Charles MARGRETT
Ancestral line as currently established:
Charles 1827, Henry 1808, George 1783, ?.................Family Tree number 15
Born: 30SEP1827 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
First child of eight children of -
Father: Henry Margrett
Mother: Mary Jane (maiden name not yet discovered)
Charles Married (date not yet traced)
Spouse: Alice Walburn
Child: Charles Henry 1862.
Died: 06MAR1906 aged 78, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Charles was part of a very large family which had a very strong presence in Cheltenham. The head of the family was the Baker and Confectioner for the community and the wealth from this relentless industry involved them all. Charles not only saw seven siblings arrive of his mother but another eleven by his father's second wife, and had reached the age of 37 when his youngest half-sister was born..
The first clear picture we have of Charles is aged 23, unmarried and living in 1851 with the family at Bath Road Steam Mills in Cheltenham. His father was a Cheltenham man leading the family occupation. Yet the very next year an advertisement in the Manchester Times of 20th November 1852 offers "To millers and bakers, to be let at Cheltenham with immediate posession, a Steam Flour mill (connected with Montpellier Baths) with Baking Office and shop, and lately held by Mr Margrett affording an excellent opportunity for carrying on a lucrative business." This must be his father retiring from the trade after some 13 years of his father's retirement, we see Charles as a joint executor, administering an estate of Henry his father valued at £5,999.
Meanwhile Charles continued with the business he learned from his father, baking and a confectioning, in Cheltenham. His mother was a widow only another four years before Charles has to wind up her estate.
In the 1871 Census, Charles is now 43 years old and a "Master Baker, employing 7 men and 7 boys". He is now established at 61 High Street, Cheltenham and this remains a permanent address for many years. Perhaps in reaction to his father's great fertility, Charles had only one son, Charles Henry, who succeeded him in the business and in serving the town.
Charles was continuing to work 20 years later in 1891 aged 63 at the same address, and died aged 78 in 1906 leaving a small estate of £1,273 to the sole charge of his son, Charles Henry.
Some of this biography has been in the Margrett Magazine No:21 in 2008 published and deposited with the British Library in that year under I.S.S.N 0269-0284.