Life History

Notes

• Cannot find a birth reference in freebmd.org. Place of birth derived from Census.

  On 21st October, 1872, Charles was 2nd engineer on board the 'Baroda' travelling from the Port of Galle to Sydney, New South Wales. The Baroda plied the Bombay - Australia route.
  In 1873, the ship is in quarantine in Sydney harbour because of a smallpox epidemic. Mary Drewry said that when Charles married Julia, she made him stay ashore!

  However, before he married Julia, Charles married Margaretta Elizabeth Main, in 1875, in Southampton (possibly his ship was in dock there?). Charles address in the marriage certificate is given as Harrow Road, Paddington, and Margaretta's as South Horsham. The marriage was witnessed by Elizabeth Greaves, Charles Greaves, and William Tillotson Drewry.
  Charles and Margaretta had a child in September, 1876, and gave him the same name as his father: Charles Stewart. Margaretta died that same year. Charles Stewart Jr. remains in the family at least until the 1891 census. He later moves to Manchester.

  The second marriage, with Julia, was witnessed by Mary Fava Wood and William Tillotson Drewry.
  In his and Julia's marriage certificate, Charles is described as a widower; profession: Engineer.
  At the time of the marriage, Charles and Julia are both living in Plaistow.

  I have not found an 1881 census record for Charles and Julia but in the birth certificate of their son William C. F. they are living at 11, Glenarvon Road, Hackney. In the certificate, Charles' occupation is shown as 'Surgical instrument maker'.

  In the 1891 census: the family is living at 1 Market Place, in the Camberwell parish.

  The members of the household are:

  • Charles S Drewry, 49, Mechanical Engineer
  • Julia F Drewry, 41, born Scotland Edinboro.
  • Charles S Drewry, 14, Shop boy, born Essex, Plaistow
  • Maud M Drewry, 12, Scholar, born Essex, Plaistow
  • Annie I Drewry, 10, Scholar, born Middlesex, Bow
  • William C Drewry 9, Scholar, born Middlesex, Clapton
  • James S Drewry, 8, Scholar, born Middlesex, Clapton
  • Harold V Drewry, 7, born London, Walworth
  • Julia T Drewry, 4, born Essex, Buckhurst Hill
  • Alfred V Drewry, 3, born Hornsey

  In the 1901 census, the family is living at 34, Kestrel Avenue, Lambeth
  and the family comprises

  • Charles S Drewry, 58, Mechanical Engineer
  • Julia F Drewry, 52
  • James S Drewry, 18, Mechanical Engineer
  • Vincent H Drewry, 17, Shorthand Clerk (Harold V. in previous)
  • Julia T Drewry, 14, Scholar
  • Alfred V F Drewry, 13, Scholar, born Finsbury Park, Lambeth
  • Jessie M Wood, 11, niece of Julia, born London, Lambeth
  • Teresa J Wood, 13, niece of Julia, born London, Lambeth

  Unfortunately I can find no entries for Teresa and Jessie in the 1891 census.

  In his son, Alfred's wedding certificate in 1914, Charles is described as 'Retired Engineer' (He would be 71 then)

  GRO
  Marriage Mar 1875, Drewry Charles Stewart, S Stoneham, 2c 91
  Marriage Mar 1878, Drewry Charles Stewart, West Ham, 4a 42
  Death Mar 1929, Drewry Charles Stewart, Richmond S. 2a 1202

  Also found: Births Sep 1876, Drewry Charles Stewart, West Ham, 4a 97
  
  Also curiously:
  Marriages Dec 1879, Drewry Margaret Elizabeth, Lambeth, 1d 668
  This Margaret Elizabeth, marrying George Trill in the presence of John Darwin Smith and Emma Drewry was born Margaret Elizabeth Smith, about 1822.
  The marriage certificate shows her as a widow, almost certainly of George Drewry whom she married in Lambeth in 1845 (GRO: Sep 1845, 4, 332).