Person:Charlotte Stanton (3)

Charlotte Stanton was baptised on 9th February 1823 at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, daughter of Sarah Stanton, formerly Stone, and her husband Samuel Stanton, a labourer. When Charlotte was thirteen years old her father died, being buried at Great Bedwyn. After his death the family moved about five miles north-east to the small town of Hungerford on the Wiltshire / Berkshire border, where Charlotte's mother and two of her siblings appear in the 1841 census living on Charnham Street, in the part of Hungerford which at that time was in Wiltshire. Charlotte herself has not been found in the 1841 census. Later in 1841, Charlotte's mother married again, with a Henry Norman becoming Charlotte's stepfather.

By 1845, Charlotte had moved to London, where she lived in the southern suburbs at Borough Road in Southwark. She was married at the church of St George the Martyr in Southwark on 28th April 1845 to a soldier called William Kempson. He was originally from the village of Totternhoe in Bedfordshire, and by 1850 Charlotte and William had settled back in Totternhoe and William had left the army to work as a straw dealer.

Charlotte and William had four children born at Totternhoe between 1850 and 1856, although the first two died as babies. In the 1851 census Charlotte was working as a straw plaiter.

In 1860, Charlotte gave evidence in a perjury case brought by William and his brother James against their former landlord, Benjamin James, relating to the way in which they lost the tenancy of their cottage at Totternhoe at Michaelmas 1859. Charlotte said that she and William had lived in that cottage for about eight or nine years, prior to which it had been William's father's cottage for over forty years. The Kempsons lost the case.^[5]

Charlotte died in 1862, aged 39. William survived her by fourteen years, and remarried in 1871.

1. ↑ Baptisms register, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England. Parish Registers (Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham / ancestry.co.uk).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Great Bedwin in the County of Wilts in the Year 1823
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   537	1823 Feb[rua]ry 9th	Charlotte Dau[ghte]r of	Samuel Sarah	Stanton	Great Bedwin	Labourer	James Hall Vicar

2. ↑ 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 1757; Folio 9; Page 10, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
   William Kempson, head, married, male, 29 [1821/2], Straw Dealer, b. Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
   Caroline Kempson, wife, married, female, 26 [1824/5], Straw Plaiter, b. Hungerford, Berkshire

3. ↑ 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 1010; Folio 5; Page 4, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Stordy Lane, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
   William Kempson, head, married, male, 41 [1819/20], Straw Dealer, b. Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
   Charlotte Kempson, wife, married, female, 36 [1824/5], b. Great Bedwin, Wiltshire
   Henry Kempson, son, male, 7 [1853/4], Platter, b. Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
   William Kempson, son, male, 4 [1856/7], b. Totternhoe, Bedfordshire

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

   d. Charlotte KEMPSON, December Quarter 1862, Luton Registration District, Volume 3b, page 245, aged 34 [1827/8]

5. ↑ Newspaper articles relating to the case are transcribed on William's page.