THE GILLAM FAMILY OF CROYDON AND BRIGHTONChapter 7 |
Charles GILLAM (c.1813)Charles GILLAM, shoemaker, was born sometime between 1812 and 1816 (calculating from the 1841 census, see Table 8) in Brighton, Sussex. Between these two years there are two possibilities listed on the Brighton Baptisms fiche (1813-1837) supplied by the Sussex Family History Group, these are:
The first of these seems to be the most likely; this conjecture continues in the next chapter. On 6th May 1833 at St Nicholas Church, Brighton, Charles (bachelor, of this parish) married Elizabeth FOSTER (spinster, of this parish). The witnesses were William GILLAM and Lucy GILLAM. As far as we know to date Charles and Elizabeth had one son, William GILLAM (born about 1834) and one daughter, Ellen GILLAM (born about 1836 and christened at St Nicholas on 31st August 1836). William's later marriage certificate shows that Charles was a shoemaker. Little more is known about this Charles but a Charles GILLAM has been found in the right area of Brighton in the 1851 census. Is this our Charles GILLAM (now a widower) visiting a probable brother on census night? Table 1 shows the details. To add to the mystery, it looks like Ellen GILLAM was at her aunt Eliza & uncle John HOLDER's house on the night of the 1851 census as Table10 shows. Charles may have died soon after the 1851 census. On 9th April 1851 at Mighell Gardens, Air Street, Brighton, a Charles GILLAM, shoemaker, was found dead (of natural causes). This fact was registered by the coroner at Lewes (Francis Harding Gill) on 29th May 1851. Figure 1 shows Charles and his close relatives in a tree format.
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