See also

Charles Henry Hodge (1864-1930)

Individual Events and Attributes

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1864, Register Entry for Baptism of Charles Henry Hodge

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1886, Attestation of Charles Henry Hodge

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1886, Statement of Services for Charles Henry Hodge

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1886, Military History Sheet for Charles Henry Hodge

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1930, Grant of Probate for Estate of Charles Henry Hodge

  • Birth:

  • 20 Feb 1864

  • Plymouth, Devon2 3

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  • Address: 8 Green Street

    His date of birth and his parent's address is given in his baptismal record and, as there is less than a month between the two events, it is assumed that he was born there.

  • Baptism:

  • 13 Mar 1864 (age 0)

  • Parish Church of Charles the Martyr2

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  • Address: Plymouth, Devon

  • Census (living with parents):

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 7)

  • 1871 Census - living with parents

  • Census (living with parents):

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 17)

  • 1881 Census - living with parents

  • Military Service:

  • frm Mar 1882 to Sep 1883 (age 18-19)

  • the Royal Navy; Devonport based establishments and ships4

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  • In his attestation for the army in 1886 he says that he had served in the Royal Navy for eighteen months and had bought himself out (discharge by purchase). It does not say when this was, however, he was living with his parents at the time of the 1871 census when he was 17 so it is assumed that he joined up soon after his 18th birthday. The cost of the discharge is not known, neither whether he paid for it himself or whether his father paid for it.

  • Military Enlistment:

  • 29 May 1886 (age 22)

  • Commissariat and Transport Corps; Aldershot4

  • Military Service:

  • frm 29 May 1886 to 3 Sep 1886 (age 22)

  • Commissariat and Transport Corps5

  • Military Discharge:

  • 3 Sep 1886 (age 22)

  • Commissariat and Transport Corps; Curragh Camp6

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  • Address: County Kildare

    He bought himself out for £10 after having served for 97 days.

  • Occupation:

  • frm Sep 1886 to 1895 (age 22-31)

  • assurance agent; Plymouth, Devon7

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  • It is assumed that he started working for the assurance (insurance) copany after he was dicharged from the army and continued to sometime between the 1891 and 1901 censuses changed his job to a tobacconist's clerk.

  • Occupation:

  • frm 1895 to 1930 (age 30-66)

  • tobacconist's clerk; Plymouth, Devon8 9 10

  • Parent:

  • 14 Dec 1904 (age 40)

  • Baptism of son Frank Stanley

  • Death:

  • 17 May 1930 (age 66)

  • Plymouth, Devon11 12 13

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  • Address: 1a Endsleigh Place

  • Burial:

  • 22 May 1930

  • the Old Cemetery13

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  • Address: Plymouth, Devon

    As was the practice at the time his body would have remained at his home in an open coffin for people to come and pay their respects. The funeral cortege left the house at 2 o'clock for the funeral service which was held in the United Methodist Church in Ebrington Street before the committal.

  • Probate:

  • 12 Jun 1930

  • Exeter, Devon12

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  • The estate was woth £691 9s. 3d.

Marriage

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Son: Charles Reginald Hingston Hodge, Q3 1891

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St Jude's Church

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7 Wake Street

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1901, 1901 Census for Household of Charles Hodge in Plymouth, Devon

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1911, 1911 Census for Household of Charles Henry Hodge in Plymouth

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1921, 1921 Census for Household of Charles Henry Hodge - Address

  • Spouse:

  • Florence Mary Jane Cook (1865-1931)

  • Children:

  • Reginald Howard K. Hodge (1890-1891)

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  • Charles Reginald Hingston Hodge (1891-1969)

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  • Dorothy Ellen G. Hodge (1894-1901)

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  • Reginald Harold Leonard C. Hodge (1896-1897)

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  • Cecil Norman Hodge (1897-1974)

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  • Lizzie Gwendoline M. Hodge (1899-1911)

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  • Gladys Winifred Georgina Hodge (1903-1983)

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  • Frank Stanley Hodge (1904-1984)

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  • Horace James Hodge (1907-1931)

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  • Wallace Albert Hodge (1907-1987)

  • Marriage:

  • 26 Dec 1889 (age 25)

  • St Jude's Church14 15

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  • Address: Beaumont Road, Plymouth, Devon

  • Census for household:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 27)

  • Devonport, Devon16

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  • Address: 7 Wake Street

    The Household consisted of Charles, his wife Florence and their baby son Reginald who was 9 months old. The family occupied a single room in 7 room house which they shared with three other families. In all 14 people lived there. Most of the other houses in Wake Street were in multiple occupancy.

  • Census for household:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 37)

  • Plymouth, Devon17

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  • Address: 3, Coburg Street

    The family consisted of Charles, his wife Florence, and their children Charles (age 9), Dorothy (age 7), Cecil (age 3), and Lizzie (age1). They also had a servant Mabel Ellen Hannaford.

  • Census for household:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 47)

  • Plymouth, Devon18

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  • Address: 33 Ebrington Street

    The household consisted of Charles, his wife Florence and their children Cecil (age 13), Geraldine (age 11), Gladys (age 8), Frank (age 6), and Horace and Wallace who were twins both aged 3. The house had nine rooms which seems very substantial for a tobacconist's clerk (as Charles was at the time). However, looking at modern pictures of Ebrington Street it seems that single story shops were situated in front of a row of substantial houses. It is therefore possible that the house 'went with the job'.

  • Census for household:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 57)

  • Plymouth, Devon19

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  • Address: 1a Endsleigh Place

    The household consisted of Charles, his wife Florence and 5 of their surviving children - Cecil (age 23), Winifred (age 18), Frank (age 16), and the twins Horace and Wallace (age 14) living in 5 rooms. They shared the house with two other families - one of two (although the wife was away at the time of the Census) and the other of three who lived in a single room.

Note on Marriage to Florence Mary Jane Cook

The 1911 Census return shows that Charles and Florence had had 2013 children of whom 6 had died. The birth registrations for the 7 surviving children have been found, but only 4 of those who died. At the end of 1911 another child, Lizzie, died meaning that of their 13 children 7 died.

Sources

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General Register Office, Certified Copy for an Entry of Marriage for Wallace Albert Hodge and Dorothy Annetta Dominy, (27 Feb 2009 in resonse to Application Number 1006006-1). Custom Id: MXE232510; Groom's NameWallace Albert HodgeGroom's FatherCharles Henry Hodge (deceased). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street

Bampton

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.

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Parish Register for Baptism of Charles Henry Hodge, Parish Church of Charles the Martyr, Plymouth, Devon, 13 March 1864, Devon Record Office.

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General Register Office, CRI(E&W) for Birth of Charles Henry Hodge, Event Type: Birth, Registration District: Plymouth, Volume: 5b, Page: 259, (Births Jan-Mar 1864 in the Registration District of Plymouth, Vol 5b Page 259). Cit. Date: Q1 1864. General Register Office. Call Number: Births.

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Attestation of Charles Henry Hodge to E. W. Hayes in Commissariat & Transport Corps, 28 May 1886, Aldershot.

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Military Service for Charles Henry Hodge, (National Archives website). Military History Sheet and Statement of Service. Cit. Date: from 29 May 1886 to 28 August 1886. National Archives.

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Military Record ( Military History Sheet ) for Charles Henry Hodge in the Commissariat and Transport Corps of the Army from 29 May 1886 to 3 September 1886. National Archives

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1891 England Census for Household of Charles H. Hodge in Devonport, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG12/1744, Folio 139, Page 42; Occupation. Cit. Date: 5 April 1891. National Archives. Call Number: RG12/1744.

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General Register Office, Certified Copy for an Entry of Marriage for Wallace Albert Hodge and Dorothy Annetta Dominy, (27 Feb 2009 in resonse to Application Number 1006006-1). Custom Id: MXE232510; Date of Marriage8 Sep 1933Groom's FatherCharles Henry Hodge (deceased)Rank or ProfessionWholesale Confectione. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street

Bampton

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.

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1911 England Census for Household of Charles Henry Hodge in Plymouth, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG14/12939; Charles Henry Hodge age 47 working as a Tobacconist's Clerk in Plymouth. National Archives. Call Number: RG14/12939.

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J P W Ward, Notes on the Hodge and Dominy Families, (2010 onwards). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street

Bampton

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.

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General Register Office, CRI(E&W) for Death of Charels H. Hodge, (Free BMD website). Custom Id: Deaths Plymouth Q2 Vol. 5b Page 350; Cit. Date: Q2 1930. General Register Office. Call Number: Deaths.

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England & Wales National Probate Calendar: Charles Henry Hodge, 12 June 1930, 1930 Page 221.

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Death Notice in Western Morning News, Page 1, Plymouth, Devon, 19 May 1930.

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Parish Register for Marriage of Charles Henry Hodge and Florence Mary Jane Cook, St Jude, Plymouth, Devon, 26 December 1889, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.

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General Register Office, CRI(E&W) for Marriage of Charles Henry Hodge and Florence Mary J. Cook, (Free BMD website). Custom Id: Marriages 1889 Q4 Plymouth Vol. 5b, Page 523; Cit. Date: Q4 1889. General Register Office. Call Number: Marriages.

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1891 England Census for Household of Charles H. Hodge in Devonport, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG12/1744, Folio 139, Page 42; Cit. Date: 5 April 1891. National Archives. Call Number: RG12/1744.

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1901 England Census for Household of Charles H. Hodge in Plymouth, Devon, (Find My Past Website). Custom Id: RG13/2102, Folio 153, Page 5; Cit. Date: 31 March 1901. National Archives. Call Number: RG13/2102.

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1911 England Census for Household of Charles Henry Hodge in Plymouth, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG14/12939; Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. National Archives. Call Number: RG14/12939.

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1921 England and Wales census, 1a Endsleigh, Plymouth, Devon, RG15/10642, R 276, RSD 3, ED 11, Schedule 142, head of household: Charles Henry Hodge, National Archives.

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1911 England Census for Household of Charles Henry Hodge in Plymouth, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG14/12939; Entry for Florence Hodge. Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. National Archives. Call Number: RG14/12939.