William Charles Richardson

21/10/1851 — 06/11/1924
A brief biography

Ancestors


Charles Richardson
Charles Richardson 1787 — 1862
William Pengilley Richardson 1823 — 1895
William Charles Richardson 1851 — 1924
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Martha Ada 1848 — 1888   Adeline Martha Richardson 1876 — 1949   Charles William Richardson 1877 — 1952   Cissie Ruth Richardson 1878 — 1963   George ( Bert) Herbert Richardson 1880 — 1933   Annie Louise Richardson 1881 —   Nelly Ada Richardson 1883 —   Arthur Maurice Richardson 1888 — 1980  
Marion Fordham 1848 — 1914   Marion Richardson 1890 — 1890  

William Charles Richardson


Son of William Pengilley Richardson and Sarah Jeffreys. .

Born in Ware, Hertfordshire in 1851, the fourteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged seventy-three in Wandsworth, London in the fourteenth year of the reign of King George V  He has 40 direct descendants in the family.

The Maidenhead Grocer


Photo from the family bible inherited by his son Arthur.

William Charles Richardson was born in October 1851 in Ware, Hertfordshire, his father, William, was 28 and his mother, Sarah, was 26.

He married Martha Ada and they had eight children together. Martha Ada died of complications following the birth of Arthur Richardson in 1888. William married again in the same year to Marion Fordham, they had one daughter Marion Richardson who died at birth.

William Charles Richardson registered as a grocer at 18 Queen Street Maidenhead in 1895 although there is circumstantial evidence that the shop could have been established 1870-1875, since the first child of the marriage was born in 1876 and William and Martha are almost bound to have met as they were both shopkeepers within shouting distance of each other in Queen Street, Maidenhead.
Queen Street was built circa 1860 as a speculative development.

The building still exists, it was Marshall's Stationers for decades, in 2005 it was a professional photographer's shop. In the top photo it is the building with the awning on the right hand side in the distance next to the lamp post.

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