Charles Stephen Meacham (1861 - 1940)

Born 1861 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Florence Peploe (Wood) Meacham — married 1885 in Colwich, Staffordshire, England

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1940 at about age 79 in Godstone Green, Surrey, England

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Biography

Charles Stephen Meacham was born in 1861, in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, son of Thomas Meacham and Mary (Ward) Meacham.

The Meacham family had been in Lichfield for many generations, but Mary Ward was born is West Tisted, near Southampton, in Hampshire. She was orphaned by the age of 7, almost certainly spent some time in the poor house, and was a servant by the age of 12.

By the age of 20 Charles was working at the Lichfield Brewery, where his uncle (his Aunt Emma Meacham's husband George Haynes) was a "brewer's agent and traveller", and George's father, Sam Haynes, was a director. Charles was trained as a brewer, and as a brewery chemist. He was elected fellow of the Chemical Society in 1892 ^[1]

Charles's first love was oil painting, especially landscapes, but he pursued his career as a brewer to have a reliable income in order to marry Florence Peploe Wood, which he did in 1885. He continued to paint for the rest of his life, and many of his paintings can be found on the Internet.

Around the same time, he took a position of brewery chemist at Fremlin's Brewery in Maidstone, Kent. He published a number of technical papers on the chemistry of hops, and other aspects of brewing. All 4 of his children were born in Maidstone.

His next position was at Olsson's Brewery in Cape Town, South Africa, where the whole family moved. They lived in a house called Mariendahl House, on the brewery propery^[2] When they arrived in Cape Town, the guerrilla war phase of the Boer War was still raging. His daughters remembered rolling bandages as their support for the war effort. There are two pictures of him in an online forum ^[3] as a captain in the No. 4 (Suburban) Battalion, Cape Peninsula Regiment.

They made frequent trips (by sea) back to Europe, including painting holidays in Italy, and holidays in a house Charles built in Scaur Top, Kippford, Scotland (near Dalbeattie).

Charles and Florence retired, first to a houe called Hildacot on London Road in Hildenborough, Surrey, in the 1920s^[4], and then to a house called Hildacot in Godstone Green, Surrey in the 1930s. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1935.

Charles died in 1940, shortly after the start of World War II.

Name: Charles Stephen Meacham

Event Type: Birth Registration

Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar

Registration Year: 1861

Registration District: Lichfield

County: Staffordshire

Event Place: Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Mother's Maiden Name:

Volume: 6B

Page: 345

Affiliate Line Number: 61^[5]

Name: Charles Stephen Meacham

Residence Place: Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Gender: Male

Christening Date: 1861

Christening Date (Original): 27 JAN 1861

Christening Place: ST MARY'S LICHFIELD, STAFFORD, ENGLAND

Father's Name: Thomas Meacham

Mother's Name: Mary

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03932-4

System Origin: England-VR

GS Film number: 1068983

Reference ID: - 2:374XN09^[6]

Name: Charles Meacham

County: Staffordshire

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1861

Event Place: St Mary, Staffordshire, England

Registration District: Lichfield

Residence Note: Sandford Street

Gender: Male

Age: 0

Relationship to Head of Household: Son

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Lichfield, Staffordshire

Schedule Type:

Page Number: 18

Household ID: 2317095

Line Number: 16

Registration Number: RG09

Piece/Folio: 1972 / 66

Affiliate Record Type: Household

GS Film Number: 101817735

Digital Folder Number: 101817735

Image Number: 00126

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Thomas Meacham Head M 21 Lichfield, Staffordshire General Dealer

Mary Meacham Wife F 28 West Tistead, Hampshire

Charles Meacham Son M 0 Lichfield, Staffordshire^[7]

Name: Charles S Meacham

Titles and Terms:

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1871

Event Place: St Michael, Staffordshire, England

Enumeration District: 10

Gender: Male

Age: 10

Relationship to Head of Household: Son

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Lichfield, Staffordshire

Household ID: 103

Entry Number: 19

Affiliate Image Identifier: GBC/1871/2914/0079

GS Film Number: 000836405

Digital Folder Number: 004405428

Image Number: 00371

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Thomas Meacham Head M 35 Lichfield, Staffordshire ? Labourer

Mary Meacham Wife F 37 Mattisted, Hampshire

Charles S Meacham Son M 10 Lichfield, Staffordshire

James Meacham Son M 8 Lichfield, Staffordshire

Emma Meacham Daughter F 6 Lichfield, Staffordshire

Frederick Meacham Son M 4 Lichfield, Staffordshire

Thomas Meacham Son M 0 Lichfield, Staffordshire^[8]

Name: Charles Meacham

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1881

Event Place: Lichfield St Chad, Staffordshire, England

Registration District: Lichfield

Residence Note: Gas Row Queen Street

Gender: Male

Age: 20

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Brewer

Relationship to Head of Household: Son

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Page Number: 1

Household ID: 2593954

Line Number: 19

Registration Number: RG11

Piece/Folio: 2772/97

Affiliate Record Type: Household

GS Film Number: 101774794

Digital Folder Number: 101774794

Image Number: 00202

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Thomas Meacham Head M 42 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, Brewer’s Labourer

Mary Meacham Wife F 49 West Tisted, Hampshire, England

Charles Meacham Son M 20 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England Brewer

Fred Meacham Son M 14 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, Errand Boy

Thos Meacham Son M 10 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England^[9]

Name: Charles Stephen Meacham

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 18 Apr 1885

Event Place: Colwich, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Event Place: Colwich, Staffordshire, England

Parish: St Michael & All Angels

Residence Place: Lichfield

Age: Full

Birth Year (Estimated):

Father's Name: Thomas Meacham

Spouse's Name: Florence Wood

Spouse's Residence Place: Colwich

Spouse's Age: Full

Spouse's Father's Name: Samuel Aploe (Peploe) Wood

Affiliate Film Number: GBPRS/STAFF/MAR2/018777/1

Affiliate Image Identifier: D3193/1

GS Film Number: 100839239

Digital Folder Number: 100839239

Image Number: 00200^[10]

Name: Charles Stephen Meacham

Event Type: Marriage

Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun

Registration Year: 1885

Registration District: Stafford

County: Staffordshire

Event Place: Stafford, Staffordshire, England

Spouse Name (available after 1911):

Volume: 6B

Page: 11

Affiliate Line Number: 10

Charles Stephen Meacham probably married one of the following people

Name Florence Wood^[11]

Name: Charles Stephen Meacham

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1891

County: Kent

Parish: Maidstone

Ecclesiastical Parish: ST FAITHS

Registration District: Maidstone

Residence Note: Earl Street

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Brewer

Relationship to Head of Household: Head

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Page Number: 4

Line Number: 10

Registration Number: RG12

Piece/Folio: 687/ 26

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Charles Stephen Meacham Head M 30 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, Brewer

Florence Meacham Wife F 35 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Lillian Florence Meacham Daughter F 4 Maidstone, Kent, England

Hilda Isabella Meacham Daughter F 0 Maidstone, Kent, England

Rose Vallins Servant F 19 Pimlico, London, England

Lydia Whitley Scott Servant F 25 Wimbledon, Surrey, England

Alice Maud Howe Servant F 19 Ryarsh, Kent, England^[12]

Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Transcription

First name(s) C S

Last name Meacham

Title MR

Gender Male

Marital status S

Departure year 1900

Departure day 9

Departure month 2

Departure port Southampton

Destination port Cape

Destination CAPE

Country South Africa

Destination country South Africa

Ship name Norman

Ship master's first name R

Ship master's last name REYNOLDS

City SOUTHAMPTON

Ship destination port SOUTH AFRICA

Ship destination country SOUTH AFRICA

Ship registered tonnage 4179

Number of passengers 205

Record set Passenger Lists Leaving Uk 1890-1960

Category Travel & migration

Subcategory Passenger lists

Collections from Great Britain, England

Transcriptions © brightsolid online publishing ltd

Great Western Railway shareholders 1835-1932 Transcription

Transferred from the estate of Arthur William Barnes, died Aug 12 1913, shares worth 228 pounds

First name(s) Charles Stephen

Last name Meacham

Year 1913

Day 28

Month 10

Place Mareidahl House, Newlands Grange, Capetown

Country South Africa

Event role EXEC

Volume 184

Folio 132

Entry number 498

Column 7

Record set Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1932

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Wills & probate

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

copyright Society of Genealogists

Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Transcription

First name(s) Charles Stephan

Last name Meacham

Gender Male

Age 65

Birth year 1861

Marital status M

Occupation RETIRED

Departure year 1926

Departure day 5

Departure month 8

Departure port London

Destination port Cape

Destination CAPE

Country South Africa

Destination country South Africa

Ship name Barrabool

Ship official number 145424

Ship master's first name H R

Ship master's last name RHODES

Ship master's title CAPTAIN

Shipping line P. & O. AUSTRALIA VIA THE CAPE SERVICE

City LONDON

Ship destination port AUSTRALIA

Ship destination country AUSTRALIA

Ship square feet 29.387

Ship registered tonnage 7985

Number of passengers 834

Record set Passenger Lists Leaving Uk 1890-1960

Category Travel & migration

Subcategory Passenger lists

Collections from Great Britain, England

Transcriptions © brightsolid online publishing ltd

With Mrs Florence Meacham

Address St Julian, Seafield Ave, Rustington, Littlehampton, Sussex

1939 Register Transcription

Meacham Household (3 People) Hildacot Godstone Green , Godstone R.D., Surrey, England

First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number

Charles S Meacham 26 Dec 1860 Male Brewer (Retired) Artist Painter Married 132 1

Florence Meacham 16 Nov 1855 Female Domestic Without Pay Married 132 2

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Ref: RG101/1942I/014/8 Letter Code: © Findmypast Ltd

Name: Charles S Meacham

Event Type: Death

Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec

Registration Year: 1940

Registration District: Surrey South Eastern

County: Surrey

Event Place: Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, England

Age: 79

Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969):

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Volume: 2A

Page: 1371

Affiliate Line Number: 88^[13]

Death: 8 Oct 1940, Surrey^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ CHEMICAL NEWS AND JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE pg 115
2. ↑ Mariendahl House and Brewery
3. ↑ Cape Town Guard
4. ↑ 26 May 1922 Kent and Sussex Courier and Kent & Sussex Courier 28 Oct 1927
5. ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2NZZ-W1T : 1 October 2014), Charles Stephen Meacham, 1861; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
6. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NDKK-YHF : 10 February 2018, Charles Stephen Meacham, ); citing - 2:374XN09, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,068,983.
7. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1861," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7H1-G21 : 12 December 2017), Charles Meacham in household of Thomas Meacham, St Mary, Staffordshire, England; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
8. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDDX-33V : 10 December 2017), Charles S Meacham in entry for Thomas Meacham, 1871.
9. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27X-Y7X6 : 13 December 2017), Charles Meacham in household of Thomas Meacham, Lichfield St Chad, Staffordshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 1, Piece/Folio 2772/97, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,794.
10. ↑ "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLQD-Q7QZ : 13 December 2017), Charles Stephen Meacham and Florence Wood, 1885.
11. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DTR-KWN : 13 December 2014), Charles Stephen Meacham, 1885; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1885, quarter 2, vol. 6B, p. 11, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
12. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVT6-VT2 : 11 December 2017), Charles Stephen Meacham, Maidstone, Kent, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Kent county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
13. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVC3-6DQ7 : 4 September 2014), Charles S Meacham, 1940; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
14. ↑ England, National Probate Calendar: "MEACHAM Charles Stephen of Hildacot Godstone Green Surrey died 8 october 1940 Probate Llandudno 16 december to Florence Peploe Meacham widow Croudson William Barnish company director and Walter Robert Howe Pringle solicitor. Effects £6223 19s. 11d."

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