Birth: 26 July 1854 Potters Fields, Horsleydown, Surrey, UK
Father: Joshua Challis c1811-1891
Mother: Mary Jane Rogers c1812-1868
Christening: 20 August 1854 St John, Horsleydown, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 5 August 1882 All Saints, Hatcham Park, Kent, UK
Wife: Joseph Edward Ellson 1853-1929
Death: October 1927 Wandsworth, London, UK
Buial: 5 October 1927 Putney Vale Cemetery, Wandsworth, London, UK
Harold Ellson 1883-1960
Bernard Edmund Ellson 1885-1959
Edith Ellen Ellson 1886-1930
Joseph Lawrence Ellson 1893-1968
Birth of Charlotte Challis in FreeBMD in July-September 1857 in St Olave (1d 44).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Charlotte Challis baptised on 20 August 1854 at Horselydown St John, Southwark, parents Joshua and Mary Jane Challis. "Page 694 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St John, Horselydown, in the County of Surrey in the Year 1854 [...] 1854 August 20 born July 26 1854 No. 127 Charlotte, [parents] Joshua, [an] accountant, [and] Mary Jane Challis [of] Potters Fields".
In the 1861 census as Charlotte Challis aged 6, born in St John's Horselydown, Surrey, and living with her parents (Joshua and Mary J), four brothers (Edmund, James, John R and Willm H) and three sisters (Louisa E, Maria A and Mary J) at 2 Church Row, St John Horseleydown, Southwark, Surrey. Another family lived at the same address.Her mother died in Bermondsey in 1868
In the 1871 census as Charlotte Challis aged 16, born in Rotherhithe, Surrey, and living with her aunt (Mary Ann Rogers), brother (Joshua W), sister (Maria A) and a servant (Phoebe Deane aged 18, born in Rotherhithe Surrey and single) at 1 Goldsworthy Place, Rotherhithe, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Charlotte Challis aged 26, born in Horsleydown, Surrey, single, a board school mistress, and living with Mary S Peters (aged 59, born in Bermondsey, Surrey, widowed and no stated employment), her son (William aged 33, born in Greenwich, Kent and a commercial clerk), and his wife (Emily aged 32 and born in Sydenham, Kent), son (Alexander aged 23, Bermondsey, Surrey, single, and a Saleman & Commercial (Leather)), three daughters (Sarah aged 27, and a crown sewer (hats), Harriet aged 21 and no stated employment and Mary aged 18, and no stated employment all born in Bermondsey, Surrey and single) and her sister (Maria) at 275 Lynton Road, St James Bermondsey, London.
Marriage of Charlotte Challis and Joseph Edward Ellson in FreeBMD in July-September 1882 in Greenwich (1d 1410).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Charlotte Challis aged 28, father Joshua Challis, and Joseph Edward Ellson in 1882 at All Saints, Deptford, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for Charlotte Challis aged 28, father Joshua Challis, and Joseph Edward Ellson on 5 August 1882 at All Saints, Hatcham Park, Lewisham. "Page 17 1882 Marriage solemnized at All Saints Church in the Parish of All Saints, Hatchm in the [County of Surrey (taken from the previous page, the right hand side of the page is missing] [No.]33 Fifth August 1882 Joseph Edward [changed from Edward Joseph] Ellson aged 29, [a] Widower and Schoolmmaster [of] Stoke Newington] [father] William [missing] [and] Chalotte Challis [aged] 28 [a] Spinster [of] 77 Endwell Road [father] Joshua [missing] Married in the Church of All Saints according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, by Licence".
Her two sons and daughter were baptised on 29 Jul 1883, 12 July 1885 and 3 October 1886 in Hackney when they were living at 29 Foulden Road
In the 1891 census as Charlotte Ellson aged 36, born in Rotherhithe, London, and living with her husband (Josep E), son (Harold), (step)son (Sidney), and daughter (Edith E) at 29 Foulden Road, Hackney St John, London.
Her son was baptised on 26 November 1894 in Hackney when they were living at 29 Foulden Road
In the 1901 census as Charlotte Ellson aged 46, born in Horsleydown, London, a school mistress (London S Bd) and living with her husband (Josph E), four sons (Bernard E, Harold, Joseph L and Sidney), daughter (Edith E) and a servant (Hannah E Squire aged 23, born in High Beckington, Devon and single) at 14 East Bank, Hackney, London.
In the 1911 census as Charlotte Ellson aged 55, born in London, Down, Ireland, (sic - in the index, Horsley Down on the original), four children all still living, and living with her husband (Joseph Edward), son (Joseph Lawrence), daughter (Edith Ellen) and a servant (Mary Louisa Fugram aged 32, born in London, and single) in nine rooms at 41 Clarendon Road, Putney S W, London.
There are nine entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Charlotte Ellson address 41 Clarenden Road SW15, Putney, Wandsworth from 1918 to 1927, other occupants Joseph Edward Ellson (husband?), Joseph Lawrence Ellson (son?) in 1921, and Edith Ellen Ellson (daughter?) from 1923.
Death of Charlotte Ellson in FreeBMD in October-December 1927 aged 54 in Wandsworth (1d 690).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Charlotte Ellson buried 5 October 1927 at Putney Vale Cemetery, Wandsworth, Surrey.
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Charlotte Challis.
Southwark St John Horsleydown was a small parish on the south bank of the River Thames in London, opposite the Tower of London. The name Horsleydown, apparently derived from the "horse lie-down" next to the river, is no longer used. The parish was created by splitting St Olave's parish in 1733. Horselydown Lane is parallel to and SW of the southern approach to Tower Bridge. Hatcham Park is the area around New Cross Gate.
Charlotte Challis was the sister of Frederick William Challis, husband of Marion Annie Davis, my first cousin once removed.
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