My grandfather Charles Francis Pamment (born July 9, 1886), married Ada Florence Taylor (born May 4, 1891) on June 20, 1915. Charles Francis Pamment was an engineer and worked for a company that made light bulbs. He was an only child; his mother, Clara, died when he was thirteen. Charles Francis Pamment died in 1967.
His father, Charles Henry Pamment, born 29 Dec 1861 (source: birth certificate) had married Clara Baylis in 1885 in St. Giles, Cripplegate. Clara died in 1899 and Charles married Elizabeth Evans in 1903. Elizabeth had a son, Herbert Fred Garrod, by a previous marriage.
Charles Henry’s father was Samuel Pamment, born in Greenwich in 1821. Samuel married Amey Frances Lynn in Islington in 1845 and they had five children. Charles Henry was a foreman for a feather manufacturer in London. He died in 1920. Charles had three older sisters. His brother, Walter Samuel Pamment died at age two from measels (source: death certificate).
His eldest sister was Clarissa Sarah Jane Pamment was a fancy stationer in 1874 and the 1881 Census. In December 1874 she married James Cansdale. They had two sons, James Samuel and Henry Charles Cansdale. Clarissa became a widow in 1879 when James died but did not remarry. She died in 1909.
Amey Frances Pamment was born 16 Nov 1847 in Old Street, St. Luke. She married Offord Gull in 1872 and they had five children. Offord worked as a railway plate layer. He died in 1893 and Amey continued to live in Bromley, earning a living as a railway station cleaner. She died in 1910.
Alice Lucy Pamment was born 1 Jan 1858 in Aldersgate Street, London. She married Ernest William Lawrence in 1889 and they had two children, Florence Valentine and Sidney Leonard Lawrence. Alice died in 1928.
Samuel Pamment’s father was a baker by trade. He married Sarah Ainsworth in Chipping Ongar, Essex on 9 Apr 1806. They had eight children, the first of whom, William, died aged two and is buried in Chipping Ongar. Their second son, John, was born in Chipping Ongar in 1809 but their third child, Maria, was born in Stoke Newington in 1811. Their son William was also born in Stoke Newington, on 22 May 1813. Then they moved to Greenwich and had Eliza (1815), Sarah (1817) who died in 1818, Jane in 1818 and finally, Samuel, in 1821. Sarah Ainsworth’s parentage may not be clear cut. She was identified as the daughter of William Ainsworth, shopkeeper of Chipping Ongar in his will. William’s first wife was Mary. Mary died in 1789. William Ainsworth married Amy Fowler in 1791. Research at nearby parishes indicates that Amy Fowler may have had a daughter, Sarah, prior to her marriage to William Ainsworth. This requires confirmation.
Charles Francis Pamment married Ada Florence Taylor on 20 Jun 1915 in Edmonton, Middlesex. They had three children.
Ada Taylor’s parents were Sarah Elizabeth Thompson and James Taylor who married in 1882 and they had eight children, including my grandmother, Ada Florence Taylor, born in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, in May 1891, and her twin brother Reginald John (aka Jack).
Sarah Thompson’s parents were Ann Hadfield and William Thompson. They had four children, Benjamin (1850), Mary (1854), Sarah Elizabeth (my great-grandmother) in 1857 and John Hadfield Thompson in 1859. Benjamin married Alice Allen in 1875 and by 1881 they were running the grocer’s shop in Barlborough, Derbyshire. Mary died in 1864. Sarah Elizabeth found her way south to London and in the 1881 Census is cook at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, the home of HRH Helena Schleswig-Holstein. John Hadfield Thompson married Kate Hounam in 1886 in Lancashire. John died in 1890 leaving his widow with their two sons, Benjamin and John Hadfield Thompson.
James Taylor was born 6 Feb 1854 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire. He worked as a gardener and lived in many places before settling in Enfield, Middlesex, where he worked as the gardener for Chase Farm Schools, Enfield. His parents were James Taylor (born 1817) and Mary Bushell (born 1814) both of Ramsbury. James Taylor’s father was William Taylor (born 1785 in Islington) who was convicted of participating in the Swing Riots in 1830 and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to transportation to Tasmania for seven years and he left Portsmouth on 14 April 1831 leaving behind his wife, Elizabeth and their eight children. William received a full pardon in 1836 but it is doubtful he returned to England. Elizabeth was born in Ramsbury in 1782 to parents William Hunter and Eleanor Day.