Tag: Putney

Courtneidge/Courtnage, London/Middlesex, Surrey, Ward, Watson

The family of Charles Courtneidge, coachman from Leatherhead, Surrey

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Charles Courtneidge was a coachman from Leatherhead, Surrey. He fell from the box of his fly and died on the Upper Road to Richmond in Putney in 1860, leaving his widow Sarah Watson and six living children. Charles was born in 1807 to John Courtnadge and Hanna Clifton. Courtneidge (also Courtnadge, Courtnage) is a rare surname that originated near the hundred of Godalming in southwest Surrey.

Copperthwaite, Courtneidge/Courtnage, London/Middlesex, Surrey, Ward, Watson

James Watson, shoemaker, and Ann Copperthite of St. Luke, Chelsea

Sarah Watson was born on 1 Aug 1818 in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, then in the county of Middlesex. She was the first child of James Watson, a shoemaker, and Ann Copperthite. In 1842, the Watson family’s fortune took a turn for the worse. Ann Watson died of consumption at age 50 on 29 Sep 1842. James Watson died the next year from chronic bronchitis, followed by their youngest child, 6 year-old James. The other unmarried Watson children became inmates of the Workhouse.