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15 February 2025

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CHARLES FREDERICK RICHARDSON

Charles Frederick Richardson was born on 20 April 1878 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England to John Richardson (1853-1926) and Elizabeth Doull (1848-1894). Charles had seven siblings, John (b 1879), Elizabeth (b 1881),1974 Emily (b 1884), Henry (b 1887), Margaret (b 1889), Alexander (b 1891) and Gordon (1894-1894).

By age thirteen, Charles was working as an office boy. The family lived at 19 Rubens St, Everton, Liverpool. Ten years later, the family had moved to 2 Trafalgar Street, Liverpool and Charles was a chemist’s assistant. He sailed from Liverpool in 1905 on SS ‘Vancouver’, arriving in Quebec on 2 April.

Charles married Anna Lees (Annie) Douglas on 26 June 1912 in Lucknow, Bruce County. Annie was born on 13 October 1878 in Lucknow to George Douglas (1836-1885) and Dorothy Haigh (1848-1929). Annie had six siblings, George Haigh (1871-1941), William John (b 1873), Robert Taylor (b 1874), Jessie (1880-1956), Jennie Helen (Jean) (b 1883) and Edith Isabel “Isabella” (b 1884).

Charles continued in the drug trade as a salesman living in 1921, living in Teeswater. Charles died on 30 November 1934 and Annie died in 1944. They are both buried in South Kinloss Cemetery.

This family can be found on Ancestry under the title Culross Richardson Tree.