Birth: April-June 1850 Upper Churt, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: William Marden 1825-1908
Mother: Charlotte Baker 1814-1896
Christening: 28 April 1850 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: October-December 1878 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Charity Esther Vickery 1852-1926
Death: 1 December 1917 Headley, Hampshire, UK
Buried: Plot 20-76 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire UK
Henry Vickery Marden 1879-a1915
Mary Florence Marden [Reeve] 1881-a1906
Frederick Marden 1884-1927
Edwin James Marden 1886-a1901
Ernest Walter Marden 1888-a1901
Maurice Stephen Marden 1891-a1901
Birth of Henry Marden in FreeBMD in April-June 1850 in Farnham (4 161).
Christening of Henry Marden in the IGI on 28 April 1850 in Frensham, Surrey, parents William and Charlotte Marden.
In the 1851 census as Henry Marden aged 1, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with his parents (William and Charlotte Marden) and unnamed brother (James) who were living with his widowed grandfather (Stephen Baker), two uncles (James and John Baker) and two servants (George Mansell aged 21 single and an agricultural labourer, and Francess Boxall aged 15 and a house servant, both born in Frensham) in Upper Churt, Frensham. From A Time of Change by Gillian Devine 2005 this was Churt Farm, now known as Stock Farm (pp17 & 50).
Although his parents moved after the census, Henry stayed with his uncles John and James, his grandfather dying later in 1851.
In the 1861 census as Henry Marden aged 10, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with his unmarried uncle (John Baker), another uncle and aunt (James and Mary Ann Baker), another aunt (Mary Baker), three servants (Daniel Taylor aged 23 and a carter, George Fullick aged 17 and a carter, and Abraham Deadman aged 15 and a shepherd, all born in Headley) in Churt, Frensham, Surrey,
From A Time of Change by Gillian Devine 2005 they were still at Churt Farm, but were given notice to quit in 1866 when the owner, Richard Paine, died and the property was sold by his trustees (p50).
In the 1871 census as Henry Marden aged 21, born in Frensham, Surrey, single, a farm servant, and living with his unmarried uncle (John Baker), another uncle and aunt (James and Mary Ann Baker), another aunt (Mary Baker), a carter (George Small aged 28, born in Headley and single), and two lodgers? (William Carpenter aged 37, and a farm labourer, and his wife Ann aged 36, both born in Reigsclare, Hampshire) in Churt, Frensham, Surrey (this could be Kitts, Butts or Parkhurst Farms being between Hale House Farm and Hatch Farm).
Marriage of Henry Marden and Charity Esther Vickery in FreeBMD in October-December 1878 in Farnham (2a 153).
In the 1881 census as Henry Marden aged 30, born in Churt, Surrey, a farmer and living with his wife (Charity E) and son (Henry V) at his uncle (James Baker) and his wife (Mary Ann) at Kitts? Farm, Churt (between Butts Farm and the Shant - it gives Hern Farm in the index).
Henry V and Mary were born in Churt, but the family moved to Emsworth, Hampshire from the birth of Frederick in 1884, moving to Thursley by 1887 from the birth of Edwin and the remaining children.
In the 1891 census as Henry Marden aged 41, born in Churt, Surrey, a licensed victualler and employer, and living with his wife (Charity E), five sons (Edwin J, Ernest Walter, Frederick, Henry W and Nannie Stan (the original is almost illegible - but this must be Maurice Stephen), daughter (Mary Florence), and a lodger (Henry Boxall aged 29, born in Thursley, single, and a general labourer) at the Red Lion, Thursley, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Henry Marden aged 51, born in Churt, Surrey, a farmer and employer, and living with his wife (Charity), five sons (Edwin, Ernest, Frederick, Henry and Maurice) and two neices (Ada and Maud - daughters of Stephen Marden and Minnie Whiten Hughes) at Linsted Farm, Headley, Hampshire.
Entry in FreeBMD for the death of Henry Marden in October-December 1917 aged 67 in Alton (2c 205).
Entry in Headley Monumental Insciptions Number 585 in Section E Row B in the ‘long churchyard (the acre added by Mr Laverty in 1909)':
Henry Marden was my second cousin twice removed.
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