh, was he leading some sort of double life?

1891 -

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=8362378

different wife, but looks like the same man. No Fred and no dau Charlotte and look when he got married!

Marriages Dec 1881
Ball James Hope Greenwich 1d 1445
BELL James Hope Greenwich 1d 1445
HOWLETT Agnes Greenwich 1d 1445
Searle William Thomas Greenwich 1d 1445
Wingrove Frances Harriet Greenwich 1d 1445

Deaths Sep 1896
SEARLE William Thomas 56 Greenwich 1d 639

It wouldn't surprise me, with this family! Thanks for all that; I'll see if I can get anywhere with that lot.

The 1881 marriage to Frances is on ancestry and he is a bachelor on there.