Person:Charlotte Primet (1)

Charlotte Primet was baptised on 12th June 1785 at Great Wymondley in Hertfordshire, daughter of Sarah Primet, formerly Dixon, and her husband Thomas Primet. She was the seventh of eight children, although two of her older siblings had died young before Charlotte was born.

In 1807 Charlotte was married, aged 22, to a labourer named George Worbey or Walby. Between 1808 and 1825 they had eight sons, all baptised at Great Wymondley, although some of the baptisms record that the family actually lived at Walsworth, in Hitchin parish but close to Great Wymondley.

Charlotte's mother died in 1821, and her father in 1829. Both were buried at Great Wymondley.

Charlotte's home in the 1840s: 89-91 Woolgrove Road, Walsworth, Hitchin.

George and Charlotte were still living at Walsworth in the 1851 census, although George was no longer described as a publican; he had reverted to being an agricultural labourer. George died in 1852, aged 73. Charlotte's son Joseph died in 1856.

After George's death Charlotte continued to live at Walsworth, appearing in the 1861 census living with a Thomas Warboys whose relationship to her is unclear.

Charlotte's eldest son John died in 1865, leaving four surviving children who had already lost their mother. Two weeks after John's death Charlotte wrote her will, making clear that she wanted her grandchildren whose fathers had died to receive what would have been their father's share of her estate. Charlotte lived to see at least 54 grandchildren born in her lifetime, although some of them died young, and Charlotte appears to have become a great grandmother in the 1860s.

Charlotte died at Hitchin on 24th January 1867, aged 81. She was buried back at Great Wymondley where she had been born, and where her husband George had been buried nearly 15 years earlier.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Registers of Great Wymondley. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies).

   1785
   Charlotte daughter of Tho[ma]s & Sarah Primet June 12

   This baptism has been identified on the basis that in the censuses Charlotte maintained that she was born about 1785 at Wymondley, and when she married in 1807 one of the witnesses was a Susan Primet - and the Charlotte baptised at Great Wymondley in 1785 had a sister called Susan.

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 445; Book 4; Folio 9; Page 12, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Walsworth, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   George Worboy, male, 63 [1777/8], Publican, born in county
   Charlotte Worboy, female, 56 [1784/5], born in county
   Thomas Worboy, male, 24 [1816/7], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Joseph Worboy, male, 19 [1821/2], born in county
   William Worboy, male, 15 [1825/6], born in county
   Daniel Faulkner, male, 21 [1819/20], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1710; Folio 240; Page 22, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Walsworth, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   George Warboys, head, married, male, 74 [1776/7], Agricultural Lab[oure]r, b. Aston, Hertfordshire
   Charlotte Warboys, wife, married, female, 66 [1784/5], b. Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire
   Martha Warboys, visitor, unmarried, female, 8 [1842/3], Scholar, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 819; Folio 103; Page 17, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Walsworth Hamlet, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Thomas Warboys, head, unmarried, male, 28 [1832/3], Labourer, b. Wymondley, Hertfordshire
   Charlotte Warboys, widow, female, 76 [1784/5], b. Wymondley, Hertfordshire

5.   Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Charlotte WARBOY, March Quarter 1867, Hitchin Registration District, Volume 3a, page 201, aged 86 [1780/1]

6. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   This is the last Will and Testament of me Charlotte Walbey of Hitchin in the County of Hertford Widow of George Walbey late of Walsworth in the Parish of Hitchin aforesaid Labourer I appoint Mr Septimus Wright of Hitchin aforesaid Solicitor Executor of this my Will I give and bequeath all my money and Personal Property whatsoever and wheresoever remaining after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences unto and equally between my sons who shall be living at my death and the issue of such of them as have died or shall die in my lifetime having issue the issue of each such son, if only one child taking wholly and if more than one taking equally between them, the share which his her or their father would otherwise have taken or would take if living at my death Also I direct the interest of each such issue as aforesaid being a male to be vested at twenty one years and being a female at that age or marriage and on the death of either of such issue his or her interest as well original as assuming not being vested shall go and belong to the survivor or survivors or other or others of such issue who shall be living at his or her death Provided and my Will is that every son or grandchild to whom I have given or may give money in my lifetime shall have less by the amount I have given or may so give to him or her than the other or others of my sons and such issue as aforesaid In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the ninth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty five - The mark of X Charlotte Walbey - Signed by Charlotte Walbey the testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament the contents having been first read over to her who seemed perfectly to understand the same in the presence of us persons at the same time who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses - Sept. Wright Hitchin Solicitor - Charles M. Fells same place his Clerk.
   
   Proved at London 15th February 1867 by the oath of Septimus Wright the sole Executor to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted.
   
   On the 15th day of February 1867, the Will of Charlotte Walbey late of Hitchin in the County of Hertford Widow deceased, who died on the 24th day of January 1867, at Hitchin aforesaid was proved in the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, by the Oath of Septimus Wright of Hitchin aforesaid Solicitor the sole Executor named in the said Will he having been first sworn duly to administer.
   
   Effects under £100

7. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Registers of Great Wymondley. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Great Wymondley in the County of Herts in the Year 1867
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   216	Charlotte Waby	Walsworth, Hitchin (late of G[rea]t Wymondley)	1867 Jan[uary] 30	88 years	F.J.A. Hart, Vicar