(Charles) Griffin Marsh ^{1600,2526,2527,2538,2680,2681,2682,2683,2684}

  Research Notes:

All the evidence indicates that the person known as Charles Griffin Marsh was born Griffin Marsh, abt 1827 in Ashdon Essex to parents of Griffin and Ann Marsh, as evidenced below. jca

The photocopy in the possession of Dianne Bee of Western Australia (descendant of William Marsh of Ashdon, Essex) of an envelope is crucial in the determination that Griffin Marsh is one and the same person as the Charles Marsh of Stoneham Cottage, High Street, Cheltenham as shown on the 1891 and 1901 census.
[no postmark or date on envelope]

[back surface]
John Marsh, Garden Cottage, Willow Place
Cambridge, England

[front surface]
Griffin Marsh, Stoneham Cottage, 170 High Street
Cheltenham, Gloucester, England

but which John Marsh was living at Garden Cottage(s), Willow Place, Cambridge, England.. ( a brother? -- YES)

1901 census, Parish of St. Andrew of Less, district 4, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
page 5,
1 Garden Cottages
John Marsh, Head, married, male, age 64, Grocer's House-keeper, Worker, born Essex, Ashdon
Sarah A ", Wife, married, female, age 73, born Cambridge, St. Giles


1891 census Cheltenham Glouc , page 15
Stoneham Cottage
Charles Marsh, Head, married, male, age 60, labourer, b Glostershire, Cheltenham
Harriett ", Wife, married, female, age 50, laundress, b Cambridgshire, Ashton
Ellen ", Daur, female, age 18, no employment, Glostershire, Cheltenham


[Based upon the earlier census takings, the birth place for Charles and his wife Harriet Marsh would appear to be misrecorded on this census and likely should show the reverse of that recorded: that is: Charles should be born in Ashton and wife Harriet should be born Cheltenham.. jca]



1901 census, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
page 17, No. of schedule: 98
Stoneham Cottage, High Street
Thomas S. Page, Head, married, male, age 39, Porter, Furniture, Worker, born Glos. Lwyning?
Harriet E ", Wife, married, female , age 32, born Birmingham
Ernest W ", Son, single, male, age 13, born Cheltenham
Arthur ", Son, male, age 7,, born Cheltenham
Alice B ", Daur, female, age 4,. born Cheltenham
Rosina V,.G., Daur, female, age 2, born Cheltenham
Charles Marsh ", F-in-Law, Widower, male, age 71, Gardener, not Domestic, Worker, born Cambridge
George Green, Boarder, single, male, age 32, Porter - Furniture, Worker, born Glostershire, Witwing?

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Labourer, 1861, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. ²⁶⁹¹

• Occupation: labourer, unemployed, 1871, Kings Norton, Worcestershire. ²⁵³⁸

• Occupation: Gardeners Labourer, 1881, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. ²⁵²⁶

• Occupation: labourer, 1891, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. ²⁵²⁷

• Occupation: Gardener, 1894. ¹⁶⁰⁰

• Occupation: Gardener, 1901, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. ²⁶⁸⁵

• Residence: Stoneham Cottage: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. ^2685,2692

(Charles) married Harriet Elizabeth Lamb, daughter of John Lamb and Harriet Barnett, on 6 Mar 1859 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.²⁶⁸⁰ (Harriet Elizabeth Lamb was born in 1840 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ^{2526,2527,2538,2693,2694,2695} and died in 1896 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, age 56 ^2685,2696.)