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Charles Hermon
c1811-1858
Charles was a Shoemaker. He was baptised in 1811 in East Ilsley, Berkshire, the son of John Sarah Harman (nee Silk) who were married in East Ilsley in 1810.
John and Sarah also had the following two children baptised in East Ilsley, Henry in 1813 and Elizabeth in 1816
Charles married Anne Fulbrook in 1835 in Hungerford, Berkshire (Surname recorded as Hearmon/Hearman).
They had the following children:
Sarah baptised in 1835 (died aged 4, buried as Sarah Jane, on the 8th February 1840 at St Nicolas Newbury)
Ann born 1838
Charles born 1840
John born 1842
Elizabeth born 1844
William Henry born 1846 (died aged 7 months, buried on the 26th May 1847 at St Nicolas Newbury)
Frederick born 1848 (died aged 14 months, buried on the 11th April 1849 at St Nicolas Newbury)
The 1841 census records Charles Herman (30), his wife Ann (25) and their children Ann (3) and Charles (1), living in West Mills, Newbury, Berkshire.
Ann Hermon died aged 36 in 1849, she was buried on the 12th January at St Nicolas Newbury
The 1851 census records Charles Hermon (39), as a Shoemaker employing three apprentices, living in Bartholomew Street, Newbury with his sons Charles (12), John (9) and his nephew, William Fulbrook (20). His daughter Ann (13) was living with her Aunt Maria Giles (35) (nee Fulbrook) and her family in King’s Place, St George in the East, Middlesex. His daughter Elizabeth (6) was recorded as a visitor at the home of Moses and June Brown, in Boxford, Berkshire.
Charles remarried in 1851
Marriage details:
Place: St Mary, Stratford Bow, Middlesex
Date: 10th August 1851
Groom: Charles Hermon, full age, widower, occupation, Cordwainer, abode, Bow
Bride: Mary Dodd, full age, spinster, abode, Bow
Fathers: John Hermon, a Brewer and John Dodd, a Gardener
Witnesses: James Harris and John Rickman
Charles and Mary had the following three children (all born in Newbury):
Henry born 1852 (died 1852, buried in the NRC on the 6th October)
Sarah Jane 1853
Edward born 1856 (died 1856, buried in the NRC on the 29th November)
Mary died aged 38 in 1856 (the same quarter as Edward, so possibly due to complications giving birth) No burial record found for Mary.
Charles married again in 1858
Marriage details:
Place: St Pancras Parish Chapel, Camden, Middlesex
Date: 1st March 1858
Groom: Charles Hermon, full age, widower, occupation, Shoemaker, abode, John Street
Bride: Cassandra Dell, full age, spinster, abode, John Street
Fathers: John Hermon, Deceased and John Dell, a Painter
Witnesses: William Herbert and Fanny Emma Bishop
(Cassandra was baptised on the19th January 1823 at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, Berkshire, the daughter of John and Harriett Dell (nee Ward) who were married in Speen on the30th January 1820)
Charles committed suicide on the 18th March 1858 aged 45, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19th March.
The 1861 census records Cassandra (36) in the household of Arthur Snow, Curate of Eltham and his family in the High Street, Eltham, Kent (no occupation recorded for Cassandra)
In 1871 aged 42, she was working as a Nurse, in Eccles Old Road, Pendleton, Lancashire.
The 1881 census records her aged 52 working as a Nurse in Priory Bail Street, Folkestone, Kent.
Cassandra died aged 61 on the 6th April 1884 in New Street, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, her body was brought to Newbury and she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10th April
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