| Born: | 05 Oct 1821 Hornchurch, Essex |
| Died: | 1901 Dec Qtr 10 Livingstone Street Halifax, Aged 80 |
| Father: | James Coe |
| Mother: | Sarah Hamblin |
| Spouse: | Elizabeth Grey |
| Married: | 1887 Mar Qtr Halifax |
| Occupation: | Mariner/Engine Fitter, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich |
| Christened: | 25 Nov 1821 Hill Independent Church Upminster |
| Other Spouses: | Mary Warnock, Ann Cunliffe |
| Updated: | 24 Jun 2007 |
Charles Dashwood Coe (the middle name is still a mystery) was born in Hornchurch Essex on 5 October 1821; his father James was at that time working not as a wheelwright but a labourer, and the christening took place at an independent chapel rather than the parish church (James and Sarah's previous children had been baptised at St Mary Magdalene's at Woolwich, apart from John who was born in South Weald Essex in 1819. ) It may be that the family were visiting Coe cousins in the Hornchurch area at a time when James had temporarily lost his job at the Woolwich Arsenal.
In 1848 Charles married Mary, the daughter of a weaver, George Warnock, at St Luke's Charlton; he gives his occupation as Mariner on the marriage certificate and his residence as Charlton. The next mention of a Charles Coe is in the Woolwich Directory for 1850 (LMA) which has a "Mr Charles Coe" living at 73 King Street, Woolwich, presumably an owner occupier, but the 1851 census reveals Charles, "Engine Driver", and Mary Coe living at 10 Mason Street Woolwich, with Mary's brother James lodging with them and a Warnock family living next door at no 9. Ten years later in 1861 Charles and Mary, still childless, were living at 15 Burrage Place, Plumstead; Charles is described as an "Engine Fitter".
Some time between July and September 1869 Mary died, and Charles quickly remarried, this time to a widow originally from Yorkshire - Ann Bottomley nee Cunliffe - on 7 December 1869; three months earlier at the same church, St Nicholas Plumstead, Ann's son Frederick Bottomley had married Charles' niece Mary Eliza McInnes. Ann's first husband Benjamin Garfitt Bottomley is described as "Gentleman" on the latter marriage certificate; he died in the March quarter of 1867 in Stoke Damerel, near the naval base of Devonport. In 1871 we find Charles and Ann lodging with an Edwards family at 40 Raglan Road Plumstead; Charles is described as a fitter at the Royal Arsenal. Ten years later the couple were in lodgings at 23 King Street, the home of the Whybrow family.
In the September quarter of 1884 two Ann Coes, both aged 63, died, one in Woolwich and the other in Greenwich; perhaps we can assume that the former was Charles' second wife. For some reason Charles travelled up to Halifax, the ancestral home of the Bottomleys, and in the first quarter of 1887 he married his third wife, an Elizabeth Gray, originally from Northumberland but previously married to a Yorkshireman, Walter Gray. In 1891 Charles, a retired engineer, and Elizabeth, both aged 69, were living at 4 Ladyship Terrace, Halifax. Ten years later the 1901 census finds Charles, widowed for the third time, living at 10 Livingstone Street, just outside Halifax, with the family of Elizabeth's son George, a cotton spinner, by her previous marriage. By the end of that same year Charles had died, aged 80.
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