Charles REDFERN

Born:   7th July 1848, Haughton Green, Lancashire
 
Father: Joseph REDFERN
Mother: Ann MADDOCKS
 
Married: Martha ELLIS, 21st May 1877, Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
 
Children: Joseph REDFERN, born 1877
Thomas REDFERN, born c. 1880
Charles REDFERN, born 1882
Ellen Ann REDFERN, born 1885
Henry REDFERN, born c. 1888
Herbert REDFERN, born c. 1890
Hilda REDFERN, born c. 1893
Fanny REDFERN, born 1895
Ada REDFERN, born 1897
May REDFERN, born 1900
Cecil REDFERN, born 1902
 
Died: 30th December 1925, Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
 

[Charles and Martha] Charles Redfern was born in Haughton Green, Lancashire in 1848, the son of Joseph Redfern and Ann Maddocks. By 1877 he had moved to Wath-upon-Dearne, where he initially worked as a coal miner. In that year he married Martha Ellis, with whom he had eleven children. By the time his daughter Ellen Ann married in 1907, Charles had worked his way up in the world to become a cab proprieter with a family firm based at the West End Livery Stables, Wath-upon-Dearne. He died in 1925, leaving an estate of £440 19s 9d.

The photograph shows Charles with his wife Martha.

Sources:

  1. Birth certificate for Charles Redfern.
  2. 1851 census for Haughton.
  3. Marriage certificate for Charles Redfern and Martha Elliss.
  4. 1881 census for Wath-upon-Dearne.
  5. 1891 census for Wath-upon-Dearne.
  6. 1901 census for Wath-upon-Dearne.
  7. Marriage certificate for Francis Lightley and Ellen Ann Redfern.
  8. Wath and West Melton Almanack, c. 1910.
  9. Wath All Saints baptism records.
  10. Wath Methodist Circuit and Trinity Methodist baptism records.
  11. Death certificate for Charles Redfern.
  12. National Probate Calendar.