Charles Henry Lewis PALMER

Date of Birth: 
31 Oct 1869
Date of Death: 
3 Feb 1939

Charles was born at Wellington.

He married Clara Perry (born at Upper Hutt in 1869) at Lower Hutt in 1888.

They had 12 children, 5 boys & 7 girls over a 21 year period from 1889 to 1910. One son died at 7 & one at 1 year old. The boys are buried together in Levin. All but the first two children were born in Levin.

One son, Harold & one son-in-law, Colin Fyffe, served in WW1.

Charles signed the 1905 petition for the Levin township and was also on the unofficial 1905 census.

Charles started his working life as a millhand at Whiteman's Vly in Wainuiomata.

He moved the family to Levin around 1891 where he continued to work as a millhand, probably for the Prouses as they moved many families with them from Wainuiomata to Levin. Around 1914 Charles moved to Longburn in the Manawatu to be a commercial traveller.

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Relatives mentioned in profile: 
Charles Henry Lewis Palmer, Charles Palmer, Clara Lewis, Clara Rose Elizabeth (Jewel) Perry, Alfred Perry, Elizabeth Dew, Alfred Charles Palmer, Selina (Alice) Palmer, John James McEwen, Elsie May Palmer, John Francis Donoghue, Archibald Talbot Goodman, Clara Eva Palmer, Colin Henry Fyffe, Harold Henry Palmer, Jessie Russell Greig, Olive May Palmer, Patrick Garvey, Hilda Blanche Palmer, Ernest Leslie Elvy, Leslie Lewis Palmer, Elsie Evelyn Rice, Clive Charles Palmer, Amelia Charlotte Kennard, Gladys Palmer, Charles Henry Amos Kennard, James Stuart Palmer, Vera Maisey (Maisie) Palmer, Herbert Oliver Whyman.