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Subject: Re: [Singapore] Charles Henderson and Gutheries
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:51:42 +1200
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Mary,

Thank you for your email. You wrote:

> What I know about Charles Meredith Henderson is not very much, and
> there must be a possibility that this isn't even the same one although
> the middle name is a little unusual.

> He was born in the Dec. quarter of 1880 in Greenwich, London. Charles
> MH was the oldest son of Charles John Henderson, a Sunderland man who
> had moved to London and worked mostly as a Shipping agent. He married
> Margaret Wallace from Camden and they had 5 children. However in 1900
> Charles John Henderson sued for divorce on the grounds of his wife's
> adultery with Andrew Buchanan Hughes. On the 1901 census, the two
> younger children Gladys Helene and Reginald Paul were with their mother
> Margaret and her new partner(they married later that year). Leonard
> James was in a boarding school, Stanley Eustace was with a cousin in
> Newcastle upon Tyne and there was no sign of Charles Meredith

Have you found Charles John Henderson in the 1901 census? Charles
Meredith was 21 by then and may have been living on his own. He
might indeed even have been in Singapore at that time.

A census was carried out in 1901 in the Straits Settlements. A
printed report is available, but I don't know whether the individual
records are available for inspection, or even whether they still
exist. I'll try to find out.

Similarly it may be possible to find something in the birth,
marriages, and deaths records. Again, I don't know how accessible
they are.

> .. A google search showed him (or someone of the same name) in 1904 in
> Singapore working for Guthries. I too saw both a Charles and a James
> Henderson working for Riley and Hargreaves at the time. I know of no
> family connection to these two although both are names common in my
> Hendersons. (Charles John Henderson's father was James Scott
> Henderson, son of Charles!)).

They may well have been related. Having a relative already in
Singapore might be a reason for choosing to work there.

Regards,

Don

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