Charles Alfred Stanley Everett

Charles Alfred Stanley was the son of Charles Joseph and Emma Elizabeth Everett (née Botten).His father Charles Joseph was born in Lambeth, London, in 1869 (J/F/M Lambeth London) the son of Joseph Charles (also Charles Joseph) and Jane Everett. His mother Emma Botten was born in Rotherhithe, London, in 1869 (A/M/J Rotherhithe London).Charles and Elizabeth were married on 3rd September 1892 at Deptford St Mark and had at least three children: Charles Alfred Stanley b. Deptford 9 August 1893 bap. Deptford St Mark 5 November 1893; Lilian Edith b. East Dulwich bap. Dulwich St Barnabus and Harold Arthur Vernon b. Deptford. The family was living in Deptford when Charles was baptised in 1893 but four years later were recorded at 64 Crystal Palace Road, Dulwich. However, by 1901 Charles (32), a hydraulic engineer's clerk, and Emma (31) were living at 116 Broadfield Road, Catford, Lewisham, London, with their three children Charles (7), Lilian (4) and Harold (2).Emma Elizabeth died four years later in 1905 aged about 36.The widowed Charles (42), a clerk for a manufacturing engineer, was still living at 116 Broadfield Road, Catford, in 1911. His three children were in the home on the night of the census: Charles (17) a clerk in an education office, and Lillian (14) and Harold (12) who were still at school. Also in the household was Jennie Banister (45 b. Calcutta), a widow, who was Charles' housekeeper.Charles entered the Society of the Sacred Mission four years later in January 1915.Their father Charles Joseph died in 1918.Harold attested on 21 September 1916; he was 17 years 364 days old and living with his father at 116 Broadfield Road. He transferred to the Army Reserve the following day and was not mobilised until February 1917 when he was posted to the London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), 554252 Rifleman. Harold embarked Southampton on 4 October, disembarking at Le Havre the following day. He was posted to the 29th Bn London Regiment on 8 October 1917, joining his battalion on 10 October. On 30 January 1918 Harold was posted to the 9th Bn. He returned to the UK on 12 October 1919 for demobilization at Crystal Palace, transferring to the Army Reserve on 13 November. Harold had changed his next of kin from his father to his married sister, Lilian Edith (Ferguson), presumably after his father's death in 1918, and gave her address in Caqtford as his address on discharge from the army in 1919.