• General Notes

  GEORGE CHARLES  was born on the 10th October 1841 at 6 Norman
  Buildings City Rd St Lukes Shoreditch. I have been unable to
  trace his baptism.
  
  As a child he lived with his parents at 1 Wenlock St, 8 Little
  Nelson St St Lukes and at Moneyer St Hoxton. After the death of
  his mother in 1852 he and his brother and sisters were put into
  the care of their grandmother at Church Rd Enfield.
  
  He married Eliza Vaughan on the 30th August 1863 at Jesus Chapel
  Enfield. Eliza Vaughan was the second daughter of George Vaughan
  and Elizabeth Pratt of 43 Charles St. Westminster where she was
  born early in 1837. I have been unable to find the exact date of
  her birth because it was not until the second quarter of that
  year that the law required all births to be registered. The year
  of her birth is taken from the age declared on her marriage
  certificate and subsequent official documents i.e. Census
  returns. Shortly after their marriage George Charles and Eliza
  took up residence at 54 Ernest St. St. Pancras where their eldest
  children Ernest and Alice were born. In 1867 the family moved to
  2 Osborne Terrace Church Road Leyton were their other children
  were born namely:  Walter Charles, Ada Louisa, Willie Frederick,
  Edwin Vaughan. 
  
  There is no official record of George Charles` education and it
  must be assumed that he was taught by his grandmother and aunt
  at Enfield with the rest of the children.
  
  As a young man George Charles was employed by Lea Enfield the Gun
  Makers as a clerk and was so employed when he met and married
  Eliza Vaughan. My impression is that they met as the result of
  the connection between her father George Vaughan a Railway Guard
  and George Charles` uncle Tom Leigh Belcher who was assistant
  Inspector South Eastern Railways. It will be understood that at
  that time railways were in their infancy and staff would be more
  likely to know each other. At the time of his marriage George
  Charles was lodging at Turkey Street a small village on the
  boundary of Enfield.
  
  
  
  In the 1871 census George Charles was described as Commercial
  Clerk to a Gas Meter Company.
  The family moved to Birmingham in 1872 but the first record of
  their Birmingham address is in Kelly`s Directory for 1878 giving
  the address George Charles Belcher, Clerk, 14 Acacia Cottage 96
  Grange Rd Small Heath. I was unable to trace the family in the
  1881 Birmingham Census and the next record is Oldnon St Wordsley
  Staffordshire where his sons Willie Frederick and Walter Charles
  joined the army in 1886. It would appear that they moved to 174
  St Saviours Rd Saltley in 1902 where George Charles died (aged
  68) on the 16th of June 1909 from a cerebral haemorrhage. Alice
  his eldest daughter was present at his death. At the time of his
  death he was a clerk/warehouseman at a local bicycle chain
  factory. He is buried in St. Saviours Churchyard. Eliza his wife
  moved to Bentley Common Willenhall and lived there with her
  daughter Ada Louisa until she died in 1925 (aged 90). She is
  buried in Bently Common cemetery section 2 plot no 191, and a
  headstone marks her grave.
  

Details of George 's family with Eliza Vaughan