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Personal Details of Charles Hermon

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Buried:	19/03/1858

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Burial Register

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Charles Hermon
Date of burial	19/03/1858
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 39

Accounts Entry for Charles Hermon
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

SHOCKING SUICIDE. - Mr. Charles Hermon, a bootmaker,

Source:	Berkshire Chronicle
Article date:	20/03/1858
Copyright:
Transciption:	Berkshire Chronicle Dated 20^th March 1858 SHOCKING SUICIDE. - This town was thrown into a state of much excitement on Thursday last, in consequence if intelligence being received that Mr. Charles Hermon, a bootmaker, Bartholomew Street, had been found in Dark Lane leading from Wash-road to Enborne Church, with his head nearly severed from his body. He was sitting in a ditch, and held a razor loosely between his fingers, with which he committed the deed. Mr. Frost was bean-planting, and had put a sack of beans in this lane that morning, but when he went to get the sack in the afternoon, he discovered the deceased as we have described. He immediately gave information to the police and the body was removed to the Horse Shoe, at Enborne. What makes the affair more melancholy is, that the deceased had been married only about three weeks to his third wife, a person much younger that himself, and leaving a family of five children. It was a most determined act of self-destruction, as the razor was found bound with waxend to prevent the blade from going back. The deceased was a most respectable tradesman in the town, and well known; and therefore, it has caused quite a gloominess to prevail. An inquest was held on the body yesterday (Friday) afternoon at the above public-house, before J. Alexander, Esq., county coroner, when a verdict of “Felo de Se” was returned. The inquest termination so late prevents our giving the particulars.
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Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Charles Hermon.

Charles Hermon c1811-1858

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 8^th 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 26^th May 1847 at St Nicolas Newbury)

Frederick born 1848 (died aged 14 months, buried on the 11^th 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 12^th 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: 10^th 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 6^th October)

Sarah Jane 1853

Edward born 1856 (died 1856, buried in the NRC on the 29^th 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: 1^st 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 18^th March 1858 aged 45, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th 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 6^th 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 10^th April

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