Birth: October-December 1854 Portsea, Hampshire, UK
Father: George Hale c1816-1858
Mother: Harriet White c1828-1903
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1882 Portsea, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Mary Faith Hoad 1844-1927
Marriage: October-December 1928 Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Emily Jane Cawdery (Caudery, Cordery) [Croucher] 1863-1945
Death: 6 May 1930 Chatsworth, 127 Ophir Road, North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
By Mary
James Charles Hales 1854-1930
Birth of James Charles Hales in FreeBMD in October-December 1854 in Portsea (2b 323).
His father died in Portsea in 1858.
In the 1861 census as Jas Chs Hale aged 6, born in Portsea, Hampshire, and living with his widowed mother (Harriet), brother (Alfd), (half-)brother (Harry White) and sister (Ann Augusta) at 4 Buckingham Place, Kingston, Portsea, Hampshire.
I cannot find any entries in the 1871 (when his mother was a pauper in the wokhouse) and 1881 censuses.
Marriage of James C Hales and Mary Faith Hoad in FreeBMD in January-March 1882 in Portsea (2b 588).
His daughter and son were were born in Newport, County Mayo, Ireland in 1883 and 1984 and daughter in Westport, Cunty Mayo in 1887.
In the 1901 census as James Hales aged 46, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, a newspaper shop keeper and employer working at home, and living with his wife (Mary F), son (James A V) and two daughters (Ada A V and Alice M F) at 205 Twyford Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire
In the 1911 census as James Chas Hales aged 58, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, a naval pensioner, bookseller stationer and employer, and living with his wife (Mary Faith), son (James Alf Victor) and daughter (Alice Minnie) in six rooms at 205 Twyford Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
In the Army service records for his son James Alfred Hales he is listed as J Hales his father of 205 Twyford Avenue, Portsmouth.
Marriage of James C Hales and Emily J Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1928 in Portsmouth (2b 1286).
Death of James C Hales in FreeBMD in April-June 1930 aged 75 in Portsmouth (2b 534).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for James Charles Hales died on 6 May 1930 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, probate 26 August 1930 in London. "Hales James Charles of Chatsworth 127 Ophir-road North End Portsmouth died 6 May 1930 Probate London 26 August to Charles Barton Milton solicitor James Alfred Victor Hales newsagent and Alice Minnie Faith Brier (wife of Albert Edward Brier). Effects £3730 18s, 7d."
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Charles Hale born in Portsea, Hampshire in December 1854, both giving his father as George Hale, and one his mather as Harriet Hood and the other as Harriet White.
Note tha Portsea became Portsmouth in 1900.
James Charles Hales was the husband of Emily Jane Cawdery
, wife of Alban Thomas Croucher, grandfather of David Reginald Croucher, husband of Patricia Ann Ashford, my half third cousin once removed.
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