Charles Branston

   FamilySearch ID: LYP9-8RP.

  General Notes:

1891 census shows him living in Affpuddle, a farm baliff, living with his wife and Frances Keates, a 13 year old servant.

  Events

• Baptism, 13 Apr 1834, Harbridge, Hampshire, England. ⁵⁶

• Census, 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. Charles (6)

• Census, 1851, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁵⁶ Charles (17)

• Census, 1851, East Farm, Affpuddle, Dorset. ⁸⁵ Mary Ann Branston (48, widow, farmer 287 acres employing 11 labourers)

• Census, 1861, East Farm, Affpuddle, Dorset. ⁸⁶ Mary Ann (58, widow, farmer of 410 acres, employing 8 men and 5 boys)

• Census, 1861, East Farm, Affpuddle, Dorset. Charles (25)

• Census, 1871, Hethfelton Farm, East Stoke, Dorset, England. ⁸⁵⁴ 37, unmarried, born Harbridge, farmer of 36 acres. Ann Aplin Miller, servant, widow aged 68, born Harbridge, is his housekeeper. This could be his aunt.

• Probate, 8 Mar 1877, Dorset, England. ⁷² Effects under £8,000. Proved by Henry Spicer of Mold in the County of Flint and Charles Branston of Affpuddle the Brother Farmers the executors.

• Census, 1881, Moreton, Dorset, England. ⁹²⁰ Moreton Common. Head farmer, 47, (out of business). Born Harbridge, Hampshire.

• Census, 1891, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. Charles Branston (57, farm baliff)

Charles married Mary Jane. (Mary Jane was born in 1841 in London, Middlesex, England, died in 1915 and was buried 24 Aug 1915 in Broadwey, Dorset, England ⁹²¹.)